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

Maharana Kumbha. body serve as a bajot ¹ to sit on at the ceremony. Cháchá and Maira had captured 500 girls from the villages round about the Pai Hills and kept them in this stronghold. Ran Mal married these girls there to spears, intending to give them to his Rathod follow- ers. The Maharana's uncle, Raghávadeva, the brother of Chondá, did not like this proposal, and on arriving at Delwara removed the maids to his own camp. This added fuel to the fire of jealousy already existing between Rághavadeva and Ran Mal. Rao Ran Mal preferring the fertile plateau of Mewar to the arid desert of Marwar took up his residence at Chitor, and surrounded himself and the Maharana with Rathods, and began to take a prominent part in the administration of Mewar. Rághavadeva, who had been left by his elder brother Chondá, on his departure from Chitor during the reign of the late Maharana Mokal to watch over the safety of the Maharana during his minority, ¹ A round or square wooden seat to squat upon. 40