Mathurá: A District MemoirPrinted at the North-western provinces and Oudh government Press, 1883 - Mathura (India : District) - 449 pages |
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Page 196 - Speak to Him thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law, the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool...
Page 221 - Sambat 1680 ; and therefore on all grounds we may fairly conclude as an established fact that he flourished at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century AD, in the reigns of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir.
Page 246 - Architecture, speaks of this temple as "one of the most interesting and elegant in India, and the only one, perhaps, from which a European architect might borrow a few hints.
Page 92 - ... horns, as they dodge in and out among the crowd, and now and again have their flight cut off, and are driven back upon the crowd of excited viragoes. Many laughable incidents occur. Not unfrequently blood is drawn ; but an accident of this kind is regarded rather as an omen of good fortune; and has never been known to give rise to any ill-feeling. Whenever the fury of their female assailants appears to be subsiding, it is again excited by the men shouting at them snatches of ribald rhymes.
Page 98 - Handfuls of red powder (abir) mixed with tiny particles of glistening talc were thrown about, up to the balconies above and down on the heads of the people below, and seen through this atmosphere of coloured cloud, the frantic gestures of the throng, their white clothes and faces all stained with red and yellow patches, and the great timbrels with bunches of peacocks' feathers, artificial flowers and tinsel stars stuck in their rim, borne above the players' heads and now and again tossed up high...
Page 92 - Holt, which is observed for several days in succession at different localities... The cheeriness of the holiday-makers as they throng the narrow winding streets...; with the buffooneries of the village clowns and the grotesque dances of the lusty swains ... all make up a sufficiently amusing spectacle; but these are only interludes and accessories to the great event of the day. This is a sham fight between the men from the neighbouring village of Nand-ganw and the Barsana ladies...
Page 237 - Verily we have caused it (the Quran) to descend on the night of power. " And who shall teach thee what the night of power is ? " The night of power excelleth a thousand months ; " Therein descend the angels and the spirit by permission " Of their Lord in every matter ; " And all is peace till the breaking of the morn.
Page 248 - Kishor, the last of the old series, stands at the lower end of the town near the Kesi Ghat. Its' construction is referred to the year Sambat 1684, ie ' 1627 AD, in the reign of Jahangir, and the founder's name is preserved as Non-Karan. He is said to have been a Chauhan Thakur; but it is not improbable that he was the elder brother of Raesil, who built the temple of Gopinath. The choir, which is slightly larger than in the other examples, being 25 feet square, has the principal entrance, as usual,...
Page 152 - On the night between the 31st August and the 1st of September, at half an hour after midnight, a severe shock of an Earthquake was felt at this place, which lasted for many minutes, and was violent beyond the memory of man. Probably not a living creature in the place but was roused from his slumbers by the alarm, and felt its effects. Many of the pucka...
Page 34 - Their stone images were given to the butchers to serve them as meat-weights,6 and all the Hindus in Mathura were strictly prohibited from shaving their heads and beards, and performing their ablutions.