Remembering Maharana Pratap: Constituent Assembly


CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA DEBATES
(PROCEEDINGS) - VOLUME XI
Thursday, the 24th November, 1949
Shri Manikya Lal Varma (United States of Rajasthan):
When Maharana Pratap was at war with Akbar, Prithviraj of Bikaner learnt from some source that the Maharana being tired was going to submit to Akbar, he wrote him a letter in such poetry:
Nakhoo mooddan paan, kon patank nija tana karadah 
dojey likh dee vaan, indon mohalee baat eke
(Should I now uphold my prestige or allow my body to be smashed to pieces? Please give me either of these two directions).
The Maharana sent him the following reply:
rihaya rakhasi aan, in tana soon iklingah 
aangey jaanri agason, prachee beech patang
(Let God Shiva always guard my honour. The sun will always rise in the
east as it has every been rising).

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