History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Year 1815: With Characteristic Details of the Religion, Laws, and Manners of the People, and a Collection of Their Moral Maxims, and Ancient ProverbsAsian Educational Services, 2003 - 341 pages The Principal Object Of The Book Was To Acquant The Reader With The Civil And Military Transaction, The Religion And Manners Of The People. Also Gives A Brief Sketch Of The Natural History Of The Country. |
Table des matières
EARLY notices of Ceylon in classical WritersArrian Dionysius the geographer Ovid Pto | 1 |
CHAP II | 12 |
CHAP III | 31 |
Of the kings tyrannical reign 84 | 42 |
Of his revenues and treasure 92 | 50 |
CHAP VI | 69 |
CHAP VII | 75 |
A return to the rest of the English with some further accounts of them and some further dis | 89 |
CHAP XXI | 161 |
Concerning their religious doctrines opinions and practices | 166 |
Concerning their houses diet housewifery salutation apparel | 173 |
CHAP XXV | 178 |
Of their lodging bedding whoredom marriages and children | 183 |
CHAP XXVII | 187 |
CHAP XXX | 193 |
CHAP XXXI | 199 |
How the author had like to have been received into the kings service and what means he used | 96 |
CHAP X | 103 |
CHAP XI | 109 |
Being in the Malabar territories how they encountered two men and what passed between | 112 |
CHAP XIII | 115 |
CHAP XIV | 118 |
Concerning the inhabitants of this island | 121 |
CHAP XV | 122 |
CHAP XVI | 131 |
CHAP XVIII | 141 |
Of their religion gods temples priests | 143 |
Concerning their worship and festivals | 152 |
CHAP XX | 154 |
CHAP XXXIV | 217 |
CHAP XXXV | 224 |
CHAP XLII | 256 |
CHAP XLIV | 263 |
CHAP XLVIII | 280 |
CHAP L | 288 |
CHAP LII | 298 |
Some Singalese proverbs which are contained in the book Wessakare Satake or the sayings of | 308 |
Short lessons and moral maxims of the Singalese and Malabars taken from the Malabar book | 319 |
The authors progress in his flight from Anarodgburro into the woods until their arrival in | 327 |
CHAP LVII | 338 |
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| Titre | History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Year 1815: With Characteristic Details of the Religion, Laws, and Manners of the People, and a Collection of Their Moral Maxims, and Ancient Proverbs |
| Auteur | Philalethes |
| Édition | réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Asian Educational Services, 2003 |
| ISBN | 8120617886, 9788120617889 |
| Longueur | 341 pages |
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