Asiatic Researches, Volume 6John Murray, 1801 - Asia Vol. 2-3, 5-12 have lists of the members of the society. |
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Page 293 - The two boards are by a knot or jewel secured at a little distance from the boards, so as to prevent the book from falling to pieces, but sufficiently distant to admit of the upper leaves being turned back, while the lower ones are read. The more elegant books are in general wrapped up in silk cloth, and bound round by a garter, in which the natives ingeniously contrive to weave the title of the book.
Page 92 - These teeth are covered with a membranous sheath, and are crooked, moveable, and hollow, to give passage to the venom, which they receive from a small reservoir that runs along the palate of the mouth, and passes through the body of each fang. This reservoir contains...
Page 372 - Whether,' says Sir Charles Malet, ' we consider the design, or contemplate the execution of these extraordinary works, we are lost in wonder at the idea of forming a vast mountain into almost eternal mansions.
Page 299 - From some of these very distant countries whole families, men, women, and children, undertake the journey ; some travelling on foot, some on horseback, and many, particularly women and children, in long heavy carts, railed, and covered with sloping matted roofs, to defend them against the sun and wet weather ; and during the continuance of the fair, these serve also as habitations.
Page 298 - The period of ablution is that of the Sun's entering Aries; which, according to the Hindu computation, being reckoned from a fixed point, now happens about twenty days later than the vernal equinox. It accordingly fell on the evening of the 8th of April. But every twelfth year, when Jupiter is in Aquarius, at the time of the Sun's entering Aries, the concourse ' of people is greatly augmented.
Page 298 - Hindu computation, being reckoned from a fixed point, now happens about twenty days later than the vernal equinox. It accordingly fell on the evening of the 8th of April. But every twelfth year, when Jupiter is in Aquarius, at the time of the Sun's entering Aries, the concourse ' of people is greatly augmented. The...
Page 118 - ... ones and immediately carried down to the river either by coolies or on hackeries. " When a well grows dry they deepen it. They say none are abandoned for barrenness.
Page 118 - Rationed at the brink of the well, who empties the bucket into a channel made on the furface of the earth leading to a...
Page 328 - Garhwal) an account of the revenues of his raj and a chart of his country. The Raja being then at court, repaired to the presence the following day and in obedience to the commands of the king presented a true statement of his finances and a chart of his country by introducing a lean camel and saying: "This is a faithful picture of the territory I possess — up and down and very poor.