Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures, Volume 3Edward Balfour Scottish and Adelphi Presses, 1873 - India |
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Affghan amongst ancient ARAB Arian Asia BENG Bengal brahmans Brahui British buddhist BURM called caves century Ceylon character CHETTU chief China Chinese colour cultivated Deva district Divinities or Sages dynasty east eastern feet flowers Greek Guen Herat hills Himalaya HIND hindoo hindu India indigo Indra Indus inhabitants inscription isinglass islands Jakun Java Jews Kabul Kach Gandava Kali Kandahar Karen Kashmir Kelat Khan Khond Kings or Princes Kohat Konda Krishna Kuki land language Linn Madras Mahomed mahomedan Malabar MALAY MALEAL miles mountains native northern occupied peninsula Persian Peshawar plains plant province Punjab race Raja rajah Rajasthan Rajpoot Rajput range religion river Roxb Rupees Sages mentioned Sanscrit sect Sikh Sindh SINGH Siva species temple tion town tract Travels tree tribes valley village Vishnu western women wood worship Yadu
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Page 34 - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Page 199 - ... then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
Page 143 - The moral characteristics of the Papuan appear to me to separate him as distinctly from the Malay as do his form and features. He is impulsive and demonstrative in speech and action. His emotions and passions express themselves in shouts and laughter, in yells and frantic leapings.
Page 117 - This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Page 176 - Blessed art thou, 0 Lord our God king of the universe, who hast sanctified us with thy commandments, and commanded us to wear the Tophillin.
Page 44 - Iswara. The mountain Himalaya, being personified, is represented as a powerful monarch, whose wife was Mena: their daughter is named Parvati, or Mountain-born, and Durga, or of difficult access; but the Hindus believe her to have been married to Siva in a preexistent state, when she bore the name of Sati.
Page 59 - Siebold, the Sintoos have some vague notion of the immortality of the soul, of a future state of existence, of rewards and punishments, of a paradise, and of a hell. "Celestial judges call every one to his account. To the good is allotted paradise, and they enter the realms of the Kami; the wicked are condemned, and thrust into hell.
Page 227 - ... of his body. 167. He, who was begotten, according to law, on the wife of a man deceased, or impotent, or disordered, after due authority given to her, is called the lawful son of the wife.
Page 28 - Let me not yet, O Varuna, enter into the house of clay : have mercy, almighty, have mercy. " If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind : have mercy, Almighty, have mercy...
Page 122 - Brahmans draw an immense revenue. All the land within twenty miles round the pagoda is considered holy ; but the most sacred spot is an area of about six hundred and fifty feet square, which contains fifty temples. The most conspicuous of these is a lofty tower, about one hundred and eighty-four feet in height, and about twenty-eight feet square inside, called the Bur Dewali, in which the idol, and his brother and sister, Subhadra, are lodged. Adjoining are two pyramidical buildings. In one, about...