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INTRODUCTION bad managed to kill Rāghavdeva (p. 65). This event is commemoTated in a couplet :
चुंडा प्रजमल आविया, माढूं हुं धक प्राग ।
Fartu4a #fur, 1 AT HIT !! (p. os) Jodhā and his seven hundred Rathods mounted their horses and made for Marwar. Chonda burning with rage at the wrongs done to him by Ran Mal relentlessly pursued Jodhā and his Rathods. He arrived at Mandawar (Mandor) close on Jodhā'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 Thāṇās-military and administrative posts all 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 Kumbhā 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 y. S. 1496 (A. D. 1410-40), summarizing, so to say, the military career of Kumbha before this date, there are historically important references about places which Kumbhā had conquered and persons who had sued 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) Narāvaka (Narana in Jaipur), (s) Ajayameru (Ajmer), (6) Mandor (Mandonar in Marwar), (7) Mandalakara (Mandalagadha), (8) Bundi. (9) Khatu (three Khatus- 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 (11) Jāna (unidentified)
The most important 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
1 Later on at the intercession of his grand mother Hansabai, Kumbhä сonnived at the
re-conquest by Jodhā of Mandor in AD 1445 after seven years occupation pp. 71.76. 2. See Ojha's History of Rajaputana, pp. 607-8.
