Maharana Sāngā; the Hindupat, the Last Great Leader of the Rajput RaceScottish Mission Industries, 1918 - 160 pages |
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Maharana Sanga; The Hindupat, the Last Great Leader of the Rajput Race Diwan Bahadur Har Bilas Sarda No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 158 - His personal figure corresponded with his deeds. " He exhibited at his death but the fragment of a warrior ; one eye was lost in the broil with his brother, an arm in an action with the Lodi King of Delhi, and he was a cripple owing to a limb being broken with a cannon-ball in another, while he counted eighty wounds from the sword or the lance on various parts of his body.
Page 136 - 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...
Page 39 - My face will be blackened, and my name everlastingly " reprobated." The sword was sheathed, and as the uncle and nephew embraced, the latter asked the former, " what were you about, uncle, when I " came ?" — " Only talking nonsense, child, after dinner.
Page 136 - 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 25 - Bhae, scorning the habiliments and occupations of her sex, learned to guide the war-horse, and throw with unerring aim the arrow from his back, even while at speed. Armed with the bow and quiver, and mounted on a fiery...
Page 13 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 52 - Guzerat territory stretched along the sea to the south-east, so as to include the city of Surat and some of the country beyond it.
Page 39 - The sword was sheathed, and as the uncle and nephew embraced, the !ii'"i asked the former, " What were you about, uncle, when I came ? " — " Only talking nonsense, child, after dinner." " But with me over your head, uncle, as a foe how could you be so negligent ? " — " What could I do ? you had left me no resource, and I must have some place to rest my head...
Page 136 - Khalifeh conducted himself admirably, and was unremitting and indefatigable in his endeavours to put everything in the best order. At length, observing the universal discouragement of my troops, and their total want of spirit, I formed my plan. I called an assembly of all the Amirs and officers, and addressed them : ' 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...
Page 131 - The Rajputs, energetic, chivalrous, fond of battle and bloodshed, animated by a strong national spirit, were ready to meet face to face the boldest veterans of the camp, and were at all times prepared to lay down their life for their honour.