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... Ancient Systems of Geography - India as known to the Western Ancients - Ten Native Kingdoms - Twelve Soubas of Hindostan Pro- per , according to the Ayeen Akbery .... LETTER IX . Deccan or South Country - British Domi- nions · LETTER X ...
... Ancient Systems of Geography - India as known to the Western Ancients - Ten Native Kingdoms - Twelve Soubas of Hindostan Pro- per , according to the Ayeen Akbery .... LETTER IX . Deccan or South Country - British Domi- nions · LETTER X ...
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... ancient nations , which European historians have in general unaccountably neg lected to assign to it . This idea induced me to collect the notes in question ; I shall send you a portion of them from time to time , and if you have not ...
... ancient nations , which European historians have in general unaccountably neg lected to assign to it . This idea induced me to collect the notes in question ; I shall send you a portion of them from time to time , and if you have not ...
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... ancient posses- sors of the soil that we are acquainted with , and there are besides some interesting topics on which it would not perhaps be amiss previously to enter . Nature seems to have taken pleasure in em- bellishing and ...
... ancient posses- sors of the soil that we are acquainted with , and there are besides some interesting topics on which it would not perhaps be amiss previously to enter . Nature seems to have taken pleasure in em- bellishing and ...
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... ancient language of Gaur will be most useful , as it is spoken over a pretty extensive district . However if you wish to travel much , learn Persian , which may be called the French of the East ; for you will not find a village where at ...
... ancient language of Gaur will be most useful , as it is spoken over a pretty extensive district . However if you wish to travel much , learn Persian , which may be called the French of the East ; for you will not find a village where at ...
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... ancient that remains to us , and of the highest authority : but its great antiquity and studied brevity have required and received numerous scholiæ , all esteemed divine . The Amera - cosha , the most esteemed of all the vocabularies ...
... ancient that remains to us , and of the highest authority : but its great antiquity and studied brevity have required and received numerous scholiæ , all esteemed divine . The Amera - cosha , the most esteemed of all the vocabularies ...
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adorned æra Agra Akbar ancient appear army arts astronomical Aurengzebe Awatar Baber beautiful Bengal Brah Brahma Brahmins brother called capital castes ceremonies Chandra character chief conquest contains court Crishna Dara death Deccan Dehli deity descendants divine dominions dwipa earth East emperor empire European fables father favourite Ferishta fire Firoze Ganesa Ganges Genghis Genghis Khan Ghazna goddess gods Greeks Guzerat head heaven hero Hindostan Hindû holy honour India Indus inhabitants Khan king kingdom language laws letter Mahmoud Mahomedan Mahommed Mahratta Mogul Mogul empire monarchs mountains murdered Mussulman native nature Nizam nobles o'dien oblations offered Parvati Patans perhaps person poems poets possessed priest prince provinces Rama reign religion river Sacontala sacred sacrifice Sanscrit sect Shah Jehan Sidd'hanta Sir William Jones Siva soubah sovereigns Sultan Surya temple throne tion tombs trial by ordeal tribe Vedas Vishnu whence worship Zebe