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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1845

1845

(referring to the instance of the representation being that of dead Ram's head ) alludes to the destruction of the world by fire when by the precession of the equinoxes the sun shall again lead the opening year in the constellation of Aries. [...] describes minutely this completion of initiation : the night-like darness ; the approach to the confines of Death ; and then in the very midst of this darkness the light revealed to him In some of the various versions of these mysteries it is said that the candidate was shrouded in the shudder-cloth of Death was placed in that narrow home to which we all must go was raised again and went [...] It is the ornament of the earth the beauty of plants the beloved (literally the eye) of flowers the blush of the medow dazzling in its loveliness. [...] The ascent lies up a transverse break in the lowered prolongation of the.ghauts immediately to the north of the mountain Subramani and for bsome distance along the right bark of the Subramani river. [...] After the breaching of this outer wall the garrison panic-struck fled to the citadel or Bala Hissar on the summit of the western rock which was deemed impregnable : but the troops in the heat of the pursuit.
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Pages
79
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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On the Buddhist Emblem of Architecture. by Capt. T. Latter B.N.I. Assistant Commissioner Arracan. with Two Plates
623-640 The Secretary view
Notes Chiefly Geological across the Peninsula from Mangalore in Lat. N. 12°49’ by the Bisly Pass to Madras in Lat. N. 13°4’. by Captain Newbold F.R.S. M.N.I. Assistant Commissioner Kurnool
641-659 The Secretary view
Account (Part II.) of Parts of the Cabool and Peshawar Territories and of Samah Sudoom Bunher Swah Deer and Bajour Visited by Mulla Aleem-Ulla of Peshawar in the Latter Part of the Year 1837. Arranged and Translated by Major R. Lerch C.B. Late Political Agent Candahar under Whose Instructions the Tour Was Made
660-701 The Secretary view

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