A Memoir of Central India, Including Malwa, and Adjoining Provinces, 第 1 卷Parbury, Allen, & Company, 1832 |
常見字詞
Afghans Ahalya Baee Ameer Khan Anund Row army attack Bajerow Balaram Ballajee Bappoo Bhopal Bhow Brahmin British government brother camp Central India character Cheettoo commander death Deckan Delhi Dewan Dhar Dherma districts Dowlet Row Sindia Emperor enemy favour favourite freebooters gave Ghous Mahomed Ghuffoor Khan Gungraur Gunput Row Guzerat Hindu Hindustan Holkar family horse hundred Indore infantry inhabitants Jeswunt Row Holkar Jey Singh Jeypoor Joudpoor Kotah Kundee Row Kurreem lacks of rupees latter leader Madhajee Sindia Madhoo Mahomed Khan Mahomedan Mahratta empire Malwa Mandoo Marwar Meenah Baee ment Mewar Mhysir minister Mulhar Row Mulhar Row Holkar Nabob Nagpoor Nerbudda Nizam occasion Odeypoor officers Oojein Paishwah party Patan period person Pindarries Pindarry chief plunder Poona possession principal province Puar racter Raja Rajpoot Rajpoot chiefs revenue Row's sent Sevaee Shah Soobahdar Tantia Jogh territories Toolsah Baee town tribe troops Tukajee village Vizier Mahomed Zalim Singh
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第 188 頁 - You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
第 52 頁 - Distinctions of colours are of his ordination. It is he who gives existence* In your temples, to his name, the voice is raised in prayer; in a house of images where the bell is shaken, still he is the object of adoration.
第 431 頁 - Their chief strength lay in their being intangible. If pursued, they made marches of extraordinary length (sometimes upwards of sixty miles) by roads almost impracticable for regular troops. If overtaken, they dispersed, and reassembled at an appointed rendezvous; if followed to the country from which they issued, they broke into small parties. Their wealth, their booty and their families, were scattered over a wide region, in which they found protection amid the mountains, and in the fastnesses...
第 190 頁 - You are old, mother, (she said,) and a few years will end your pious life. My only child and husband are gone, and when you follow, life, I feel, will be insupportable ; but the opportunity of terminating it with honour will then have passed.
第 431 頁 - ... return. Their chief strength lay in their being intangible. If pursued, they made marches of extraordinary length — sometimes upwards of sixty miles — by roads almost impracticable for regular troops. If overtaken, they dispersed, and reassembled at an appointed rendezvous; if followed to the country from which they issued, they broke into email parties.
第 189 頁 - Poona during the last years of her administration, and know well what feelings were excited by the mere mention of her name. Among the princes of her own nation, it would have been looked upon as sacrilege to have become her enemy, or, indeed, not to have defended her against any hostile attempt. She was considered by all in the same light. The Nizam of the Dekkan and Tippoo Sultan granted her the same respect as the Paishwah ; and Mahomedans joined with Hindus in prayers for her long life and prosperity.
第 426 頁 - Their name first occurs in Indian history about the end of the seventeenth century. From obscure freebooters, they rose into sufficient consequence to be deemed useful auxiliaries by the different Mahratta powers, whose desultory mode of warfare was suited to their own habits.
第 553 頁 - The municipal and village institutions of India *^l",ll "0, are competent, from the power given them byJ"81'"". the common assent of all ranks in the country, to maintain order and peace within their respective circles. These local authorities have been cherished or neglected, according to the disposition of the sovereign. But, as far as we can trace the history of Central India, their rights and privileges have never been contested, even by the tyrants and oppressors who slighted them; while, on...
第 340 頁 - Kower, intreating her to save her father, family, and tribe, from the struggles and miseries to which her high birth and evil destiny exposed them. The appeal was not in vain ; she drank three poisoned cups, and before she took the last, which proved instantly fatal, she exclaimed, "This " is the marriage to which I was foredoomed.
第 520 頁 - English reader, the more recent names of these countries, taken from their present capitals. make annual, biennial, and some only triennial visits to the Southern tribes, to register remarkable events in families, particularly those connected with their marriages, and to sing to the delighted Bheels the tale of their origin, and the fame of their forefathers.