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The A-in-i-Akbari By Abul Fazl Allami. A Gazetteer and Administrative Manual of Akbar’s Empire and Past History of India

1949

He alone is the true promoter of wisdom who setting before his resolve the investigation of the concealed beauties of meaning under the guidance of assiduous research and undaunted desire plants his foot in the dread wilds of research and reaches the goal of his ambition undismayed by countless labours sustaining the burden of the road by the force of capacity on the shoulders of his ever reso [...] He said —Draw back the veil from the marvels of the stars and the skies and from the mysteries of wisdom and illuminate the darkness of my understanding with the light of knowledge. [...] The ten portals are thus numbered : the two eyes the two ears the nose the mouth the navel the anterior and posterior foramina and the tenth the crown of the head which last is closed. [...] Ptolernys first book of the Almagest treats among other matters of the spherical form and motion of the heavens the spherical form of the earth and its location in the centre of the heavens and of the two circular celestial motions which all the stars have in common."THE BOUNDARIES OF HINDUSTAN 15 5. Sinha. [...] The remaining terms of the proportional are missing and are probably the number of yojanas of the diameters to the yojanas of the circumferences.
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Pages
537
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146870
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ix H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter I The Boundaries of Hindustan and a Brief Description Thereof
1-28 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter II Description of the Earth
29-125 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter III Animal Life
126-139 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter IV The Learning of the Hindus
140-198 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter V Jaina
199-228 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter VI The Eighteen Sciences
229-253 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter VII Sahitya
254-290 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter VIII The Four Periods of Religious Life
291-331 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter IX Sacred Places of Pilgrimage
332-358 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter X Comers Into India
359-387 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter XI Saints of India
388-452 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter XIII Conclusion
453-477 H.S. Jarrett view
Chapter XIV An Account of the Author
478-524 H.S. Jarrett view
Index
525-528 H.S. Jarrett view

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