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Quote by Khafi Khan
This, and whatsoever I myself observed, after attaining years of discretion, for thirty or forty years, I laid up in the strong box (of my memory), and that I have written.
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The speaker says that, after reaching mature judgment, they carefully stored what they personally observed over thirty or forty years in the “strong box” of memory. Writing it down was a way of preserving those experiences and observations for later use or sharing.
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- Packhum Digital Texts, The History of India, Volume 7 (Elliot and Dowson translation)
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