Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s1.107

v2.c27.s1.107

the estimation in which sacred offerings were held by the nations of antiquity. He observes that these were transmitted from the remotest nations of Scythia to Delos in Greece; a range far less extensive than the offerings to the [528] Dewal of Apollo in Mewar. The spices of the isles of the Indian archipelago; the balmy spoils of Araby the blest; the nard or frankincense of Tartary; the raisins and pistachios of Persia; every variety of saccharine preparation, from the shakkarkhand (sugar-candy) of the celestial empire, with which the god sweetens his evening repast, to the more common sort which enters into the peras of Mathura, the food of his infancy;¹ the shawls of Kashmir, the silks of Bengal, the scarfs of Benares, the brocades of Gujarat,