महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

Maharana Sāngā:
Rūpnagar, descended from Rai Mal's
sons, Shankar Singh and Samant Singh
respectively, are amongst the 32 sardars
(second-class nobles) of Mewar. Having
restored order in Godwar, Prithviraj
appointed the Ojha and one Solanki Rai
Mal, to the civil and military governments
of the province.
During the absence of Sāngā and the
banishment of Prithviraj, Jai Mal was
looked upon as the heir to the throne.
The fame of the beauty of Tara Bai,
daughter of Rao Surtan of Badnor, having
reached Jai Mal's ears, he became desirous
of obtaining her hand. Rao Surtan was
of the Solanki tribe, the lineal descendant
of the famed Balhara kings of Anhalwara.
Thence expelled by the arms of Alauddin
Khilji in the thirteenth century, they
migrated to Central India, and obtained
possession of Tonk-Toda and its lands on
the Banās, which from remote times had
been occupied (perhaps founded) by the
Taks, and hence bore the name of Tak-
sillanagar, familiarly Takitpur and Toda.
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