 | Charles Herbert Payne - India - 1925 - 272 pages
...office, which is extremely large, and presents the appearance of a chihal-sutun,1 or forty -pillared hall ; and in front of it there runs a raised gallery,...broad, where the records are kept and the scribes seated. These people have two kinds of writing, one upon a leaf of the Hindi nut (cocoa-nut), which... | |
 | Charles Herbert Payne - India - 1925 - 274 pages
...extremely large, and presents the appearance of a chihal-sutun,1 or forty -pillared hall ; and in front *ot it there runs a raised gallery, higher than the stature...broad, where the records are kept and the scribes seated. These people have two kinds of writing, one upon a leaf of the Hindi nut (cocoa-nut), which... | |
 | Anant Sadashiv Altekar - India - 2002 - 428 pages
...a forty pillared hall, and in its front runs a gallery FF 372 HISTORICAL SURVEY : SOUTH INDIA [ CH. higher than the stature of a man, thirty yards long and six yards broad, where the recrods are kept and scribes seated.1 We may well presume that in the secretariat,... | |
 | VD Mahajan - History - 2007 - 898 pages
...appearance of a Chihalsutun, or forty-pillared hall, and in front of it, there runs a raised-gallery, higher than the stature of a man, thirty yards long and six yards broad, where the records are kept and the scribes-are seated. "Each class of men belonging to... | |
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On the right hand of the palace of the Sultan there is the diwan-khana, or minister's office, which is extremely large, and presents the appearance of a chihalsutun, or fortypillared hall; and in front of it, there runs a raised gallery, higher than the... 