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

Maharana Sāngā.
(capital Amber, now Jaipur) were not of
much political consequence. The Rāthors
were only just beginning to strike root in
the region round Mandawar (Mandor), the
seat of the ancient Paṛihar power which,
in Narhar Rao’s time had been paramount
in Hindustan.
When Sāngā came to the throne in A.D.
1508 A.D., both the Kachhwahas and the
Rāthors had gathered strength and had not
only become powerful neighbours of the
Guihlots of Mewar, but had contributed
largely in covering Rajputana with a race of
warriors which first showed its strength in
joining the Guihlots in offering a desperate
resistance to the founding of the Turk power
in India, and which later (Akbar’s time) had
to be wooed and won over before that power
could strike root in the country. While the
Kachhwahas had brought under their control
the whole of Dhundhar (now Jaipur State)
and had made Amber a powerful kingdom,
the Rāthors had not only founded Jodhpur
(S. 1515, A.D. 1458) and firmly established
themselves in Pali, Sojat and other places,
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