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... head . Leaving the corpse in a welter of its own blood , the assassins hurried to Aurangzeb with the head . Aurangzeb ordered the grisly relic to be placed in a basin and washed clean of blood . By one Mogul account , after a brief ...
... head . Leaving the corpse in a welter of its own blood , the assassins hurried to Aurangzeb with the head . Aurangzeb ordered the grisly relic to be placed in a basin and washed clean of blood . By one Mogul account , after a brief ...
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... head would be more obscure . Contemporary Mogul chroniclers insist that it was later joined to his trunk before burial in Humayun's tomb . But Manucci records the ultimate horror - a ghoulish yet curi- ously believable story ...
... head would be more obscure . Contemporary Mogul chroniclers insist that it was later joined to his trunk before burial in Humayun's tomb . But Manucci records the ultimate horror - a ghoulish yet curi- ously believable story ...
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... head . When the old man recovered consciousness , he began to pluck out his beard till it was all bleeding , and to beat his face ; then , dissolving into a flood of tears , he raised both hands to heaven and said these words : " Khuda ...
... head . When the old man recovered consciousness , he began to pluck out his beard till it was all bleeding , and to beat his face ; then , dissolving into a flood of tears , he raised both hands to heaven and said these words : " Khuda ...
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Day of Vengeance | 22 |
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