Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volume 3The Society, 1849 Vol. 1-new ser., v. 7 include the society's Proceedings for 1841-1929 (title varies). |
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Aden ancient appear Arabic Asóka B'bay Bombay Brahmans Buddha Buddhist Bunder Hisn Ghorab Cairns called Cambay cape Captain caves cells Chaitya character coast of Arabia coins color commences Cromlechs Dahgob diameter distance Dofar east eastern excavations extended extremity figures Foraminifera frankincense Girnar height hill Hindu inches India inhabitants inscriptions island Jaina Janabah Jibal Jibsh Journal Kamar Kanè Karah king Kistvaens language latter limestone Makalla Maráthí Masira Maskat mentioned miles mountainous tract Muriyah neighbourhood notice nummulitic observed pebbles Periplus Persian pillars plain Plate present Prinsep probably Ptolemy Ptolemy's Ras Fartak Ras Sajar remains remarkable Resut ridge rock Royal Asiatic Society Sachalites sahil Sanscrit scarped Scindian seedlike body serpentine shaykh Shiva shore side Sindh Society's specimens stones summit surface Syagros temple tion town tree tribe Tukáráma valley village Vishnu Vithoba Wadi Wilson
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Page 43 - Even while the protean was thus spreading out its substance into a mere film to surround so large an object, a tubular prolongation was sent out by it in another direction to seize and enclose in the same way a large germ which was lying near it. After having secured both objects, the protean pursued its course rather more slowly than before, but still shooting out its dentiform processes with much activity. It took about threequarters of an hour to perform these two acts.
Page 79 - Bameean is celebrated for its colossal idols and innumerable excavations, which are to be seen in all parts of the valley, for about eight miles, and still form the residence of the greater part of the population. They are called " Soomuch " by the people. A detached hill in the middle of the valley is quite honeycombed by them, and brings to our recollection the Troglodites of Alexander's historians. It is called the city of Ghoolghoola, and consists of a continued succession of caves in every direction,...
Page 52 - I do not conceive that a votary was ever admitted beyond the colonnade under the front, the rest being devoted to the priests and the ceremonies, as is now the case in China, and in Catholic churches, and he therefore never could see whence the light came, and stood in comparative shade himself, so as to heighten its effect considerably. Still further to increase this scenic effect, the architects of these temples have placed the screens and music galleries in front, in such a manner, as to hide...
Page 174 - Cela ne se peut. LISETTE Je ne sais pas si cela se peut; mais je sais bien que cela est.
Page 26 - Like burnish'd steel Glowing, it lay beneath the eye of noon ; And when the breezes in their play, Ruffled the darkening surface, then with gleam Of sudden light, around the lotus stem It rippled, and the sacred flowers that crown The lakelet with their roseate beauty, ride In easy waving rock'd, from side to side ; And as the wind upheaves Their broad and buoyant weight, the glossy leaves Flap on the twinkling waters, up and down.
Page 52 - The whole light falls on the dagoba, which is exactly opposite, in the place of the altar, while the colonnade around and behind is less perfectly lit, the pillars being very close together. To a person standing near the door there appeared nothing behind the dagoba but '
Page 25 - On the summit of Meru is the vast city of Brahma, extending fourteen thousand leagues, and renowned in heaven ; and around it, in the cardinal points and the intermediate quarters, are situated the stately cities of Indra and the other regents of the spheres.
Page 84 - Dewananpiausso," composed equally for the delight and affliction of righteous men. CHAP. XII. The illuminator of the religion of the vanquisher, the th6ro son of Moggali, having terminated the third convocation, was reflecting on futurity. Perceiving ( that the time had arrived) for the establishment of the religion of Buddho in foreign countries, he dispatched severally, in the month of " kattiko," the following theros to those foreign parts.
Page 42 - Bombay, says in one case he saw " one of these creatures approach a gelatinous body, something like a sluggish or dead one of its own kind, and equal to itself in size, and having lengthened itself out, so as to encircle it, send processes over and under it from both sides, which, uniting with each other, at last ended in a complete approximation of the two opposite folds of the cell wall throughout their whole extent, and in the complete enclosure of the object.
Page 55 - The hall of instruction, which is of an oval shape, has a vaulted roof, and is situated close to the temple. It contains eleven small cells, and over the door of one of them there is an indistinct and partly defaced inscription. 96 m.