Cutch: Or, Random Sketches, Taken During a Residence in One of the Northern Provinces of Western IndiaA description of part of Gujarat in the early 19th century. |
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Cutch: Or, Random Sketches, Taken During a Residence in One of the Northern ... Marianne Young No preview available - 2018 |
Cutch: Or, Random Sketches, Taken During a Residence in One of the Northern ... Marianne Young No preview available - 2018 |
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afford Aguah Beytal amongst animals Anjar appearance Banyans beauty become Bhats Bhooj boats Bombay Brahmins bright called caste ceremony CHAPTER chief civilization coins coloured Coorie crew curious daughter decorated desert display dress Durbar earthquake effect English Fakirs Fatal Ring favourite feodal gems graceful grain Gulf of Cutch Gundhurvu Gundhurvu-Senu harem head Highness hill Hindu Hinduism hookah horse India Indra Indus Jains Jharrejahs Kaira Kanphuttee King Dharru king of Oojein land LEGEND lovely Mahomedan Mandavie matchlock mount Etna native origin ornaments palace Parvati peculiar peculiarly Persian picturesque poor population possessed potter present prince province of Cutch quently Racus Raipoor Rajah Rajpoot Ranees Rao Daisuljee Rao of Cutch Rao's religious remarkable Residency rich richly round ruins Runn sacred sacrifice Sampuri scene Sindh Sirdaee snake Soodah Women SUTTEE temple tion tomb town tribe turban usual VERE AND VICRAMADITYA Vichram voyager Wargu whilst wild woman worship
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Page 73 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 47 - Government, would guarantee the protection of her life and property. Her answer was calm, heroic, and constant to her purpose : ' I die of my own free will ; give me back my husband, and I will consent to live ; if I die not with him, the souls of seven husbands will condemn me !' " Ere the renewal of the horrid ceremonies of death VOL ii.
Page 47 - No other effectual duty is known for virtuous women, at any time after the death of their lords, except casting themselves into the same fire. As long as a woman (in her successive transmigrations) shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she be not exempted from springing again to life in the body of some female animal.
Page 213 - ... continue through life to do. To this may be ascribed that high degree of perfection conspicuous in many of the Indian manufactures; and though veneration for the practices of their ancestors may check the spirit of invention, 202 APPENDIX.
Page 161 - Such is the practice amongst men. I act according to thy own decree ; the same commodity of retribution I have purchased from thee I also sell. Buy for one moment that which thou sell'st for years.
Page 92 - Runn, near Mandavie. He was accompanied by his adopted son, Ghurreeb Nath. From this spot Dhurrumnath despatched his son to seek for charitable contributions from the inhabitants of the town. To this end Ghurreeb Nath made several visits; but being unsuccessful, and at the same time unwilling that his father should know of the want of liberality in the city, he at each visit purchased food out of some limited funds of his own. At length, his little hoard failing, on the sixth day he was obliged to...
Page 42 - With gay religions, full of pomp and gold, And devils to adore for deities : Then were they known to men by various names And various idols through the heathen world.
Page 47 - Helping her down in her distress — to die. " No blood was spilt ; no instrument of death Lurked — or stood forth, declaring its bad purpose ; Nor was a hair of her unblemished head Hurt in that hour. Fresh as a flower just blown, And warm with life, her youthful pulses playing...
Page 149 - ... his surprise to behold the golden figure of a man lying amongst the embers. He immediately chopped off one of the limbs and hid it. The next day he returned to take another, when his astonishment was yet greater to see that a fresh limb had replaced the one already taken. In short, the shepherd soon became wealthy, and revealed the secret of his riches to the king, Lakeh, who, by the same means, accumulated so much gold that every day he was in the habit of giving one lac and twenty-five thousand...
Page 89 - BRITAIN, thy voice can bid the dawn ascend, On thee alone the eyes of ASIA. bend. High Arbitress ! to thee her hopes are given, Sole pledge of bliss, and delegate of Heaven ; In thy dread mantle all her fates repose, Or bright with blessings, or o'ercast with woes , And future ages shall thy mandate keep, Smile at thy touch, or at thy bidding weep. Oh ! to thy godlike destiny arise ! Awake and meet the purpose of the skies ! Wide as thy sceptre waves, let India learn What virtues round the shrine...