 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1849 - 666 pages
...same stanza.are also of foreign stamp; though they no doubt were among the first words of Muhammedan extraction which were introduced into India. The use...issued from the ball was heard at a distance of ten coss."* ^rfe ^fe fast? s mi ^ ami The two lines in which this passage occurs are evidently a modern... | |
 | Francis Rawdon Chesney - Firearms - 1852 - 420 pages
...buckle on your armour, and prepare your fire machines ; " and he adds (stanza 257), that the culivers and cannons made a loud report when they were fired off, and the noise of the ball was heard at the distance of about 10 coss, or nearly 1,445 yards. As this took place about... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 878 pages
...is established beyond a doubt, for ChasC'd, the Hindu bard, writes (in stanza 257) that the culivers and cannons made a loud report when they were fired off, and that the noise of the ball was heard at the distance of about ten coss, which is more than threequarters... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 856 pages
...is established beyond a doubt, for Chased, the Hindu bard, writes (in stanza 257) that the culivers and cannons made a loud report when they were fired off, and that the noise of the ball was heard at tho distance of about ten coss, which is more than threequarters... | |
 | Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur) - Hindus - 1906 - 506 pages
...ordnance being taken to battle-fields in the armies of Prithviraj. In the 25th stanza of Prithviraja Rasa it is said that "The calivers and cannons made a loud...issued from the ball was heard at a distance of ten cos. II fff i n King (of Oudh) which had been originally in the artillery of Maharaja Prithviraj of... | |
 | Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur) - Hindu civilization - 1922 - 498 pages
...armies of Prithviraj. In the 25th stanza of Prithviraia Rasa it is said that " The calivers and connons made a loud report when they were fired off, and the...issued from the ball was heard at a distance of ten cos. q*T «n5fT WC An Indian historian, Kaja Kundan Lall, who lived in the court of the king of Oudh,... | |
 | James Riddick Partington - History - 1999 - 432 pages
...rampart.146 A passage in the Kanauj-Khand of the Hindu poet Chänd, c. AD 1200, referring to cannon "which made a loud report when they were fired off and the...which issued from the ball was heard at a distance of 10 kos," and another which speaks of "fire machines," are later interpolations and are not found in... | |
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A'tish renders the passage suspicious. In other respects the verse in which it occurs does not bear the appearance of modern manufacture. In the 257th stanza, it is said, that " The calivers and cannons made a loud report, when they were fired off, and... 