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Page 42
... flowers and sundry other articles on a pretty grand scale from the bride to the bridegroom , which will be described more in detail afterwards , Ghatucks is nearly gone , except in rare cases where 42 MARRIAGE CEREMONIES .
... flowers and sundry other articles on a pretty grand scale from the bride to the bridegroom , which will be described more in detail afterwards , Ghatucks is nearly gone , except in rare cases where 42 MARRIAGE CEREMONIES .
Page 46
... bridegroom , therefore , come for the purpose , they sit down in the outer apartment of the house , whilst the bride is engaged in her toilet duty . After fifteen or twenty minutes , she , glittering in jewels and accompanied by a maid ...
... bridegroom , therefore , come for the purpose , they sit down in the outer apartment of the house , whilst the bride is engaged in her toilet duty . After fifteen or twenty minutes , she , glittering in jewels and accompanied by a maid ...
Page 49
... bridegroom and another for the bride - are sound- ed by the females , announcing the happy conclusion of this important preliminary , at which all hearts are ex- * A thin stuff like paper with which Hindoo females redden their feet . A ...
... bridegroom and another for the bride - are sound- ed by the females , announcing the happy conclusion of this important preliminary , at which all hearts are ex- * A thin stuff like paper with which Hindoo females redden their feet . A ...
Page 50
... bridegroom , after bath- ing and putting on a red bordered cloth , * is made to stand on * In Hindoo marriages and other ceremonies of a similar nature red color is indispensably necessary for all kinds of wearing apparel , even the ...
... bridegroom , after bath- ing and putting on a red bordered cloth , * is made to stand on * In Hindoo marriages and other ceremonies of a similar nature red color is indispensably necessary for all kinds of wearing apparel , even the ...
Page 51
... bridegroom was anointed is sent by the family barber to the bride in a silver cup , her body is also anointed with it . A number of other gifts follow , namely , a large brass vessel of oil , various kinds of perfumery , three pieces of ...
... bridegroom was anointed is sent by the family barber to the bride in a silver cup , her body is also anointed with it . A number of other gifts follow , namely , a large brass vessel of oil , various kinds of perfumery , three pieces of ...
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Baboo Bahadoor bangle Benares Bengal Bengalee Baboo betel blessings body Brahmins brass Brata bride bridegroom Calcutta called caste ceremony character child Chunder clothes cook daughter deity devotion domestic Doorga Poojah dress English entertainment European father feelings festival friends fruits ghee girl give goddess gold guests hand happiness head heart Hindoo females Hindoo society holy honor human husband idolatry India influence Kali Koolin Krishna ladies late Baboo living male marriage ment milk mind moon moral mother mother-in-law native nature night observed occasion offerings officiating priest ornaments otto of rose Palkee Peeralee performed plantain poita present Pundits Rajah religion religious respectable Hindoo return home rice rite rules Rupees Sabitri sacred says Shastra Shiva silver Sir William Jones social spirit Suttee sweetmeats Tagore Tagore family taste thousand Rupees tion widow wife wives woman women worship Yama zenana
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Page 89 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Page 251 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 166 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 304 - Was not this a violation even of neutrality, and an offence, not only against the gospel, but against theism itself? I know what may be said about personification, license of poetry, and so on, but should not a worshipper of God hold himself under a solemn obligation to abjure all tolerance of even poetical figures that can seriously seem, in any way whatever, to recognise the pagan divinities or abominations, as the prophets of Jehovah would have called them ? What would Elijah have said to such...
Page 239 - ... and, like those abstemious men, a virtuous wife ascends to heaven, though she have no child, if, after the decease of her lord, she devote herself to pious austerity...
Page 228 - Through their passion for men, their mutable temper, their want of settled affection, and their perverse nature, (let them be guarded in this world ever so well) they soon become alienated from their husbands.
Page 185 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Page 96 - And that a wife her husband's portion shares ? Therefore with thee this forest lot I claim. A woman's bliss is found, not in the smile Of father, mother, friend, nor in herself: Her husband is her only portion here, Her heaven hereafter.
Page 228 - Women have no business with the texts of the Veda; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no knowledge of expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself ; and this is a fixed rule.