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

Maharana Kumbha. An occasion soon presented itself to the traitors for carrying into execution their nefarious design. One night while the Maha- rana was encamped at Bāgor, the two traitors, collecting a small force, surprised the Maharana in his tents. The Maharana's attendants prepared to defend him. Nine men stood by the Maharana, five by his Queen Hadiji and five by Malesi Dodiya, the gatekeeper of the palace. The Maharana, Rani Hadiji and Malesi defended themselves bravely but were killed, not however, till they had slain 19 of the conspirators and wounded Chacha and Mahpa. Seventy of the Maharana's men, including Sanwaldas, were slain. The Maha- rana's eldest son Kumbha escaped with difficulty. Going to the house of a Patel who owned two of the fleetest horses in Mewar, he mounted one and killing the other at the suggestion of the Patel to baffle pursuit, escaped and reached Chitor. The traitors, who were looking out for Kumbha, were at the Patel's house soon after his departure, but seeing one steed lying dead and the other gone, they returned to their tents. The traitors thence went to Chitor 32