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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Page 11
... hundred years , however , the stream seems to have dried up , and the people of India are now immune from the danger they apprehended for centuries . Five hundred miles to the south and west lies another indenture in the hilly barrier ...
... hundred years , however , the stream seems to have dried up , and the people of India are now immune from the danger they apprehended for centuries . Five hundred miles to the south and west lies another indenture in the hilly barrier ...
Page 110
... hundred might be found capable of expounding twenty books of the Shastras and Sutras , only five hundred could deal with thirty books , and only ten with fifty . Students were not admitted until they had proved themselves men of parts ...
... hundred might be found capable of expounding twenty books of the Shastras and Sutras , only five hundred could deal with thirty books , and only ten with fifty . Students were not admitted until they had proved themselves men of parts ...
Page 192
... hundred and fifty elephants laden with treasure in gold , diamonds and precious stones , valued at more than a hundred million sterling , and carrying the state insignia and the celebrated jewelled throne of the kings , left the city ...
... hundred and fifty elephants laden with treasure in gold , diamonds and precious stones , valued at more than a hundred million sterling , and carrying the state insignia and the celebrated jewelled throne of the kings , left the city ...
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