The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page 35
... Mahomedan burial and Menu's incremation . It entombs only a bone or the ashes of the dead . The sumaj of Joydeva has the priority of all in Bengal . To nothing does Nuddea owe its celebrity so much as for its being the scene of the life ...
... Mahomedan burial and Menu's incremation . It entombs only a bone or the ashes of the dead . The sumaj of Joydeva has the priority of all in Bengal . To nothing does Nuddea owe its celebrity so much as for its being the scene of the life ...
Page 64
... Mahomedan dynasty , frequent and severe famines , and virulent pestilences , had thinned the population , and reduced fertile districts to wastes and jungles . It is on record , that previous to 1793 — the year of the Perma- nent ...
... Mahomedan dynasty , frequent and severe famines , and virulent pestilences , had thinned the population , and reduced fertile districts to wastes and jungles . It is on record , that previous to 1793 — the year of the Perma- nent ...
Page 77
... Mahomedan character and fol- lower of the Prophet , particularly as regards his two great tenets of making slaughter a virtue , and indulging in a plurality of wives , and an ad libitum number of con- 6 cubines . Forster , in 1781 ...
... Mahomedan character and fol- lower of the Prophet , particularly as regards his two great tenets of making slaughter a virtue , and indulging in a plurality of wives , and an ad libitum number of con- 6 cubines . Forster , in 1781 ...
Page 82
... Mahomedan fête ' instituted in honour of the escape of an ancient sovereign of Bengal from drowning ; who , as the tradi- tion relates , being upset in a boat at night , would have perished , his attendants being unable to distinguish ...
... Mahomedan fête ' instituted in honour of the escape of an ancient sovereign of Bengal from drowning ; who , as the tradi- tion relates , being upset in a boat at night , would have perished , his attendants being unable to distinguish ...
Page 83
... Mahomedan rule would long since have collapsed ; attendance at the Royal levees in refulgent kinkhaub , and a discreet use of shawl presents , will not long stave off the inevitable oblivion ; and it has been due to the ignorance as ...
... Mahomedan rule would long since have collapsed ; attendance at the Royal levees in refulgent kinkhaub , and a discreet use of shawl presents , will not long stave off the inevitable oblivion ; and it has been due to the ignorance as ...
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Page 144 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 154 - Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together...
Page 208 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 145 - Juliet's story, they seem tenacious to a degree, insisting on the fact — giving a date (1303), and snowing a tomb. It is a plain, open, and partly decayed sarcophagus, with withered leaves in it, in a wild and desolate conventual garden, once a cemetery, now ruined to the very graves. The situation struck me as very appropriate to the legend, being blighted as their love.
Page 271 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 124 - Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath the tree ; Where shall I find a knight will ride The jungle paths with me ? There are five and fifty coursers there, And four and fifty men ; When the fifty-fifth shall mount his steed, The Deckan thrives again !
Page 191 - ... of light from the landscape. Over the pure cloudless sky was the glow of the last light. The great mound threw its dark shadow far across the plain. In the distance, and beyond the Zab, Keshaf, another venerable ruin, rose indistinctly into the evening mist. Still more distant, and still more indistinct, was a solitary hill, overlooking the ancient city of Arbela. The Kurdish mountains, whose...
Page 125 - He then shewed me his garden and pagoda, and after a few common-place expressions of the pleasure I felt in seeing so celebrated a warrior, which he answered by saying with a laugh, he should have been glad to make my acquaintance ehewhere, I made my bow and took leave.