ISBN: 1236123409

Paperback, [EAN: 9781236123404], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781236123404], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 Excerpt: ...be the true reading. TheBidaipes is represented as a noble river, which taking its rife in the Indian Caucasus, mingles its waters with those of the Acesines, and at length, together with that river, rolls into tlvc Indus at Multan. It seems to have been the boundary between the kingdom of Taxilus, and that most formidable of Indian warriors the renowned Porus. o Ayeen Akbery, vol. ii, p. 232. Concern Concerning Porus himself, and the extent of his dominions, many discordant and very unsatisfactory accounts have been given, both by ancient and modern writers. The subject will more properly come under our consideration hereaiter; and therefore it will besumcient in this place to insert a remark of Sir W. JonesP, that his capital was most probably Lahor, or Lawhore, the present metropolis of Panjab, whose name is often applied to the province itself. Lahore, or Lehawer, as it is said in the Ayeen Akbery to have been called in ancient astronomical tables, was undoubtedly in ancient times a very considerable kingdom, and no other city in its neighbourhood seems of consequence enough to have been the capital of so celebrated a prince as Porus. With the greatest deference, however, to the high authority just mentioned, I must remark, that the kingdom of Porus is exprefly affirmed by Straboq to be the country " between the Hydaspes and the Acesines; extensive, opulent, and containing near three hundred towns," Concerning these, however, Cellarius remarksr, that many of them might p bhort Description of Asia, prefixed to Nadir Shah. q MfTasJji/ Si Tov T$a.ffTTQj y.xt r»x Axsa-ikvj mt rov TLaieou tfi yn TroAAn Kcci a,ya,Qrit rxiiov T» x«t wigi roioc.orncy voXiutt, Strabo, lib. xv. p. 663. t Cellarii Geog, Ant. torn, fecund, p. 529; have have..., 872404, Historic Preservation, 173508, Architecture, 1, Arts & Photography, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 4895, India, 4884, Asia, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 4988, Historiography, 4987, Historical Study & Educational Resources, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

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[EAN: 9781236123404], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 Excerpt: .be the true reading. TheBidaipes is represented as a noble river, which taking its rife in the Indian Caucasus, mingles its waters with those of the Acesines, and at length, together with that river, rolls into tlvc Indus at Multan. It seems to have been the boundary between the kingdom of Taxilus, and that most formidable of Indian warriors the renowned Porus. o Ayeen Akbery, vol. ii, p. 232. Concern Concerning Porus himself, and the extent of his dominions, many discordant and very unsatisfactory accounts have been given, both by ancient and modern writers. The subject will more properly come under our consideration hereaiter; and therefore it will besumcient in this place to insert a remark of Sir W. JonesP, that his capital was most probably Lahor, or Lawhore, the present metropolis of Panjab, whose name is often applied to the province itself. Lahore, or Lehawer, as it is said in the Ayeen Akbery to have been called in ancient astronomical tables, was undoubtedly in ancient times a very considerable kingdom, and no other city in its neighbourhood seems of consequence enough to have been the capital of so celebrated a prince as Porus. With the greatest deference, however, to the high authority just mentioned, I must remark, that the kingdom of Porus is exprefly affirmed by Straboq to be the country between the Hydaspes and the Acesines; extensive, opulent, and containing near three hundred towns, Concerning these, however, Cellarius remarksr, that many of them might p bhort Description of Asia, prefixed to Nadir Shah. q MfTasJji/ Si Tov T$a.ffTTQj y.xt r-x Axsa-ikvj mt rov TLaieou tfi yn TroAAn Kcci a, ya, Qrit rxiiov T- x-t wigi roioc.orncy voXiutt, Strabo, lib. xv. p. 663. t Cellarii Geog, Ant. torn, fecund, p. 529; have have.<

ISBN: 9781236123404

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