महाराणा कुम्भा (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य के अद्वितीय विजेता, निर्माता व विद्वान्)

Maharana Kumbha. and finding Maharana Kumbhakaran engaged in punishing his father's murderers began to encroach on the Maharana's territory and took possession of a few villages on the borders of Mewar. When the Maharana came to know of this aggression he was not slow to take action. As soon as the rebels were disposed of, Maharana Kumbha sent an expedition against Maharao Sahas Mal under Dodiya Narsingh son of Rao Shalji. Narsingh captured the stronghold of Abu, seized Basantgarh and Bhula and annexed$^1$ the whole of the eastern part of the Sirohi territory to Mewar. A copper plate inscription of A.D. 1437 Asar, V. S. 1494) found in the Nandiya village and at present deposited in the Rajputana Museum, Ajmer mentioning a grant of land in village Chavarli in the Ajari par- gannah of Sirohi, shows that that part of the Sirohi territory had passed into the Maharana's possession before the year A.D. 1437. The Sirohi Khyat says that Maharana Kumbha was allowed by Maharao Lakha of Sirohi to retire to Abu when attacked by the $^1$ History of Sirohi by Mahamahopadhyaya P. Gauri Shanker Ojha, p. 194. Also, his History of Udaipur, Vol. I, p. 283. 79