महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

Maharana Sāngā. again, administered poison to him. The heroic spirit of the great man would not so easily give in, and fought with the malady for a time. At last the poison prevailed and Sāngā breathed his last at Baswa in Baisakh¹ Sud, S. 1584, after a reign of 21 years 5 months and 9 days. Thus ended the glorious life of the great man who was one of the greatest sovereigns that have ever ruled in Rajputana. The lesser men who were about him in his last days, purchased "by regicide, inglorious ease and safety, in preference to privations and dangers, and to emulating the manly constancy of their prince, who resolved to make heavens his canopy till his foe was crushed,—a determina- tion which was pursued with the most resolute perseverance by some of his gallant successors."² Maharana Sāngā was of middle stature but of great muscular strength, fair in com- plexion, with unusually large eyes. He ¹ Chaturkula Charitra p. 27 gives the date as Magh Sud 9th, S. 1584. ² Tod's Rajasthan, Vol. I, p. 307. 157