 | Henry George Keene - India - 1879 - 292 pages
...introduction of tobaccaemoking 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 handsome mouthpiece of Yaman cornelian, oval-shaped, which I set on... | |
 | Friedrich August Graf von Noer - India - 1890 - 472 pages
...attractive mood is represented in Asad's account of how Akbar smoked his first pipe of tobacco. " In Bijdpur I had found some tobacco. Never " having seen the...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
...eastern branch of the Ganges of the earlier geographers. 120 Note I. Introduction of Tobacco. In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like...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
...in full. Bljapur must have received the drug from Portuguese traders. Asad Beg writes : ' In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like...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... | |
 | 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
...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 seen the like...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... | |
 | Marmaduke William Pickthall, Muhammad Asad - Civilization, Islamic - 1927 - 696 pages
...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 seen the like...the finest to be procured at Achin, was three cubits inlength, beautifully dried and coloured, both ends being adorned with jewels and enamel. I happened... | |
 | Marmaduke William Pickthall, Muhammad Asad - Civilization, Islamic - 1927 - 696 pages
...handsome pipe of jewel work. The stem, the finest to be procured at Achin, was three cubits inlength, beautifully dried and 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... | |
 | Sir George Watt - India - 1891 - 696 pages
...early history of tobacco in India. The first account bears the date 1604 or 1605 :— " In Bijapur I had found some tobacco. Never having seen the like...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... | |
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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... 
