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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... wealth of their field and fold . Their rhythm is impossible to render in its inimitable sweetness and simplicity in even the filial tongues of the Vedic Sanskrit . But a glimpse of the unrivalled grandeur of their poetic imagination may ...
... wealth of their field and fold . Their rhythm is impossible to render in its inimitable sweetness and simplicity in even the filial tongues of the Vedic Sanskrit . But a glimpse of the unrivalled grandeur of their poetic imagination may ...
Page 90
... wealth and pleasure , in a strain of acute worldly wisdom , a quaint fancy and a homely imagery , pointed wit and elegant satire , that seem most surprising when one remembers that the authors were so many , and all of them ascetics ...
... wealth and pleasure , in a strain of acute worldly wisdom , a quaint fancy and a homely imagery , pointed wit and elegant satire , that seem most surprising when one remembers that the authors were so many , and all of them ascetics ...
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... wealth , of the type that was evolved by force of circumstances in the great Rajput States of medieval India , was hardly anywhere of sufficient stability and importance to make a permanent , effective check on the royal power . And ...
... wealth , of the type that was evolved by force of circumstances in the great Rajput States of medieval India , was hardly anywhere of sufficient stability and importance to make a permanent , effective check on the royal power . And ...
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