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" Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings in gaudy colours of flower-pots, men, women, bulls, elephants, gods and goddesses, in all their... "
A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and ... - Page 544
by James Bell - 1836
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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From ..., Volume 1

Reginald Heber - 1828 - 568 pages
...of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...many-weaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age, tame and familiar as mastiffs, walk lazily up and down these narrow streets, or are seen...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone, from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...many-weaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age, tame and familiar as mastiffs, walk lazily up and down these narrow streets, or are seen...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone, from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...many-weaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age, tame and familiar as mastiffs, walk lazily up and down these narrow streets, or are seen...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone, from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...many-weaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age, tame and familiar as mastiffs, walk lazily up and down these narrow streets, or are seen...
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The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and ...

Josiah Conder - 1828 - 412 pages
...Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from Chunar; hut the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a deep...many-weaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age, tame and familiar as mastiiFs, walk lazily up and down these narrow streets, or are seen...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 4

Robert Walsh - 1828 - 564 pages
...of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...goddesses, in all their many-formed, many-headed, many handed, and many-wcaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age, tame and...
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The American Quarterly Review, Volume 4

1828 - 732 pages
...of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very- good stone from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...elephants, gods and goddesses, in all their many-formed, many-headad, many handed, and many-weaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age,...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 29; Volume 47

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material of the buildings is a very good stone from Chunar; but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...gaudy colours, of flower-pots, men, women, bulls, ciephants, gods and goddesses, in all their many-formed, many-headed, many-handed, and many-weaponed...
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The Extractor; or Universal repertorium of literature, science ..., Volume 1

1829 - 762 pages
...flowers, animals, and palm branches, equalling in minuteness and richness the best specimens that 1 have seen of Gothic or Grecian architecture. The material...elephants, gods and goddesses, in all their many-formed, many-lieaded. manybanded, and many-wenponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age,...
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Some Account of the Life of Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...architecture. The * A species of litter. material of the buildings is a very good stone, from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a...many-weaponed varieties. The sacred bulls devoted to Siva, of every age, tame and familiar as mastiffs, walk lazily up and down these narrow streets, or are seen...
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