The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 2N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... give a more melancholy sense of desolation than ruins that ap- pear to have mouldered away under the natural touch of time . ' 6 The most striking object of all at Futtehpore Sicri is a colossal gateway , one hundred and twenty feet in ...
... give a more melancholy sense of desolation than ruins that ap- pear to have mouldered away under the natural touch of time . ' 6 The most striking object of all at Futtehpore Sicri is a colossal gateway , one hundred and twenty feet in ...
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... give an idea of the imperial route of the Moguls . It is not very improbable , that on such a highway , guarded by patrols almost within hail of each other , a purse of gold may have been exposed and found untouched on the next day , to ...
... give an idea of the imperial route of the Moguls . It is not very improbable , that on such a highway , guarded by patrols almost within hail of each other , a purse of gold may have been exposed and found untouched on the next day , to ...
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... give up their pursuit . Rather the humour gave them a zest to persist in it the more . The suburbs of Muttra were announced in the dis- tance by the thickening belt of topes and other planta- tions that usually surround the site of a ...
... give up their pursuit . Rather the humour gave them a zest to persist in it the more . The suburbs of Muttra were announced in the dis- tance by the thickening belt of topes and other planta- tions that usually surround the site of a ...
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... give up his horror of another dip into antiquity . But business always before pleasure one of our first inquiries was for the shelter * Firdousi's satirical description of Mahmood's Court of Ghizni . 1 of a roof and a breakfast . The ...
... give up his horror of another dip into antiquity . But business always before pleasure one of our first inquiries was for the shelter * Firdousi's satirical description of Mahmood's Court of Ghizni . 1 of a roof and a breakfast . The ...
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... gives the idea of a German mannikin , ―an Asiatic , in her flowing drapery , recalls the statue of antiquity . ' The up - country women are in the habit of darkening the edges of their eye - lids , a practice originally Hindoo , and ...
... gives the idea of a German mannikin , ―an Asiatic , in her flowing drapery , recalls the statue of antiquity . ' The up - country women are in the habit of darkening the edges of their eye - lids , a practice originally Hindoo , and ...
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Akber Altamash ancient appearance arches architecture Aurungzebe beautiful Begum Bengal Brindabun British building built Calcutta century Chandney Chowk Cheetore Chohan cloth College court covered Crown 8vo David Urquhart Delhi DICTIONARY dome Edited elephants emperor English erected eyes F. J. Furnivall F. W. Newman feet Firoz Shah Frances Power Cobbe Gate gateway German gharry gold ground hall hands head Hindoo honour hundred India Indraprastha inscription Iron Pillar Jumma Musjeed Jumna Khan king Kootub Krishna Lalkot LANGUAGE London magnificent Mahomed Mahomedan ment miles Minar Mogul monarch mosque Mussulmans Muttra Nadir Shah original ornamented palace Pandavas Patan Pirthi-raj Post 8vo present princes Professor Rajah reign rich royal Royal Asiatic Society ruins rupees Sanskrit scene sewed Shah Jehan side spot stone story temple throne Timoor tion Togluk Toglukabad Tomara tomb towers Translated traveller Trübner viii walls white marble