Excerpt from Alberuni's India, Vol. 1 of 2: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India About A. D. 1030
And how did the author of this work, as remark able among the prose compositions of the East as the Shdhndma in poetry, fare with the royal Maecenas of Ghazna?
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