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Title: Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920
Subjects: Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605 Mogul Empire India -- History 1526-1765
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ntinue to exist there after the withdrawal of theourt on which its life was dependent. A small countryown has always remained. Akbars city, nearly seven miles in circumference, was Walls and Built on a rocky sandstone ridge running from NE. to SW. S^*^^- he north-western side, being protected by an artificial • Commentarius, pp. .560, 642. Monserrate was reminded of the i. peristylar building, 200 feet scriptural precedent : And the ang, was finished in three months, house, when it was in building, nd a great range of baths, with was built of stone made ready II its appurtenances, was com- before it was brought thither : soMeted in six months. All the that there was neither hammernaterial, prepared according to nor ax nor any tool of iron heardpecification {secundum proposi- in the house, while it was inam aediflcandi dcscriptionem),wafi building (1 Kings vi, 7). For)rought complete and ready to 13ahau-d din see E. W. Smith,^he place where it was to be used. Fathpnr-Slkn, iv, 30.
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