Puraniya, Ronggopoor and AssamW.H. Allen and Company, 1838 |
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allowed Asam Assam Bahadurgunj bamboo banks belonging Bengal Bengalese Berhampooter bigah boats Brahmans branch brick Brohmoputro Calcutta called caste cattle channel chief chiefly common considerable considered contains cotton crop cubits cultivated Dhubri Dinajpoor district division dry season east eastern employed English Bazar Export fish former Ganges Garos Gaur Goyalpara grain hills Hindus houses huts India indigo inundation Kamrup kind Korotoya Kosi labour land Mahanonda Major Rennell Majuli manner marsh mart mentioned miles Mithila Morang Moslems mountains Muhammedan natives occupied officers Pandit persons plant plough poor prince probably procured produce Puraniya quantity Rabhas rainy season Raja receives reeds rent residence rice river Ronggopoor rupees seems sers silk soil sown square miles stream Suddia Sudras supposed tank temple tenants territory thatched tion Tista totally town trees tribe usually Vaisakhi Varuni Vihar villages Vishnu whole women worship Zemindars
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Página xxv - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Página xxvii - ... pairs of all brute animals, thou shalt enter the spacious ark, and continue in it secure from the flood, on one immense ocean, without light except the radiance of thy holy companions. When the ship shall be agitated by an impetuous wind, thou shalt fasten it with a large sea serpent on my horn ; for I will be near thee; drawing the vessel with thee and thy attendants.
Página xxvii - O thou tamer of enemies, the three worlds will be plunged in an ocean of death, but in the midst of the destroying waves, a large vessel, sent by me for thy use shall stand before thee. Then...
Página 673 - Garo country, that is 100 miles from east to west and 30 miles from north to south...
Página 447 - Tista, a little below Dimla (in Rangpur District) are the remains of a fortified city, said to have been built by Raja Dharmapala...
Página 506 - The two religions, however, are on the most friendly terms, and mutually apply to the deities or saints of the other, when they imagine that application to their own will prove ineffectual.
Página 686 - Its climate is cold, healthy and congenial to European constitutions; its numerous crystal streams abound in gold dust and masses of the solid metal; its mountains are pregnant with precious stones and silver; its atmosphere is perfumed with tea growing wild and luxuriantly, and its soil is so well adapted to all kinds of agricultural purposes that it might be converted into one continued garden of silk, and cotton and coffee and sugar and tea, over an extent of many hundred miles.
Página 599 - ... smallpox, being equally a complete bar to the royal dignity. In order probably to prevent the dangers of a disputed succession, it was the maxim of the family to mark every youth that was not intended for being the presumptive heir, so soon as he approached manhood, by a wound on some conspicuous part...
Página xxvii - Then shalt thou take all medicinal herbs, all the variety of seeds; and, accompanied by seven saints, encircled by pairs of all brute animals, thou...
Página xxi - For half a century we have gone on draining from two to three and sometimes four million pounds sterling a year from India, which has been remitted to Great Britain to meet the deficiencies of commercial speculations, to pay the interest of debts, to support the home establishment, and to invest on England's soil the accumulated wealth of those whose lives have been spent in Hindustan. I do not think it possible for human ingenuity to...