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

CHAPTER V. RISE AND FALL OF THE KINGDOMS OF GUJRAT AND MALWA. THE invasion of India by Timur, the flight of Muhammad Tughlaq from Delhi, and the conquest and sack of that city by the invader in A.D. 1398, destroyed the power of the Tughlaq Sultans of Delhi. After Timur's departure to Turkistan, Muhammad Tughlaq returned to Delhi, but he had lost all power and prestige, and was a Sultan more in name than in reality. In the opening years of the fifteenth century, Malwa and Gujrat the erstwhile viceroyalties of Delhi threw off their allegiance and declared their indepen- dence. Malwa and Gujrat became powerful monarchies, and it was these kingdoms, and the principality of Nagor, then in the heyday of their power and prosperity, that Maharana Kumbhá, about the middle of the fifteenth century, fought and defeated. GUJRAT. Gujrat had been under the rule of the Baghelā branch of the Chalukya Rajputs till 42