Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, Or, The Central and Western Rajpoot States of India, Part 36, Volume 1Higginbotham and Company, 1873 |
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abode Ajmér Akber Ambér amongst ancestors ancient annals Aravulli arms Bappa bard battle Bheem blood Boodha Brahmins brother called capital celebrated century character Cheetore chief chieftain Chohan Chonda Chondawuts Chund clan commanded court Crishna crown daughter death Dehli Deogurh descendants desert dynasty emperor estates faith father Ferishta festival feudal fief Gete Godwar head Hindu honour horse hundred India Indus inscription Jain Jaxartes Jeipoor Jessulmér Jey Sing Kaniya Khan king Komulmér Kotah land lord Mahoba Mahratta Malwa Marwar Méwar minister Mogul mountains Mundore nobles numerous obtained Oodipoor origin palace Pandu period Pertáp Pirthi Raj Pooráns possession Pramara prince race Rahtore Raja Maun Rajasthan Rajpoot Rama Rana Rana's reign royal Royal Asiatic Society rupees sacred Saloombra Sanga Sanscrit Saurashtra Scythic Seesodia Sesodia shew slain sons sovereign Suktawuts sword Takshac Tatar temple thousand throne tion town tribes Umra vassals worship Yadu
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Page 458 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 462 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred Hill — Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets and of fixed in all her wheels Resembles nearest; mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Page 546 - When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive...
Page 494 - Causes import your need of this fair fruit, Goddess humane: reach then, and freely taste." He ended ; and his words, replete with guile, Into her heart too easy entrance won...
Page 619 - Of those who reared them; by his sleeping side Stood camels grazing, and some goodly steeds Were fastened near a fountain; and a man Clad in a flowing garb did watch the while, While many of his tribe slumbered around...
Page 319 - Akber, whose throne is now in heaven, conducted the affairs of this empire in equity and firm security for the space of fifty-two years, preserving every tribe of men in ease and happiness...
Page 665 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying Wind, Or holding dark communion with the Cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud ; Banners on high, and battles passed below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Page 215 - Rajasthan exhibits the sole example in the history of mankind, of a people withstanding every outrage barbarity can inflict, or human nature sustain, from a foe whose religion commands annihilation, and bent to the earth, yet rising buoyant from the pressure, and making calamity a whetstone to courage.
Page 21 - The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 319 - Mussul'' man are equally in his presence. Distinctions of colour are of his ordination. '' It is he who gives existence. In your temples, to his name the voice is raised '' in prayer; in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still he is the