Western India in 1838, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1839 |
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Abdoola admiration adorned afford amongst amusement ancient animal appear Asoka attired beautiful Beebee Brahmins British Budda Buddist Bungalow Candala cast cave celebrated cenotaph ceremonies character Cheetah Chelah coloured command Concan crimson curious Datar Deckan decorated deities Dewalli Doorga Dusrah elephant European favourite feast feet festival frankincense Ghauts Girnar goddess gold Gosaens graceful granite Gulf of Cutch Guzzerat harem Highness the Nuwaub hills Hindoo honour Hooli horses human sacrifice idol interest Jains James Prinsep jewels Junagarh jungles Kattiwar Kirkee Kurradee Brahmin light magnificent Mahout mangoe matchlock ment mirth Mohammedan musjid Nagir Natch native neighbouring night Nuwaub object observed ornament passed peculiarly Poonah poor possess Post 8vo prince Puran Puttun Rahit Buckté Rajah religious rich richly rock Runchorjee rupees sacred mount sacred tree sacrifice Sambur scene sculptured side Somnath spot stone Surashtra surrounded temple tion turban usual victim walls Western India wild worship
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Page 176 - And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook ; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
Page 132 - Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve O'er that which hath been, and o'er that which must be : What we have seen, our sons shall see ; Remnants of things...
Page 79 - Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Page 1 - Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul...
Page 31 - Where'er we gaze, around, above, below, What rainbow tints, what magic charms are found : Rock, river, forest, mountain, all abound, And bluest skies that harmonize the whole : Beneath, the distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll Between those hanging rocks, that shock yet please the soul.
Page 157 - In so enlightened an age as the present, I shall perhaps be ridiculed if I hint, as my opinion, that the observation of certain festivals is something more than a mere political institution. I cannot, however, help thinking that even nature itself concurs to confirm my sentiment. Philosophers and freethinkers tell us that a general system was laid down at first, and that no deviations have been made to...
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Page 92 - Mohammedan husbands' generosity, and the weighty affair of pin money.' The Rahit Buckte (the principal wife) she is talking to, sets her mind quite at ease by explaining that she has her own financial resources at her disposal: 'The Rahit Buckte proved herself during our conversation, to be a good woman of business, quite...
Page 18 - ... place. Such was the popularity of this obscene worship ; such the fanaticism of its followers, that the princes of Hindustan devoted their daughters to the service of the temple f; and, at the occurrence of an eclipse, sometimes as many as a thousand individuals came to perform their devotions. The religion was of old common to Arabia and India ; and there is reason for believing, what the early Mohammedan authorities assert, that Lat, worshipped by the idolaters of Mekka, was a similar deity...