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 The pomp and circumstance of the march are of course not allowed 

 to pass by unnoticed, but we may leave them to the readers of the 

 original. The first halt is made in the district of Talpat and 

 Afghánpúr, a district, according to the Scholiast, ñve or six eos from 

 Dehlí, and there we have the oíd revelry renewed. It is singular to 

 see by these ever-recurring scenes of dissipation and excess, how 

 even the ideal descriptions of the court poet are bound down to the 

 coarse actual world around him, — these days and weeks of debauchery 

 being constantly referred to by the historian s of the time as one main 

 evil of the young king's reign, and as, in fact, ultimately leading to 

 his early and miserable fall. 



At this place, the court is enlivened by the arrival in the camp of 

 1000 Moghul prisoners from the Punjáb. The poet knew only too 

 well the savage cruelty of these barbarians, for he had passed two 

 years in captivity among them in Balkh, having been taken prisoner 

 in the battle a few years before in which his patrón prince Muham- 

 macl, then Grovernor of Cabul, had been killed. These captives are 

 minutely described, the Tartar features, the high cheekbones, flat 

 noses, yellow hue, &c. # are dwelt upon with the exaggeration of the 

 poet's hatred, and he evidently gloats on the fact, that they were all 

 put to death by the royal order. 



It is diíficult to trace the King's route, as so few indications oceur 

 to define it, but we find the army starting from this last place and 

 after two marches reaching the Jumna. 



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The next stage mentioned is the city of Jaipur ( jj^=^) ; here 

 Bárbik is sent forward with part of the army to the river Sara. There 



* The description is so curious that I subjoin part of it. 



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