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

Maharana Kumbha. one popularly known as Nāl-Mandapa. Each one of the open porches is accessible by another flight of stairs ; but of the latter, that facing the west, contains far more stairs than the others and consequently the entrance on the west is considered to be the principal one. Facing the sides of each of the Mukhamanda- pas of the principal or Chaumukha shrine is a mādar or larger subsidiary shrine; and facing each Sabhamandapa is a smaller subsi- diary shrine or Khūnt-ra Mandar, so called because they stand exactly on the nāsaks or angles formed by lines drawn through the centres of the Sabhamandapas. The sides of the temple, between the mādars and the entrances are occupied by bhāmtis or ranges of cells for images, each with a pyramidal roof of its own but without any partitioning walls. They contain inscriptions belonging to the first half of the 16th Century and recording the erection of devakulikās or cells by Jain devotees, most of whom were Oswals, hailing from Pātan, Cambay and other places "¹ ¹ Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar's article in the Annual Report of the Archæological Survey of India for 1907-8, p. 211. 149