Suraj Bhan (archaeologist) (1931–2010) Indian archaeologist
Justice Sudhir Aggarwal’s verdict, Para 3719
Quotes from the Judgment from Honorable Justice Agarwal, 2010
“Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some loquacious Vessels were; and some
Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.”
The Rubaiyat (1120)
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Variant: Some books are lies frae end to end.
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