Nrutyaratna Kosh Part 02

SR No.: 010618
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rasiklal C Parikh
Publisher: Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishthan Jodhpur
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 249
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 14 MB

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INTRODUCTION had managed to kill Rāghavdeva (p. 6s). This event is commemorated in a couplet :
चुंडा अजमल आविया, माई हुं धक प्राग।
GETTURA Hifzar, 7 at 117 11 (p. 65) Todhā and his seven hundred Rathods mounted their horses and made for Marwar. Chonda burning with ragé at the wrongs done to him by Ran Mal relentlessly pursued Jodhā and his Rathods. He arrived at Mandawar (Mandor) close on Jodha's heels. Jodhā was unable to make a stand there and escaped to the village of Kāhuni, ten miles from Bikaner (p. 67).
Kumbhā's forces under his uncle Rawat Chonda took possession of Marwar and established Thāņās-military and administrative postsall over the land.
The inscription in the temple at Ranakpur, of A. D. 1439 mentions the occupation of Mandor by Kumbhā,
In the year 1438 A. D. after the murder of Ran Mal the Rathods were expelled from Mewar. The same year saw the passing of Marwar into the hands of Mahārāṇā Kumbhā. (p. 68).
Thus within six years of coming to the throne Kunibhā had consolidated his kingdom of Mewar by defeating Chauhan families of Sirohi and Bundi and showed his prowess to the neighbouring Sultan of Malwa by imprisoning him for six months in Chitor. The feud between his uncles and the maternal uncle of his father, Sisodia sardars and Rathods, got him the possession of Marwar, but also lost him his great general and brave warrior Rao Ran Mal Rathod.
In the Rankpur Jain Temple inscription of V. S. 1496 (A. D. 1439-40), summarizing, so to say, the military career of Kumbhā before this date, there are historically important references about places which Kumbhā had conquered and persons who had sucd for peace with him. The places which are referred to are as follows: (1) Sarangpur (in Malwa). (2) Nagpur (Nagor), (3) Gagaran (in Kota), (4) Narāwaka (Narana in Jaipur), (s) Ajayameru (Ajmer), (6) Mandor (Mandonar in Marwar), (7) Mandalakara (Mandalagadha), (8) Bundi, (9) Khatu (three Kbatus, two Badi Khatus and one Chhoti Khatu in Jodhpur and one in Jaipur. Here the reference is probably to Khatu in Jaipur), (10) Chatsu (Chaksu in - Jaipur), and (1) Jāna (unidentified)
The most inportant reference in this Jain inscription, however, is to his title 'Hindu Suratrāņa'-given by the Sultans of Delhi (Sayyad Mohammad A. D. 1434-1444). and Gujarat (Ahmedshah I. A. D. 1411-1442). As an insignia of this recognition he was given an
Later on at the intercession of his grandmother Hansābai, Kumbhā connived at the
re-conquest by Jodhā of Mandor in A.D 1445 after seven yeais occupation pp. 71.76. 2. See Ojha's History of Rajaputana, pp. 607-8.