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

Maharana Kumbha. inflicted a crushing defeat on the Gujrat army, annihilating it. Only remnants of it reached Ahmedabad, to carry the news of the disaster to the Sultan.¹ Sultan Qutb-ud-din now took the field in person, determined to wrest Nagor back from the Maharana. The Maharana advanced to meet him and came to Mount Abu. When the Sultan after leaving Ahmedabad came near Abu, the Maharao of Sirohi went to him and asked him to restore Abu to him, which the Maharana had wrested from him. The Sultan sent his Commander-in-Chief, Malik Shaaban Imad-ul-Mulk, with a large army, to take the fort of Abu from the Maharana, and himself proceeded towards the fortress of Kumbhalgarh.² Kumbhá, aware of this plan, came out, attacked and "defeated Imad-ul-Mulk with great slaughter,"³ ¹ Bombay Gazetteer, page 242. Ferishta, Vol. IV, page 41. ² Ferishta says that the Sultan "despairing of reducing Chitor" went towards Abu,—Vol. IV, p. 41. ³ Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. I, page 242. Also Bayley's History of Gujrat, page 149. The Mirati Sikandari states that the enemy poured down on him on all sides and he was defeated with loss of many men. Ferishta, however, states that the Raja of Sirohi, who was a relation of the Maharana met the Sultan in battle but was defeated, and that the Sultan then went away towards Kumbhalgarh. Tarikhi Alfi says that Shaaban after suffering heavy losses, was recalled. 98