Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, المجلد 9Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1848 Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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الصفحة 64 - Omnia tune florent, tune est nova temporis aetas, Et nova de gravido palmite gemma tumet, Et modo formatis operitur frondibus arbos, Prodit et in summum seminis herba solum, Et tepidum volucres concentibus aëra mulcent, 155 Ludit et in pratis luxuriatque pecus...
الصفحة v - Researches into the Causes, Nature, and Treatment of the more prevalent Diseases of India, and of Warm Climates generally ; illustrated with Cases, Post-mortem Examinations, and numerous coloured Engravings of Morbid Structures.
الصفحة 108 - During 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 are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent.
الصفحة 21 - His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King of Spain ; The President of the...
الصفحة v - Sketches of the most prevalent Diseases of India ; comprising a Treatise on the Epidemic Cholera of the East; Statistical and Topographical Reports of the Diseases in the different Divisions of the Army, under the Madras Presidency : embracing also the annual Rate of Mortality, &c.
الصفحة 79 - February, the whole of the pens and inkstands, and the books, if not too numerous and bulky, are collected, the pens or reeds cleaned, the inkstands scoured, and the books wrapped up in new cloth, are arranged upon a platform, or a sheet, and strewn over with flowers and blades of young barley, and that no flowers except white are to be offered. After performing the necessary rites, all the members of the family assemble and make their prostrations; the books, the pens, and ink...
الصفحة 101 - They are painted in various ways, like harlequin's sword, and meant as a burlesque, in unison with the character of the day, when war is banished, and the multiplication, not the destruction of man is the behest of the goddess who rules the spring.
الصفحة 108 - that the boundless hilarity and jocund sports, prevalent on the 1st day of April in England, 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, when the new year of Persia anciently began.
الصفحة 67 - Sankranti, agreeably to the limitations above assigned to it ; that is, its identification with the 1st of Magha or the 12th of January. Wherever such assemblages take place, objects of a secular nature are now, as they have ever been, blended with those of devotion ; and the Mela, which originates in purposes of pilgrimage, becomes equally or in a still greater degree a meeting of itinerant merchants, or a fair.* The number of persons who assemble at Ganga Sagar is variously estimated.
الصفحة 65 - The good things prepared on this occasion are not intended exclusively for those imaginary beings who are unable to eat them. They are presented merely for the purpose of consecration, and that they may be eaten with greater zest by the householder and his family; nor is that all, for a portion of them is sent to friends and relations, as memorials of regard, inclosed in fine linen, silk, or velvet,