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" This beautiful and very valuable bijou was put into a a very small gold karandua, richly ornamented with rubies, diamonds, and emeralds: this was enclosed in a larger one also of gold, and very prettily decorated with rubies: this second, surrounded with... "
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay - Page 142
by Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1876
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A Narrative of the Establishment and Progress of the Missions to Ceylon and ...

William Martin Harvard - India - 1823 - 508 pages
...were privileged to touch it,) it was artificial, and of ivory, discoloured by age. Never a relic was more preciously enshrined. Wrapped in pure sheet-gold,...tastefully arranged. This beautiful and very valuable bijon was put into a very small gold ka.ran.dua, (a kind of dome or casket,) richly ornamented with...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 21

1824 - 600 pages
...ivory, discoloured by age. Never was a relic more preciously enshrined. Wrapped in pure sheet gold, it was placed in a case just large enough to receive...valuable bijou was put into a very small gold karandua, (a kind of dome or casket,) richly ornamented with rubies, diamonds, and emeralds : this was enclosed...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 21; Volume 39

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 608 pages
...Never was a relic more preciously enshrined. Wrapped in pure sheet gold, it was placed in a case ius.t large enough to receive it, of gold, covered externally...valuable bijou was put into a very small gold karandua, (a kind of dome or casket,) richly ornamented with rubies, diamonds, and emeralds : this was enclosed...
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Adam's Peak: Legendary, Traditional, and Historic Notices of the Samanala ...

William Skeen - History - 1870 - 442 pages
...were privileged to touch it,) it was artificial, and of ivory, discoloured by age. Never a relic was more preciously enshrined ; wrapped in pure sheet-gold,...tastefully arranged. This beautiful and very valuable 332 bijou was put into a very small gold kararulua, richly ornamented with rubies, diamonds, and emeralds...
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Adam's Peak: Legendary, Traditional, and Historic Notices of the Samanala ...

William Skeen - History - 1870 - 438 pages
...were privileged to touch it,) it was artificial, and of ivory, discoloured by age. Never a relic was more preciously enshrined ; wrapped in pure sheet-gold,...gold, covered externally with emeralds, diamonds, and rubicn. tastefully arranged. This beantiful mid very valuable bijou was put into a very small gold...
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Memoir on the History of the Tooth-relic of Ceylon: With a Preliminary Essay ...

Joseph Gerson da Cunha, Joseph Gerson Cunha - Religion - 1996 - 94 pages
...valuable cat's-eyc on the top, which is rarely seen. The ornaments attached to it are extremely rich, and consist of gold chains, and a great variety of gems...This beautiful and very valuable bijou was put into 8 very small gold karandua, richly ornamented with rubies, diamonds, and emeralds : this was enclosed...
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Adam's Peak: Legendary Traditional and Historic Notices of the Samanala and ...

William Skeen - Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka) - 1997 - 432 pages
...were privileged to touch it,) it was artificial, and of ivory, discoloured by age. Never a relic was more preciously enshrined ; wrapped in pure sheet-gold,...very valuable bijou was put into a very small gold ktirandua, richly ornamented with rubies, diamonds, and emeralds : this was enclosed iu a larger one...
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