 There are here a thousand edifices as firm as the faith of the faithful; most of them of marble, besides innumerable temples; nor is it likely this city has attained its present condition but at the expense of many millions of dinars, nor should such...  The United Service Magazine - Page 771857Full view - About this book
 | John Clark Marshman - India - 1836 - 252 pages
..."Here are a thousand edifices as firm as the creed of the faithful, most of them of marble, beside innumerable temples ; nor is it likely that this city...attained its present condition but at the expense of many thousand denars; nor could such another be constructed under a period of two centuries." The testimony... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - India - 1841 - 656 pages
...from Mahmdd to the Governor of Ghazni: — "Here there are a thousand edifices as firm as the faith of the faithful, most of them of marble, besides innumerable...another be constructed under a period of two centuries." (Briggs's Ferishta, vol. ip 58.) now learned the way into the interior, Mahmud CHAP. in made two subsequent... | |
 | 1852 - 630 pages
...seduced by their surpassing beauty : — " There are here a thousand edifices, as firm as the faith of the faithful, most of them of marble, besides innumerable temples ; nor is it likely this city has attained to its present condition, but at the cxpence of many millions of deenars, nor... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - India - 1862 - 754 pages
...preserved: — "Here there are a thousand edifices as firm as the faith of the faithful, most of them marble, besides innumerable temples ; nor is it likely...present condition but at the expense of many millions of dinars ; nor could such another be constructed under a period of two centuries."i After leaving Muttra,... | |
 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - Art - 1862 - 580 pages
...here," said that arch-destroyer of Hindoo idols and temples, " 1000 edifices, as finn as the faith of the faithful, most of them of marble ; besides innumerable temples : nor is it likely this city has attained its present condition but at the expense of many millions of dinars; nor could... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - India - 1866 - 558 pages
...Here," says Mahmoud in a letter to his ministers, " there are a thousand edifices as firm as the faith of the faithful, most of them of marble, besides innumerable...attained its present condition, but at the expense of millions of dinars. The treasures of a kingdom expended yearly during two centuries would not suffice... | |
 | George Temple - India - 1890 - 482 pages
...the following extract has been preserved. ' Here there are a thousand edifices as firm as the faith of the faithful, most of them of marble, besides innumerable...present condition but at the expense of many millions of dinars ; f nor could 0 " No such clemency was shown to Mattra, one of the most celebrated seats of... | |
 | William Crooke - Customary law - 1897 - 418 pages
...faith of the faithful, most of them of marble, besides innumerable temples. Nor is it likely that the city has attained its present condition but at the expense of many millions of Dinars. Nor could such another be constructed under a period of two centuries." With such greed and... | |
 | Ernest Binfield Havell - Architecture - 1913 - 550 pages
...the city. " There are here," he said, " a thousand edifices as firm as the faith of the faithful ; nor is it likely that this city has attained its present...another be constructed under a period of two centuries." ' When he returned to Ghaznî he brought back 5,300 Hindu captives, doubtless the greater number of... | |
 | Barbara Elizabeth (Errington) Wingfield-Stratford - India - 1922 - 244 pages
...the city. " There are here," he wrote, " a thousand edifices as firm as the faith of the faithful, nor is it likely that this city has attained its present...another be constructed under a period of two centuries 'V Even yet, with its worldly glories departed, Mathura is a perfect paradise for the archaeologist... | |
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