The Splendour that was ʾInd: A Survey of Indian Culture and Civilisation (from the Earliest Times to the Death of Emperor Aurangzeb)D. B. Taraporevala, 1930 - 236 pages |
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... gold , some of them 6 feet in diameter , or copper plate studded with precious stones . " When the king condescended to show himself in public , he was carried in a golden palanquin , adorned with tassels of pearls , and was clothed in ...
... gold , some of them 6 feet in diameter , or copper plate studded with precious stones . " When the king condescended to show himself in public , he was carried in a golden palanquin , adorned with tassels of pearls , and was clothed in ...
Page 191
... gold could have been a native product of India . But even if we do not regard Tibetan gold as really native Indian gold , geological evidence suggests that alluvial deposits of gold must , at one time , have been very considerable in ...
... gold could have been a native product of India . But even if we do not regard Tibetan gold as really native Indian gold , geological evidence suggests that alluvial deposits of gold must , at one time , have been very considerable in ...
Page 192
... gold and silver . The stores of gold accumulated by these means ought to give an idea of the volume of this commerce . Without going back to the time of Mahmud of Ghazni , whose plunder of India was reckoned in thousands of maunds , let ...
... gold and silver . The stores of gold accumulated by these means ought to give an idea of the volume of this commerce . Without going back to the time of Mahmud of Ghazni , whose plunder of India was reckoned in thousands of maunds , let ...
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