A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon: Including the Provinces of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras, the Punjab, North-West Provinces, Rajputana, Central Provinces, Mysore, Etc., the Native States Assam and CashmereJ. Murray, 1898 - 484 pages |
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Agra Akbar ancient arches ascend Bagh bank beautiful Benares Bengal Bijapur Bombay Brahmans bridge British Buddha Buddhist building built Burma Calcutta called canal cantonment capital carved caves Cawnpore centre chief Church court Delhi district dome elephants enclosure English entrance erected European Fergusson figures front garden garrison Gate gateway Ghat gopura Government guns Gwalior hall handsome height hill Hindu Hiouen Thsang India inscription Jain Jehan junc Khan King lake Lucknow Madras Marathas ment Mogul Mohammedan mosque Muhammad Musjid Mutiny native Nawab officers ornamented pagoda palace Parsis pass pavilion Peshwa picturesque pillars plain railway Raja residence river road rock roof round ruins Sepoys Shah Shah Jehan Shiva shrine side Sikhs square stands station steamers stone surrounded tank temple tion Tipu tomb tower town traveller trees troops village Vishnu wall white marble
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Page 367 - The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
Page 168 - The light to the central apartment is admitted only through double screens of white marble trellis-work of the most exquisite design, one on the outer, and one on the inner face of the walls. In our climate this would produce nearly complete darkness; but in India, and in a building wholly composed of white marble, this was required to temper the glare that otherwise would have been intolerable.
Page lxiv - AD 400 as a mean date — and it certainly is not far from the truth — it opens our eyes to an unsuspected state of affairs to find the Hindus at that age capable of forging a bar of iron larger than any that have been forged even in Europe up to a very late date, and not frequently even now.
Page 442 - It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.
Page 355 - Brahma occurs three or four times, and every great god of the Hindu Pantheon finds his place. Some of these are carved with a minute elaboration of detail which can only be reproduced by photography, and may probably be considered as one of the most marvellous exhibitions of human labour to be found even in the patient East.
Page 168 - ... domes. On the entablature over the front row of supporting pillars — ie, on the E. face — there is an inscription running the whole length, the letters being of black marble inlaid into the white. The inscription says that the mosque may be likened to a precious pearl, for no other mosque is lined throughout with marble like this.
Page 77 - She heard every complaint in person, and although she continually referred causes to courts of equity and arbitration, and to her ministers, for settlement, she was always accessible...
Page 336 - And Marinus the pope then sent 'lignum Domini' (of Christ's cross) to king Alfred. And in the same year Sighelm and ^Ethelstin conveyed to Rome the alms which the king had vowed (to send) thither, and also to India to St Thomas, and to St Bartholomew...
Page 135 - from its having the figures of two peacocks standing behind it, their tails expanded, and the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colors, as to represent life. The throne itself was six feet long by four feet broad.
Page 304 - At a height of 57 ft. from the floor line the hall begins to contract, by a series of pendentives as ingenious as they are beautiful, to a circular opening 97 ft. in diameter. On the platform of these pendentives at a height of 109 ft.