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G A N G E T I C n I N D O O S T A N. 



Cotsea-Bauc. 



Massacre by 



TaM£RLANE. 



^ECO^'D BY 



KouLi Khan. 



pillars holding up the fummir. In the back ground is a fquare 

 periftyle of fquare pillars, fupporting a dome ; other build- 

 ings in view are round and plain. 'Numbers of fouterrains 

 appear with entrances through pointed arches. 



Cotfea-Baug, N° III. is a moft magnificent palace, built on the 

 banks of the Junma, in the reign of Akbar^ by a lady of the 

 name of Cotfea ; Baug fignifies a garden. It has a moft exten- 

 five front, with three rows of falfe windows, with pointed 

 arch^es within each ; at each end is a beautiful angular pavil- 

 lion, with winJj::: ^^ ^'"^"" '^^^^■^' "^°^ beautifully made of 

 what I may call ftone fillagree : tke ::;;:.'' ^^indows are bow. 



Debli twice underwent the moft horrid malTacres. One \?. -f^f^s- 

 in the time oi MabmoodWl. whe^ it was entered by the Tartar 

 Tamerlane. A party of his troops had been before fent to occupy 

 the city, deferted by the emperor. A dreadful fcene commenced : 

 the Hindoos, to prevent the pollution of their wives and daugh- 

 ters, and themfelves from every fpecies of infult, firft fhut the 

 city gates, fet fire to their houfes, murthered their wives and 

 children, and then rufhed in defperation againft the enemy. 

 The gates w'ere forced, a general ilaughter enfued, and the 

 ftreets rendered impalTable by the heaps of flain» 



In oar days, in the reign of Mahomed Sbab, a feeond mafTacre 

 took place, not lefs terrible. When Kouli Khan entered the city 

 in triumph, a ftiot was fired at him from one of the houfes,. 

 which killed an of&cer by his fide. The fignal of Ilaughter was 

 given, and a himdred and forty thoufand people periflied by the 

 troops of the unrelenting tyrant in the fpace of three days. The 

 city was plundered, and the emperor left a prey to his great 

 men. His dominions fell to pieces, divided among his viceroys, 

 >< who 



