Summary: from Agra. It was noted for its superstition, and zealous devotees crowded to its sacred walls. The inhabitants bravely defended their city, but were shown no mercy when it surrendered. The city would have been utterly laid waste had it not been ransomed by the Brahmans for a figure amounting to nineteen lakhs of dinars, equal to three million pounds of our money. This sum,  as well as the wealth and rich ornaments of the idolatrous temples, was accounted the reward of the victor. The unfortunate Kalap, whilst i decorative to Agra, and whilst stragglers of his caravan might s still be met with in every stage of misery and suffering,—his wife starved by the road side,—his mother carried off by the crue Gadiva of the Scythians,—his youngest sister eve MAN, was a prisoner in the Court of Mahmud, and lived to bear a part in the pomp of the triumph ere he was at length restored to her brother’s care, under whose tender watch her gentle spirit finally sunk beneath her accumulated wrongs and miseries..