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

Maharana Kumbha. victorious, would have retired satisfied after indulging in a little plundering freak without exacting substantial penalty, or otherwise taking severe revenge for this presumption on the part of the Maharana. The Mirati Sikandari, indeed, says that the Sultan of Mandu returned home, having receiv- ed from the Rana, the district of Mandsaur and several other pargannas adjacent to the territo- ries of Malwa. That the victor should get only a little gold and the spectator, whole districts of the country of the vanquished! Another historian, however, comes nearer the truth. “Tarikhi Alfi seems rather to intimate that Qutb-ud-din made his own terms and left Mahmud to shift for himself.”—Bayley’s Gujrat, page 151, footnote. Rasik Priya, the commentary on Gita Govind, distinctly states that the two kings were defeated and driven out of Mewar by the valiant Maharana. The Chitor Kirtisthambha inscription of A.D. 1460, verse 141, states that the Maharana completely defeated the combined armies of Gujrat and Malwa. The King of Malwa too retired to his 103