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

Mahāraṇa Kumbha. finding no support there came to Maharana Kumbha, who gave him shelter and kept him in Chitor for a long time. Later, he was killed in an encounter with the Sultan at Chanderi.¹ The same year (Hijra 860 = A.D. 1454) Firoz Khan, Khan of Nagor, died.² He belonged to the family of the Sultans of Gujrat. His father Shams Khan had obtained from his elder brother Muzaffar Shah, the first Sultan of Gujrat, the province of Nagor. On Firoz Khan's death, his elder son, Shams Khan so named after his grand father, succeed- ed him, but Firoz Khan's younger brother, Mujahid Khan, deposed him and prepared to take his life Shams Khan fled to Maharana Kumbha for shelter and help.³ Kumbhá, who had long had designs on Nagor, gladly embraced this opportunity of carrying them out, and agreed to place Shams Khan on the throne of Nagor on the condition that he acknowledged Maharana Kumbha's supremacy by demo- lishing a part of the battlements of the fort of ¹ Vir Vinod, Vol. I, page 327. ² Ferishta, Vol. IV. p. 40 (Cal. Edition of 1910) ³ Bayley's Gujrat, page 148. 94