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ESTERN HINDOOSTAN,
tion and intolerancy, confirm and heighten the zeal for the old
religion of their country, added to a pride of defcent, and
the boaft of being formed from the arms of the great deity
Brahma. They are called Kebteree, or Kbatre; they are en-
joined the performance of thirteen great duties *. The pro-
tection of religion and the art of war are two, and thofe they
obferve to the fullefr, extent. They feem like our knight-
errant, performing all the duties of chivalry. Bouttaye la Gousa
gives a good figure of a Raipoot Chevalier on his 234th page.
They were once a powerful people, but notwithftanding
they are now much reduced, they ftill are feared and refpefted
by all Hindoojlan. They frequently hire themfelves to other
ftates. Under the emperor Akbar^ they received the blow which
Their Capi- put an end to their greatnefs. In 1567, he marched to the ca-
tax, HsiTOR- pjta]} cbeitor, ftrongly fituated in a lofty mountain, and garri-
foned by the Raja with eight thoufand chofen Raipoots, and
headed by a general of tried valour. Akbar effected a breach,
but by fpringing a mine loir, numbers of his own men. Unfor-
tunately for the befieged, the emperor faw the governor bulled
in giving orders for filling up the breaches : when, calling for a
fufil, he fhot the faithful commander through the head. The
Its sad Fate, garrifon funk under the lofs. In defpair they determined on the
horrid ceremony of the Joar. They put to the fword all their
wives and children, and burned their bodies, with that of their
governor, on a prodigious funeral pile. The citizens of Sagun-
tum illamjide, et arumnis inclytam\, 530 years before Christ,
like them driven to defpair, performed the fame dreadful rites.
* .Ayeen, iii. 82.
f Mela, lib. ii. c. 8.
Livy, lib. iii. lib. xxi. c. 7. Florus, lib. vii. c. 6.
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tion and intolerancy, confirm and heighten the zeal for the old
religion of their country, added to a pride of defcent, and
the boaft of being formed from the arms of the great deity
Brahma. They are called Kebteree, or Kbatre; they are en-
joined the performance of thirteen great duties *. The pro-
tection of religion and the art of war are two, and thofe they
obferve to the fullefr, extent. They feem like our knight-
errant, performing all the duties of chivalry. Bouttaye la Gousa
gives a good figure of a Raipoot Chevalier on his 234th page.
They were once a powerful people, but notwithftanding
they are now much reduced, they ftill are feared and refpefted
by all Hindoojlan. They frequently hire themfelves to other
ftates. Under the emperor Akbar^ they received the blow which
Their Capi- put an end to their greatnefs. In 1567, he marched to the ca-
tax, HsiTOR- pjta]} cbeitor, ftrongly fituated in a lofty mountain, and garri-
foned by the Raja with eight thoufand chofen Raipoots, and
headed by a general of tried valour. Akbar effected a breach,
but by fpringing a mine loir, numbers of his own men. Unfor-
tunately for the befieged, the emperor faw the governor bulled
in giving orders for filling up the breaches : when, calling for a
fufil, he fhot the faithful commander through the head. The
Its sad Fate, garrifon funk under the lofs. In defpair they determined on the
horrid ceremony of the Joar. They put to the fword all their
wives and children, and burned their bodies, with that of their
governor, on a prodigious funeral pile. The citizens of Sagun-
tum illamjide, et arumnis inclytam\, 530 years before Christ,
like them driven to defpair, performed the fame dreadful rites.
* .Ayeen, iii. 82.
f Mela, lib. ii. c. 8.
Livy, lib. iii. lib. xxi. c. 7. Florus, lib. vii. c. 6.
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