The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 2N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... Jumna below that city . Bisram - ghaut and its mela . - Worship of Bacchus and Greek colony at Muttra . - Mahmood's description of that city . - Jain temple of the Paruckjees . - The Katra , or market- place . Fort and observatory of ...
... Jumna below that city . Bisram - ghaut and its mela . - Worship of Bacchus and Greek colony at Muttra . - Mahmood's description of that city . - Jain temple of the Paruckjees . - The Katra , or market- place . Fort and observatory of ...
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... Jumna breaks in upon the sight . The inscriptions which run all round the frieze are panegyrical tran- scripts from the Akbernameh of Abul Fazil . In the middle of the terrace is the Emperor's cenotaph of pol- ished white marble ...
... Jumna breaks in upon the sight . The inscriptions which run all round the frieze are panegyrical tran- scripts from the Akbernameh of Abul Fazil . In the middle of the terrace is the Emperor's cenotaph of pol- ished white marble ...
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... Jumna . It has been his lot to live always under an ungenial climate , and to combat with the sterility of a sandy soil . He is , therefore , a marauder as much by necessity as by his antecedents . Physical causes sufficiently account ...
... Jumna . It has been his lot to live always under an ungenial climate , and to combat with the sterility of a sandy soil . He is , therefore , a marauder as much by necessity as by his antecedents . Physical causes sufficiently account ...
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... Jumna below Muttra presents in this season a low shallow stream , fordable at many places . Had it been in the cold weather , or in summer , none would have doubted the story of Vasudeb's wading through the stream with the new - born ...
... Jumna below Muttra presents in this season a low shallow stream , fordable at many places . Had it been in the cold weather , or in summer , none would have doubted the story of Vasudeb's wading through the stream with the new - born ...
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... Jumna , and taking up mud to smear it on their foreheads , and saying their prayers in waist- deep water . Parties of women , with pretty faces and well - developed persons , came to fetch water in ghurras poised on their heads ...
... Jumna , and taking up mud to smear it on their foreheads , and saying their prayers in waist- deep water . Parties of women , with pretty faces and well - developed persons , came to fetch water in ghurras poised on their heads ...
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