Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume 18, Part 1Government Central Press, 1885 |
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asked bamboo bangles bathed Bene-Israels betel betelnut betelnut and leaves boy and girl boy's father boy's house boys to school Bráhmans bride bridegroom brow burning ground butter cakes called caste ceremony Chapter chief mourner child clothes cocoanut cooked cowdung darbha grass Dasara dead Deccan Deshasth devak Dhangars DISTRICTS dress earthen feast feet five flowers frankincense friends front girl's father girl's house goat goddess goes grains of rice guests hair hands head Hindu intermarry Jejuri Junnar Khandoba Khed Konkan Kunbis laid lighted lamp Lingayats liquor low wooden stool Marátha marriage marriage hall married milk millet month mother Musalmáns ornaments Pandharpur plate polyandry Poona Population powder PRABHUS pulse Purandhar redpowder returned as numbering robe and bodice round rubbed Sahyadris Satvái seated send their boys sesamum shave shouldercloth silver snake sprinkles sugar surnames takes throws turban turmeric village waistcloth water-pot wear wheat woman women worship
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Page 533 - ... in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts : for the Lord is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord.
Page 14 - ... a rule not till towards the close of the month, after three or four oppressive days, in the afternoon clouds gather in the east in great masses, and with a strong blast from the northeast drive west "with thunder and heavy rain. Over the whole district the chief supply of rain is from the southwest monsoon which begins about the middle of June and lasts till the end of September. The returns show such marked variations from year to year at the different rain stations and such great differences...
Page 533 - Blessed art thou, O Lord, our God, king of the universe, who...
Page 533 - Soon may there be heard in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the jubilant voice of bridegrooms from their canopies, and of youths from their feasts of song. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who makest the bridegroom to rejoice with the bride.
Page 161 - On the first day the dead is supposed to get his head; on the second day his ears, eyes, and nose; on the third, his hands, breast, and neck; on the fourth, his middle parts; on the fifth, his legs and feet; on the sixth, his vitals; on the seventh, his bones, marrow, veins and arteries; on the eighth, his nails, hair, and teeth; on the ninth, all the remaining limbs, organs, and manly strength; and, on the tenth, hunger and thirst for the renewed body.
Page 528 - BEHOLD, THOU ART CONSECRATED UNTO ME BY THIS RING. ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MoSES AND OF ISRAEL.
Page 390 - Pandharpur, and Tuljapur. They believe in sorcery, witchcraft, soothsaying, omens and lucky and unlucky days, and consult oracles. They are bound together by a strong caste feeling, and settle social disputes at meetings of...
Page 13 - Koorul and Boleshwur, with their innumerable alto-relievo figures and laboured ornaments, are built of this variety of trap, which is, in fact, a greenstone, although less crystalline than the European rock. There is a variety selected carelessly, also used in building, which has the structure and nearly the external characters of the last, but which, in weathering, exfoliates, and the buildings fall to ruin ; such is the case with the great temple in Hurreechundurghur.
Page 145 - i(/f " in the following extract : — Page 213 — " In the after-noon the bride and bride-groom eat from the same leaf-plate, feeding one another in the presence of the women and children of the house. When thelmeal is over small round betel-leaf parcels are given to the boy and girl.
Page 468 - Their staple food is rice, pulse-sauce, and bread. They regularly bathe before they take their morning meals and worship Shiv's emblem the ling with flowers and some of the food they are going to eat.