Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s1.14

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c6.s1.14

¹ Compare, in connection with the growth of cotton, the cultivation of a kind of giant cotton plant (Deva kapas) growing full six paces in height and attaining an age of twenty years. Up to twelve years, the tree grew good spinning cotton. Vide Yule, II, 393, and note. For the introduction of smoking under Akbar, the Memoirs (waqai‘) of Asad Khan, composed under Jahangir.

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