A Guide for Indian Females from Infancy to Old Age, Comprising Manners, Customs Rules, & C |
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A Guide for Indian Females from Infancy to Old Age, Comprising Manners ... Nand Lal Ghose No preview available - 2013 |
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amongst auspicious Bengal birth Brahmins bride bride's father bridegroom called caste ceremony Chief Court child clothes commencement cooking course courtyard cowrie custom daugh daughter daughter-in-law Dhatri dhoti domestic dress duties educated Hindus eyes feast feel flowers friends give goddess gotra guests Guru hand happy head Hindu girl Hindu law Hindu women honour hookah household husband India infant marriage Jamai Babu Kayastha kulin ladies Lahore living look Mahabharata male mantra Manu married married couple materfamilias means mind modesty moral mother mother-in-law neighbours never night parents parties performed piece present priest propitiated puberty Punjab Puranas Purohit receive religion religious rice Rig Veda rites round rupees sacrament sari Sasti sister social son-in-law Sutra sweetmeat thing tion turmeric Vedas Vedic Vishnu Vrata wedding wife wives woman worship young youth zenana
Popular passages
Page 83 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 69 - BY a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing must be done, even in her own dwelling place, according to her mere pleasure : 148.
Page 38 - Blest was that hour, and all the world was gay, When MENA'S daughter saw the light of day. A rosy glow suffused the brightening sky ; An odorous breeze came sweeping softly by. Breathed round the hill a sweet unearthly strain, And the glad heavens poured down their flowery rain.
Page 115 - a daughter, whom her father has decked in gay attire, ' when the sacrifice is already begun, to the officiating ' priest, who performs that act of religion.
Page 70 - ... dependent on her father; in youth, on her husband; her lord being dead, on her sons; if she have no sons, on the near kinsmen of her husband; if he left no kinsmen, on those of her father; if she have no paternal kinsmen, on the sovereign; a woman must never seek independence. 149. "Never let her wish to separate herself from her father, her husband, or her sons; for, by a separation from them, she exposes both families to contempt.
Page 91 - To an excellent and handsome youth of the same class let every man give his daughter in marriage, according to law, even though she have not attained her age of eight years.
Page 179 - be cheerfulness here." 2. " May thine own [kindred] be " kind here." 3. " May there be pleasure here." 4. " Sport " thou here." 5. " May there be kindness here with me." 6. " May thine own [kindred] be here, benevolent towards " me." 7. " May there be here delight towards me.
Page 137 - Five steps for the sake of cattle." 6. "Six steps for the sake of increase of wealth. " 7. "Seven steps for the sake of obtaining priests to perform sacrifices."* The bridegroom then addresses the bride, "Having completed seven steps, be my companion. May I become thy associate. May none interrupt thy association with me.