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

Maharana Kumbha. Nagor was also killed by the Rájputs. Khemsi was rewarded with the grant of the township of Khatoo, then lately captured from the Káimkhanees.¹ In A. D. 1454, Mahmud Khilji having received representations that all Muhammadan religious practices had been forbidden in Ajmer² by the Hindu governor of the place, and receiving promises of help from its Mussalman residents, undertook an expedition against that city. Ajmer was in the posses- sion of the Maharana and the Sultan did not venture openly to invade it. He had recourse to a ruse. Sending the bulk of his army against Mandsaur to keep the Maharana's forces engaged, he advanced and attacked Ajmer. Gajádhar Singh, the governor of the fort of Ajmer, defended the fort for four days, and then, despising the foe's forces, he came out and attacked the Sultan's army. He was killed after performing deeds of valour and slaying numbers of the enemy. As his men were retiring into the fort, the Sultan's men ¹ The Jodhpur Khyat. ² Brigg's Ferishta, Vol. IV., page 222. 91