| Josiah Conder - 1828 - 412 pages
...returning to their usual employment. Accordingly, all the British functionaries went to the principal ghat, expressed their sorrow for the distress in which they...in which they had no share, and which they had done their utmost to prevent or to avenge. This prevailed, and after much bitter weeping, it was resolved... | |
| Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1828 - 558 pages
...returning to their usual employment. Accordingly all the British functionaries went to the principal ghat, expressed their sorrow for the distress in which they...in which they had no share, and which they had done their utmost to prevent or avenge. This prevailed, and after much bitter weeping, it was resolved that... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1828 - 532 pages
...functionaries went to the principal ghat, expressed their sorrow for the distress in which SITTINO DHURNA. 279 they saw them, but reasoned with them on the absurdity...in which they had no share, and which they had done their utmost to prevent or avenge. This prevailed, and after much bitter weeping, it was resolved that... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1829 - 546 pages
...returning to their usual employment. Accordingly all the British functionaries went to the principal ghat, expressed their sorrow for the distress in which they...themselves for an act in which they had no share, 286 ' SITTING DHURNA. and which they had done their utmost to prevent or avengfe. This prevailed, and... | |
| James Bell - 1836 - 690 pages
...all the British functionaries went to the principal ghaut, expressed their sorrow for the distress iu which they saw them, but reasoned with them on the...in which they had no share, and which they had done their utmost to prevent or to avenge. This prevailed, and after much bitter weeping, it was resolved... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1856 - 328 pages
...returning to their usual employment. Accordingly all the British functionaries went to the principal ghat, expressed their sorrow for the distress in which they saw them, but reasoned with them on the ab- i surdity of punishing themselves for an act in which they had no share, and which they had done... | |
| Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 460 pages
...conversing on the subject : ' Ah,' said one, ' we have seen what we never thought to see — Siva's Lat has its head level with the ground. We shall all...and, after much bitter weeping, it was resolved that '•Ganga was Gangd still,'> and that a succession of costly offerings from the laity of Benares, —... | |
| Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 448 pages
...were by no means pacified. " In the early part of the quarrel," says Mr. Buyers, " the Mussulmans, in order to be revenged on the Hindus for the defeat...and, after much bitter weeping, it was resolved that lGangd was Ganga still J and that a succession of costly offerings from the laity of Benares, — the... | |
| Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 456 pages
...had taken a cow, and killed it on one of the holiest ghats, and mingled its blood with the sacred % water of the Ganga. This act of double sacrilege was...and, after much bitter weeping, it was resolved that ' Ganga was Ganga still, ,' and that a succession of costly offerings from the laity of Benares, —... | |
| Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 544 pages
...pilgrimage to Benares. They were, therefore, all in the greatest affliction; and all the Brahinans in the city, many thousands in number, went down,...and, after much bitter weeping, it was resolved that 'Ganga was Ganga still^ and that a succession of costly ofierings from the laity of Benares, — the... | |
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