The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page viii
... tower.- Battle of the Cow . - The ghost of a bovine Bhuggobuttee.- The iron rod , or Shah Sufi's walking - stick . - Peer - pukur and Fatikhan , or the tame alligator .-- Boinchi . - The robber in India . The Amazon Kali . - Mamaree ...
... tower.- Battle of the Cow . - The ghost of a bovine Bhuggobuttee.- The iron rod , or Shah Sufi's walking - stick . - Peer - pukur and Fatikhan , or the tame alligator .-- Boinchi . - The robber in India . The Amazon Kali . - Mamaree ...
Page 81
... on- ward upon its bosom ' floating palaces , towers , gates , and pagodas , bright with a thousand colours , and shining in the light of numberless glittering cressets . ' VOL . I .. 6 The festival of the Beira is said to have been.
... on- ward upon its bosom ' floating palaces , towers , gates , and pagodas , bright with a thousand colours , and shining in the light of numberless glittering cressets . ' VOL . I .. 6 The festival of the Beira is said to have been.
Page 100
... Towers , each about seventy feet high . Nobody now remembers anything about them , and the age and object of their erection are matters in- volved in the deepest obscurity . From their ' close resemblance to the pyrethra so common in ...
... Towers , each about seventy feet high . Nobody now remembers anything about them , and the age and object of their erection are matters in- volved in the deepest obscurity . From their ' close resemblance to the pyrethra so common in ...
Page 103
... tower to the mariner . The pre- siding deity of this sanctuary is named Gaibinatha , a form of Siva . The temple bears no inscription , and from its make and appearance does not seem to be more than two or three centuries old . ' The ...
... tower to the mariner . The pre- siding deity of this sanctuary is named Gaibinatha , a form of Siva . The temple bears no inscription , and from its make and appearance does not seem to be more than two or three centuries old . ' The ...
Page 112
... towers , and bastions , and its multitude of trading vessels , all combining to make up a striking frontage , that stretched along the river till it was lost in the murky distance . The principal ghaut , before which the steamer had ...
... towers , and bastions , and its multitude of trading vessels , all combining to make up a striking frontage , that stretched along the river till it was lost in the murky distance . The principal ghaut , before which the steamer had ...
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