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 amongst animal Anjar appearance Asiatic barbarous bards beautiful become believe Bhats Bhooj Bombay Brahmins bright British called camel caste character Charons chiefs civilization Cobra coloured common coories couplets curious D'waka daughter decorated Denodur desert Dhurrumnath display dress earthquake effect eyes favourite feodal ghazel graceful grain Gulf of Cutch Hafiz head Highness hill Hindu Hinduism holy hookah India Indra interest Jharrejahs Jogie Kanphuttees Kaprias king legend Mahomedan Mandavie matchlock means Mendee native nature Oojein origin ornaments palace Parvati peculiar peculiarly Persian possess present prince province of Cutch Punoon Rajah Rajpoot Ranees Rao Daisuljee Rao of Cutch Rao's Rawg religious remarkable rendered rich richly Rookhees Runn sacred sacrifice Sampuri Sindh snake Soodah Soosie stone SUTTEE temple thou tion tomb town Traga tree trial by ordeal tribe turban usually venomous snakes Vichram Vicramaditya village whilst wild women worship
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Page 3 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Page 97 - 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 66 - 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 154 - Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan, — A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the...
Page 283 - CONSIDER a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the...
Page 63 - Indras reign. If her husband had killed a Brahmana, broken the ties of gratitude, or murdered his friend, she expiates the crime.
Page 273 - ... 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 217 - Now it so wonderfully happened that a fox, who had been standing by, had heard all the argument, and now came forward. The snake on seeing it exclaimed, "Behold this fox, let us ask it." But before the man could speak the fox cried out, "Dost thou not know that the recompense for good is always evil? But what good hast thou done in behalf of this snake, to render thee worthy of punishment?
Page 215 - 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 124 - 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...