Kumbha's invasions of Nagaur
| Battle of Nagaur | |||||||||
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| Part of Mewar-Nagaur Sultanate wars | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Kingdom of Mewar | Nagaur Sultanate | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Rana Kumbha |
Shams Khan Anupsingh Manik Malik Gadai Mujahid Khan | ||||||||
The Battle of Nagaur was fought between the Rajputs of Mewar and the Nagaur Sultanate. It started within Nagaur as a feud between two brothers, Mujahid Khan and Shams Khan. Shams Khan was defeated and took aid from Rana Kumbha the ruler of Mewar. Shams Khan was able to take Nagaur from his brother with the help of the Rana, but he refused to fulfill his promise to demolish a part of the battlements of the fort. This resulted in another war in which Rana Kumbha won and annexed Nagaur. He took away from the treasury of Shams Khan a large store of precious stones, jowels and other valuable things. The Eklinga Mahatmya composed during Kumbha's lifetime, says that he “defeated the King of the Shakas (Mussalmans), put to flight Mashiti (Mujahid ?), slew the heroes of Nagpur (Nagor), destroyed the fort, filled up the moat round the fort, captured elephants, imprisoned Shaka women and punished countless Mussalmans. He gained a victory over the King of Gujrat, burnt the city (Nagor) with all the mosques therein, liberated twelve lakhs of cows from the Moslems, made the land a pasture for cows and gave Nagor for a time to Brahmans. He carried away the gates of the fort and an image of Hanuman from Nagor, which he placed at the principal gate of the fortress of Kumbhalgarh, calling it the Hanumán Pol.