 | Henry George Keene - India - 1879 - 292 pages
...first introduction of tobaccosmoking at Akbar's court. "I prepared a handsome pipe . . . the stem . . . was three cubits in length, beautifully dried and...coloured, both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. I happened to come across a very hand-ome mouthpiece of Yaman cornelian, oral-shaped, which I set on... | |
 | Sir George Watt - Botany, Economic - 1891 - 692 pages
...connection with the early history of tobacco in India. The first account bears the date 1604 or 1605 :— " In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having...with me, and prepared a handsome pipe of jewel work." " His Majesty (Akbar) was enjoying himself after receiving my presents and asking me how I had collected... | |
 | Friedrich August Graf von Noer - India - 1890 - 644 pages
...repentance. A more attractive mood is represented in Asad's account of how Akbar smoked his first pipe of tobacco. " In Bijapur I had found some tobacco....finest to be procured at Achin, was " three cubits long, beautifully dried and coloured, "both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. " I happened... | |
 | Yogendra-Nātha Dāsa Gupta - Bengal (India) - 1914 - 208 pages
...Brahmaputra, which I conceive to be the eastern branch of the Ganges of the earlier geographers. Note I. Introduction of Tobacco. In Bijapur I had found some...coloured both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. I happened to come across a very handsome mouthpiece of Yaman cornelian, oval-shaped, which I set to... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1919 - 562 pages
...be quoted in full. Bljapur must have received the drug from Portuguese traders. Asad Beg writes : ' In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having...coloured, both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. I happened to come across a very handsome mouthpiece of Yaman cornelian, oval-shaped, which I set to... | |
 | Chicago Natural History Museum - Anthropology - 1922 - 522 pages
...Asad Beg, written by Asad Beg of Kazwin, an officer at the court of the emperor Akbar, in 1605 :— "In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having...was three cubits in length, beautifully dried and colored, both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. I happened to come across a very handsome... | |
 | James Dunning Baker Gribble - Deccan (India) - 1896 - 452 pages
...wonderful spectacle to the eye of the traveller." At Bijapur Asad Beg for the first time came across tobacco. "Never having seen the like in India, I brought...coloured, both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. I happened to come across a very handsome mouth-piece of Yaman cornelian, oval shaped, which I set... | |
 | Hugh Wilbur Taylor - Agriculture - 1927 - 248 pages
...Deccan as early as 1508." " Asad Beg, of date 1605, says of Bijapur that he found some tobacco and ' never having seen the like in India I brought some...with me and prepared a handsome pipe of jewel work.' These he presented to the Emperor Akbar." " It would thus seem to have been known in the Deccan for... | |
 | Marmaduke William Pickthall, Muhammad Asad - Civilization, Islamic - 1927 - 722 pages
...the Wikaija of Asad Beg who was sent on a mission by Akbar to Adil Khan or 'Adil Shah of Bijapur : " In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having...coloured, both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. I happened to come across a very handsome mouthpiece of Yeman cornelian, oval shaped which I set to... | |
 | Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado - Foreign Language Study - 1988 - 654 pages
...VI, 165-7), says of Bijapur that he found some tobacco and, ' ' never having seen the like in India 1 brought some with me and prepared a handsome pipe of jewel work." These he presented to the Emperor Akbar, who attempted to smoke, until he was forbidden by his physician.... | |
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In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like in India, I brought some with me, and prepared a handsome pipe of jewel work. The stem, the finest to be procured at Achin, was three cubits in length, beautifully dried and coloured, both... 
