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

Maharana Kumbha. mal, the thought obtrudes itself as to why notwithstanding the possession of the noble qualities with which nature richly endowed him, Kumbha, who was ever successful in all his undertakings—successful not only in defending his kingdom against the united efforts of the most powerful kings of his time; successful in punishing the enemies of his country and his religion—failed to restore Rajput supremacy in Upper India, and free Western India from the tyranny and the domination of the Afghan adventurers who had usurped supreme power in some of those parts, by crushing once for all his enemies; eminently fitted as he was to do so. The answer is writ large on every page of Indian history. The Hindus had, owing to various causes, the principal one being the rise amongst them of certain schools of religious thought, lost the one quality necessary to achieve political success. Maharana Kumbha, and after him, Maharana Sanga, both failed to save India from being subjected to foreign domination, because of the lack of that quality. That quality is 200