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Ruler of Mewar, a state in western India. This page was last edited on 17 February 2024, at 02:07. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
Jan 9, 2019 · Maharana Kumbha (Kumbhkaran) was born on Makar Sakranti day to Maharana Mokal and Queen Sobhagaya Devi in 1417 CE. He was just 16 years old when he became the Maharana of Mewar in 1433 CE, following the assassination of his father by his own nobles in a palace conspiracy. He would go on to rule Mewar for the next 35 years.
In this episode, we explore the rich history of Mewar, Rajasthan, focusing on the life of Maharana Kumbha, a remarkable ruler of Mewar known for his exceptio...
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Kumbhakarna Singh (r. 1433–1468 CE), popularly known as Maharana Kumbha, was the Maharana of Mewar kingdom in India.[4] He belonged to the Sisodia clan of Rajputs. Rana Kumbha is known for his illustrious military career against various sultanates and patronization of art and music and architecture.[5] Rana Kumbha was born at Madariya,[6] in a Hindu Rajput family of Sisodia clan.[5] Kumbha was a son of Rana Mokal Singh of Mewar by his wife, Sobhagya Devi, a daughter of Jaitmal Sankhla, the ...
Ruling Period: 1628 – 1654. Maharana Jagat Singh was the 57th ruler of Mewar and succeeded Maharana Karan Singh II. He ruled for twenty-four years from Udaipur and tranquillity and prosperity continued in the kingdom during the period of Rana Jagat’s reign. He is known to be the greatest builder of the Mewar dynasty. ….
Rana Kumbha took the aid of the famous architect of the era, "Mandan". Rana Kumbha's kingdom of Mewar stretched from Ranthambore to Gwalior and included large tracts of what is now Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Out of the 84 forts in his dominion, Rana Kumbha is said to have built 32 of them, of which Kumbhalgarh is the largest and most elaborate.
Maharana Kumbha was an able ruler, erudite scholar, a spiritual person and a great warrior, besides an architecture expert and musician. Compositions composed by Maharana Kumbha are Sangeetraj, Sood Prabandha, Sangeet Ratnakar, Rasik Priya (commentary of Geet Govind in dialect of Mewar, originally written in Sanskrit), Vadhya Prabandhak which shows his extraordinary knowledge of music.
