Govinda Sámanta: Or The History of a Bengal Ráiyat, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1874 |
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Áduri Alanga Badan Badan's house bamboo bathing BELLES LETTRES Bengali body boys Bráhman bride bridegroom called caste CHAPTER charming child cloth gilt cow-dung cow-house cows Crown 8vo Dhumketu dhuti door Durgánagar English Extra fcap F. C. BURNAND Fairy father forehead FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE friends Gayárám ghát ghatak ghosts girl Globe 8vo goddess GOLDEN TREASURY Govin Govinda ground hand hát head Heir of Redclyffe hero Hindu hookah horoscope husband Illustrations Kálamánik Kánchanpur Kayastha Mádhava Málati MALL GAZETTE Mánik marriage mustard oil never night Ojhá ornaments paddy Padma Pál PALL MALL GAZETTE páṭhsálá peasant pedagogue plantain plough POEMS Princess of Thule quantity Ráma Rúpa reader rice Rupá's mother Sámanta Second Edition Shashṭhi sitting smoke story Sundari sweetmeats tank told tree turmeric Vardhamána verandah Vidhátá village volume wife woman women writing Yádumani yard young zamindár
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Page 24 - THE FAIRY BOOK; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
Page 23 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Page 20 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 28 - Dryden's Poetical Works. Edited, with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes, by WD CHRISTIE, MA, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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