Kumbha
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Kumbha (ruled 1433 - 1468 ) was one of the most important ranas (princes) of the Rajput state of Mewar in what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan .
Life
Kumbha was the son of Rana Mokal and his wife Sobhagya Devi - his exact year of birth is unknown. Mokal was murdered by his brothers in 1433 as part of family power struggles, but they found no support at court or among the people and had to flee. So Kumbha came to power, who in times of permanent armed conflicts with Islam and the neighboring Rajput states - v. a. with Marwar - grew up. As early as 1435 he conquered Nagaur , the only city in Rajasthan under Muslim rule. In the 1440s, Mahmud Khilji, the Sultan of Malwa , repeatedly attacked the principality of Mewar, but each time he had to withdraw largely without having achieved anything. In the following years Rana Kumbha cooperated with the sultans of Gujarat and Delhi against Mahmud Khilji, who however managed to win the new Sultan of Gujarat on his side in the mid-1550s; then the mountain fortress of Abu and the cities of Sirohi , Ajmer and Mandalgarh fell into the hands of his opponents, but a little later they got into conflict with one another, so that Mewar experienced a period of relative calm.
Succession
In 1468 Rana Kumbha was murdered by his son Udai Singh I, who, however, had to give up large areas of the territory inherited from his father within a short time and was struck by lightning five years later in Delhi . His grandson was Rana Sanga (r. 1509–1527); later successors as rulers of Mewar were the Ranas Udai Singh II (r. 1540–1572) and Pratap Singh (r. 1572–1597), who had to deal with the Mughal Empire .
buildings
After the first successes against Mahmud Khilji, Rana Kumbha built the 9-storey and 37 m high victory tower ( Vijaya Sthambha ) in the fort of Chittorgarh , which was completed in 1448 - one of the most extraordinary monuments of Indian architecture; He also built the Kumbhalgarh fortress named after him , one of the largest fort complexes in all of India. Of the 84 forts in Mewar, 32 can be traced back to his initiatives. In addition, he was active as the author of two - lost - books on music and is considered to be the author of a commentary on Gitagovinda .
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| SURNAME | Kumbha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rana Kumbha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian ruler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th century or 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1468 |