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

Maharana Kumbha. to dinner. She asked them what they would do to Ran Mal if he should come to their house. The young men exclaimed, “Do what! we will kill him.” The eldest, however, said “Mother, if he comes to our house, we will say nothing to him.” The lady praised her son’s noble sentiments and called to Ran Mal to come out. Ran Mal came out. The Bhils received him courteously and asked him why he had come there to be killed. He replied : “My dear nephews I have taken a vow not to eat bread till I have killed Cháchá and Maira ; but with you to assist them, I cannot get at them.” The Bhils¹ thus appealed to, promised to abstain from render- ing any further assistance to Cháchá and Mairá, and to assist Ran Mal in achieving his object. Ran Mal returned to his camp and started next day with 1,140 Guhilots and Rathods to take the fort. On arriving at the foot of the hill, the Bhils advised Ran Mal to wait a few days, as the bypath leading to the fort had been blocked by a lioness who ¹ For an account of the Bhils, see Gazetteer of Udaipur p. 227, by Major K. D. Erskine, 1908 A. D. 37