. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . Second Example of a Mongol Paiza, with Superscription in the Uighur Character, found near the River Dnieper, 1845. (Half the Length and Breadth of the Original.) [To face p. 355- Chap. VII. UMBRELLAS 355 An Indian prince, in a Sanskrit inscription of the 9th century, boasts of havingwrested from the King of Marwar the two umbrellas pleasing to Parvati, and white asthe summer moonbeams. Prithi Raj, the last Hindu king of Delhi, is depicted bythe poet Chand as shaded by a white umbrella on a golden staf
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . Second Example of a Mongol Paiza, with Superscription in the Uighur Character, found near the River Dnieper, 1845. (Half the Length and Breadth of the Original.) [To face p. 355- Chap. VII. UMBRELLAS 355 An Indian prince, in a Sanskrit inscription of the 9th century, boasts of havingwrested from the King of Marwar the two umbrellas pleasing to Parvati, and white asthe summer moonbeams. Prithi Raj, the last Hindu king of Delhi, is depicted bythe poet Chand as shaded by a white umbrella on a golden staff. An unmistakableumbrella, copied from a Saxon MS. in the Harleian collection, is engraved inWrights History of Domestic Manners, p. 75. The fact that the gold umbrella isone of the paraphernalia of high church dignitaries in Italy seems to presume acquaint-ance with the thing from a remote period. A decorated umbrella also accompaniesthe host when sent out to the sick, at least where I write, in Palermo. Ibn Batutasays that in his time all the people of Constantinople, civil and militar
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