Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient ..., volume 1
Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient ..., volume 1
Thomas Maurice
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approached, before whom the pride of Indift and the delight of her sovereigns must feow the head. Through a deluge of human Hood, shed in his progress from Samarcand *o India, and fresh from the unprovoked masf- Ijacire of 100,000 captive Hindoos, who were left expiring almost beneath its walls the mer- fcitess Timur pressed on to its destruction. H^ i^tered the city^ in triumph, on the 4th of Ja- nuary, 1 599, The great standard of the Tar- tarian empire was immediately erected on its *> .• • ...Mr Finch, one of the first and most re^^pectable visitants of Tndia in the fast century, in describing the ruins of Old Delhi, par* ticularises the remains of this august pile, which at that period, (1609,) little more than 200 years after Timur's invasion, was mouldered away to what he calls ^ a m4ere carcase, worn out, and disfigured to the last degree." Harris's Voyages, vol. i. p. iS* walls; Digitized by^ Google t «1 ] waUs} and die usurper, seated upon the throne of India, in all the pride of conquest, received the prostrate obeisance, of the nobility of both mtions.
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