Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s3.10

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c5.s3.10

⁴ Compare, for instance, the reception of the envoy of Hulagu under Sultan Nasir-ud-din Mahmud when in the figurative language of the chronicler the Sultan looked like ‘a sun from the fourth heaven’, Ulugh Khan Balban like ‘a shining moon’, the maliks ‘like unto revolving planets’ and the Turkish pages of the Sultan ‘like unto stars innumerable’—Raverty, 858.

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