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

Maharana Kumbha. nāthji in the town of Nāgadā. It is trans- cribed in The Bhāvanagar Inscriptions, page 112. It records the erection of the image of Sāntināth by Sāh Sārang in the temple during the time of Maharana Kumbhā. 4. The celebrated Rānpur Temple Inscrip- tion of V. S. 1496 (1439 A.D.). This inscrip- tion and an English translation of it were first published by Mr. Peter Peterson in his Bhāvanagar Inscriptions. Dr. D. R. Bhandar- kar, in his excellent article on the Ranpur Temple, contributed to the Annual Report of the Archæological Survey of India for 1907-8, re-translates the inscription (p. 216). The inscription is engraved on a stone built up in a pillar to the left of the entrance into the Chaumukha Temple at Rānpur, about 6 miles from Sadadi in the Jodhpur State. The stone, a slab of white marble, mea- sures 3'.3" by 1'.1', and contains 47 lines of Sans- krit prose. It is well preserved. The inscription after stating that Sri Bappa was supreme ruler of Mewar in V. S. 1496, gives the genealogy of the Kings of Mewar upto Maharana Kumbha- karan, incidentally mentioning Rana Bhuvana 171