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

Maharana Kumbha. The Khumbhalgarh Inscription of A.D. 1460, verse 198, and the Eklingji ¹ Temple Inscription of A.D. 1488, sl. 131, both say that Khshetra Singh invaded the land of the Harās, broke and reduced to submission the fortress of Mandalgarh, which according to the Shringirishi Inscription of A.D. 1428, even Allauddin Khilji was unable to touch. Khshetra Singh attacked and defeated the Sultans of Malwa and Gujrat. He defeated Dilawar Khan Ghori, the first Sultan of Malwa in a battle fought at Bakrole ² and destroyed his army. Amin Shah ³ was the original name of Sultan Dilawar Khan Ghori of Malwa, vide. Rizaqulla Mushtaqi's Wakiat Mushtaqi ⁴ and Roger's Tuzaki Jahangiri ⁵ Dilawar Khan's son's name before he succeeded his father as Sultan of Malwa under the title of Hoshang, was Alpkhan. ¹ Bhavanagar Inscriptions, p. 119. ² Bakrole was given by Rana Ari Singh as Jagir to Dhiraj Singh, who named the place Hammirgarh, after Rana Ari Singh's successor, Hammir Singh. ³ Some historians have been misled by Amin Shah having become Humayun Shah in some manuscripts. This explains Colonel Tod's statement that the Maharana defeated Emperor Humayun at Bakrole. ⁴ Elliot's History of India, Vol., IV, p. 552. ⁵ Vol. I, p. 407. 5