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

Maharana Pratap.

Maharana Kumbha. on the architectural art of building Towers of Victory (Kirtisthamba). Contemporary European history does not furnish an example of a great monarch who was also a great administrator, a great general, a great builder, a great poet, and a great author. India, with its great historic past, the home of religion, science and philosophy, where great ethical truths and cultural traditions have so deeply permeated the life of the common people, has been in a favourable position to give to the world great men. Amongst the Rajput sovereigns of Raj- putana, Kumbha occupies a most prominent position. His natural abilities and his achievements place him in the forefront among the great rulers not only of Mewar, but of the whole of India. The best known Maharanas of Mewar are Maharana Sānga, Maharana Pratap and Maharana Raj Singh. Now, Maha- rana Pratap stands by himself. He is beyond compare. He lived in times so different from those of Kumbha or Sanga, that no compari- son between him and the other Maharanas is possible. Pratap had, as his enemy, one of the 193

Maharana Kumbha. greatest sovereign of all times in Asia or Europe, and had had ranged against him not only the whole might of Akbar's empire, but also the knowledge and resources of the kings of Amber (Jaipur), Jodhpur and Bikaner. Yet he triumphed over this powerful combination and succeeded in preserving the independence of Mewar and the liberties of his people. For sheer intellectual ability, however, Kumbha takes the first place amongst the Maharanas of Mewar. If we consider his great work for the defences and the embellish- ment of Mewar, he again stands easily the first. As an ever-victorious monarch, he stands unrivalled amongst the kings of India of the last thousand years. Sāngā also was a great sovereign, and triumphed over all his enemies except Babur. Maharana Raj Singh had to fight the Moghal empire in India at its zenith, and succeeded in defeating the attempts of Aurangzeb to reduce Mewar to submission. But the heroic and successful fights the Maharanas were able to put up against the Moghal Emperors were 194

Maharana Kumbha. in no small measure due to the immensely strengthened defences of Mewar, effected by the foresight and wisdom of Maharana Kumbha. Kumbha was in every respect, the equal of Sāngā, and in some respects, his superior. If Kumbha or Sānga's elder brother Prithviraj, had been in Sanga's place to lead the Indian opposition to Babur, Babur would, in all probability, have ended his days in Kabul. If Kumbhā is not so well known to readers of history, it is because important Persian histories which began to be written only with the advent of the Moghals (Turks) in India have given little attention to events that occurred before Babur came to this country. And the English histories, which are based entirely on Persian histories, only repeat what the latter have recorded. Sāngā's fame rests chiefly on the accounts given of his character and his ex- ploits by the memoirs of Babur and Humāyun, and the histories written by writers who hovered round the Moghal Court. Kumbha has not had that advantage. The Rajputs had produced men as great and as remarkable as Kumbha, before the latter 195

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appeared on the scene. The great Chauhan Emperor Visaldeva,¹ the uncle of the famous Emperor Prithviraj, who flourished in the 12th century of the Christian era, besides being a great sovereign and a great military commander, was also a great scholar. He conquered the whole of Upper India, carried his arms right up to the Himalayas, making Delhi a tributary to Ajmer, which then became the capital of the Indian empire. In his inscrip- tion on the famous Siwalik Pillar, originally erected in Gurhwal by Emperor Asoka— who according to Mr. H. W. Wells, the author of the Outline of History, is the greatest monarch of all times—and which now stands in the Firoz- shah ka Kotla at Delhi, Emperor Visaldeva states that he had freed Hindustan of all in- vaders from the North West. He was not only a great king and a great commander, but also a scholar and a dramatist, as is proved by his drama Harkeli Nātak, parts of which engrav- ed on black basalt slabs, are preserved in the Rajputana Museum, Ajmer.

¹ For an account of Emperor Visaldeva, see my article on him in the Vedic Magazine and Gurukul Samachar of Aswin, V. S. 1969, Vol. IV, pp. 292-97, and my book, Ajmer : Historical and Descriptive, page 154.

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Maharana Kumbha The great Parmār sovereign, Raja Bhoja of Dhārānagri, who flourished in the eleventh century of the Christian era was a great general, a great scholar and a great sovereign.¹ ¹ The eminent orientalist, Mr. K. P. Jayaswal, in his article on the Udaipur temple of Malwa in the Modern Review for June, 1932, p. 604, says about Raja Bhoja :— "The most famous king of the eleventh century in India was Bhoja of the Parmār dynasty, who was king of Malwa from 1010 to 1050 A.D. His undertakings were gigantic: he surveyed the whole of Sanskrit and Prakrit literature and had encyclopædias on art and sciences compiled, books on literary art criticism written, vast anthologies prepared, books on the art of poetics, on astrology, astronomy, music and architecture composed, and Hindu law re-stated. In this survey of national culture, he took part personally more than what Napoleon did in the preparation of Code Napoleon. Bhoja was one of the greatest scholars of his time, he had his own theories on poetics. He was a very keen art-critic, and composed very fine verses extempore. "In the domain of kingship, he was the best general of his time. As in Napoleon so in Bhoja, literary taste and soldierly ability were united. In the history of Hindu law, Bhoja is a landmark : with him the Mitakshara law, which reigns to-day, arose. As an architect and builder, Bhoja was one of the greatest men. He conceived the idea of turning the parched hills of the Vindhayas in Malwa into a green paradise and succeeded in doing so. His lake which, on expert calculation, covered 260 square miles, changed the climate of Malwa. In Muhammadan times when the lake was still existing, there came into vogue the saying, 'I wish, I enjoyed the night of Malwa and the morning of Benares. The nights of Malwa have ceased to be of that charm with the destruction of the lake. The lake was named 'Bhoja- pala; pal, in the language of Malwa, even to-day means the embankment of an artificial lake. Bhoja-pal is now pronounced as Bho-pal." The well known Hindi couplet ताल तो भोपाल ताल और सब तलैयां हैं । गढ़ तो चित्तोड़ गढ़ और सब गदहैयां हैं ॥ "Lakes : There is only one lake, the Bhopal lake : others are ponds of water. Chitorgarh is the only fort; others are mere fortified places," shows that the people held the Bhopal lake to be the king of the lakes of the world. 197

Maharana Kumbha. Three great personalities emerge from the events that crowd the life of the first half of the- fifteenth century of the history of Mewar. The dominating personality of the period was the great Maharana Kumbha. During his time, two other remarkable men appeared on the scene; 1. Rao Chonda, the founder of the House of Saloombar and progenitor of the Chondawats of Mewar; who in his life, illus- trated qualities, that illumine history and ennoble Rajput traditions; and 2. Rao Ranmal of Mandor, whose son Jodha founded Jodhpur and laid the foundations of the Rathod Power, which during the later Mughals was one of the principal forces to be reckoned with in Indian history. Great as Kumbha was, Rao Chonda also was a remarkable man. His nobility of mind and chivalrous character not only distinguish him from the ordinary run of chieftains in Rajputana, but have placed him amongst the noblest of Rajputs in India. Like Sri Ram Chandra of Ayodhia, one of the noblest of mortal men, and, according to the Hindus, “the perfect man,” Chonda, springing from 198

Maharana Kumbha. the same noble stock, Raghuvamsa, has given to the world an example of a life of high spiritual elevation and moral grandeur, rare in human annals. Rao Ranmal of Mandor, who also, out of filial love and obedience, gave up his right to the throne of Mandor, and who, inspite of the unjust treatment meted out to him, always showed during his exile, the same respect to his father, and devotion to the interests of his country as before, was a remarkable man of great mortal worth. Physically a giant amongst men, a great general, and a man of immense energy and resource and of great courage, he repaid a thousandfold to Mewar, the debt he owed to Maharana Mokal, by rendering her services which a true student of history must acknowledge with admiration. His achievements are a source of pride to all who call themselves Rathods. While we pay homage to the greatness of Maharana Kumbha, and have great reverence and respect for Rawat Chonda, and admiration and esteem for Rao Ran- 199

Maharana Kumbha. mal, the thought obtrudes itself as to why notwithstanding the possession of the noble qualities with which nature richly endowed him, Kumbha, who was ever successful in all his undertakings—successful not only in defending his kingdom against the united efforts of the most powerful kings of his time; successful in punishing the enemies of his country and his religion—failed to restore Rajput supremacy in Upper India, and free Western India from the tyranny and the domination of the Afghan adventurers who had usurped supreme power in some of those parts, by crushing once for all his enemies; eminently fitted as he was to do so. The answer is writ large on every page of Indian history. The Hindus had, owing to various causes, the principal one being the rise amongst them of certain schools of religious thought, lost the one quality necessary to achieve political success. Maharana Kumbha, and after him, Maharana Sanga, both failed to save India from being subjected to foreign domination, because of the lack of that quality. That quality is 200

Maharana Kumbha. political foresight, which comes only of full national consciousness. The introduction of the caste system in the social polity of the Hindus cut up the nation into a number of parts, each part becoming, as time progressed, more and more conscious of its separateness from the other parts, and sapped the foundations of a common nationality and destroyed national consciousness among the Hindus. Historical and other records show that the Hindus long before the earliest invasions from the North West began to take place, had, owing to their acceptance of certain moral and spiritual principles of life ceased to be an aggressive race. The wish to dominate other people for their economic exploitation or, to impose their rule in order to force their reli- gious beliefs on the subject races, has always been absent from their character. They never thought of invading their neighbours' countries like Mahmud Ghaznavi, Shahbuddin Ghori, Timur, or Changez Khan. Live and let live, has been their rule of life, due to the teachings 201

Maharana Kumbha. of their religion and philosophy, which have influenced their lives more than has been the case with other peoples. During the last two thousand years and more, the Hindus have confined their politi- cal activities to defending themselves and their possessions when attacked by others. After the rise of those schools of thought, of which the doctrine of Ahimsa was a cardinal feature, and which produced repercus- sions on the social organization of the people dividing them into watertight compartments, the Hindus as a nation, lost thought of national preservation and national well-being, and gave themselves up to practices which they thought, would secure them individual salvation. With their neglect of politics, they not only ceased to grow and to be self assertive, but ceased even to take necessary precautions to preserve their national independence, and protect their country and their liberties from foreign invasion. It became their belief that it was inconsistent with the teachings of their religion and the high principles of their moral philosophy, to attack their neighbours and 202

Maharana Kumbha. crush them when they could easily do so, even though this was necessary to save their country from attack. They even went further, and, as we have seen in this book, spared their foes when the latter fell into their hands, and sometimes even sent them home loaded with gifts under proper escort, completely ignoring the direful results of similar previous acts of misconceived genero- sity, repeatedly shown by Hindu monarchs. They never learnt the lesson that the best defence against an enemy is to attack him, and that one can never break the power of an enemy by limiting one's activi- ties to mere defence. The inevitable result of a purely defensive policy is loss of one's posses- sions. The law of nature is that you must advance, make progress. or fall back and dis- appear. Individuals may comfort themselves that they would gain Heaven by pursuing this policy, but they would lose their freedom and their country as surely as that the day follows the night. It is the first principle of political conduct that you should not only defend yourself 203

Maharana Kumbha. against attack but should, if possible, break the power of your enemy by attacking him and rendering him incapable of doing you harm. Help the weak by all means, do justice to all but also do justice to yourself and to those who depend on you and whom, it is your duty, so far as possible, to protect from present or future attacks. Depriving enemies of the power of doing you harm is doing nothing more than protecting yourself. Failure to do so, whether in obedience to teachings of false philosophy, or owing to indolence or weakness, is failure to do your duty. The adoption by the Hindus of the foolish and futile policy of limiting their activities to defending them- selves when attacked, resulted in their subjugation in the 12th and the 16th centuries A.D. ; for they had failed to learn the lesson that history teaches to all nations, and Indian history so emphatically, to the Hindus. 204

APPENDIX. I Shringirishi Inscription, dated Sawan Sud 5, V.S. 1485 (17th July, A.D. 1428). भ्राजावमीसाहमसिप्रभावान्जित्वा च हत्वा यवनानशेषान् । यः कोशजातं तुरगानसंख्यान्समानयत्स्वां किल राजधानीं ।: ६ ॥ ढिल्ली चारुपुरेश्वरेण व(ब)लिना स्पृष्टोपि नो पाणिना राज्ञा श्रीमद्ददावदीति विलसन्नाम्ना गजंस्वामिना । सोपि क्षेत्रमहीभुजां निजभुजप्रौढप्रतापादहो भग्नॊ विश्रुतमडलाकृतिकृतगढो जित्वा समस्तानरीन् ॥ ७ ॥ दत्वा...तुरंगहेमनिचयास्तस्मै ग...स्वामिने मुक्ता येन कृता गयाकरभराद्विप्रायनेकान्यतः । प्रीताः स्वर्गगता वदंति पितरः स्वद्यापि सत्याशिषं तस्या सा वि...त्त भूतले भुजो वंशश्चिरं नंदतु ॥ ११ ॥ यस्याग्रे समभूतपलायनप...पेरोजखानास्वयं पात्साहोह्यददुः महोपि समरे संत्यज्यको...। त्राणवशेन शुष्कवदनो मुक्तालकारुद्धवा गश्वेनापि विवर्जितो गिरिगुहा गेहाश्रितः सांप्रतं ॥ १४ ॥ येन स्फाटिकसच्छिलामय इव ख्यातो महीमंडले प्राकारो रचितः सुधाधवलितो देवैकलि...... । ...............सत्कपाटविलसद्वारत्रयालंकृतः कैलासं तु विहाय शंभुरकरोद्यत्राधिवासे मतिं ॥ १६ ॥ 205

Maharana Kumbha. II The Samiddeshwar (Mokalji) Temple Inscription (Chitor) dated Magh Sudh 3rd V.S. 1485 (A.D. 1429). नेता पातोत्तराशा यवननरपतिं लुंठितारोषसेनं पीरोजं कीर्तिवध्दीकुसुममुरुपतिं यो करोत्संगरस्थः । पल्लोशाक्रान्तिवार्त्तां कलयति कलयाकीर्त्तितां यस्य हेलां पञ्चास्यस्येव मायद्गजदलनरुचेर्लीलया रंकुभंगं ॥ ५१ ॥ III Ranpur Chaumukha Temple Inscription, dated V.S. 1496 (A.D. 1439). स्वस्ति श्रीचतुर्मुखजिनयुगादीश्वराय नमः ॥ श्रीमद्विक्रमतः १४६६ संख्यवर्षे श्रीमेदपाटकाजाधिराजश्रीबप्प १ श्रीगुहिल २ भोज ३ शील ४ कालभोज ५ भर्तृभट ६ सिंह ७ महायक ८ राज्ञीसुतयुतस्वसुवर्ण- तुलातोलकश्रीखुम्माण ६ श्रीमदल्लट १० नरवाहन ११ शक्तिकुमार १२ शुचिवर्म १३ कीर्तिवर्म १४ योगराज १५ वैरट १६ वंशपाल १७ वैरीसिंह १८ वीरसिंह १६ श्रीअरीसिंह २० चोडसिंह २१ विक्रम- सिंह २२ रणसिंह २३ खेमसिंह २४ सामंतसिंह २५ कुमारसिंह २६ मथनसिंह २७ पद्मसिंह २८ जैत्रसिंह २६ तेजस्वीसिंह ३० समरसिंह ३१ चाहुमानश्रीकीतूकनृपश्रीअल्लावदीनसुरत्राणजैत्रबप्पवं- श्यश्रीभुवनसिंह ३२ सुतश्रीजयसिंह ३३ मालवेशगोगादेवजैत्रश्रीलक्ष्म- सिंह ३४ पुत्रश्रीअजयसिंह ३५ भ्रातृश्रीअरिसिंह ३६ श्रीहम्मीर ३७ श्रीखेतसिंह ३८ श्रीलक्षाह्वयनरेंद्र ३६ नंदनसुवर्णतुलादिदानपुण्य- परोपकारादिसारगुणसुरद्रुमविश्रामनंदनश्रीमोकलमहीपति ४० कुल- काननपंचाननस्य विषमतमाभंगसारंगपुरनागपुरगागरणनराणकाऽज- यमेरुमंडोरमंडलकरवंदीखाटूचाटसूजानादिनानामहादुर्गलीलामात्रग्रह- 206

Appendix.

अप्रमाणितजितकाशित्वाभिमानस्य निजभुजोर्जितसमुपार्जितानेकभद्र- गजेन्द्रस्य म्लेच्छमहीपालव्यालचक्रवालविदलनविहंगमैन्द्रस्य प्रचंडदो- र्दंडखंडिताभिनिवेशनानादेशनरेशभालमालालालितपादारविंदस्य अस्ख- लितललितलक्ष्मीविलासगोविंदस्य कुनयगहनदहनदवानलायमानप्रता- पव्यापलायमानसकलवलूलप्रतिकूलक्ष्मापश्वापदवृंदस्य प्रवलपराक्रमा- क्रांतढिल्लीमंडल गूर्जरत्रासुरत्राणदत्तातपत्रप्रथितहिंदुसुरत्राणबिरुदस्य सुवर्णसत्रागारस्य षड्दर्शनधर्माधारस्य चतुरंगवाहिनीवाहिनीपारावार- स्य कीर्त्तिधर्मप्रजापालन सत्त्वादिगुणक्रियमाण श्रीराम युधिष्ठिरादिनरे- श्वरानुकारस राणाश्रीकुंभकर्णसर्वोर्वीपतिसार्वभौमस्य ४१ विजय- मानराज्ये तस्य प्रसादपात्रेण विनयविवेकधैर्यादार्य्यशुभकर्मनिर्मलशी- लाद्यद्भुतगुणमणिमयाभरणाभासुरगात्रेण श्रीमदहम्मदसुरत्राणदत्तफुर- माणसाधुश्रीगुणराजसंघपतिसाहचर्य्यकृताश्चर्य्यकारिदेवालयाडंबरपुरः- सरश्रीशत्रुंजयादितीर्थयात्रेण अजाहरिपिंडरवाटकसालेरादिवहुस्थानन- वीनजैनविहारजीर्णोद्धारपदस्थापनाविषमसमयसत्रागारनानाप्रकारपरो- पकारश्रीसंघसत्काराद्यगण्यपुण्यमहर्घक्रयाणकपूर्य्यमाणभवार्णवतारण- क्षममनुष्यजन्मयानपात्रेण प्राग्वाटवंशावतंससं० सांगरसुत सं०कुरपाल भा० कामलदेपुत्रपरमार्हत सं० धरणाकेन ज्येष्ठभ्रातृ सं० रत्न भा० र- त्नादेपुत्रसं० लाषाराजासोनासालिगस्वभा० सं० धारलदेपुत्रजाञ्जाजाव- डादिप्रवर्द्धमानसंतानयुतेन राणपुरनगरे राणाश्रीकुंभकर्णनरेंद्रेण स्व- नाम्ना निवेशिततदीयसुप्रसादादेशतस्त्रैलोक्यदीपकाभिधानः श्रीचतुर्मु- खयुगादीश्वरविहारः कारितः प्रतिष्ठितः श्री वृहत्तपागच्छे श्रीजगचंद्र- सूरिश्रीदेवेंद्रसूरिसंताने श्रीमत्श्रीदेवसुन्दरसूरिपट्टप्रभाकरपरमगुरु- सुविहितपुरंदरगच्छाधिराजश्रीसोमसुंदरसूरिभिः ॥ कृतमिदं च सूत्र- धारदेपाकस्य अयं च श्रीचतुर्मुखविहार आचंद्रार्कं नंदतात् ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥

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Maharana Kumbha. IV The date of composition )of Sangītarāja as given at the end of a manuscript copy of it in the Bikaner State Library is Wednesday the 13th day of the dark half of Kartika, Sambat 1509, Shaka year 1374 (11th October, 1456 A.D.) श्रीमद्विक्रमकालतः परिगते नंदाभ्रभूतक्षितौ वर्षेञ्चाग्नलेन्दुशाकसमये संवत्सरे च ध्रुवे । ऊर्जे मासि तिथौ हरे र(क)विदिनेहस्तर्क्षयोगे तथा योगे चाभिजिति स्फुटोयमभवत्संगीतराजाभिधः ॥ V The Kumbhalgarh Inscription, dated Magsar Bad 5, V.S. 1517(A.D. 1460) engraved on stone tablets originally fixed in the Mamadeva (Kumbhaswāmi) Temple, and now kept in the Museum at Udaipur. ( Third slab. ) ॥ अथ राजवर्णनं ॥ अतः श्रीराजवंशोत्र प्रव्यक्तः [ प्रोच्यते ] धुना । चिरंतनप्रशस्तीनामनेकानामतः क्षणात् ॥ १३८ ॥ ( Fourth slab. ) माद्यन्माद्यन्महेभप्रखरकरहतिक्षिप्तराजन्ययूथो यं-खानः पत्तनेशो दफर इति समासाद्य कुण्ठीवभूव । सोयं मल्ल्रो रणादिः शककुलवनितादत्तवैधव्यदीक्षः कारागारे यदीये नृपतिशतयुते संस्तरं नापि लेभे ॥ १६६ ॥ यात्रोतुङ्गतुरंगचंचलखुराघातोच्छितै रेणुभिः सेहे यस्य न लुप्तरश्मिपटलव्याजत्प्रतापं रविः । 208

Appendix. .. तच्चित्रं किमु सादलादिकनृपा यत्प्राकृतास्तत्रसु- स्त्यक्त्वास्वानि पुराणि कस्तुवलिनां सूक्ष्मो गुरुर्वा पुरः ॥ १६६॥ शस्त्राशस्त्रिहताखिलंपटभटव्रातोच्छलच्छोणित- च्छन्नप्रोगतपांशुपुंजविसरत्प्रादुर्भवत्कर्द्दमम् । त्रस्तः सामिहतो रणे शकपतिर्यस्मात्तथामालव- क्ष्मापोऽद्यापि यथा भयेन चकितः स्वप्नेऽपि तं पश्यति ॥ २०० ॥ अमीसाहिरग्राहि येनाहिनेव स्फुरद्ग्रेक एकांगवीरव्रतेन । जगतत्राणरुद्धस्यपाणौ कृपाणः प्रसिद्धोऽभवद्भूपतिः खेतराणः ॥ २०२ ॥ कीनाशपाशान् सकलानपास्यत् यस्त्रिस्थलीमोचनतः शकेभ्यः । तुलादिदानातिभरो व्यतारील्लक्ष्याख्यभूपो निहतप्रतीपः ॥ २०७॥ मेदानाराङ्गलसादुल्लसत्तद्धेरीधीरध्वानविध्वस्तधैर्यान् । कारं कारं यो ग्रहीदुग्रतेजा दग्धारातिर्वर्द्धनाख्यं गिरीन्द्रम् ॥२१२॥ ............................... अथ महाराजाधिराजरायरायराणेराय- महाराणाश्रीकुम्भकर्णवर्णनम् ॥ २३२ ॥ माभूत्क्षुभ्यदनुच्छदुग्धजलधिस्वच्छोच्छलद्वीचिरु- क्तसत्कृतपूर्वपूरुषयशस्तत्संकुचद्वृत्तिमत् । इत्थं चारु विचार्यकुम्भनृपतिस्तानेकलिङ्गे व्यधात् रम्यान् मण्डपहेमदण्डकलशांस्त्रैलोक्यशोभातिगान् ॥ २४१ ॥ या नारदीयनगरावनिनायकस्य नार्या निरंतरमचीकरदत्रदास्यम् । तां कुम्भकर्णनृपतेरिहकः सहेत वाणावलीमसमसंगरसंचरिष्णोः ॥ २४६ ॥ योगिनीपुरमजेयमप्यसौ योगिनीचरणकिंकरो नृपः । 209

Maharana Kumbha. कुन्तलाकालतवैरिसुन्दरीविभ्रमे रमितविक्रमोऽगृहीत् ॥ २४७ ॥ अरिन्दमः स्वांघ्रिसरोजलग्नं विशोध्य शोध्याधिपतिप्रतीपम् । अरंतुदं कण्टकमिद्धतेजा भंक्त्वा क्षिपद्भूमितलेऽसिसूच्या ॥२४८॥ येन वैरिकुलं हत्वा मंडोवरपुरग्रहे । अनायि शांतिं रोषाग्निर्नागरीनयनांबुभिः ॥ २४९ ॥ विगृह्य हम्मीरपुरं शरोत्करैर्निगृह्य तस्मिन् रणवीरविक्रमम् । पर्यग्रहीदंबुजमंजुलोचना महीमहेन्द्रो नरपालकन्यकाः ॥ २५० ॥ नानादिग्भ्यो राजकन्याः समेत्य क्षोणीपालं कुम्भकर्णं श्रयंते । सत्यं रत्नं जायते सागरादौ युक्तं विष्णोर्वक्ष एवास्य धाम ॥ २५१ ॥ स धन्यो धान्यनगरमामूलादुदमूलयत् । पुरारिविक्रमो यागपुरं पुरमिवाजयत् ॥ २५३ ॥ ज्वालावलीवलयितां हृतनोद्यवालीं मन्नीवरवीरमुदवीवहदेष नीरं । यो वर्द्धमानगिरिमाशु विजित्य तस्मिन् मेवानमंदमदवद्धविधीनघाक्षीत् ॥ २५४ ॥ जनकाचलमुच्चशेखरं बलवन्मालवनाथमस्तके । प्रवरं गिरिदुर्गमुद्धतश्चरणं वाममिव व्यधादयम् ॥ २५६ ॥ महोच्चजनकाचले निखिलमालवक्ष्मापते- र्गलेपदमिवन्यधादमितविक्रमो भूपतिः । सरांसि जयवर्द्धने कृतपुरेपि यो वर्द्धने महामहिमशेखरे विपुलवप्रमुग्रद्युतिः ॥ २५७ ॥ जनकाचलमग्रहीदलं महतीं चंपवतीमतीतपत् गिरिसुन्दरखोलखंडनावनिवज्रायुध एष भूपतिः ॥ २५८ ॥ प्रत्यर्थिपार्थिवपराजयजन्महेतुर्वृंदावतीपुरमदीदहदेष वीरः । तद्गर्गराटगिरिदुर्गमपि क्षणेन संक्षोभमापयदपारपराक्रमेण ॥२५९॥ मल्लारण्यपुरं वरेण्यमनलज्वालावलीढं व्यधा- द्घोरः सिंहपुरीमवीभरदसिप्रध्वस्तवैरिव्रजैः । 210

Appendix. यत्नं रत्नपुरप्रभंजनविधावाधायधीमानतो नायं नायमनेकराजनिकरान् कारागृहेवीवसत् ॥ २६० ॥ पंढातीनां पादलक्षं सपादलक्षमावृतम् । कृत्वा मल्लारणवीरो रणस्तंभं तथाजयत् ॥ २६१ ॥ श्राम्रदाद्रिदलनेन दारुणः कोटडाकलहकेलिकेसरी । कुम्भकर्णनृपतिर्ववावदो धूलनोद्धतभुजो विराजते ॥ २६२ ॥ नम्रानेकनृपालमौलिनिकरप्रत्युप्तहीरांकुर- श्रेणीरश्मिमिलन्नखद्युतिभरः शत्रून् रणाप्रांगणे । दीर्घांदोलितबाहुदंडविलसत्कोदंडदंडोल्लस- द्बाणास्तान्विचरय्य मण्डलकरं दुर्गे क्षणेनाजयत् ॥ २६३ ॥ जित्वा देशमनेकदुर्गविषमं हाडावटीं हेलया तन्नाथान् करदान्विधाय च जयस्तंभानुदस्तंभयत् । दुर्गं गोपुरमत्रषटपुरमपि प्रौढां च वृंदावर्ती श्रीमन्मंडलदुर्गमुच्चविलसच्छालां विशालां पुरीम् ॥ २६४ ॥ उत्खातमूलं सलिलैः प्रभंजन इव द्रुमं । विशालनगरं राजा समूलमुदमूलयत् ॥ २६५ ॥ तन्नागरीनयननीरतरंगिणीना- मंगीकृतं किमु समुत्तरणं तुरंगैः । श्रीकुम्भकर्णनृपतिः प्रवितीर्णझंपै- रालोडयद्गिरिपुरं यदमीभिरुग्रः ॥ २६६ ॥ यदीयगज्जद्गजतूर्यघोषसिंहस्वनाकर्णननष्टशौर्यः । विहाय दुर्गं सहसा पलायां चकार गोपालशृगालवालः ॥ २६७ ॥ त्यक्त्वा दीनादीनदीनाधिनाथा दीना बद्धा येन सारंगपुर्याम् । योषाः प्रौढाः पारसीकाधिपानां ताः संख्यातुं नैव शक्नोति कोपि।२६८। गर्ज्जन् म्लेच्छतिमिंगिलाकुलतरं रंगत्तरंगोर्मिमन् मातंगोद्धतनक्रचक्रममितं प्राकारवेलाचलं । 211