Cities of India Past and PresentConstable, 1903 - 346 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 11
Page 25
... Brahman Ragoba , the father of the last of the Peshwas , was , when he resided at Bombay , in the habit of passing through the cleft ; and that Shivaji , the daring founder of the Mahratta State , had been known to venture secretly on ...
... Brahman Ragoba , the father of the last of the Peshwas , was , when he resided at Bombay , in the habit of passing through the cleft ; and that Shivaji , the daring founder of the Mahratta State , had been known to venture secretly on ...
Page 90
... Brahman priest who accompanied us noticed our look of surprise and wonderment , and said , " You English are in such a hurry . There is the age of brass and the age of iron . They come and they go . Others have come and gone their way ...
... Brahman priest who accompanied us noticed our look of surprise and wonderment , and said , " You English are in such a hurry . There is the age of brass and the age of iron . They come and they go . Others have come and gone their way ...
Page 100
... Brahman , and the pit of burnt sacrifice ( homa ) was dug , when the sacred kine was slain . " The enthusiastic chronicler adds , " The records were always moist with inserting fresh conquests . " Ajit Sing assumed every emblem of ...
... Brahman , and the pit of burnt sacrifice ( homa ) was dug , when the sacred kine was slain . " The enthusiastic chronicler adds , " The records were always moist with inserting fresh conquests . " Ajit Sing assumed every emblem of ...
Page 252
... Brahman , with clear - cut intellectual features and a bearing which de- notes the breeding of centuries , pauses a few moments before one of the minor shrines , and then proceeds to the symbol of Śiva , and bows with deep reverence ...
... Brahman , with clear - cut intellectual features and a bearing which de- notes the breeding of centuries , pauses a few moments before one of the minor shrines , and then proceeds to the symbol of Śiva , and bows with deep reverence ...
Page 253
... Brahmans , women and children , and cows , all huddled together . There is the Vairagi , with his necklaces and beads , the revolting looking Naga with long curls on his head , a lungoti round the waist , and his body coloured to an ...
... Brahmans , women and children , and cows , all huddled together . There is the Vairagi , with his necklaces and beads , the revolting looking Naga with long curls on his head , a lungoti round the waist , and his body coloured to an ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Agra Ahmedabad Ajmer Akbar arch architecture Aurangzeb beauty Benares Bengal Bombay Brahman British building built Calcutta capital carved Cawnpore centre century chief church Company court Delhi Diwan-i-Khas dome East Emperor Empire enemy English erected fire flowers Forrest French garden gate gateway Ghat Gingee gold Government Governor graceful ground Gujarat guns hall harem Hastings Hindu honour Humayun hundred India Jehan Jehangir Jey Sing Jeypore King ladies land lofty Lord Lucknow Madras Mahal Mahratta Malabar Point Marwar ment minarets Moghul morning mosque Muhammadan Musjid native noble Nur Jehan officers ornamented Oude palace pass pearls pillars Pondicherry Portuguese princes Queen Raja Rajpoot Rajpootana red sandstone residence rich river Royal sacred sent sepoys Shah Shah Jehan ships Shivaji shrine side siege soldiers stands stone Surat temple throne tion tomb tower town trees troops wall Warren Hastings white marble women writes
Popular passages
Page 26 - The impotent man answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool : but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Page 140 - Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared thou hast done; and, whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 209 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Page 146 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Page 271 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 57 - We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us.
Page 1 - About the House was a delicate Garden, voiced to be the pleasantest in India, intended rather for wanton Dalliance, Love's Artillery, than to make resistance against an invading Foe...
Page 146 - In this hall was the famous Peacock Throne, so " called from its having the figures of two peacocks " standing behind it, their tails being expanded, and " the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, " pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colours
Page 42 - The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies'.
Page 185 - ... principle. Thus a faith based on some elementary principles traced itself on the mirror of his heart, and as the result of all the influences which were brought to bear on His Majesty, there grew gradually, as the outline on a stone, the conviction in his heart that there were sensible men in all religions, and abstemious thinkers, and mm endowed with miraculous powers, among all nations.