The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Bholanauth Chunder. TRAVELS OF A HINDO0 . CHAPTER I. If any man would keep a faithful account of what he had seen and heard himself , it must , in whatever hands , prove an interesting thing . - Horace Walpole . FROM the diary kept of ...
Bholanauth Chunder. TRAVELS OF A HINDO0 . CHAPTER I. If any man would keep a faithful account of what he had seen and heard himself , it must , in whatever hands , prove an interesting thing . - Horace Walpole . FROM the diary kept of ...
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... keeps the promise which a distant view has given . It is the best - kept town in India . The streets are as brightly clean as the walks in a garden . There is not much bustle or activity— the place greatly wears the character of a ...
... keeps the promise which a distant view has given . It is the best - kept town in India . The streets are as brightly clean as the walks in a garden . There is not much bustle or activity— the place greatly wears the character of a ...
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... keep her suspended by the feet till the particular hour specified by the astrologers . She was then taken down ; the prince was born , but the mother died of the suffer- ings to which she had subjected herself . The child was ...
... keep her suspended by the feet till the particular hour specified by the astrologers . She was then taken down ; the prince was born , but the mother died of the suffer- ings to which she had subjected herself . The child was ...
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... keep up a perpetual music . The gales are zephyrous and bland . In the midst of all these the poet lived and wrote , and they are reflected in his writings . To render emphatic homage to his genius , it is said that the god himself came ...
... keep up a perpetual music . The gales are zephyrous and bland . In the midst of all these the poet lived and wrote , and they are reflected in his writings . To render emphatic homage to his genius , it is said that the god himself came ...
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... keep a set of persons constantly employed in removing the dead from the streets and roads . At length those persons died , and for a time , dogs , jackals , and vul- tures were the only scavengers . The dead were placed on rafts and ...
... keep a set of persons constantly employed in removing the dead from the streets and roads . At length those persons died , and for a time , dogs , jackals , and vul- tures were the only scavengers . The dead were placed on rafts and ...
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