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

Maharana Kumbha. TOWER OF VICTORY. Kumbha's Jaya Sthambha (Tower of Vic- tory), also called the Kīrtisthambha (Tower of Fame) in Chitorgarh is another monument of his genius and a great ornament to that far- famed fortress. This celebrated Tower of Victory was erected to commemorate the victory which Maharana Kumbha had obtained over Sultan Mahmud Khilji I of Mandu in 1438 A.D., when Mandu was conquered, and its Sultan brought captive, and kept a prisoner in Chitor for 6 months. An inscription¹ in the perforated window in the second storey of the Tower of Victory offering the obeisance of the architect Jaitra and his two sons, Nāpā and Puñjā, to god Samaddhishwar dated Phālgun Sud 5th, V. S. 1499 (A.D. 1442) shows that the second storey was completed in that year. The Tower was completed in A.D. 1449 ; for the consecration ceremony of the Tower of Victory, as recorded ¹ Report for 1921 A. D. of the Rajputana Museum, Ajmer, p. 4. 139