A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos: Including a Minute Description of Their Manners and Customs, and Translations from Their Principal Works ...

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Printed at the Mission Press, 1818

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The dissolution of the universethe nature of the evidence
lix
Remarks on the soil of Bengal
18
Kings reigning through the kulee yoogă
20
Description of the elevation of the heavenly bodies
24
Invasions of India by the Musulmans
26
His cruelty to the friends of the English Ibid
32
Matrimonial alliances between the families of the sun and moon Ibid
38
Summary of the contents of the law books
43
The Institutes of Munco formed from the védů found in the boat given
44
Remarks on cruelty to widows in burning them alive or reducing them to starvation 204
46
The Hindoo account of the origin of the casts
49
The various divisions of the earth given to the seven sons of PriyňVrato
50
Duties of a youth after investiture with the poita
58
his descendants called Vyasoktus
64
huns
66
Many of them follow the medical profession Ibid
72
Produce of the lands prices of corn c
79
Effects of the climate on the natives and on Europeans
87
The preparation of cotton thread
93
Culture of the betlenut
99
Faults by which rank is forfeited winked at
113
Incompetency of Hindoo mothers to teach their children Ibid
119
Preparations for the wedding Ibid
125
Ceremonies at the house of the brides father 131renewed after four or five
131
Widows among the lowest cast sometimes married in an irregular method
134
Remarks on the persons and features of the Hindoos 137on their powers
141
General Remarks on the cast its injustice its effects on improvement on social
145
Food of the Hindoos 146Customs at meals Ibid
147
Methods among the poor of maintaining a family
153
Remarks on Country Scenery 156Natural Curiosities
160
Specimens of Letters viz invitation to a festival 184from a mother to
184
Account of Deaths and Funeral Ceremonies
192
Names of the countries composing India
199
yayănŭ ibid of Shŭnkhŭ 250of Likhitŭ 251of Ashwŏlayŭnŭ ibid
258
Remarks on these accounts Ibid
265
Works containing hymns prayers c ibid ditto the bramhˇnů of the védő 271
271
Remarks on the difficulties of obtaining copies of the védŭs 277
277
The persons to whom the védo was first taught
285
Specimens of the hymns of the samă védă
289
Specimens of the bramhunů of the védă from the rig yňjoorü and ăťhōrvă védūs
298
Remarks on the védů SO6on the evil characters of many of the writers ibid
311
The degree in which the different dŏrshōnus are now studied
317
Translation of the Sankhyă Sară Ibid
356
Notices respecting the second third fourth fifth and sixth monwŏntăres
363
Remarks on the PatŭnjălăDŭrshŭnă 377
395
His history and that of his posterity down to the end of the suty yoogă 15
405
Remarks on the Meemangsa writers
438
Extract from Mr Daviss essay on the Astronomy of the Hindoos
445
Polygamy its baneful effects seen in Hindoo families Ibid
452
Sugăru the first king of the trétů yoogů
453
Extract from the JyotishăTúttwă
471
Account of the Medical shastrus 476list of medical works still extant
479
Account of the creation 5
492
Summary of the subjects embraced by these works
498
Remarks on the poetical works 503names of the most celebrated poets
504
Account of the Great Poems 511the Dramatic Poems 515the smaller
518
Names of the kings of the race of the sun reigning in the dwapuru yoog
522
Remarks on Hindoo Music
530
Account of works of an historical nature and a list of those still extant
543
Tradition respecting the kingdom of GăngaSagŭrů
551
Contents of the Mahabharǎtǎ Ibid
558
Remarks on the military works and on the Military Tactics of the ancient Hindoos
567
A list of translations from the Sungskritů
578
The learned men 583the colleges
585
A number of old maids married to an aged kooleen bramlun to take away
591
A list of Matthus or convents of ascetics where the shastrus are taught at
594

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Pàgina 127 - All the persons employed now lighted their lamps, and ran with them in their hands to fill up their stations in the procession. Some of them had lost their lights and were unprepared, but it was then too late to seek them, and the cavalcade moved forward to the house of the bride, at which place the company entered a large and splendidly illuminated area before the house, covered with an awning, where a great multitude of friends, dressed in their best apparel, were seated upon mats. The bridegroom...
Pàgina 145 - ... a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife ; and they shall be one flesh.
Pàgina 127 - The bridegroom was carried in the arms of a friend and placed on a superb seat in the midst of the company, where he sat a short time and then went into the house, the door of which was immediately shut and guarded by Sepoys. I and others expostulated with the doorkeepers, but in vain. Never was I so struck with our Lord's beautiful parable as at this moment : and the door was shut!
Pàgina 42 - A wife, a son, a servant, a pupil, and a 'younger whole brother, may be corrected, when they ' commit faults, with a rope or the small shoot of a ' cane ; • 300. 'But on the back part only of their bodies, and 'not on a noble part by any means...
Pàgina 105 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Pàgina 98 - The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Pàgina 528 - In childhood a woman must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, and when her lord is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be independent.
Pàgina 582 - ... sometimes the mythological poems are studied ; and a third in which logic is made the principal object of attention. In all these colleges select works are read and their meaning explained ; but instruction is not conveyed in the form of lectures. In the first class of colleges, the pupils repeat assigned lessons from the grammar used in each college, and the teacher communicates the meaning of the lessons after they have been committed to memory. In the others the pupils are divided into classes...
Pàgina xxvi - Know, first, that heaven and earth's compacted frame, And flowing waters, and the starry flame, And both the radiant lights, one common soul Inspires and feeds, and animates the whole.
Pàgina 123 - ... her arms reached to her knees ; her throat was like that of a pigeon ; her loins narrow like those of a lion ; her hair hung in curls down to her feet ; her teeth were like the seeds of the pomegranate ; and her gait like that of a drunken elephant or a goose.

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