Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 pages |
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... Religion . Funeral Ceremonies and Offerings to Ancestors at Bombay , Benares , and Gaya PAGE I 27 39 64 80 97 • 108 ... Religions of India compared with each other and with Christianity · 246 Progress of our Indian Empire . Part I. 263 ...
... Religion . Funeral Ceremonies and Offerings to Ancestors at Bombay , Benares , and Gaya PAGE I 27 39 64 80 97 • 108 ... Religions of India compared with each other and with Christianity · 246 Progress of our Indian Empire . Part I. 263 ...
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... religious fair on the banks of the Narbada , two hundred thousand people were col- lected , yet there was no rioting , no quarrelling , no drunkenness nor disorder of any kind . ' All were intent on their religious duties . The officers ...
... religious fair on the banks of the Narbada , two hundred thousand people were col- lected , yet there was no rioting , no quarrelling , no drunkenness nor disorder of any kind . ' All were intent on their religious duties . The officers ...
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... religious duties . On the contrary , religion of some kind enters largely into their everyday life . Nay , it may even be said that religious ideas and aspirations- religious hopes and fears - are interwoven with the whole texture of ...
... religious duties . On the contrary , religion of some kind enters largely into their everyday life . Nay , it may even be said that religious ideas and aspirations- religious hopes and fears - are interwoven with the whole texture of ...
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... religious life . I propose , therefore , to introduce the narrative by a few remarks about sacrifice , immolation ... religion has been the necessity of appeasing the malice of malignant beings by oblations of blood , and on occasions ...
... religious life . I propose , therefore , to introduce the narrative by a few remarks about sacrifice , immolation ... religion has been the necessity of appeasing the malice of malignant beings by oblations of blood , and on occasions ...
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... religious frenzy , immolated them- selves at the festivals of the God Siva ( the proper god of destruction ) , and even at the great car - festivals ( ratha- yātrā ) of the god Vishņu , voluntarily throwing them- selves under the ...
... religious frenzy , immolated them- selves at the festivals of the God Siva ( the proper god of destruction ) , and even at the great car - festivals ( ratha- yātrā ) of the god Vishņu , voluntarily throwing them- selves under the ...
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