History of Gujarat, Musalman Period, A.D. 1297-1760Printed at the Government Central Press, 1886 - 127 pages |
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Abdul Abheysingh Ahmad Shah Áhmadabad Kings Ahmadnagar Ajitsingh Akbar army Aurangzeb Azam Khán Bahadur Baroda battle Borsad Broach Burhanpur Cambay capture Chámpáner Changez Khán Chapter chief Chitor Cutch Dámáji Gáikwár Dargádás death Deccan defeated Delhi deputy viceroy Dhandhuka Dholka district Dungarpur east longitude emperor Fakhr-ud-daulah Fidá-ud-din Khán Firoz Foládis Gogha governor of Sorath Habshi Haidar Kuli Khán Hámid Khán Idar Imád-ul-Mulk Imperial Itimád Khán Jahán Jám Jawán Mard Khán Jhálori Jodhpur joined Jûnágad Kaira Kántáji Kapadvanj Káthiáwár Khán's Kolis Kutb-ud-din lands Mahárája Mahi Mahmud Malik Málwa Maráthás marched minister Mirat-i-Ahmadi Mirza Moghal Viceroys Momin Khán Mubáriz-ul-Mulk Muhammad Khán Muhammadan Musalmán Narbada Navánagar Nizám nobles north latitude Pálanpur Pátan Peshwa Petlád plundered prince province Rája Rána Rangoji retired returned to Ahmadabad revenue Sadashiv Sardár sent Sher Khán Bábi Shujáat Khán siege Sindh Sirohi Songad Sorath Sultán Surat Syad Achan town troops viceroy of Gujarát villages Viramgám Zufar Khán
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Page 36 - ... and then he eats some lime of oyster shells, together with the above mentioned things. When he has masticated them well, and has his mouth full, he spurts it out upon that person whom he wishes to kill, so that in the space of half an hour he falls to the ground dead. This sultan has also three or four thousand women, and every night that he sleeps with one she is found dead in the morning.1 Every time that he takes off his shirt, that shirt is never again touched by any one ; and so of his other...
Page 9 - ... by farming the several governments, in which they all practise every kind of tyranny against the natives under their jurisdiction, oppressing them with continual exactions...
Page 36 - 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 ... for which cause he became so poisonous that if a fly settled on his hand, it swelled and immediately fell dead.
Page 36 - Sultan has mustachios under his nose so long that he ties them over his head as a woman would tie her tresses, and he has a white beard which reaches to his girdle.
Page 36 - Every day he eats poison. Do not, however, imagine that he fills his stomach with it; but he eats a certain quantity, so that when he wishes to destroy any great personage he makes him come before him stripped and naked, and then eats certain fruits which are called chofole [areca nut], which resemble a muscatel nut.
Page 16 - ... Nazims and Jagirdars were possessing themselves of all revenue dues ; and that the Rajputs, Kulis, and Mohammedans of these villages, which they had been in possession of, previously to the country becoming tributary to Dehli, were in rebellion, and squandered the land revenues, so as to occasion the ruin of the subjects and a deficiency of the government collections. Wherefore, it was ordered that the Diwan of the province, with the approbation of the Desayas, Mukaddams, and Amils, should set...
Page 10 - During the latter part of the fifteenth ^and the first quarter of the sixteenth century the power of the Áhmadabad kings was at its height.
Page 10 - In this province of Gozurat there grows much pepper, and ginger, and indigo. They have also a great deal of cotton. Their cotton trees are of very great size, growing full six paces high, and attaining to an age of 20 years.
Page 36 - Every time that he takes off his shirt, that shirt is never again touched by any one; and so of his other garments; and every day he chooses new garments. My companion asked how it was that this Sultan eats poison in this manner. Certain merchants, who were older than the Sultan, answered that his father had fed him upon poison from his childhood.
Page 16 - Often of two adjoining fields,' they wrote, ' one was as green as a fine meadow, and the other waving yellow like gold and ready to be cut down.