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

Maharana Kumbha. and which eventually helped in giving the death stroke to that empire during the time of Aurang- zeb and his successors The popular couplet हथनापुर हलचल मची, पड़ी सितारे गल्ल । धुंवां आंबर ढाकया वै रूठा रिड़मल्ल ॥ "There is consternation in Delhi : anxiety pre- vails in Satara (amongst Marhattas). The sky has become overcast with gloom ; for, the Rathods have been offended." illustrates the power, the Rathods wielded in India during the 18th century. Maharana Kumbha, was a great sove- reign, a great military commander, a great builder and a great scholar. Rarely has the world seen such a combination of qualities in one man, each of which would stamp a man, great. It is wonderful how a great sovereign like Maharana Kumbha, constantly engaged in warfare from almost his childhood, could find time and opportunities to become a great poet and dramatist, a master of the science of music, and write commentaries on Gita Govind—one of the master-pieces of lyric literature in the world—and books like Chandi Shataka and Sangit Ratnakar, and a treatise 192