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

Maharana Sāngā. (capital Amber, now Jaipur) were not of much political consequence. The Rāthors were only just beginning to strike root in the region round Mandawar (Mandor), the seat of the ancient Paṛihar power which, in Narhar Rao’s time had been paramount in Hindustan. When Sāngā came to the throne in A.D. 1508 A.D., both the Kachhwahas and the Rāthors had gathered strength and had not only become powerful neighbours of the Guihlots of Mewar, but had contributed largely in covering Rajputana with a race of warriors which first showed its strength in joining the Guihlots in offering a desperate resistance to the founding of the Turk power in India, and which later (Akbar’s time) had to be wooed and won over before that power could strike root in the country. While the Kachhwahas had brought under their control the whole of Dhundhar (now Jaipur State) and had made Amber a powerful kingdom, the Rāthors had not only founded Jodhpur (S. 1515, A.D. 1458) and firmly established themselves in Pali, Sojat and other places, 47