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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1871

1871

Coming out he informed the guards at the door of the sudden death of the functionary and as they entered the house in confsion he beat the great drum and gave the signal for a general rise against the Muhammadan rule. [...] Though the city was plundered of all its accumglated wcidth by the very first of the great Muhammadan invaders the sacred edifices themselves survived and for a period of 700 years continued to be enriched with successive donations till Aurangzeb the last and most fanatical of the Delhi emperors razed every stone to the ground built mosques with the materials and abolished the very name of [...] Thus in the prstilt day ailer.the lapse of a century and half from the period of its utter ruin though the temples have lost the charm of antiquity nor can boast the enormous wealth which they enjoyed in the days of the great Iudo-Scythian sovereigns Kanisl►ka and Huvishka and their successors till the invasion of Mahmtid yet the holy city has no lack of stately buildings wh which as desc [...] The pilgrims visit in ardor all the sacred sites in the neighbourhood ; the village of I3asfii where the two divine children with their foster-parents mice came and dwelt' (bastie); the grove of Aring; Madhuri-kind ; ban the haunt of the peacock and Chandra-sarovar 1. e. the moolake where Brahma joining with the Gopis in the mystic dance was so enraptured with delight that all unconscio [...] The Mundiri is a dialect of the language which was at on© time universallyspoken by the aboriginal inhabitants* of the plains of Bengitl but has since been surerseded by the language of the Hindtis wilen the latter occupied the country centuries ago.
history
Pages
89
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
The District of Dera Ismail Khán Trans-Indus
15-21 The Honorary Secretaries view
Extracts from my Diary Regarding a Visit to Kharakpúr in the District of Munger (Monghyr) and Several Places in the Banka Sub-Division (Bhágalpúr).—By Babu Rashbihari Bose Sub-Divisional Officer Banka Bhagulpore
22-27 The Honorary Secretaries view
On Various Places Situated in Sub-Division Banka Bhágalpúr
27-33 The Honorary Secretaries view
The Country of Braj.—By F. S. Growse Esq. M. A. C. S.
34-45 The Honorary Secretaries view
An Introduction to the Mundári Language.—By Babu Rakhal Das Haldar M. A. S. Special Commissioner under the Chota-Nagpore Land Tenure’s Act
46-67 The Honorary Secretaries view
A History of the Gakkhars.—By J. G. Delmerick Esq.
67-101 The Honorary Secretaries view

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