A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East-India Company, and of the Native States on the Continent of India, Volume 2Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1854 - 2 pages |
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Agra Agra Guide Allahabad bazar Beng Bombay breadth British district British government Buchanan Bussahir Calcutta cantonment coast confluence considerable course cultivated Delhi Disp distance dominions east eastern elevation Elphinstone extending feet Ferishta flowing former frontier Ganges Garden Ghauts governorship Guzerat Gwalior hills Himalaya Hindoo Hist Horsburgh Hyderabad India Indus Jacquemont jaghire Jeypoor Joudpore Journ Jumna Khan latter left bank lieutenant lieutenant-governorship Mahrattas Malwa miles N.W. miles2 mountains Mysore Nagpoor native navigation nearly Nerbudda Nizam north-east North-West Provinces north-western Oude pergunnah population presidency of Bengal presidency of Bombay presidency of Madras principal place Punjab rajah Rajpoot right bank rising river road rock rupees Saugor Scindia season Shah side Sinde south-east south-west southern square miles stream supra Surv Tables of Routes temple tenant-governorship territory tion town situated tract treaty Trigon valley village western
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Page 226 - ... the top by a broad bandage of the same shape; above this, but divided from it by a circular astragal and two polygonic fillets, rises a short round fluted shaft, forming about a fourth of the column and diminishing with a curve towards the top, where a circular cincture of beads binds round it a fillet composed of an ornament resembling leaves, or rather cusps, the lower extremity of which appears below the cincture, while the superior extremity rises above, projecting and terminating gracefully...
Page 227 - ... gracefully in a circle of overhanging leaves or cusps. A narrow band divides this ornament from the round fluted compressed cushion, which may be regarded as the capital of the column, and as giving it its character : its fluted form coalesces beautifully with the fluted shaft below. This cushion has its circumference bound by a thin flat band or fillet, as if to retain it ; and above supports a square plinth, on which rests the architrave that slopes away on each side in scrolls connected by...
Page 242 - ... cannot fail to admire a splendid ghaut, one of the finest on the river Jumna, and several picturesque buildings, which latter, however, are falling fast into decay. The cantonments in the neighbourhood are peculiarly desolate, and exhibit in full perfection the dreary features of a jungle-station. Upon a wide sandy plain, nearly destitute of trees, half a dozen habitable bungalows lie scattered, intermixed with the ruins of others, built for the accommodation of a larger garrison than is now...
Page 227 - It may previously be remarked, that the use made of temples by the ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as by the modern Hindus, is considerably different from that required of them by Christian nations. A Hindu goes alone, as an ancient Roman would have done, when he finds it convenient, offers his solitary prayers before his idol, prostrates himself in his presence, and leaves his offering: he attempts to bribe his god to prosper him in his trade, whether it be merchandize, or procuration, or theft....
Page 225 - The entrance into this temple, which is entirely hewn out of a stone resembling porphyry, is by a spacious front supported by two massy pillars and two pilasters forming three openings, under a thick and steep rock overhung by brushwood and wild shrubs. The long ranges of columns that appear closing in perspective...
Page 169 - ... much, and are so greatly weakened by embrasures and loop-holes with which they are pierced, that a few well-directed shot would demolish any part, and expose the defenders to the fire of the assailants. The ramparts are flanked by round towers or lofty bastions, at intervals of three or four hundred paces, which, combined with the height of the hill, give the place an imposing appearance. Where the walls do not rise immediately from the edge of the declivity, the defence is strengthened by a...
Page 227 - The figure that faces the principal entrance is the most remarkable in this excavation, and has given rise to numberless conjectures and theories. It is a gigantic bust representing some three-headed being, or three of the heads of some being to whom the temple may be supposed to be dedicated.