and their emperor, his neglefl incites the 
Mahrattas againft him, 64 ; lofes his ad¬ 
vantages by the jealoufies of his officers 
and his own fupinenefs, invaded by the 
Perfians, 65; obtains favourable terms 
from them, but is betrayed, 66 ; his ca¬ 
pital plundered, and fome provinces 
wrefted from him, 67 5 reduces the Ro- 
hillas, and repels the Afghans; his death 
and charafler, 63 . 
Adorad, deceived by his brother Aurungzebe, 
48 ; defeats the army of Dara, 49 ; fent 
prifoner to Gwalior, 50. 
Mornington, earl of, 9^ 1 puts an end to the 
war and the Myfore empire j his reward, 
99. See YVellefley. 
Mubarick, king of Delhi, *7. 
Mubarick II. 32 ; murdered while at his 
prayers, 33. 
Mubarick III. affumes the name of Moham¬ 
med Adil, 39. 
Ulunro, majqr, gains the battle of Buxar, 
95 , 96. 
Nadir Shah, king cf Perfia, invades Hindoo¬ 
ftan, takes Lahore, and advances to Del¬ 
hi, 65 ; makes a treaty, but breaks it, 
66 ; plunders Delhi, didlates a frefh 
treaty, and at length retires, 67. 
Naugiacut, a fort and temple, 28. 
Nizam ul Muluk, becomes governor of the 
Deccan, 63; made vizier, but retires from 
court, and excites the Mahrittas to war, 
64 ; emir ul omrah, 66 ; returns to the 
Deccan ; his great age, and death, 68. 
Nourmahal, wife of Jehanguir, 44. 
Nujem ul Dowlah, nabob of Bengal, 96 ; 
on what terms, 97. 
Nunda, rajah of Callinger, 10. 
Oude, a very ancient city, z. 
Palaces of the Hindoo rajahs, 173. 
Palibothra, capital of ancient India, 2. 
Partab Chund, emperor of India, 6. 
Patna, inefteftually befieged, 89, 90; taken 
and retaken, 93; reduced by the Engliih,95. 
Perron, M. commands the French forces in 
India, 102 j retreats before general Lake, 
105 j and applies to him for a fate con¬ 
duct, 106. 
Perwuttum, pagoda at, 170. 
Pittu Rai, king of Agimere, 15. 
Portuguefe, their difeoveries and operations 
in India, 79 ; fettlements on the coaft of 
Coromandel, and Macao, and afterwards 
at the Brafils, 81-. 
Pracrit language, and its dialedls, 152. 
Ramdeo, prince of Deogur, 24 ; fullers for 
liis fon’s imprudence, 23 ; again invaded, 
his death, 26. 
Rhotas fort taken by treachery, 38. 
Rizia, queen of Delhi, 21. 
Roe, fir Thomas, his embafly to Jehanguir, 
fultan of Hindooftan, 44-83. 
Rohillas defeated by Suft'der Jung, 68 ; op- 
pofed to the Mahratus, and take their 
revenge, 73-76- 
INDEX. 
Ruft'eh Oaffiaum, third fon of Behadur, 58. 
Ruffeh ul Dirjaut, grandfon of Behadur, be- 
comes emperor, 62 ; dies, 63. 
Ruffeh ul Dowlah, emperor, 63. 
Ruftum, his double treachery, 55. 
Saaudut Khan, 63 ; foubahdar of Oude, de¬ 
feats Arraroo, 64; defeats the Mahrat- 
tas, and fent againft the Perfians, 65 ; 
betrays his matter, and dies, 66. 
Sacontaia, or the Fatal Ring, 154. 
Samarcand, taken and plundered by Gengis, 
18. 
Sampoorees, or fnake catchers, 178. 
Sandrocottus, king of the Pra(ii,4; his great 
power, time of his death unknown, 5. 
Saniaffy, an Indian devotee, 148 ; travels of 
one, 149; of another, 150; origin of the 
fedt, 251. 
Sanlkrit language, 152. 
Scindia, Dowlat Rao, his projedh and pro¬ 
ceedings, 78 ; intrigues with the French, 
ico; at war with the Engliih, 102; 
deprived of all his territory, 104; after 
the battle of Lafwarree, 109 ; fues for 
peace, 11O5 which is at length conclud¬ 
ed, hi. 
Scindia, Duttah, a Mahratta chief, 72. 
Scindia, Mahadjee, conducts the emperor 
Aulum to Delhi, 71; but keeps him 
there in fubjedtion, 72 ; leaves him in 
the hands of the Rohillas, 73 ; punithes 
the Rohilla chief in an exemplary man¬ 
ner, 77; reduces that country, but ty- 
rannifes over Hindooftan ; his death, 78. 
Secunder, king of Delhi, 29. 
Secunder II. 34. 
Seif ul Dien, prince of Gaur, 14. 
Selim, emperor of Hindooftan, 39. 
Selim Shah, fon of Akbar, 42; fucceeds 
him, 43. See Jehanguir. 
Seringapatam, plunder of, 99. 
Sevagee, founder of the Mahrattas, 52. 
Seven Pagodas, an Indian temple, 171, 
Shah Jehan, emperor, 70. 
Shere, governor of the Penjab, 22. 
Shere, chief of the Afghans, 37; hisre- 
peated treachery, he becomes fultan of 
Hindooftan, 38 5 his death and character, 
„ 39 - 
Shore, fir John, 98. 
Shujah ul Dowlah, nabob of Bengal, &c. 
64; his death, 68. 
Shujah ul Dowlah, vizier, 70 ; his projedls, 
and death, 72 ; while nabob of Oude, goes 
to war with the Engliih to protedl Coffim, 
95 ; defeated, but reftored, 96. 
Sindetic Hindooftan, 180. 
Sinjar, governor of Chorafan, 13. 
Siva, the third of the Hindoo triad, 116; 
his obfeene worlhip, 117, 
Soliman, fon of Dara, defeats his uncle Su- 
jah, 48 ; deceived by his generals, 49 ; 
betrayed, and put to death, 52. 
Southern Hindooftan, 181. 
901 
Subuftagi, the firft Mahometan invader of 
Hindooftan, Gr. 
Sudra, a defpifed caft of Hindoos, 121 ; their 
duties, 122. 
Sujah, fon of Shah Jehan, afpires to the 
throne, is defeated by the troops of his 
elder brother Dara, 48; defeated hv Au¬ 
rungzebe, 51; again defeated, and mur¬ 
dered, 52. 
Sumnaut, city, idol, and temple; 10 ; de- 
ftroyed, n. 
Sumroo, a partifan of Meer Coffim, 94 j 
murders two hundred Eiigliflimeti, 95. 
Surajah Dowlah, takes Calcutta, but reftore® 
it to the Engliih, 86; expelled from his 
government, 87; put to death, 88. 
Tamerlane, repuiled at his firft invafion of 
Hindooftan, 23 ; his fecond and fuccefs* 
ful inVafion,29; enters Delhi in triumph, 
his cruelty, 30 ; deftroys Merat, crofl'es 
the Ganges, and completes the conqueft 
of Hindooftan, 31; his return and death, 
32-36. 
Taxila, now Attock, f. 
Tippoo, defeated by lord Cornwallis, 98 g 
his death, 99 ; his defigns, as difcoveredl 
by his papers, 100. 
Togril, governor of Bengal, 22. 
Togrol, a Gaznivian general, murders the 
royal family, and feizes the crown, 12 ; 
afiaffinated, 13. 
Tuglick, king of Delhi, 27. 
Tuglick II. 28; murdered, 29. 
Vedas, or Hindoo Scriptures, 124. 
Vhyfe caft, 121, 2, 3. 
Viffinu, the fecond of the Hindoo triad, 116; 
his ten manifeftations, 117. 
Wellefiey, marquis, deftroys the Mahratta 
power in India, 78 ; his precautions 
againft the French, 101 ; commences the 
war againft Scindia, See. 102; reftores 
the Myforean and Mogul families, 107 ; 
ratifies the treaties of peace with the rd- 
jah of Berar, and with Scindia, m; 
abolilhes the facrificing of children, but 
not that of women, in India, 178. 
Wellefiey, fir Arthur, takes Ahmednagur, 
I03 ; gains the battle of Affye, 104- 
ill ; of Argaum, no ; makes peace with 
the Bezar rajah, and with Scindia, m 3 
made a knight of the bath, 112. 
Witchcraft in Hindooftan, 45. 
Women, how regarded by the Hindoos, 142. 
Woodington, lieut. col. reduces Baroach and 
Champaneer, 104. 
Yogeys, or niked beggars, 148. 
Zabtah Khan, attacked by the emperor, 
71 ; expelled and reftored, 72. 
Ziffer, a general of Alla king of Delhi, 25. 
Zoolfeccar, prime minifter to four fucceffive 
emperors, 55; his treachery, he governs 
in the name of jehander Shah, 58 ; his 
bravery, 59; defeated and put to death, 
do. 
HOROLOGY, 287-369. 
ARNOLD’S gridiron pendulum, 310; 
longitude time-keepers, 348, 355; 
his - 
his 
rewards, 357- 
Balance, 306; principles of aftion, 313; 
compenfation, 315; Breguet’s, 316; 
Jurgenfon’s, Hatdy’s, &c. 317; Arnold’s, 
356; Eainlhaw’s, 359; Brockbank’s, 
360. 
Balance-fpring, 3185 heliacal ©r cylindri¬ 
cal, 318, 356. 
Yo-i,, X. No. 728. 
Barraud, his opinion of jewelling, 319; his 
time-keeper, 362. 
Benzer.burg’s pendulum of lead and iron, 310. 
Berthoud’s gridiron pendulum, 3C9. 
Bob of a pendulum, 308. 
Books upon clock and watch-making, 367- 
369. 
Brockbank’s compenfation-balance, 349 ; 
his chronometers, 360 ; inftances pr ex¬ 
treme accuracy, 361. 
10 U 
Chime-clock, 330, 331. 
Chinefe method of dividing and announcing 
the hours, 292. 
Cleplydr.-e, or water-clocks, 287, 283 ; 
Eaft-Indian, 392 ; general hiftory, 303- 
306. 
Clock at Weftminfter, 288 ; invention of 
clocks, ib. account of fcveral early clocks, 
2S9 ; curious modern clocks, as that at 
Stralburg, 290; at Lyons, Verfuilles, 
Venice, 
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