thebodyasconduit: In 1556 Abu’l-Fazl, the chronicler of the Mughal emperor Akbar’s reign, wrote of a charge of 1,500 military elephants, “How can the attributes of these rushing mountains be strung on the slender thread of words?” -
thebodyasconduit: In 1556 Abu’l-Fazl, the chronicler of the Mughal emperor Akbar’s reign, wrote of a charge of 1,500 military elephants, “How can the attributes of these rushing mountains be strung on the slender thread of words?” -
