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

Maharana Sāngā. of Jug Mal by placing his poniard at his throat. His wife, forgetting her husband's cruelty, responded to his humiliating appeal for mercy, and begged her brother to spare his life, which was granted on condition of his standing as a suppliant with his wife's shoes on his head and touching her feet, the lowest mark of degradation. He obeyed, was forgiven and embraced by Prithviraj. The next morning, Jug Mal entertained his royal brother at a public entertainment. At Prithviraj's departure, Jug Mal¹ presented him with three pills of a confection for which he was celebrated. Prithviraj ate them as he came in sight of Kumbhalgarh, but on reaching the shrine of Mamadevi, he was unable to proceed further. He sent a mes- sage to the fair Tara to come and bid him farewell, but so subtle was the poison that death overtook him ere she descended from the fortress. Her resolution was soon taken; the pyre was erected, and with the mortal remains of the chivalrous Prithviraj in ¹ P. Gauri Shanker Ojha's History of Sirohi, p. 205. Jug Mal reigned from A.D. 1483 to A.D. 1523. 43