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" Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening closed upon them, leaving them to find security from dishonour in the devouring element. "
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany - Page 117
1829
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 2; Volume 50

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1829 - 592 pages
...closed the throng, which was augmented by whatever of female beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening...security from dishonour in the devouring element. ' A contest now arose between the Rana and his surviving son ; but the father prevailed, and Ajeysi,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 48

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 608 pages
...closed the throng, which was augmented by whatever of female beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening...security from dishonour in the devouring element. A contest now arose between the Rana and his surviving son ; but the father prevailed, and Ajeysi,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 48

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 634 pages
...closed the throng, which was augmented by whatever of female beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening...security from dishonour in the devouring element. A contest now arose between the Rana and his surviving son ; but the father prevailed, and Ajeysi,...
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Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature, Volume 1

Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 530 pages
...closed the throng, which was augmented by whatever of female beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening...closed upon them, leaving them to find security from dishonor in the devouring element. A contest now arose between the Rana and his surviving son ; but...
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, Or, The Central and ..., Part 36, Volume 1

James Tod - India - 1873 - 776 pages
...closed the throng, which was augmented by whatever of female beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening...security from dishonour in the devouring element. A contest now arose between the Rana and his surviving son; but the father prevailed, and Aieysi, in...
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The Tanjore Mahratta Principality in Southern India: The Land of the Chola ...

William Hickey - Maratha (Indic people) - 1874 - 486 pages
...closed the throng, which was augmented by whatever of female beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening closed upon them, leading them to find security from dishonour in the devouring element. A eontest now arose between...
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History of Mandu: The Ancient Capital of Malwa

Māndu (India) - 1879 - 138 pages
...augmented by whatever of female beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed 105 to the cavern, and the opening closed upon them, leaving...security from dishonour in the devouring element. The surviving garrison then, headed by their Rana, "threw open the portals, and descended to the plain,...
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The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan

Sir George Abraham Grierson - Hindustani literature - 1889 - 272 pages
...closed the throng, which was augmented by whatever of femólo beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening...security from dishonour in the devouring element' The Tatar conqueror took possession of an inanimate capital, strewed with the bodies of its brave defenders,...
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The Oxford History of India: From the Earliest Times to the End of 1911

Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 866 pages
...beheld in procession the queens, their own wives and daughters to the number of several thousands. . . . They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening...security from dishonour in the devouring element.' Tod inspected the closed entrance, but did not attempt to penetrate the sacred recesses. Follies of...
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The Oxford History of India, from the Earliest Times to the End of 1911

Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1928 - 866 pages
...to the number of several thousands. . . . They were conveyed to the cavern, and the opening elosed upon them, leaving them to find security from dishonour in the devouring element.' Tod inspected the closed entrance, but did not attempt to penetrate the sacred recesses. Follies of...
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