Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 pages |
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... Brahmans is seen approaching . They have come to greet me on my arrival ; some of them are Pandits . A mat is spread for them in a vacant tent . They enter without shoes , make respectful salaams , and squat round me in a semicircle . I ...
... Brahmans is seen approaching . They have come to greet me on my arrival ; some of them are Pandits . A mat is spread for them in a vacant tent . They enter without shoes , make respectful salaams , and squat round me in a semicircle . I ...
Page 49
... Brahmans as impure , their usefulness is not the less recognised . Their services are , in fact , felt to be indispensable , and the treatment they receive accords with the urgency rather than with the character of their duties . No ...
... Brahmans as impure , their usefulness is not the less recognised . Their services are , in fact , felt to be indispensable , and the treatment they receive accords with the urgency rather than with the character of their duties . No ...
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... Brahmans . And I may here remark that the Hinduism of the present day is by no means a system that exists for the Brahmans alone . It is no rigid unbending system of hard and fast lines . On the contrary it possesses great elasticity ...
... Brahmans . And I may here remark that the Hinduism of the present day is by no means a system that exists for the Brahmans alone . It is no rigid unbending system of hard and fast lines . On the contrary it possesses great elasticity ...
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... Brahmans with some form of Siva's consort . But it must be observed that the village goddess ( devi ) has a special character and special name in every district and almost every village . In Khatraj she is called Khodiyar , or 6 ...
... Brahmans with some form of Siva's consort . But it must be observed that the village goddess ( devi ) has a special character and special name in every district and almost every village . In Khatraj she is called Khodiyar , or 6 ...
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... application of the principles of his creed , put us Christians to shame . 1 1 Pradakshina was in all likelihood originally connected with Sun- worship . I asked one of the Khātraj Brahmans to give me 54 MODERN INDIA .
... application of the principles of his creed , put us Christians to shame . 1 1 Pradakshina was in all likelihood originally connected with Sun- worship . I asked one of the Khātraj Brahmans to give me 54 MODERN INDIA .
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