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In the morning we made an early start for the palace of the padishahs, which stands near the river, and indeed may be said to constitute the eastern portion of the city, having a wall of a mile in extent on its three sides, while the other abuts along the offset of the Jumna upon which Delhi is built.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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Wherever we went -- in the Dewani Aum or hall of audience; in the Akbari Hammun or imperial baths; in the Sammam Burj or private palace of the padishahs, that famous and beautiful palace over whose gate the well-known inscription stands, "If there is a Paradise on earth, it is here;" in the court, in the garden -- everywhere was abandonment, everywhere the filthy occupations of birds, everywhere dirt, decay, desolation.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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He'd made a little pile; and so kings and padishahs are everyday talk with his people.
The Post Office Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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