His father," Barbosa tells us, "desired that he should be brought up from a child and nourished with poison, in order that it should not be possible to kill him with poison ; for the Moorish kings of those parts often have one another killed with poison... Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency ... - Page 2451896Full view - About this book
| Hakluyt Society - 1866 - 270 pages
...food in such manner that he could eat a great quantity of it ; for which cause he became so poisonous that if a fly settled on his hand it swelled and immediately fell dead. And many wives with whom he slept died at once of his poison, which he was unable to leave off eating,... | |
| John Whaley Watson - 1886 - 144 pages
...she is found dead in the morning.' Barbosa goes further than this (Stanley's Trans. 57), saying that so soaked was the king with poison, that if a fly...Varthema's companion asking how it was that the king could est poison m this manner, certain merchants, who were older than the sultán, answered that his father... | |
| Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1904 - 900 pages
...food in such manner that he could eat a great quantity of it ; for which cause he became so poisonous that if a fly settled on his hand, it swelled and immediately fell dead."f From such travellers' tales as these Mahmud gained in Europe an unenviable notoriety as the... | |
| William Crooke - 1906 - 568 pages
...of those parts often have one another killed with poison ... for which cause he became so poisonous that if a fly settled on his hand, it swelled and immediately fell dead." If he only breathed on one of his many wives she died forthwith. Mahmud of Ghazni got rid of a gang... | |
| William Crooke - 1906 - 568 pages
...those parts often have one another killed with poison . . . for which cause he became so poisonous that if a fly settled on his hand, it swelled and immediately fell dead." If he only breathed on one of his many wives she died forthwith. Mahmud of Ghazni got rid of a gang... | |
| Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1922 - 750 pages
...such msoiner that he could eat a great quantity •' of it ; for which cause he became so poisonous that if a fly '' settled on his hand it swelled and immediately fell dead. This " poison he was unable to leave off eating, for he feared if he did " not use it he would die soon... | |
| Satish Chandra - 2004 - 298 pages
...According to a traveller, Barbosa, Mahmud, from his childhood, had been nourished on some poison so that if a fly settled on his hand, it swelled and immediately lay dead. Mahmud was also famous for his voracious appetite. It is said that for breakfast he ate a... | |
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