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 authors Avatara bathing betel body Brahmans called cast celebrated ceremonies CHAP cloth conduct considered customs death deities devotees district divinities earth European evil expence fables father festival fire follow frequently funeral Giant give gods greater number Grihastha Gurus hand head Hindu books holy Homam honour husband idolatry idols India inhabitants Jainas King less likewise Lingam live manner Mantras marriage married means Metempsychosis Moksha Mysore Naraka nations nature never object observed occasion offer Pariahs particular Parvati penitents persons philosophers practice present Princes principal profession provinces punishment Puranas Purohita Ravana relations religion religious respect rice rites rules sacred sacrifice salutation Sannyasi sect shew Siva sometimes sort soul species Sudras superstition Swarga temple thing tribes Trimurti Vaisya Vanaprastha Vedas village virtue Vishnu whole wife wives woman women word worship 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 469 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 68 - And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 426 - To say that' religion is not a restraining motive, because it does not always restrain, is equally absurd as to say that the civil laws are not a restraining motive. It is a false way of reasoning against religion to collect, in a large work, a long detail of the evils it has produced, if we do not give at the same time an enumeration of the advantages which have flowed from it. Were I to...
Page 336 - And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Page 200 - The skin presents an eruption of spots, which are usually somewhat coppery, but sometimes of a rose-red tint ; while on the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands...
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 cast, 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 they are performing a meritorious duty. The infamous life to which the daughter is destined...
Page 197 - ... conducts himself in every circumstance of his life with the most absolute selfishness. 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 68 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.