 | Kālidāsa - 1853 - 366 pages
...but possessing many virtues, and used for the argha : see p. 35, note 3. Sir W. Jones says of it, ' Its flowers in their perfect state, are among the...appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds. It is the sweetest f%^RT'fiT i uf% i n ^f% i irf% i -'r^r^: \ ii n and most nutritious pasture for... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1869 - 418 pages
...Dub, c-jjJ f^ Name of a grass (Agrostis linearis, Koen. Cynodon Dactylon, Royle). "Its flowers in the perfect state are among the loveliest objects in the...sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness added to its beauty, induced the Hindus in the earliest ages to believe it was the mansion... | |
 | Kālidāsa, Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 1876 - 396 pages
...darbTia, but possessing many virtues, and used for the argha (see p. 36, n. 2). Sir W. Jones says of it, ' Its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the...appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds. It is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness, added to its beauty,... | |
 | Kālidāsa (Śakuntalā.) - 1876 - 426 pages
...loveliest objects in the vegetable world, and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds. It is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindus to believe that it was the mansion of a benevolent... | |
 | James A. Murray (F.S.A.L.) - 1881 - 272 pages
...most valuable of the grasses for fodder. Sir W. Jones in the Asiatic Researches vol. IV observes : " It is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle and its usefulness added to its beauty induced the Hindoos in their earlier ages to believe that it was the... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1216 pages
...three-fourths of the pasture. Respecting this grass, Sir W. Jones observes (As. Res. iv. 242) ' that it is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindus, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1210 pages
...three-fourths of the pasture. Respecting this grass, Sir \V. Jones observes (As. Res. iv. 242) ' that it is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindus, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was... | |
 | Bombay Natural History Society - 1893 - 786 pages
...properties. It makes excellent hay, and will keep good in stock for many years. Mr. Fergusson says : — " Its flowers in their perfect state are among the loveliest...sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle ; and its usefulness added to its beauty, induced the Hindus, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was... | |
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Rheede has exhibited in a coarse delineation of its leaves only — its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world ; and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion from the least... 
