a kingwhose name survived in Guzerat down to our own day as Alauddin Khuni—BloodyAlauddin. {Rds Maid, I. 235.) CHAPTER XXIX. Concerning the Kingdom of Semenat. Skmenat is a great kingdom towards the west. Thepeople are Idolaters, and have a king and a language oftheir own, and pay tribute to… … The Gates of Somnath, as preserved in the British Arsenal at Agra, from a photograph (converted into elevation). 4-00 MARCO POLO Book III. Note i.—SomnaVth is the site of the celebrated Temple on the coast of Saurashtra,or Peninsular Guzerat, plundered by Mahmud of Ghazni on his sixteenth…
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