 | Moshé Barash, Jan Assmann, Albert I. Baumgarten - 2001 - 392 sider
...extravagant structures that confronted him there. As the contemporary court chronicler al-Utbi describes it: When he came to that place he saw a city, of wonderful...that one might say, this is a building of Paradise . . . They had brought immense stones, and had laid a level foundation upon high stairs. Around it... | |
 | VD Mahajan - 2007 - 898 sider
...city of temples, solidly built and of exquisite designs. Regarding Mathura, Utbi says, "He (Mahmud) saw a city of wonderful fabric and conception, so...accidents or qualities could only come by the aid of the infcrnals, an intelligent man would hardly receive favourably the account of it. ..Around it and its... | |
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In that place, in the city, there was a place of worship of the Indian people ; and when he came to that place he saw a city, of wonderful fabric and conception, so that one might say, this is a building of Paradise... 