. Historical fragments of the Mogul empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English concerns in Indostan from the year MDCLIX; origin of the company's trade at Broach and Surat, and a general idea of the government and people of Indostan; to which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author . es tohis fortunes; and the more, becaufe he was in hoftility with aMahomcdan power, againft whom they are always fond offighting. The plunder of the champaign country was themeans of fubfiftence. The king of Viziapore fent a confiderable * Tlie defcent of the Chitore Rajahi5 from Ponis, alt
. Historical fragments of the Mogul empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English concerns in Indostan from the year MDCLIX; origin of the company's trade at Broach and Surat, and a general idea of the government and people of Indostan; to which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author . es tohis fortunes; and the more, becaufe he was in hoftility with aMahomcdan power, againft whom they are always fond offighting. The plunder of the champaign country was themeans of fubfiftence. The king of Viziapore fent a confiderable * Tlie defcent of the Chitore Rajahi5 from Ponis, although ajFcrlcd by Europeantravellers, dors not fcem to be cttablillicd by Indian wiiters. In the hitlory do-fcribed in p. xliii of the Life, and compiled by a Hindoo, they arc dated to havebeen eltablilhed from 30generations,and to have poflefled arevenueof 10 unllionsftt;rling. But even that, at ihe ordinary compulation, would not bring them with-in 800 years of the age of Alexander (350 years A. C ). Iorus, who Wius con-quered by Alexander, is by the fame hidorian ftilcd Rajah Pliool, Sovereign of(.anoge, and is called Phoor in the hiftorical poem of the Slifdi-nameh. Wedraw the fubftance of this note from a paper communicated to Mr. Orme by Sir(>hailes Uouie r>oughton, bart. force Paf,, >:»,?;. loiv SEVAGI = OF THE MOGUL EMPIRE. force againft him, of ?which he feduced the cominandtr Abdul a conleieiK^e, by profeffions of fubiniifion, and ftabbed him ^with his own hand; it is faid, bj a tlevice, which, if pracli- u. , could not be fufpeded; on which an ambufcade cutdown all the retinue, except the generals fon, who cfcapedback to the camp, which immediately broke up and dif-perfed. Aurengzebe commanded at this time in the Dccan, and wasmeditating his ambitious return to Delhi; he had broken theforce of Golcondah, but Viziapore ftill remained formidable,and would become much more fo after the departure of thebeft troops and generals, whom he inten
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