A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon: Including the Provinces of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras ; the Punjab, North-West Provinces, Rajputana, Central Provinces, Mysore, Etc. ; the Native States, Assam and Cashmere |
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Agra Akbar ancient arches architecture ascend Bagh bank beautiful Benares Bengal Bijapur Bombay Brahmans bridge British Buddha Buddhist building built Burma Calcutta called canal cantonment capital carved caves Cawnpore centre chief Church court Delhi district dome elephants enclosure English entrance erected European Fergusson figures front garden Gate gateway Ghat gopura Government guns Gwalior hall handsome height hill Hindu Hiouen Thsang India inscription Jain Jehan Jhansi junc Khan King lake Lucknow Madras Marathas ment Mogul Mohammedan mosque Muhammad Musjid Mutiny native Nawab officers ornamented pagoda palace Parsis pass Peshwa picturesque pillars plain railway Raja residence river road rock roof round ROUTE ruins Sepoys Shah Shah Jehan Shiva shrine side Sikhs square stands station steamers stone surrounded tank temple tion Tipu tomb tower town traveller trees troops village Vishnu wall white marble
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Page 359 - The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
Page 254 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.
Page 132 - The throne itself was six feet long by four feet broad ; it stood on six massive feet, which, with the body, were of solid gold, inlaid with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. It was surmounted by a canopy of gold, supported by twelve pillars, all richly emblazoned with costly gems, and a fringe of pearls ornamented the borders of the canopy. Between the two peacocks stood the figure of a parrot of the ordinary size, said to have been carved out of a single emerald.
Page lxii - AD 400 as a mean date — and it certainly is not far from the truth — it opens our eyes to an unsuspected state of affairs to find the Hindus at that age capable of forging a bar of iron larger than any that have been forged even in Europe up to a very late date, and not frequently even now.
Page 434 - It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.
Page 347 - Brahma occurs three or four times, and every great god of the Hindu Pantheon finds his place. Some of these are carved with a minute elaboration of detail which can only be reproduced by photography, and may probably be considered as one of the most marvellous exhibitions of human labour to be found even in the patient East.
Page 294 - At a height of 57 ft. from the floor line the hall begins to contract, by a series of pendentives as ingenious as they are beautiful, to a circular opening 97 ft. in diameter. On the platform of these pendentives at a height of 109 ft.
Page 420 - March 30, 1855. He who destroyed to this Bell, they must be in the great Heell, and unable to coming out.
Page 143 - The sloping walls and almost Egyptian solidity of this mausoleum, combined with the bold and massive towers of the fortifications that surround it, form a picture of a warrior's tomb unrivalled anywhere, and a singular contrast with the elegant and luxuriant garden tombs of the more settled and peaceful dynasties that succeeded.
Page 322 - I remember, for instance, spiders' webs in the morning, with dew gleaming all over them, spread about the grass in a field at the top of the hill on the other side of the...