The Hindoos as They are: A Description of the Manners, Customs, and Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal |
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... says , " it is better to be dependent on another for food than to live in his house . " This saying is to be supplemented by another which runs thus : " Luckhee , the goddess of prosperity , always commands a numerous train . " The ...
... says , " it is better to be dependent on another for food than to live in his house . " This saying is to be supplemented by another which runs thus : " Luckhee , the goddess of prosperity , always commands a numerous train . " The ...
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... say cleanliness is religion . Clean- liness certainly promotes health of body and delicacy of mind . When that excellent prelate , Heber , travelled in a boat on the sacred stream of the Ganges , seeing large crowds of Hindoo females ...
... say cleanliness is religion . Clean- liness certainly promotes health of body and delicacy of mind . When that excellent prelate , Heber , travelled in a boat on the sacred stream of the Ganges , seeing large crowds of Hindoo females ...
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... says her prayers three times in connection with Doorga's various names , which I need not recapitulate here . Offerings of flowers and bale leaves are then presented to the goddess with an incantation . Being pleased , Mahadev ( Shiva ) ...
... says her prayers three times in connection with Doorga's various names , which I need not recapitulate here . Offerings of flowers and bale leaves are then presented to the goddess with an incantation . Being pleased , Mahadev ( Shiva ) ...
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... say . From the day a matrimonial alliance is proposed , the parents on both sides begin to make all sorts of preliminary enquiries as to the unblemished nature of the caste , respectability and position in society of the parties ...
... say . From the day a matrimonial alliance is proposed , the parents on both sides begin to make all sorts of preliminary enquiries as to the unblemished nature of the caste , respectability and position in society of the parties ...
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... says , " we want twine for thatching and money for wedding . " A respectable Hindoo gentleman who has four or five daughters to give in marriage and whose income is not large , is often reduced to the greatest difficulty and ...
... says , " we want twine for thatching and money for wedding . " A respectable Hindoo gentleman who has four or five daughters to give in marriage and whose income is not large , is often reduced to the greatest difficulty and ...
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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.