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Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (New Series) 1926

1928

The obverse of the coin is discernible in the account given in the MalThharata of the PA ndava brothers having one joint wife in Draupadi and the separate wives of Arjuna and Bhima. [...] The consent of the human or the silence of the inanimate huband justifies the action of the prostitute and her patrons. [...] The bath consists in the pouring of water on the head of the bather who stands in the middle of the mud platform. [...] The houses were mostly of the hog-backed type that one sees for instance in the monolithic temple at Maibong in the North Cachar Hills only the fall of the porches toward the front is much more marked for the Synteng house unlike the hobacked Bengali house of Sylhet or Mymensingh has the entrance at one end and not at the side. [...] It is of interest that one of the tradtions of the Dimapur stones is that they occupy the site of the ancient market-place of the Kachari capital for Nartiang-Bazar undoubtedly reminds one of the Dimapur " Rajbari." The fondness of the people particularly the women for markets is one of the striking things about the Jaintia Hills.
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Pages
116
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
A Study of some Bengali Customs
319-324 M. M. Chatterji view
A Further Study of Bengali Customs
325-328 M. M. Chatterji view
Some Marriage Customs in Bengal
329-332 M. M. Chatterji view
Some Megalithic Work in the Jaintia Hills
333-ix J. H. Hutton view
The Bigonial breadth of some Hos of Kolhan
347-350 D. N. Majumdar view
Java and Bali
351-364 A. A. Bake view
The Laksmana Samvat
365-390 Pramatha Misra view
The supposed sculpture of Zoroaster on the Tak-i-Bostan
391-410 J. C. Coyajee view
Little -Noticed Habits of Some Birds of the District of 24-Parganas
411-420 Satya Law view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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