Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volumen4

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The Society, 1853
Vol. 1-new ser., v. 7 include the society's Proceedings for 1841-1929 (title varies)
 

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Página 200 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Página 392 - ... is attached a herd of milch buffaloes, part of which are sacred, and from which the milk is never drawn, the whole being allowed to go to the calves. One among these sacred animals is the chief. Should it die, its calf, if a female one, succeeds to its office. Should it have no female calf, the bell before mentioned is attached to the neck of one of the other sacred ones, and being allowed to remain so during that day, a legal succession is considered to be effected.
Página 203 - Ya»na, nothing is fixed in the doctrine regarding God. In the writings of the second period, that is in the Vendidad, we trace the advance to a theological, and, in its way, mild and scientific system. Out of this, in the last place there springs the stern and intolerant religion of the SasBaniac epoch.
Página 335 - Kailt'is, which strikes the beholder as the most remarkable of the whole [of the Elora groups], is formed after the type of some of the structural temples of the south of India, particularly the great pagoda at Tanjor ; and he says — ' I have no doubt in my own mind that the Chola, or at least some of the Karnata Rajas were the excavators of this temple, and the restorers [rather propagators] of Sivite worship in the Dekhan ; my own impression is, that we must ascribe this either to Raja Rajendra...

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