From: "vrnparker" <vrnparker@yahoo.com>
Mailing-List: list vediculture@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:17:17 -0000
Subject: [world-vedic] Tamerlane's "Tour" of India and "Curse'

Tamerlane(1336-1405)
Tartar Conqueror
For no apparent reason other than a love of fighting and a desire to
increase his royal coffers, Tamerlane invaded India in 1398. His army
captured Delhi and remained only long enough to massacre its
inhabitants and destroy what they did not remove to Samarkand.
Destruction was so complete that it took more than a century for Delhi
to return to its preinvasion stature. Tamerlane did not limit his
victims to civilians. After the Battle of Panipat on December 17,
1398, Tamerlane put one hundred thousand captured Indian soldiers to
the sword.
http://www.carpenoctem.tv/military/tamerlane.html
On June 22, 1941, Soviet archaeologists working in the Samarkand crypt
opened the sarcophagus to study the body and found the inscription:
"Whoever opens this will be defeated by an enemy more fearsome than
I." Hours later, Hitler invaded Russia. Five weeks after the great
Emir was reinterred in 1942, the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad.

http://www.time.com/time/asia/travel/magazine/0,9754,108844,00.html