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

Maharana Kumbha. temples at Ajāhari, Sālera and Pindarvataka, modern Pindavārā. Local tradition has it that the temple was built by two brothers Dhanna (corruption of Dharnaka)¹ and Ratna of the Porvad caste and residents of Nāndiya in the Sirohi State. They left Nandiya and settled at Mālgad which was situated to the south of Ranpur, high upon a hill. They erected a temple at Mādadá, which came to be known as Ranpur, because the land occupied by the temple was purchased by them from Maharana Kumbha, who stipulated that the place should bear his name, Ran being an abbreviation of Rana. The temple was designed by one Dipaka or Dipa, a Sompura Brahmin of Mundātā in the following circumstances. One night at Maglad, Dhanna saw a celestial car in his dream. He called several Sompuras (architects) and gave them a description of it, and asked them to produce plans thereof. All were reject- ed except that of Dipa as it was exactly of the type of the celestial car, Dhanna had seen ¹ A descendant of Ratna, 14 generations removed from him, named Nath Mal Sah was living in 1907 A D. in Ghanerav, to which town, Dhanna and Ratna had moved. 154