[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Bengal, Orissa and the North-East](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east) › [Riyāẓ al-salāṭīn](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin) › [The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam) › 8.8 # Riyaz al-salatin 8.8 The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam) 8.8 - **Language:** English ### [8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.8.8) The hat-wearing English dwell in it, They are all truthful and well-behaved. The dwellings are like these, the dwellers are like those, How far can I detail their praises? Its streets are clean and paved, The air every morning passes through and sweeps them. In every alley moonlike faces move about, Robed in pretty and clean dresses. Their faces are bright with radiance, like the moon, You might say the moon has become the earth-trotter. One is like the moon, another is like Jupiter, Another is like Venus in effulgence. When large numbers, like wandering stars, stroll about, The alleys resemble the milky-way. You see, if you go to bazar, The rare goods of the world there. All the articles that exist in four quarters of the globe, You find in its bazar, without search. If I were to depict the people of art therein, The pen would fail to pourtray such a picture. But it is well known to all, \[England. That pre-eminence in workmanship pertains to China and Its plain is level like the surface of the sky, Roads are fixed on it, like the equator. People, whilst promenading in gardens, Like wandering stars, meet each other in their walks. Such a city in the country of the Bengalis, No one had seen, no one had heard of. - [Previous: 8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.8.7) - [Next: 8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.8.9) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.8.8) · Pramāṇa