 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 884 pàgines
...they say daily consists of these words, Pacauta! Pacauta ! Pacauta ! And this they repeat 104 times.3] The King aforesaid also wears on his arms three golden...that they ought also to keep him company in the other world.5 When the King dies none of his children dares to touch his treasure. For they say, " as our... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 668 pàgines
...say daily consists of these words, Pacaiita! Pacauta ! Pacauta ! And this they repeat 104 times.3] likewise. So let me tell you what this King wears,...that they ought also to keep him company in the other world.5 When the King dies none of his children dares to touch his treasure. For they say, " as our... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 768 pàgines
...they say daily consists of these words, Pacauta ! Pacauta ! Pacauta ! And this they repeat 104 times.3 The King aforesaid also wears on his arms three golden...that they ought also to keep him company in the other world.5 When the King dies none of his children dares to touch his treasure. For they say, "as our... | |
 | André Wink - 1990 - 452 pàgines
...Trusty Lieges', and according to him they had great authority in the kingdom; but when the king died 'these Lieges cast themselves into the fire round...body, and suffer themselves to be burnt along with him'.67 A number of inscriptions of the Ganga of Talkad mention officers who committed suicide at the... | |
 | Alf Hiltebeitel - 1999 - 584 pàgines
...84: a satï's curse lasts seven generations. in death as he has vowed. Thus Marco Polo reports ... : 'And you must know that when the King dies, and they...and suffer themselves to be burnt along with him.'" 23 Their modes of suicide include not only "plunging into a pyre," but live burial, offering one's... | |
 | Alf Hiltebeitel - 2009 - 575 pàgines
...are condensed in Hiltebeitel in press-d. in death as he has vowed. Thus Marco Polo reports . . . : 'And you must know that when the King dies, and they...body, and suffer themselves to be burnt along with him.'"23 Their modes of suicide include not only "plunging into a pyre," but live burial, offering... | |
 | Alf Hiltebeitel - 2009 - 575 pàgines
...are condensed in Hiltebeitel in press-d. in death as he has vowed. Thus Marco Polo reports . . . : 'And you must know that when the King dies, and they put him on the fire to bum him, these Lieges cast themselves into the fire round about his body, and suffer themselves to... | |
 | Alf Hiltebeitel - 2009 - 575 pàgines
...84: a saß's curse lasts seven generations. in death as he has vowed. Thus Marco Polo reports ... : 'And you must know that when the King dies, and they put him on the tire to burn him, these Lieges cast themselves into the fire round about his body, and suffer themselves... | |
 | André Wink - 2002 - 444 pàgines
...Trusty Lieges', and according to him they had great authority in the kingdom; but when the king died 'these Lieges cast themselves into the fire round...and suffer themselves to be burnt along with him'. 67 A number of inscriptions of the Ganga of Talkad mention officers who committed suicide at the death... | |
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This order has been given because the King desires to reserve all such to himself; and so in fact the quantity he has is something almost incredible. Moreover several times every year he sends his proclamation through the realm that if any one who possesses... 