The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page xxiv
... built by giants and finished by jewellers . Above all there are the wondrous mosques , decorated with holy texts from the Koran ; the cloistered gardens in vast quadrangles { 1 Introduction . XXV where fountains are ever playing ; xxiv ...
... built by giants and finished by jewellers . Above all there are the wondrous mosques , decorated with holy texts from the Koran ; the cloistered gardens in vast quadrangles { 1 Introduction . XXV where fountains are ever playing ; xxiv ...
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... our day . Long had the ragged appearance of Balli , and its mud - built * In allusion to the late author of the ' Literary Leaves , ' who re- sided here for many years . cottages given the lie to its great antiquity . It.
... our day . Long had the ragged appearance of Balli , and its mud - built * In allusion to the late author of the ' Literary Leaves , ' who re- sided here for many years . cottages given the lie to its great antiquity . It.
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... built and broad - shouldered to exe- cute the feat of carrying you across even the Hooghly . Now , that loaves and fishes are scarce , the Gossains are leaving off to announce themselves at the doors of their followers with flag ...
... built and broad - shouldered to exe- cute the feat of carrying you across even the Hooghly . Now , that loaves and fishes are scarce , the Gossains are leaving off to announce themselves at the doors of their followers with flag ...
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... built , according to the inscribed date , in 1599 . The Portuguese Jesuits had very much disgusted the Empress Mumtaza by their worship of pictures and images , and this feeling had no small share in bringing about the destruction of ...
... built , according to the inscribed date , in 1599 . The Portuguese Jesuits had very much disgusted the Empress Mumtaza by their worship of pictures and images , and this feeling had no small share in bringing about the destruction of ...
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... built house just over- looking the river , whence he used to ' Gaze where some distant sail a speck supplies , With all the thirsting eye of enterprise . ' Past associations give to Doomurdah a gloomy and dismal look . The inhabitants ...
... built house just over- looking the river , whence he used to ' Gaze where some distant sail a speck supplies , With all the thirsting eye of enterprise . ' Past associations give to Doomurdah a gloomy and dismal look . The inhabitants ...
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