Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India: And of Their Institutions, Religious and CivilLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 - 565 pages |
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admit adoration amongst ancient animals appear army authors Avatara bathing body Brahmans called cast celebrated ceremonies CHAP chief cloth customs death deities devotees district divinities earth European evil expence fables feet festival fire frequently funeral Giant give gods greater number Grihastha ground Gurus Gymnosophists hand head Hindu books Homam honour human husband idolatry idols India inhabitants Jainas King less likewise Lingam live magical magician manner Mantras marriage means Metempsychosis Moksha Mysore Naraka nations nature never observed occasion offered Pariahs particular Parvati penitents perform persons philosophers practice present Princes principal profession punishment purifying Purohita Ravana relations religion respect rice rites rules sacred sacrifice Sannyasi sect shew Siva sometimes sort soul species Sudras superstition Swarga Tamul temple thing tribes Trimurti Vaisya Vanaprastha Vedas virtue Vishnu whole wife wives woman women word worship writing Yajna
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Page 122 - And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? 27 We will go three days...
Page 398 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 402 - 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, with the consent of their husbands, to devote the child then 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. The infamous life to which the daughter...
Page 197 - The feelings of commiseration and pity, as far as respects the sufferings of others, never enter into his heart. He will see an unhappy being perish on the road, or even at his own gate, if belonging to another caste, and will not stir to help him to a drop of water, though it were to save his life.
Page 226 - Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Page viii - We do not, we can not associate with the natives. We cannot see them in their houses, and with their families. We are necessarily very much confined to our houses by the heat ; all our wants and business which would create a greater intercourse with the natives is done for us, and we are in fact strangers in the land.
Page 226 - And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, this is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians, wherefore the name of it was called Abel Mi/raim...
Page 373 - ... household labours. A carpenter does the like homage to his hatchet, his adze, and other tools ; and likewise offers sacrifices to> them. A Brahman does so to the style with which he is going to...
Page 389 - The girls of pleasure, or dancers, who are found at all ceremonies, are not wanting here. They march at the head of a great concourse of people ; now and then making a pause to exhibit their wanton movements and charm the audience with their lascivious songs. The whole terminates with a piece of diversion, which appears to be waggishness rather than any part of the ceremony. The numerous rabble who are present form themselves into a ring, and a live hare is let go in the midst of it. Poor puss, finding...
Page 398 - I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.