The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 2N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... hundred and fifty feet , and enclosed by a high stone rampart with battlements and towers , five miles in cir- cuit . The whole extent of this space , in its present state , is one scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ...
... hundred and fifty feet , and enclosed by a high stone rampart with battlements and towers , five miles in cir- cuit . The whole extent of this space , in its present state , is one scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ...
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... hundred and fifty miles at such a rate . It was , therefore , broken in easy stages of three coss , or six miles a day . That the begum might not hurt her feet , carpets were spread on the road . That her purda- nashin honour might not ...
... hundred and fifty miles at such a rate . It was , therefore , broken in easy stages of three coss , or six miles a day . That the begum might not hurt her feet , carpets were spread on the road . That her purda- nashin honour might not ...
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... hundred and twenty feet in height , and the same in breadth . The span of the arch is forty feet broad , by sixty feet high . In Sleeman's opinion , the beholder is struck with the disproportion between the thing wanted and the thing ...
... hundred and twenty feet in height , and the same in breadth . The span of the arch is forty feet broad , by sixty feet high . In Sleeman's opinion , the beholder is struck with the disproportion between the thing wanted and the thing ...
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... hundred thousand swords had often leapt into the air from their scabbards . The duty of these men is to read the daily prayers over the dead and to show the cheragh at night - to light the lamps in a sepulchre . ' Their grey beards are ...
... hundred thousand swords had often leapt into the air from their scabbards . The duty of these men is to read the daily prayers over the dead and to show the cheragh at night - to light the lamps in a sepulchre . ' Their grey beards are ...
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... hundred and fifty years since the mortal remains of Akber have been consigned to the grave , and that a heavy mass of marble presses upon them with its weight , still he may be fancied as surviving to this day , and filling the spot ...
... hundred and fifty years since the mortal remains of Akber have been consigned to the grave , and that a heavy mass of marble presses upon them with its weight , still he may be fancied as surviving to this day , and filling the spot ...
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