French ship Soleil Royal (1670) French ship Soleil Royal (1670) Soleil Royal ("Royal Sun") was a French 104-gun ship of the line, flagship of Admiral Tourville. She was built in Brest between 1668 and 1670 by engineer Laurent Hubac, was launched in 1669, and stayed unused in Brest harbour for years. She was recommissioned with 112 guns and 1200 men when the Nine Years' War broke out in 1688 as the flagship of the "escadre du Ponant" (squadron of the West). She was said to be a good sailing ship and her decorations were amongst the most beautiful and elaborate of all baroque flagships. The
Saurashtra language dawn of Surya and the people worshiping Surya or Saura are called as Saurashtrians, the speakers of Saurashtra were once sun worshipers and have built sun temples. As per one school of thought, “Saurashtra” means 100 nations (Sau + Rashtra), but as per another school of thought, this is a fractured speech of “Su-Rashtra” and its Prakrit name Sorath, which literally means "good country". Many Sanskrit words are coined from the Prakrit language of Sauraseni or Shauraseni language now called as Saurashtra. The oldest available inscriptions in Saurashtra are from the period between 487 to 473 BC. These inscriptions are