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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| 37 Whether this was insanity or a sort of religious frenzy, it is difficult to say. Possibly the mental stress and strain that Kumbha must have
undergone in his unusually stormy life coupled with his emotional :: temparatient might have resulted in a sort of softening of the
brain, or probably his decply religious nature, coupled with a sort of megalomania inight have seen in the ordinary behaviour of a cow, the dance of the Divine Cow which plays such a great part in the mythology pertaining to Bāpā given in the Ekalinga Purāņa. Whatever it may be, it was a tragic scqucl of such an eventful and splendid life.
Hij political carcer started with a fight for life when his father Mahā. i rāna Mokal was murdered by his uncles Chāchā and Mājra. He wit
nessed the court-intrugues which resulted in the murder of his uncle Rāghava who was something like his guardian, the scquel of which was the murder of his brave general Rathod Ranmall. To this was added the constant anxicty of keeping down rebellions in his own dominion and warding off the invasions of his two powerful neighbours, the Sultan of Malwa on the East and the Sultan of Gujrat on the West. That he was cqual to this task shows that he possessed intelligence, courage and valour to an uncommon degree. But the strain and stress involved in keeping down the court-intrigues and anibitions of his own sons as well as that of fighting external enemics might have ultimately broken even his strong nerves. It is possible to guess that the intrigues of his sons must have been the last straw. The provocation to the parricide Udaysingha requires to be sought out. The explanation probably lies in the court-intrigues in which the Mahārāņā and his sons were involved. . Whatever that may be, it is tragic to note that Mahārāna Kumbha's Tegin started with the murder of his father by his uncles and ended with his murder by his son. .
The estimate of Mahārāna Kumbhā's personality cannot be better expressed than in the words of Colnol Tod who says that he had the energy of Hamir, Lakha's taste for the arts, and a genius comprehensive as either and more fortunate (p. 334 Vol. I). In accordance with the Hindu ideal of a hero, he has been thus described by the poet of the Jaya-Stambha-prasasti :
धीरोद्धतं समिति संसदि धीरशान्तं मित्रेषु भूपतिषु भूपमुदारधीरम् । कान्तासुधीरललितं कलयन्ति सन्तो ये नायकावलिगुण वज] जन्मभूमिम् ।। १६५
(quoted in M. K. p. 220)
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1 This inscription and the Rasika-priyä mention the names of two queens of Kumbb
Kumbhaldevi and Apūrvadevi.