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The Journal of the Asiatic Soceity of Bengal July 1839

1840

The Ramadzat (Ramahyana) and other ancient fabulous histories form the groundwork of nearly all the favourite plays the outline of the story being merely preserved while the language of the play depends as much upon the fancy of the performer as the taste of the audience. [...] The nine princesses of the city of the silver mountain which is separated from the abode of mortals by a triple barrier (the first being a belt of prickly cane the second a stream of liquid copper and the third a Beloo or devil) gird on their enchanted zones which give them the power of traversing the air with the speed of a bird and visit a pleasant forest within the limits of the south isl [...] My friends ; in the palace of audience the thirty_ three images of superior beings and the images of lions are keeing watch over the throne—the gold the silver the emeralds the flowers the sapphires the topazes and the rubies are glittering among the other emblems of royalty—the. [...] umbrella of state is being spread—the noblemen are in attendance in their robes and helmets— the sovereign of the golden palace is arraying himself in his royal habiliments—the procession will soon be formed to the music of the silver gong the golden bell and the celestial harp and lute and issue forth headed by the four grand divisions of the royal army marching to the sound of the martial dr [...] The pro-"554 Descriptive details of the PuLY jections of the cornice of the Order are of stone having the guttte )s id lilies in the angles cut out of the solid.
history
Pages
91
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Art. I.—Specimen of the Burmese Drama Translated by J. Smith. Esq Communicated by C.A. Blundell Esq. Commissioner &c. Moulmein
535-551 Acting Secretaries view
Art. II.—On the Bora Chung or Ground Fish of Bootan
551-552 J.T. Pearson view
Art. III.—Extracts from Official Records with Descriptive Details Regarding the New Nizamut Palace of Moorshedabad—Erected by Colonel D. M’Leod Chief Engineer of Bengal
552-559 Acting Secretaries view
Art. IV.—Researches on the Gale and Hurricane in the Bay of Bengal on the 3rd 4th and 5th of June 1839; Being a First Memoir with Reference to the Theory of the Law of Storms in India. By Henry Piddington
559-589 Acting Secretaries view
Art. V.—Note on the “Trochilus and Crocodile” of Herodotus
590-591 W.C. Hurry view
Art. VI.—Documents Relative to the Application of Camel Draught to Carriages; Communicated by C.B. Greelaw Esq. Secretary to the Bengal Steam Committee
591-605 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VII.—Account of a Journey from Sumbulpúr to Mednipúr through the Forests of Orissa. By Lieut. M. Kittoe
606-620 Acting Secretaries view

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