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The Oriental Annual or Scenes in India; Comprising Twenty-Two Engravings from Original Drawings by William Daniell and a Descriptive Account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter

1836

A chine of the hog which had fallen under the sword of the Mahomedan was soon dressed and at the top of the table the tusked head appeared with a large orange in the mouth and garlanded with a wreath—not of laurel but of some shrub that answered the purpose just as well. [...] The ceremony of introducing him for the first time to the schoolmaster and his scholars was publicly recorded and was attended with all the solemnity of a religious observance ; a prayer being publicly offered up on the occasion to the figure of Ganesa the Hindoo god of Wisdom which was at the head of every Hindoo school imploring him to aid the child in his endeavours to learn and become wise [...] The city of Madura up to the period of the great Mhomedan invasion by Mahmood was the focal spot at which all the pilgrims met in their journey to the temple of Ramisseram then the most celebrated in Southern India and resorted to by pilgrims from all parts of the peninsula. [...] Much however as the bigotry of these Islam invaders had done to wipe from the fair chronicles of time those noble records of man's ingenuity and enteprise which were once the pride of the enlightened and are now the boast of the half-civilized Hindoo nevertheless the glorious ruins scattered over the face of one of the noblest countries upon earth attest the triumph of human ingenuity in [...] On the second pillar to the right of the spectator as he faces the door at the bottom is the figure of Trimal Naig the founder of this gorgeous structure in a group with six of his wives three on one side and three on the other to whom on account of their lord's munificence the Hindoos continue to pay divine honours as well as to himself.
the arts art history
Pages
323
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146270
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Chapter I. Embark for Madras—a Hurricane
1-15 unknown view
Chapter II. A Rich Mahomedan—Nautch Girls—a Hoghunt
16-28 unknown view
Chapter III. Madura—Caste—Hindoo Literature
29-43 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Nayaca Dynasty
44-ii unknown view
Chapter V. Tritchengur—Hindoo Theology
59-i unknown view
Chapter VI. Brahminee Bulls—Seringapatam
71-86 unknown view
Chapter VII. Seringapatam—Hyder Ali—Tippoo
87-102 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Coorg—Robbers Hanged—Phansigars
103-111 unknown view
Chapter IX. Phansigars
112-122 unknown view
Chapter X. Phansigars Continued
123-136 unknown view
Chapter XI. A Wild Dog the Coorg Rajah
137-155 unknown view
Chapter XII. Wild Beast Fights—Jetties—Jugglers
156-170 unknown view
Chapter XIII. The Coorg Rajah and His Successor
171-183 unknown view
Chapter XIV. The Angrias
184-197 unknown view
Chapter XV. Mascat—the Governor—the Harbour
198-211 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Bombay—the Fort—Parsees
212-228 unknown view
Chapter XVII. The Guebre Priest
229-241 unknown view
Chapter XVIII. The Guebre Priest
242-ii unknown view
Chapter XIX. Elephanta—a Gecko—a Catti
257-269 unknown view
Chapter XX. Salsette—Elephant Hunt
270-283 unknown view
Chapter XXI. Cavern Temples at Salsette
284-297 unknown view

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