Agra-Historical & Descriptive with an Account of Akbar and his Court and of the Modern City of Agra

May it not then be justly said that the character attributed to the Franks by the Chaughattai conqueror at the grand banquet of Samarkand three hundred years bfore was fully confirmed on the victory of the British who brought for the citizens of Agra and Delhi and the countless millions of the people of India the reign of peace of law and of good order ? Thus the history of Agra fait [...] The blazing fire that reduced to ashes the palace of the Nawab and burnt in its turn the cottage of the peasant ; the hot blasts that scorched the tree of hope ; the sharp steel that shed the blood of the innocent sparing. [...] Nor does the greatness of a sovereign consist in the battles he wins in the number of prisoners he makes in war or in the countless millions of treasure he hoards up; but in the triumphs achieved under his sway in science and learning in the advancement of trade and agriculture in the development of the resources of the country by the extension of railway communications in the construction of [...] Puranas are the classic spot of the birth of Vyasa (from the Sanskrit vi and as literally' throw in different directions ' hence distribute ') the reputed arranger of the Vedas and the reputed author of the Mahabhdrattf the Purdnas the Brdma Siam and the Dharma Sictras the son of the celebrated sage Parasara. [...] In the events of the fifth year of the reign mention is again made of the new buildings on the banks of the Jumna and of the measures adopted to improve and embellish the imperial city.