 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...the Huli, when mirth and festivity reign among the Hindoos of every class, one subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that...raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. The Huli is always in March, and the last day is the general holiday. I have never yet heard any account... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 pages
...festivity reign amongst Hindoos of every class, and people are sent upon errands and expeditions which end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. In France this person is called a 'poiison cfAvril,' that is, a mackarel, or silly fish. In Scotland... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...the Huli, when mirth and festivity reign among the Hindoos of every class, one subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that...raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. The Huli is always in March, and the last day is the general holiday. I have never yet heard any account... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...also at their Huli festival keep a general holiday on the 31st of March, and one subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that...disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the persons sent. Colonel Pearce says, that " high and low join in it ; and," he adds, "the late Suraja... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 520 pages
...festivity reign among the Hindoos of every class, and people are sent upon errands and expeditions which end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person Bent. (' Asiat. Res.' vol. ii. p. 331.) In Europe the practice is similar : the fun consists in deceiving... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 532 pages
...festivity reign among the Hindoos of every class, and people are sent upon errands and expeditions which end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the pcjrson sent. (' Asiat. Res." vol. ii. p. 334.) In Europe the practice is similar : the fun consists... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 160 pages
...every class, one topic of diversion is to send people on errands ami expeditious that are designed to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the people sent. But though the practice is so universal, and of so venerable an antiquity, it is impossible... | |
 | John Garrett (director of public instruction in Mysore.) - 1873 - 174 pages
...mock comfits, and in some places sprinkling with water or throwing powder over each other, ohvious analogies exist. There is another practice which presents...and during the Holi festival in India, have their origin in the ancient practice of celebrating, with festival rites, the period of the vernal equinox,... | |
 | John Garrett - Hinduism - 1873 - 174 pages
...and extinction of the bonfire, and scattering of the ashes. There is another of the usages of the H6H which finds a parallel in modern times, although at...and during the Holi festival in India, have their origin in the ancient practice of celebrating, with festival rites, the period of the vernal equinox,... | |
 | 1875 - 660 pages
...called the ' Hull Festival,' which takes place much about this time, where 'a subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that...disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the people sent.'* In France the custom is called Poisson de Averil, and ' Donner du poisson d'dveril'... | |
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Hindoos of every class, one subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. 
