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" In this country they do not keep pigs or fowls, there are no dealings in cattle, no butchers' shops or distilleries in their market-places. "
The Travels of Fa-hsien (399-414 A.D.): Or Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms - Page 21
by Faxian - 1923 - 96 pages
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The Early History of India from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest ...

Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1904 - 460 pages
...garlic (Stein, transL ' Onions and garlic are regarded Kajat., bk. i, ! CHARACTER OF THE GOVERNMENT 261 they do not keep pigs or fowls, there are no dealings...cattle, no butchers' shops or distilleries in their marketplaces.1" The Chandala, or outcaste tribes, who dwelt apart like lepers, and were required when...
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History of India: From the sixth century B.C. to the Mohammedan conquest, by ...

Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1906 - 618 pages
...country," we are told, " no one kills any living thing, or drinks wine, or eats onions or garlic. . . . They do not keep pigs or fowls, there are no dealings...butchers' shops or distilleries in their market-places." The Chandala, or outcast tribes, who dwelt apart like lepers, and were required when entering a city...
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The Soul of India: An Introduction to the Study of Hinduism, in Its ...

George Howells - India - 1913 - 926 pages
...country," he observes, " no one kills any living thing, or drinks wine, or eats onions or garlic. . . . They do not keep pigs or fowls ; there are no dealings...butchers' shops or distilleries in their market-places." Outcaste tribes dwelt apart like lepers, and were required to give warning of their approach by striking...
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How India Wrought for Freedom: The Story of the National Congress Told from ...

Annie Besant - India - 1915 - 794 pages
...exceptional ". The roads were safe, for in all his travels Fa-Hien was not once attacked by robbers. " They do not keep pigs or fowls, there are no dealings in cattle, no butchers' shops, or distilleries." "No one kills any living thing, or drinks wine, or eats onions or garlic." Charitable institutions...
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The Oxford History of India: From the Earliest Times to the End of 1911

Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 866 pages
...country', we are told, 'no one kills any living thing, or drinks wine, or eats onions or garlic . . . they do not keep pigs or fowls ; there are no dealings...butchers' shops or distilleries in their market-places.' The Chandalas or outcastes, who did not observe the rules of purity, were obliged to live apart, and...
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The Early History of India from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest ...

Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1904 - 458 pages
...(Stein, t ransL 1 Onions and garlic are regarded Bdjat., bk. i, 342}. CHARACTER OF THE GOVERNMENT 261 they do not keep pigs or fowls, there are no dealings...butchers' shops or distilleries in their marketplaces.' The Chandala, or outcaste tribes, who dwelt apart like lepers, and were required when entering a city...
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Shall India Live Or Die?

Annie Besant - Great Britain - 1925 - 202 pages
...never attacked by robbers. " No one kills any living thing, or drinks wine, or eats onions or garlic." "They do not keep pigs or fowls, there are no dealings in cattle, nor butchers' shops, nor distilleries." Charitable institutions were numerous, and rest-houses were...
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The Oxford History of India, from the Earliest Times to the End of 1911

Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1928 - 866 pages
...country', we are told, 'no one kills any living thing, or drinks wine, or eats onions or garlic . . . they do not keep pigs or fowls ; there are no dealings...butchers' shops or distilleries in their market-places .' The Chandalas or outcastes, who did not observe the rules of purity, were obliged to live apart,...
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Sir Asutosh Memorial Volume

Sir Asutosh Mookerjee - India - 1928 - 542 pages
...they are and avoid coming into contact with them. "In this country they do not keep pigs or fouls, there are no dealings in cattle, no butchers' shops or distilleries in their marketplaces. Only the chandalas go hunting and deal in flesh." The state of Buddhism and the benefactions that it...
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The Gupta Empire

Radhakumud Mookerji - History - 1989 - 228 pages
...eats onions or garlic; but Cháncalas are segregated. Chandala is their name for foul men (lepers).' 'In this country they do not keep pigs or fowls, there are no dealings in cattle, no butcher's shops or distilleris in their marketplaces. As a medium of exchange, they use cowries. Only...
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