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A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for Bengal and the North-western Provinces - Page 557
by Norman Chevers - 1856 - 608 pages
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The revelations of an orderly, an attempt to expose abuses in the mofussil ...

Panchkouree Khan (pseud.) - 1849 - 158 pages
...rapidity of thought. The most loathsome sight at the ghats are the " Aghorpunt fuqueers," (artfflice Ogres), practical philosophers, who affect to disbelieve...fresh human skull in their hands, (off which they had previously eaten the putrid flesh, and from which afterwards with their fingers scooped out the...
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Calcutta Review, Volumes 11-12

India - 1849 - 1230 pages
...tribunals. THE AGHORPUNTS. "The most loathsome sight at the ghats are the ' Aghorpunt fukeers ' (Anglice, Ogres) ; — practical philosophers, who affect to...fresh human skull in their hands, (off which they had previously eaten the putrid flesh, and from which afterwards, they had, with their fingers, scooped...
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The Calcutta Review, Volume 11

India - 1849 - 634 pages
...tribunals. THE AGHORPUNTS. " The most loathsome sight at the ghats are the ' Aghorpunt fukeer» ' (Anglice, Ogres) ; — practical philosophers, who affect to...as immaterial to them as a blessing. They go about inpuris naturalibus, with a fresh human skull in their hands, (off which they had previously eaten...
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British India its races, and its history, considered with ..., Volume 1

John Malcolm F. Ludlow - 1858 - 366 pages
...The most loathsome sight at the Ghats (river landingplaces), are the 'Aghorpunt fuqueers ' (Anglice, Ogres), practical philosophers, who affect to disbelieve...fresh human skull in their hands, (off which they had previously eaten the putrid flesh, and from which afterwards with their fingers scooped out the...
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The Revelations of an Orderly

Panchkouree Khan - Courts - 1866 - 250 pages
...the rapidity of thought. The most loathsome sight at the ghats are the Aghorpunth fuqueers, (Anglice Ogres) practical philosophers, who affect to disbelieve...depends upon the imagination. A cuff or a kick is as imaterial to them as a blessing. They go about in pur is naturalibus with a fresh human skull in their...
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Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial ..., Volume 1

Edward Balfour - India - 1871 - 1174 pages
...disbelieves in the existence of ¡my difference between things, and asserts that all distinctions depend on the imagination. A cuff or a kick is as immaterial to them as a blessing. They go about in purit »aluralilus, with a fresh human skull in their hands (of which they had previously eaten the...
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The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, Volume 3

Anthropological Society of Bombay - Anthropology - 1894 - 566 pages
...disbelieves in the existence of any difference between things and asserts that all distinctions depend on the imagination. A cuff or a kick is as immaterial to them as a blessing. Hindoos, however, look on these wretches with veneration, and none dare to drive them from their doors....
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Selections from the Calcutta Review, Volume 3

India - 1882 - 544 pages
...the ghats are the Aghorpunt " fitkeerJ (Anglice, ogres) ; — practical philosophers, who effect " to disbelieve that there is any difference between...immaterial to them as a blessing. They go " about in fun's naturalibus, with a fresh human skull in their " hands, (off which they had previously eaten...
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The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of England ..., Volume 66

1869 - 506 pages
...disbelieves in the existence of any difference between things, and asserts that all distinctions depend on the imagination. A cuff or a kick is as immaterial to them as a blessing. They go about in pwis imturcdibiis, with a fresh human skull in their hands (off which they had previously eaten the...
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