The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan, A.D. 1389- A.D. 1707 |
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The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan, A.D. 1389- A.D. 1707 Edward Singleton Holden No preview available - 2019 |
The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan, A.D. 1389- A.D. 1707 Edward Singleton Holden No preview available - 2019 |
The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan: A. D. 1389-A. D. 1707 (Classic Reprint) Edward S. Holden No preview available - 2018 |
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Abul-fazl Afghans Agra Akbar Allah Amir army Asaf-Khan Aurangzeb Babar Bairam Khan battle Bedauni Berkeley Bernier brother CALIFORNIA LIBRARY camp captured character Chengiz-Khan chief Christian coin commanded conquest court Dara daughter death Delhi descendants eldest elephants emperor empire empress enemy envoy faithful famous father favor fortunes four harem heart Herat Hindal Hindu Hindustan horses Humayun hundred imperial India infidels Islam Jahangir Kabul Kamran Kandahar Khan Khosrou king king's kingdom Kuran Lahore learned Mahabet-Khan majesty Marathas Memoirs Mirza Mogul Mogul Empire mosque Mughal Mughal Empire Muhammad Muhammadan Mumtaz-i-Mahal Murad Muslim native historians never night nobles Nur-Mahal officers palace Persian poets prayers Prince provinces Rajah Rajputs reign religion religious royal ruler Samarkand says sent Shah Jahan Shia Sir Thomas soldiers sons Sultan Tamerlane thou thousand throne Timur tion tomb troops Turki Ulugh Beg UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA verses wazir wives
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Page 143 - There are many that hate painting ; but such men I dislike. It appears to me as if a painter had quite peculiar means of recognising God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must come to feel that he cannot bestow individuality upon his work, and is thus forced to think of God, the giver of life, and will thus increase in knowledge.
Page 256 - Ferishta says she was endowed with every princely virtue, and those who scrutinize her actions most severely will find in her no fault but that she was a woman.
Page 163 - If it be a mosque people murmur the holy prayer, and if it be a Christian Church, people ring the bell from love to Thee. Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes the mosque. But it is thou whom I search from temple to temple.
Page 17 - Behold ! here are the ambassadors sent by my son the King of Spain, who is the greatest King of the Franks, and lives at the end of the world.
Page 187 - Majesty, there grew, gradually as the outline on a stone, the conviction in his heart that there were sensible men in all religions, and abstemious thinkers, and men endowed with miraculous powers, among all nations. If some true knowledge was thus everywhere to be found, why should truth be confined to one religion, or to a creed like Islam, which was comparatively new, and scarcely a thousand years old...
Page 87 - Hindustan is a country that has few pleasures to recommend it. The people are not handsome. They have no idea of the charms of friendly society, of frankly mixing together, or of familiar intercourse. They have no genius, no comprehension of mind, no politeness of manner, no kindness or fellow-feeling, no ingenuity or mechanical invention in planning or executing their handicraft works, no skill or knowledge in design or architecture ; they have no good...
Page 319 - The heroic soldiers of the Early Empire, and their not less heroic wives, had given place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzeb, who swooped down on India from the North, were ruddy men in boots. The courtiers among whom Aurangzeb grew up were pale persons in petticoats. Babar, the founder of the empire, had swum every river which he met with during thirty years of campaigning, including the Indus and the other great channels of the Punjab, and the mighty Ganges...
Page 314 - Let no rich canopy surmount my resting place,' was her dying injunction, inscribed on the headstone. ' This grass is the best covering for the grave of a lowly heart, the humble and transitory Ornament of the World, the disciple of the holy Man of Chist, the daughter of the Emperor Shah Jahan.
Page 303 - When he was seated they gave him his scimitar and buckler, which he laid down on his left side within the throne. Then he made a sign with his hand for those that had business to draw near ; who being come up, two secretaries standing, took their petitions, which they delivered to the king, telling, him the contents. I admir'd to see him indorse them with his own hand, without spectacles, and by his cheerful smiling" countenance seemed to be pleased with the employment.
Page 56 - Betekend, and which the people of the country term aikoti, that is said to have the virtue of the mehergiah, and is what passes under the name of mehergiah. In these hills, also, there are mines of turquoise and of iron. The revenues of Ferghana may suffice, without oppressing the country, to maintain three or four thousand troops. As...