| Ju-kua Chao - Africa, Eastern - 1911 - 322 pages
...hoods (£j ;Щ), and on their feet shoes of red leather. They are forbidden to eat flesh. is There are four thousand Buddhist temple buildings, in which...Buddha (ie, the idols) and while offering flowers. When offering flowers they tie them in bunches with cotton thread, of which they use three hundred... | |
| Henri Cordier, Marco Polo - Science - 1920 - 182 pages
...almeb or dancing-girls are usually called in India de!va-ddsi (‘slave of a god') or rdrnjaui.” In Guzerat, Chau Ju-kwa, p. 92, mentions: “Four...enclosed in the crypt of the new Cathedral of San Thomé.” (AE MEDLYCOTT, India and the Apostle Thomas. An inquiry. With a critical analysis of the... | |
| Henri Cordier - Asia - 1920 - 200 pages
...happiness.' The almeh or dancing-girls are usually called in India deva-dasi ('slave of a god ') or rdntjani" In Guzerat, Chau Ju-kwa, p. 92, mentions : " Four...sing twice daily while offering food to the Buddha (*>., the idols) and while offering flowers." XVIIL, p. 356. TRADITIONS OF ST. THOMAS. " The traditional... | |
| Henri Cordier - 1920 - 188 pages
...dancing-girls are usually called in India deva-ddsi ('slave of a god ') or ramjani" In Guzerat, Chau Ju-kwa,p. 92, mentions: "Four thousand Buddhist temple buildings,...sing twice daily while offering food to the Buddha (*.<?., the idols) and while offering flowers." XVIII., p. 356. TRADITIONS OF ST. THOMAS. " The traditional... | |
| Ju-kua Chao - Africa, Eastern - 1912 - 348 pages
...hoods (f^| ^), and on their feet shoes of red leather. They are forbidden to eat flesh. 15 There are four thousand Buddhist temple buildings, in which...Buddha (ie, the idols) and while offering flowers. When offering flowers they tie them in bunches with cotton thread, of which they use three hundred... | |
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