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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesanimals arms become believe Benares blood body Brahma Brahmins Calcutta Capt carried caste celebrated ceremonies choultry Christian consecrated custom dancing death deity demons devotee devoured divine Durga earth elephant engraving evil eyes favor feast feet female festival flesh Ganges Gautama girls goddess gods goor gooroo ground hands head heaven Hindu Hinduism Hindustan holy honor horrid human hundred husband idol India Indra inhabitants Jalandhara Juggernaut Kali kill length LENOX LIBRARY lingam lord manner missionary monkeys mother mouth multitude murder Nasir native never night occasion offerings omen Pagan Parvati passed performed persons pickaxe pilgrims present priest profession Rahu rajah received religious rites roomal sacred sacrifice Sahib seen seized servants Shasters Shiva Sleeman spirit strangle strangler Sudra superstition Telingana temple thee thou thousand Thuggee Thugs tion traveller tree tribe Vedas victim village Vishnu wife wives woman women worship Popular passagesPage 201 - Brahmans, through fear of him, forsook • the reading of the Vedas. The rivers changed their courses. Fire lost its energy. The terrified stars retired from his sight. He assumed the forms of the clouds, and gave rain whenever he pleased ; the earth, through fear, gave an abundant increase ; and the trees yielded flowers and fruits out of season. The gods at length applied to Shiva. One said, He has dethroned me ; another", He has taken my kingdom ; and thus all the gods related their misfortunes.... Page 139 - Thou art not known where Pleasure is adored, That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist And wandering eyes, still leaning on the arm Of Novelty, her fickle, frail support; For thou art meek and constant, hating change, And finding in the calm of truth-tried love Joys that her stormy raptures never yield. Page 189 - We all feel pity sometimes, but the goor of the Tuponee changes our nature. It would change the nature of a horse. Let any man once taste of that goor, and he will be a Thug though he know all the trades and have all the wealth in the world. Page 123 - When he calls, she must leave every thing else, and attend upon him alone. A woman has no other god on earth than her husband. The most excellent of all good works she can perform is, to gratify him with the strictest obedience. This should be her only devotion. Though he be aged, infirm, dissipated, a drunkard, or a debauchee, she must still regard him as her god. Page 132 - ... and dies in singularity ; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labours and unites into societies and republics, and sends out colonies, and feeds the world with delicacies, and obeys their king, and keeps order, and exercises many virtues, and promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good things to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world. Page 148 - ... us, who is permitted to abuse us and our children, because we are no longer regarded. Can human nature endure such tyranny ? What kindness can we show to our female children equal to that of relieving them from such oppression, more bitter a thousand times than death ? I say again, would to God my mother had put me under ground the moment I was born. Page 263 - The worlds, alike with me, are terrified to behold thy wondrous form gigantic; with many mouths and eyes; with many arms, and legs, and breasts; with many bellies and with rows of dreadful teeth! Page 192 - Sahib. — Just the same ; we sleep and eat just the same, unless we are afraid of being discovered. ' Q. — And when you see or hear a bad omen, you think it is the order of the deity not to kill the travellers you have with you, or are in pursuit of? ' Sahib. — Yes ; it is the order not to kill them, and we dare not disobey. Page 192 - When you have a poor traveller with you, or a party of travellers who appear to have little property about them, and you hear or see a very good omen, do you not let them go, in the hope that the return of the omen will guide you to better prey ? Dorgha, (Mussulman.) Let them go? Page 263 - Drona the son of Soot, and even the fronts of our army, seem to be precipitating themselves hastily into thy mouths, discovering such frightful rows of teeth ! whilst some appear to stick between thy teeth with their bodies sorely mangled. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarRefractions of the Field at Home: American Representations of ...Kirin Narayan - 1993 - Cultural Anthropology References from web pagesINIDA AND ITS INHABITANTS by Caleb Wright. Published. 1852 Readings in Eastern Philosophy India and its inhabitants / Caleb wright: 東京外国語大学学術成果 ... Horizon Books at antiqbook.com Rare & Out-of-Print Books on Travel & Exploration in Asia, Middle ... Bibliographic information
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