Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 7J.W. Parker, 1843 Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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Amír ancient appear Arabic ashes Atesh Kedah Bart Bokhara Brahmans Buddhist called Captain Ceded Districts Chinese Colonel colour contains copper corundum deity Dhoon diamond district Ditto Diwan earth East India Egypt excavations extracts feet fragments gneiss gold granite hills Hindu hornblende horses Hyder inches India Indus inhabitants iron Isfahan James John Kashghar Kashmir Kedah Khan Khonds king Kirghizes Kokan labours language latter Lieut Lord Madras magnesite Major-General memoirs miles mineral mines Mirza Mohammedan mounds mountain Muhammad native Nile Oriental Pennu Persian poetical poets portion present President priest princes Professor quartz Raja Right Honourable river road rock Royal Asiatic Society rupees sacrifice Samarkand sand sandstone Sanskrit schist Shah Sindh soil specimens station Staunton stone Sultan Thomas Tibet tion Translation tribe valley veins village west by north William worship Yarkand
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Page 182 - Upon the second morning the victim, who has fasted from the preceding evening, is carefully washed, dressed in a new garment, and led forth from the village in solemn procession, with music and dancing The Meria grove, a clump of deep and shadowy forest trees, — " Sylva alta Jovis lucusque Disuse...
Page 226 - Near the base of the hills the cotton. soil is covered with red gritty earth, arising from the disintegration of the sandstone rock. The process of mining consists merely in digging out the rolled pebbles and gravel, and carrying them to small square reservoirs raised on mounds, having their bottom paved with stones, and washing them carefully. At the foot of the mound is a clear space surrounded by heaps of refuse, where the washed gravel is again carefully spread out and examined in presence of...
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Page 181 - The ineria is brought blindfolded to the village by the procurer, and is lodged in the house of the abbaya ; in fetters if grown up, at perfect liberty if a child. He is regarded during life as a consecrated being, and if at large is eagerly welcomed at every threshold...
Page 125 - ... the chest is between sixty-two and sixty-three feet. Monolith Temple of Granite. In alluding to the monolith temples of the Hindus, I shall not mention those of Ellora, Elephanta, or Carli, being excavated from rocks generally much softer than granite, — viz. an amygdaloidal trap and wacke, — but proceed at once to give an idea of the magnitude and extent of the singular monoliths at Mahabalipur, on the Coromandel coast. As it is not the object of this paper to enter into any relative comparison...
Page 182 - And there is now infinite contention to obtain the slightest relic of his person ; a particle of the turmeric paste with which he is smeared, or a drop of his spittle, being esteemed, (especially by the women,) of supreme virtue.
Page 171 - ... pupil, Dr. Hibbert: in, Norway to Essmark. From both countries it is exported ; from Norway, until 1831, in the rough state to England, Holland, Russia, and Germany: but a company has been established at Drontheim for the purpose of supplying the cotton printers and porcelain manufacturers of .these countries with prepared chrome, a more lucrative branch of trade than the export of the crude ore. It remains yet to be seen whether British India, whose neglected mineral resources are gradually...
Page 179 - It is thought necessary that every farm should share the blood of a human victim at the time when each of its principal crops is laid down, and particular anxiety is felt for the fulfilment of the rite in the case of the more valuable products, rice, turmeric, and mustard. A harvest oblation is in some districts of Boad deemed scarcely less necessary than the spring...
Page 20 - No Waralis can either read or write. Do you give them any instructions about God ? Why should we speak about God to them ' What God do you worship ? We worship Waghia (the lord of tigers). Has he any form ? He is a shapeless stone, smeared with red lead and ghi (clarified butter). How do you worship him ? We give him chickens and goats, break cocoa-nuts on his head, and pour oil on him.
Page 226 - The pebbles most commonly met with are ferruginous, gritty, and schistose sandstones, sandstone conglomerates, embedding rolled pebbles of quartz, chert and jasper ; claystone porphyry, with crystals of felspar ; blue jasper, veined with oxide of iron ; coarse, red jasper, and quartz crystals. Some of these pebbles have evidently been transported from the adjacent hills, but the porphyritic and felspathic pebbles must have travelled a much greater distance. Near the base of the hills the cotton soil...