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Abul Adil advance Afghan Agra Ahmednagar Akbar Ala-ud-Din amongst Anhilvara army Asoka attack Aurangzeb Babur Bairam Khan battle Bengal Bhim Bihar Bijapur Brahmin brother brought Buddhist campaign capital cavalry Chalukya Chandragupta chief Chitor clan command conquest court Dara daughter death Deccan defeat Delhi despatched dominions dynasty Emperor empire Empress enemy entire faith father followed force fortress garrison Ghazni Golconda Gujarat head heir Hindu honour Humayun immediately imperial India Islam Jehangir Kabul Kanauj Khusru King kingdom Kutub Lahore Lodi Mahabat Khan Maharana Maharashtra Mahmud Mahratta Malik Malwa Marwar Mewar Mir Jumla Moghul Mohammed Mohammedan monarch Moslem Murad Musulman Nizam nobles Nur Jehan officers palace peace Prince princess Prithvi Raj Punjab Raja Rajput Rajputana Rathor reached realised reign rule ruler Salim sent Sesodia Shah Jehan Shahi Shekoh Singh Sivaji soldiers sovereign succeeded throne Timur troops Tughlak vassals Viceroy victory Wazir whilst
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Page 526 - Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 3 - Think, in this batter'd caravanserai Whose portals are alternate night and day, How Sultan after Sultan with his pomp Abode his destined hour and went his way.
Page 305 - God, in every temple I see people that seek Thee, and in every language I hear spoken people praise Thee. Polytheism and Islam feel after Thee. Each religion says 'Thou art "One
Page 234 - Noblemen and soldiers ! Every man that comes into the world is subject to dissolution. When we are passed away and gone, God only survives, unchangeable. Whoever comes to the feast of life must, before it is over, drink from the cup of death. He who arrives at the inn of mortality, must one day inevitably take his departure from that house of sorrow, the world. How much better it is to die with honour than to live with infamy...
Page 248 - This is all the present I can afford to make you on the birth of my son, whose fame will, I trust, be one day] expanded all over the world, as the perfume of the musk now| fills this apartment"1 ii.
Page 305 - Thee, and in every language I hear spoken, people praise Thee. Polytheism and Islam feel after Thee : each religion says, "Thou art One, without equal'. 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, sometimes the mosque.
Page 199 - Tughlak, and, having pensioned and provided for them, have caused them to grant their full pardon and forgiveness to that Prince in the presence of the holy and learned men of this age, whose signatures and seals, as witnesses, are affixed to the documents, the whole of which, as far as lay in my power, have been procured and put into a box, and deposited in the vault in which...
Page 305 - 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. Thy elect have no dealings with either heresy or orthodoxy; for neither of them stands behind the screen of thy truth. Heresy to the heretic, and religion to the orthodox. But the dust of the rose-petal belongs to the heart of the perfume seller.
Page 235 - The most high God has been propitious to us, and has now placed us in such a crisis, that if we fall in the field, we die the death of martyrs; if we survive, we rise victorious, the avengers of the cause of God. Let us, then, with one accord, swear on God's holy word, that none of us will even think of turning his face from this warfare, nor desert from the battle and slaughter that ensues, till his soul is separated from his body.
Page 297 - The Lord has given me the Empire, And a wise heart, and a strong arm, He has guided me in righteousness and justice, And has removed from my thoughts everything but justice. His praise surpasses man's understanding, Great is His power, Allahu Akbar...