The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... night , the plaintive carol came in a rich harmony to the ears of the goddess . She then sat facing the east , but , turn- ing to hear the song of the boatmen as they passed by her ghât , she had her face turned towards the river ever ...
... night , the plaintive carol came in a rich harmony to the ears of the goddess . She then sat facing the east , but , turn- ing to hear the song of the boatmen as they passed by her ghât , she had her face turned towards the river ever ...
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... night . Fifty years ago there were many noble houses in Sooksagur . The Marquis of Cornwallis often came hither to spend the summer months , now passed by the Viceroy in Simla . This was the country - seat of our Governors previous to ...
... night . Fifty years ago there were many noble houses in Sooksagur . The Marquis of Cornwallis often came hither to spend the summer months , now passed by the Viceroy in Simla . This was the country - seat of our Governors previous to ...
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... nights . He had not yet been able to overcome the powers of his appetite , and lived upon one meal a day , of only rice and dall , served by his sister in the evening . He was trying to bring himself to exist on the smallest portion of ...
... nights . He had not yet been able to overcome the powers of his appetite , and lived upon one meal a day , of only rice and dall , served by his sister in the evening . He was trying to bring himself to exist on the smallest portion of ...
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... night to their jail , and , as they had promised , he did not lose one of their number . ' Krishnugger has been named from Rajah Krishna Chunder Roy , whose memory is held in great veneration here . He was a rich and powerful Zemindar ...
... night to their jail , and , as they had promised , he did not lose one of their number . ' Krishnugger has been named from Rajah Krishna Chunder Roy , whose memory is held in great veneration here . He was a rich and powerful Zemindar ...
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... night previous to our starting , and we had a nice agreeable voyage up a river full to the brim . The Adjai is the Amystis of Megasthenes , ' and the Ajamati of Wilford . In its literal acceptation , the Adjai means the unconquerable ...
... night previous to our starting , and we had a nice agreeable voyage up a river full to the brim . The Adjai is the Amystis of Megasthenes , ' and the Ajamati of Wilford . In its literal acceptation , the Adjai means the unconquerable ...
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