 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...  A History of the Deccan - Page 247by James Dunning Baker Gribble - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1875 - 598 pages
...conducts himself. Bring him now to do homage." Introduction of Tobacco. In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like in India, I brought...coloured, both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. 1 happened to come across a very handsome mouthpiece of Yaman cornelian, oval-shaped, which I set to... | |
 | 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...jewels and enamel. I happened to come across a very hand-ome mouthpiece of Yaman cornelian, oral-shaped, which I set on the stem ; the whole Tery handsome... | |
 | Sir George Watt - Botany, Economic - 1891 - 692 pages
...tobacco in India. The first account bears the date 1604 or 1605 :— " In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like in India, I brought...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 - 472 pages
...represented in Asad's account of how Akbar smoked his first pipe of tobacco. " In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never " having seen the like in India, I...finest to be procured at Achin, was "three cubits long, beautifully dried and coloured, " both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. " I happened... | |
 | Friedrich August Graf von Noer - India - 1890 - 644 pages
...handsome pipe of jewel work. " The stem, the finest to be procured at Achin, was " three cubits long, beautifully dried and coloured, "both ends being adorned...enamel. " I happened to come across a very handsome mouth" piece of Yaman cornelian, oval-shaped which I set " to the stem ; the whole was very handsome.... | |
 | Yogendra-Nātha Dāsa Gupta - Bengal (India) - 1914 - 208 pages
...the Ganges of the earlier geographers. Note I. Introduction of Tobacco. In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like in India, I brought...across a very handsome mouthpiece of Yaman cornelian, oval-shaped, which I set to the stem ; the whole was very handsome. There was also a golden burner... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1919 - 562 pages
...must have received the drug from Portuguese traders. Asad Beg writes : ' In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like in India, I brought...across a very handsome mouthpiece of Yaman cornelian, oval-shaped, which I set to the stem ; the whole was very handsome. There was also a golden burner... | |
 | Chicago Natural History Museum - Anthropology - 1922 - 522 pages
...of Kazwin, an officer at the court of the emperor Akbar, in 1605 :— "In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like in India, I brought...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... | |
 | 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
...was sent on a mission by Akbar to Adil Khan or 'Adil Shah of Bijapur : " In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like in India, I brought...happened to come across a very handsome mouthpiece of Yeman cornelian, oval shaped which I set to the stem ; the whole was very handsome. There was also... | |
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