 | 1864 - 502 pages
...epecially those who bestow gifts, erect lingua, and do not ' commit suicide within the holy precincts.' A series of stone steps on each of the four sides...his head and body with the vile liquid, and at the game time utters certain phrases appointed for the ceremony. Directly in front of Mankarnika and between... | |
 | 1864 - 508 pages
...two or three feet in depth. It is insufferably foul, and the effluvia from it impregnate the air £ot some distance around. The worshipper descending into...utters certain phrases appointed for the ceremony. Directly in front of Mankarnika and between it and the Ganges, is the temple of Tarakeshwar, or the... | |
 | Frederick F. Wyman - 1866 - 396 pages
...divine hands ; and although the singular fact of several joins being visible is, to the Mankarnika. 69 uninitiated, a slight difficulty in the way of such...can hardly credit the fact, that such monstrous and transenpart fictions are believed even by the uneducated native. There are many other noted shrines,... | |
 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 452 pages
...more than two or three feet in depth. It is insufferably foul, and the effluvium from it impregnates the air for some distance around. The worshipper,...utters certain phrases appointed for the ceremony. Directly in front of Manikarnika, and between it and the Ganges, is the temple of Tarakeswar, or "... | |
 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 544 pages
...more than two or three feet in depth. It is insufferahly foul, and the effluvium from it impregnates the air for some distance around. The worshipper,...utters certain phrases appointed for the ceremony. Directly in front of Manikarnika, and between it and the Ganges, is the temple of TarakesVar, or "... | |
 | 1889 - 854 pages
...it, some of them filthy and covered with sores, the water is so stinking, that the air is polluted for some distance around. The worshipper descending...water laves his head and body with the vile liquid, repeating certain phrases. It is believed that this stinking water will infallibly wash away all the... | |
 | Frederick F. Wyman - 2004 - 430 pages
...It is insufferably foul, and the effluvia from it impregnate the air for some distance around. TKe worshipper, descending into the water, laves his head...can hardly credit the fact, that such monstrous and transenpart fictions are believed even by the uneducated native. There are many other noted shrines,... | |
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... uninitiated a slight difficulty in the way of such an assertion, yet the Hindus, brushing aside such a trivial circumstance, readily swallow the explanation given by the Brahmins, that the joins are only superficial and do not penetrate through the... 