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A letter will be written to the Government on the subject, directing enquiry. October 19, Sunday. Read McDonald's despatches from Persia, and sent them to the Duke, with a letter suggesting the heads of a letter to the Envoy. The Russians have given up one of the two crores due, and allow five years for paying the other. They mean, therefore, to rule Persia by influence.
Putterum. Capitan Tippoo! Putterum. Tremble before him! Putterum. Serve him and please him! Putterum. Please him and serve him! Putterum. He will reward us! Putterum. He will protect us! Putterum. He will enrich us! Putterum. Charity Lord Sa'b! Putterum. Out of the way there! Putterum. Way for the great ... Putterum. Rajah of ten crores!
"This," he says, "is a single example of a life spent in the accumulation of crores for your benefit, and doomed in its close to suffer the extremity of private want, and to sink in obscurity." So far back as in 1773 he thought that he could save an exceeding good fortune out of his place.
There is a large body of cowherds numbering ten crores, rivalling me in strength and known as the Narayanas, all of whom are able to fight in the thick of battle. These soldiers, irresistible in battle, shall be sent to one of you and I alone, resolved not to fight on the field, and laying down my arms, will go to the other.
The father-in-law of Vali, the illustrious Sushena, accompanied by a thousand crores of active apes, came to Rama. And those two foremost of monkeys endued with mighty energy, viz., Gaya and Gavakshya, each accompanied by a hundred crores of monkeys, showed themselves there.
And, O king, Gavakshya also of terrible mien and endued with a bovine tail, showed himself there, having collected sixty thousand crores of monkeys. And the renowned Gandhamadana, dwelling on the mountains of the same name, collected a hundred thousand crores of monkeys. And the intelligent and mighty monkey known by the name of Panasa mustered together fifty-two crores of monkeys.
He added that twenty years ago, or even less, the prospect of losing a revenue of five and a half crores of rupees a year would have caused great anxiety, and even now the loss to Indian finances would be serious, and might necessitate recourse to increased taxation.
Even those four solid walls were not discreet enough. "The treasure of Sialpore is buried in the River Palace grounds! Millions! Think of it Millions! Lakhs and crores!" The high commissioner whistled. "That 'ud mean something to the province, wouldn't it! Show me your proofs." How Samson got around the fact that he had no actually definite proofs, he never told.
But 'ware revenge if greater craft it is That jockeyed him to recognize defeat, Or greater force that overmastered his Efficiency more potent than deceit That craved his crown and won it! Safer the she-bear with her suckling young, Kinder the hooked shark from a yardarm hung, More rational a tiger by the hornets stung Than perfidy outcozened. Shun it! "Millions! Think of it! Lakhs and crores!"
After his death disputes between various claimants to the throne led to Agra Fort being besieged and captured by Husein Ali Khan, a partisan of one of them, who looted the treasury of all the valuables deposited there during three centuries. "There were the effects of Nur Jahan Begum and Mumtaz Mahal, amounting in value, according to various reports, to two or three crores of rupees.
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