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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... thousand years or more . Every new discovery , however , of the relics and monuments in stone or marble , in wood or bronze or gold , serves only to deepen the mystery hanging over the story of human life in this country , till the very ...
... thousand years or more . Every new discovery , however , of the relics and monuments in stone or marble , in wood or bronze or gold , serves only to deepen the mystery hanging over the story of human life in this country , till the very ...
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... thousand years , stringing their immortal odes to the gods of their hearth and home , and praying for the wealth of their field and fold . Their rhythm is impossible to render in its inimitable sweetness and simplicity in even the ...
... thousand years , stringing their immortal odes to the gods of their hearth and home , and praying for the wealth of their field and fold . Their rhythm is impossible to render in its inimitable sweetness and simplicity in even the ...
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... thousand complete suits every year , not because he himself needed all of them , but because he had to give away ... thousand , or seven thousand , or even ten thousand ; and paid them from the imperial treasury regular salaries which ...
... thousand complete suits every year , not because he himself needed all of them , but because he had to give away ... thousand , or seven thousand , or even ten thousand ; and paid them from the imperial treasury regular salaries which ...
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