Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, the Countries Adjoining the Mountain-course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, North of the Panjab ...Henry Colburn, 1844 - Jammu and Kashmir (India) |
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afterwards ALEXANDER IN INDIA amongst Aornos appearance Arrian arrived ascended Assacani bank Baramula bazaar beautiful believe Bhimbur Bilaspur Bisuli Brahmin British Budrawar called Captain Burnes castle Chumba Chunab crossed descends Devi distance Dodah Dost Mohamed East elephants elevation fakir feet foot ground Gulab Singh Gurh height Herat hills Himalaya Hindu horses India Indus Jamu Jewala jungle Jylum Kabul Kabul river Kandahar Kangra Kashmir Kashmirians Khan Kishtawar Kophenes Ladak Lahore lake Lodiana Maharajah miles Moorcroft mountains Nadaun natives Núrpúr OBSERVATIONS ON AFGHANISTAN palace Panjab pass path Persian Peshawur Pir Panjal plains Púnch Rajah Rajawur Ramnagur ravine remarked ridge Rihursi river rock Runjit Singh sandstone says seen sent Sepahis servants Shah Shuja Shahbad shew Shupeyon side Sikhs Simla Singular Sinsar Chund snow snowy stream summit Sutlej Thanadar thence Tira told torrent town traveller valley village Vuzir whilst wild
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Page 329 - For Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Page 360 - As an isolated ruin, this deserves, on account of its solitary and massive grandeur, to be ranked, not only as the first ruin of the kind in Kashmir, but as one of the noblest amongst the architectural relics of antiquity that are to be seen in any country.
Page xxx - Government will gain their proper footing among the nations of Central Asia; that tranquillity will be established upon the most important frontier of India ; and that a lasting barrier will be raised against hostile intrigue and encroachment. His Majesty, Shah Soojah-ool-Moolk will enter Afghanistan, surrounded by his own troops, and will be supported against foreign interference and factious opposition by a British army.
Page 263 - As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light...
Page 87 - I ascend my husband's burning pile. I call on you, ye guardians of the eight regions of the world; Sun and Moon! Air, Fire, ^Ether,* Earth, and Water! My own soul! YAMA! Day, Night, and Twilight! And thou, Conscience, bear witness: I follow my husband's corpse on the funeral pile...
Page 87 - On this month, so named, in such a parcha, on such a lit-hi, I, (naming herself and her family), that I may meet Arundhati, and reside in Swarga ; that the years of my stay may be numerous as the hairs on the human body ; that I may enjoy, with my husband, the felicity of heaven, and sanctify my paternal and maternal progenitors, and the ancestry of my husband's father ; that...
Page 37 - Uxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes, et maxime fratres cum fratribus parentesque cum liberis ; sed, si qui sunt ex his nati, eorum habentur liberi, quo primum virgo quaeque deducta est.
Page 241 - Some of his prisoners were flayed alive under his own eye. The executioner hesitated, and Gulab Singh asked him if he were about to operate upon his father or mother, and rated him for being so chicken-hearted. He then ordered one or two of the skins to be stuffed with straw ; the hands were stiffened, and tied in an attitude of supplication ; the corpse was then placed erect ; and the head, which had been severed from the body, was reversed as it rested on the neck.
Page 394 - The archts are round ; are supported on pillars retaining traces of the Classical proportions; the pilasters, cornices, and entablatures, have a correspondence and similarity with those of Classical architecture ; there is a prevalence of rectangular faces and square-edged projections ; the openings in...
Page xxviii - India and its allies, he will continue to prosecute with vigour the measures which have been announced with a view to the substitution of a friendly for a hostile power in the eastern provinces of Affghanistan, and to the establishment of a permanent barrier against schemes of aggression upon our north-west frontier.