The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page iii
... SCENES FROM THE RAMAYANA , MEGHADUTA , ETC. * Translated by RALPH T. H. GRIFFITH , M.A. CONTENTS . - Preface - Ayodhya - Ravan Doomed - The Birth of Rama- The Heir apparent - Manthara's Guile - Dasaratha's Oath - The Step- mother ...
... SCENES FROM THE RAMAYANA , MEGHADUTA , ETC. * Translated by RALPH T. H. GRIFFITH , M.A. CONTENTS . - Preface - Ayodhya - Ravan Doomed - The Birth of Rama- The Heir apparent - Manthara's Guile - Dasaratha's Oath - The Step- mother ...
Page ix
... scenes at Benares . — Teelabhandessur , and his history . — The legend of Munikurnika - ghaut . — The observatory . — Madoo - rai- ke - dharara , or the mosque of Aurungzebe . - Ramnugger.- The temple of Biseswara . - The Gyan - Bapi ...
... scenes at Benares . — Teelabhandessur , and his history . — The legend of Munikurnika - ghaut . — The observatory . — Madoo - rai- ke - dharara , or the mosque of Aurungzebe . - Ramnugger.- The temple of Biseswara . - The Gyan - Bapi ...
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... scene with Hindoo eyes , and indulged in trains of thought and association which only find expression in Native society , and are wholly foreign to European ideas . European readers must be generally aware of the limited character and ...
... scene with Hindoo eyes , and indulged in trains of thought and association which only find expression in Native society , and are wholly foreign to European ideas . European readers must be generally aware of the limited character and ...
Page xxiii
... scenes , which , after all , are somewhat strange and unintelligible to European minds . In 1866 he paid a second visit to Delhi , and his antiquarian notices of that city and its ancient suburbs display an amount of in- vestigation and ...
... scenes , which , after all , are somewhat strange and unintelligible to European minds . In 1866 he paid a second visit to Delhi , and his antiquarian notices of that city and its ancient suburbs display an amount of in- vestigation and ...
Page xxiv
... scenes which meet the eye at a Hindoo fair ; the jumbling up of the pilgrimages of the Middle Ages with the civiliza- tion of the nineteenth century ; the conjurors , jugglers , faqueers , women and children in countless numbers ; the ...
... scenes which meet the eye at a Hindoo fair ; the jumbling up of the pilgrimages of the Middle Ages with the civiliza- tion of the nineteenth century ; the conjurors , jugglers , faqueers , women and children in countless numbers ; the ...
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