 | Jean Antoine Dubois - India - 1817 - 604 pages
...their dance and merry song. As soon as their public business is over, they open their cells of infamy, and frequently convert the temple itself into a stew....in the womb, if it should turn out a girl, to the service of the Pagoda. And, in doing so, they imagine they are performing a meritorious duty. The infamous... | |
 | Jean Antoine Dubois - Hindus - 1817 - 604 pages
...be7r»no f-wirp a-flaV- mnrnincr nrirl pvpnin^^ TV\oir aro also fVhlicrP.dtO assist their cells of infamy, and frequently convert the temple itself into a stew....in the womb, if it should turn out a girl, to the service of the Pagoda. And, in doing so, they imagine they are performing a meritorious duty. The infamous... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...a stew. ' They are bred to this profligate life from their infancy. They are taken from any caste, and are frequently of respectable birth. It is nothing...in the womb, if it should turn out a girl, to the service of the Pagoda ; and, in doing so, they imagine that they are performing a meritorious duty.... | |
 | Charles Coleman - Asia - 1832 - 514 pages
...licentiousness. " They are bred to this profligate We from their infancy. They are taken from any caste, and are frequently of respectable birth. It is nothing...delivery, making a vow, with the consent of their husband, to devote the child then in the womb, if it should turn out a girl, to the service of the... | |
 | Hindus - 1835 - 434 pages
...Anciennes Relations de 1'Inde et de le Chine, &c. p. 109. 50 Asiatic Researches, vol. ip 166, 167. women making a" vow, with the consent of their husbands, to devote the child, if it should turn out a girl, to the service of the pagoda. And in doing so, they imagine they are... | |
 | Geography - 1835 - 430 pages
...Auciennes Relations de 1'Inde et de le Chine, &c. p. 109. 5Q Asiatic Researches, vol. ip 166, 167. women making a vow, with the consent of their husbands, to devote the child, if it should turn out a girl, to the service of the pagoda. And in doing so, they imagine they are... | |
 | Hollis Read - 1836 - 304 pages
...into a stew. "They are bred to this profligate life from their infancy. They are taken from any caste, and are frequently of respectable birth. It is nothing...in the womb, if it should turn out a girl, to the service of the pagoda. And, in doing so, they imagine they are performing a meritorious duty. The infamous... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1871 - 1146 pages
...and are not uu(requeiitly of respectable birth. It is uothiug uncommon to hear of preguaut women, iu the belief that it will tend to their happy delivery, making a vow, with the consent of their husband, to devote the child then iu the womb, if it should turn out a girl, to the DEVADABA, SANS.... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1871 - 1146 pages
...are bred to this life from their infancy. , They are taken from any caste, and are not uufrequently of respectable birth. It is nothing uncommon to hear of pregnant women, iu the belief that it will tend to their happy delivery, making a vow, with the consent of their husband,... | |
 | John Murdoch - India - 1886 - 164 pages
...castes. " They are bred to this profligate life from their infancy. They are taken from any caste, and are frequently of respectable birth. It is nothing...in the womb, if it should turn out a girl, to the service of the Pagoda. And, in doing so, they imagine they are performing a meritorious duty. The infamous... | |
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They are bred to this profligate life from their infancy. They are taken from any caste, and are frequently of respectable birth. It is nothing uncommon to hear of pregnant women, in the belief that it will tend to their happy delivery, making a vow,... 
