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

Maharana Kumbha. in no small measure due to the immensely strengthened defences of Mewar, effected by the foresight and wisdom of Maharana Kumbha. Kumbha was in every respect, the equal of Sāngā, and in some respects, his superior. If Kumbha or Sānga's elder brother Prithviraj, had been in Sanga's place to lead the Indian opposition to Babur, Babur would, in all probability, have ended his days in Kabul. If Kumbhā is not so well known to readers of history, it is because important Persian histories which began to be written only with the advent of the Moghals (Turks) in India have given little attention to events that occurred before Babur came to this country. And the English histories, which are based entirely on Persian histories, only repeat what the latter have recorded. Sāngā's fame rests chiefly on the accounts given of his character and his ex- ploits by the memoirs of Babur and Humāyun, and the histories written by writers who hovered round the Moghal Court. Kumbha has not had that advantage. The Rajputs had produced men as great and as remarkable as Kumbha, before the latter 195