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 Nagor was the principal cause. As Ferishta says "Rana's (Kumbha's) family had long wished for an opportunity to humble the chief of Nagoor."1 This opportunity came to him on account of a family feud for succession between the two sons of Feroz Khan who died in A.D. 1455. Shams Khan his elder son (named after his grandfather) succeeded him, but as Ferishta says, "Mujahid Khan, brother of Feroz Khan, having expelled Shums Khan, kept possession of the estate." So the nephew Shams Khan immediately applied to Rāņā : Kumbhā of Chitor for aid.1 Kumbhā agreed to help him on condition that Shams Khan acknowledge his supremacy by demolishing a part of the battlements of the fort of Nagor. To this Shams Khan agreed. Mujahid Khan was defeated and he had to fly to. Gujarat. Shams Khan after he was placed on the throne of his father by Kumbhā did not carry out the condition of demolishing a part of the fort but later strengthened the fort. This breach of faith brought back Kumbha with a big army to Nagor. Shams Khan was driven out of the fort which was then demolished by Kumbhā.
Shams Khan naturally ran to his kinsman Sultan Qutb-ud-din at Ahmedabad. The Sultan espoused his cause and sent a large army under Rai Ram Chandar and Malik Gaddai to take back Nagor. The Gujrat army was, however, defeated by Kumbhā and only : remnants returned to Ahmedabad to carry the news of the disaster.
Sultan Qutb-ud-din himself, then, marched against Kumbhā who bad advanced to Abu to meet him. This was an opportunity for the Rao of Sirohi to seek the aid of Qutub-ud-din to get back Abu from Kumbhā who had wrested it from him. Qutub-ud-din sent Malik Shaaban Imad-ul-Mulk to help the Rao of Sirohi and himself marched to Kumbhalgarh. Kumbbā, knowing of this ruse, attacked and defeated Imad-ul-Mulk with great slaughter and with forced marches: forestalled Qutub-ud-din by reaching Kumbhalgarh before him. Imadul-Mulk joined Qutub at Kumbhalgarh but they could not take the fortress and so defeated returned to Gujarat. According to Ferishta; however, the Rana was defeated and he sued for peace, consenting to pay a large sum in specie and a quantity of jewels; after which Kootab Shah returned to Ahmedabad. But if Qutub-u-din was rcally victorious it is difficult to understand why he agreed immediately after vards to enter into an offensive alliance with Mahnud Klialii - the Sultan of Malwa aginst Kumblā. Ferishta says, "On his road to Gujarat he was met by Taj Khan, an ambassador from the court of Malwa, who had been sent to propose an offensive alliance against Rāṇā Kumbhā of Chitor, whose country, it was agreed,
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1. p. 40. Ferithta, Vol. IV. 2. Sarda, pp 94.92. 2 Forisota, Vol. IV. p. 41.