Things Indian: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects Connected with IndiaJ. Murray, 1906 - 546 pages |
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Page 49 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 60 - Among the Erekulas of Madras, when the mother is taken ill, "she informs her husband, who immediately takes some of her clothes, puts them on, places on his forehead the mark which the women usually place on theirs, retires into a dark room where there is only a very dim lamp, and lies down on the bed, covering himself with a long cloth.
Page 42 - MADAM, I have much pleasure to inform you that my dearly unfortunate wife will be no longer under your kind treatment, she having left this world for the other on the night of the 27th ultimo. For your help in this matter, I shall ever remain grateful. Yours reverently, Aim of Education.
Page 500 - Malabar Hill, there is a rock upon the surface of which there is a natural crevice which communicates with a cavity opening below. This place is used by the Gentoos as a purification of their sins, which they say is effected by their going in at the opening below and emerging at the cavity above —
Page 85 - A caste is almost invariably endogamous in the sense that a member of the large circle denoted by the common name may not marry outside that circle ; but within this circle there are usually a number of smaller circles, each of which is also endogamous.
Page 252 - as a tangled jungle of disorderly superstitions, ghosts and demons, demi-gods and deified saints; household gods, tribal gods, local gods, universal gods, with their countless shrines and temples, and the din of their discordant rites...
Page 138 - Live like yourself was soon my lady's word; And lo! two puddings smoked upon the board. Asleep and naked as an Indian lay, An honest factor stole a gem away : He pledged it to the knight, the knight had wit, So kept the diamond, and the rogue was bit.
Page 245 - About the House was a delicate Garden, voiced to be the pleasantest in India, intended rather for wanton Dalliance, Love's Artillery, than to make resistance against an invading Foe.
Page 371 - Hospital, and a venerable Old Man with a white Beard, keeping them in a box amongst Cotton, very diligently tended them with his spectacles on his Nose, giving them milk to eat with a bird's feather, because they were so little that as yet they could eat nothing else ; and as he told us, he intended when they were grown up to let them go free whither they pleas'd.
Page 85 - a caste may be defined as a collection of families or groups of families bearing a common name which usually denotes or is associated with...