The Wonders of Elora: Or, The Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and Dwellings Excavated ... at Elora, in the East Indies ... |
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Page 30
... floor , outside the bed - room , to see whence it arose . He , rubbing his eyes , began to snuffle and make wry faces . He then proceeded to the rear compound of the house , returned and said , " It's a * Kid meat is very much esteemed ...
... floor , outside the bed - room , to see whence it arose . He , rubbing his eyes , began to snuffle and make wry faces . He then proceeded to the rear compound of the house , returned and said , " It's a * Kid meat is very much esteemed ...
Page 34
... floor , with his head pointing towards a small apartment con- taining a figure of Vishnu . This apartment is divided from a smaller one by some rail - work , which has three figures of the deities , Rama , Sita , and Lakshmi . These are ...
... floor , with his head pointing towards a small apartment con- taining a figure of Vishnu . This apartment is divided from a smaller one by some rail - work , which has three figures of the deities , Rama , Sita , and Lakshmi . These are ...
Page 99
... floors of the house mud , and plas- tered with cows ' dung , the counter an inclined terrace , reaching from the front half across the shop , on which , squatted cross - legged , among bags of money of all kinds and value , sits the ...
... floors of the house mud , and plas- tered with cows ' dung , the counter an inclined terrace , reaching from the front half across the shop , on which , squatted cross - legged , among bags of money of all kinds and value , sits the ...
Page 110
... floor , with detached out - offices ; the whole within an area , surrounded by fine thick hedges of the milk - bush , and prickly pear plants . Good gardens were attached to most of the houses . There was also a good theatre for amateur ...
... floor , with detached out - offices ; the whole within an area , surrounded by fine thick hedges of the milk - bush , and prickly pear plants . Good gardens were attached to most of the houses . There was also a good theatre for amateur ...
Page 126
... floor , containing fine large rooms of a smooth and polished surface , regularly divided by rows of pillars : the whole bulk of this immense block of isolated excavation being up- wards of 500 feet in circumference , and , extraor ...
... floor , containing fine large rooms of a smooth and polished surface , regularly divided by rows of pillars : the whole bulk of this immense block of isolated excavation being up- wards of 500 feet in circumference , and , extraor ...
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Ahmed-Nuggur apartment appearance arrived Aurungabad Aurungzebe Avatar beautiful Bheels Bombay Brahmans British Budha Calcutta called caves ceiling centre Chandrah Christian court Deccan deity distance Dowlutabad Elora England entrance excavation Fakeers feet six inches female figures floor former four friends front G'hat gallery Ganesa ground Guzerat hands Hanuman height Hindoo Holkar honour hundred India Indra journey Karli Keylas labour late Māhā Mahā Deo Mahomedans Mahratta Mahratta empire ment miles mind missionaries mountain Mussulman native nearly object observations officers ornaments Parvati pass Peishwa persons piazza pillars Poona Portuguese possession prince racter Rajah Rama recess religious remarks residence respect rock roof rupees Salsette sculptured seen Seroor servants Shah side singular Siphauees Siva Society speak spot square stands stone Suttees tank temple thing tion travellers village viranda Vishnu Visvacarma wall whole wonder worship wretched
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Page 335 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 462 - Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me : thou knowest my down-sitting, and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts long before. Thou art about my path, and about my bed : and spiest out all my ways. For lo, there is not a word in my tongue : but thou, O Lord, knowest it altogether.
Page 21 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 335 - He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
Page 243 - Distinctions of colours are of his ordination. It is he who gives existence* In your temples, to his name, the voice is raised in prayer; in a house of images where the bell is shaken, still he is the object of adoration.
Page 591 - The instant which has passed in power hath left only sorrow behind it. I have not been the guardian and protector of the empire. My valuable time has been passed vainly. I had a patron in my own dwelling (conscience), but his glorious light was unseen by my dim sight. Life is not lasting ; there is no vestige of departed breath, and all hopes from futurity are lost. The fever has left me ; but nothing remains of me but skin and bone.
Page 415 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 236 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep...
Page 448 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 15 - With song and prospect, which abound From birds, and woods, and waters round. But when the sun, with noon-tide ray, Flames forth intolerable day; While heat sits fervent on the plain, With thirst and languor in his train : All nature...