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" 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 245
1896
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Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, Issue 35

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,...
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History of Gujarat, Musalman Period, A.D. 1297-1760

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...
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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volume 21

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...
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Things Indian: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects Connected with India

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...
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Things Indian: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects Connected with India

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...
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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volume 25

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...
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Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals-Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526 ...

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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