The Hindoos as They are: A Description of the Manners, Customs, and Inner Life of Hindoo Society in BengalThacker, Spink and Company, 1883 - 343 Seiten |
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The Hindoos as They are. A Description of the Manners, Customs, and Inner ... Shib Chunder Bose,W. Hastie Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2024 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Babu bangle Benares Bengal blessings body Bráhmans Brata bride bridegroom Calcutta called caste ceremony Chandra character child clothes cook daughter deity dhuti domestic Durgá Durga-pujá English European father feelings festival flowers friends fruits ghee girl give goddess gods gold guests hand happy head heart Hindoo females Hindoo society holy honor human husband India inner Káli Kayasthas Krishna Kulin Kulo ladies lakhs of rupees Literally living male manner marriage married milk mind moon moral mother mother-in-law native nature night observed occasion offerings officiating priest ornaments otto of roses Pandits performed Piráli plantain popular present pujá Rájá Rám religion religious respectable Hindoo rice rite rules rupees Sabitri sacred sári says Shastra Shiva silver Sir William Jones social spirit Sudra sweetmeats Tagore Tagore family taste tion widow wife wives woman women worship Yama zenana
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 164 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Seite 86 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Seite 258 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Seite 285 - Roy, a warm advocate for the abolition of sati and of all other superstitions and corruptions engrafted on the Hindu religion, which he considers originally to have been a pure Deism.
Seite 316 - Was not this even a violation of the neutrality, and an offence, not only against the gospel, but against theism itself? I know what may be said about personification, license of poetry, and so on ; but should not a worshipper of God hold himself under a solemn obligation to abjure all tolerance of even poetical figures that can seriously seem, in any way whatever, to recognise the pagan divinities, or abominations, as the prophets of Jehovah would have called them...
Seite 183 - Brahmin eata but his own food ; wears but his own apparel ; and bestows but his own in alms : through the benevolence of the Brahmin, indeed, other mortals enjoy life.
Seite 189 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Seite 184 - What prince could gain wealth by oppressing those who, if angry, could frame other worlds, and regents of worlds ; could give being to new gods and mortals...
Seite 238 - Willie wad ne'er ha'e ta'en ye, Had he kent ye as weel as I; For ye're baith proud and saucy And no for a puir man's wife; Gin I canna get a better, I'se ne'er tak' ane i' my life." Out spake the bride's sister, As she cam' in frae the byre: "0 gin I were but married, It's a...
Seite 94 - And that a wife her husband's portion shares ? Therefore with thee this forest lot I claim. A woman's bliss is found, not in the smile Of father, mother, friend, nor in herself: Her husband is her only portion here, Her heaven hereafter.