A Journey From Bengal To England: Through The Northern Part Of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, And Persia And Into Russia By The Caspian-See. In Two Volumes, Volume 1 |
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Page 49
... priests have so copiously inter- woven them , it would not be presumptuous to suppose , that we would discover they had been , in the more early ages of the world , one of the most enlightened and powerful nations that inhabited the ...
... priests have so copiously inter- woven them , it would not be presumptuous to suppose , that we would discover they had been , in the more early ages of the world , one of the most enlightened and powerful nations that inhabited the ...
Page 51
... priests and plundered the temples , with a keenness and ferocity , in which their first chiefs might have gloried . A people thus crushed , groaning un . der the load of oppreffion , and difmayed at the fight of incessant cruelties , G ...
... priests and plundered the temples , with a keenness and ferocity , in which their first chiefs might have gloried . A people thus crushed , groaning un . der the load of oppreffion , and difmayed at the fight of incessant cruelties , G ...
Page 72
... priests who live in the garden , keep the inside of the maufo- leum decently clean , and the different appurtenances are still in good preservation , particularly the wooden bier in which the body is faid to be depofited . * Obferving a ...
... priests who live in the garden , keep the inside of the maufo- leum decently clean , and the different appurtenances are still in good preservation , particularly the wooden bier in which the body is faid to be depofited . * Obferving a ...
Page 247
... priest had concluded his ritual exclamations . The Hindoos once corn- plained to this chief , that the public wells of the town were defiled by the veffels of the Mahometans , and defired that they might be restricted to the water of ...
... priest had concluded his ritual exclamations . The Hindoos once corn- plained to this chief , that the public wells of the town were defiled by the veffels of the Mahometans , and defired that they might be restricted to the water of ...
Page 257
... priests . This letter , which is faid to have been invented by Nanock , differs from the various characters in ufe among the Hindoos . A village in the Punjab , about forty miles to the eastward of Lahore . VOL . I. Kk Govin- Govindual ...
... priests . This letter , which is faid to have been invented by Nanock , differs from the various characters in ufe among the Hindoos . A village in the Punjab , about forty miles to the eastward of Lahore . VOL . I. Kk Govin- Govindual ...
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affiftance Afghan againſt Ahmed Shah alfo Allahabad alſo amongſt army battle of Buxar Bellafpour Benares Bengal caufe cauſe chief cloſe coffes compofed courſe defire Dehli difpofition diſtricts dominion Engliſh eſtabliſhed extenfive faid fame fect feem feen fervant fervice fide firſt fituation flain fmall foldier fome foon ftate ftrength fubject fuccefs fuch fupplied fupported Ganges Hafiz Rhamut himſelf Hindoftan Hindoos hiſtory horfe horſe houſe India Jumbo Kaſhmire Kaſhmirian lacks of rupees Lahore laſt Lucknow Mahomet Mahometan Mahrattas meaſure moſt mountains muſt myſelf Nadir Shah Najeb Najeb-ud-Dowlah Nanock obferved occafion officer Oude Patan Patna perfon pleaſure poffeffed poffeffion prefent prince profeffion province Punjab purpoſe raiſed refidence river Rohilcund Rohilla rupees Saadut Khan ſeem ſeen ſhould Shujah-ud-Dowlah Sicques Sirhend ſmall ſome ſpace ſpirit ſtate ſtation ſtrong Sufdar Jung Sultan Shujah ſuppoſed territory theſe thoſe tion town troops uſe village Vizier whofe whoſe worſhip