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Page 309 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 309 - What the sun and light are to this visible world, that are the supreme good and truth, to the intellectual and invisible universe ; and, as our corporeal eyes have a distinct perception of objects enlightened by the sun, thus our souls acquire 1 Essays and Lectures, &c., vol.
Page 352 - Most of the Kashmirian temples are more or less injured, but more particularly those at Wantipur, which are mere heaps of ruins. Speaking of these temples, Trebeck * says : ' It is scarcely possible to imagine that the state of ruin to which they have been reduced has been the work of time or even of man, as their solidity is fully equal to that of the most massive monuments of Egypt; earthquakes must have been the chief agents in their overthrow.
Page 345 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 340 - Praise be to God, the Lord of Creation, The All-merciful, the All-compassionate ! Ruler of the day of Reckoning ! Thee we worship, and Thee we invoke for help. Lead us in the straight path ; — The path of those upon whom Thou hast been gracious, Not of those that are the objects of Wrath, or that are in Error...
Page 2 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of CASHMERE, With its roses, the brightest that earth ever gave, * Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Page 185 - Here we find a practice equally strange, that of polyandry, if I may so call it, universally prevailing ; and see one female, associating her fate and fortune with all the brothers of a family, without any restriction of age, or of numbers...
Page 357 - The interior must have been as imposing as the exterior. On ascending the flight of steps, now covered by ruins, the votary of the sun entered a highly decorated chamber, with a doorway on each side covered by a pediment, with a trefoil-headed niche containing a bust of the Hindu triad, and on the flanks of the main entrance, as well as on those of the side doorways, were pointed and trefoil niches, each of which held a statue of a Hindu deity.
Page 342 - I will show thee," replied the stranger, " a better way than that ; let a crier call aloud, GREAT is THE LORD ! GREAT is THE LORD ! I bear witness that there is no God but the Lord : I bear witness that Mahomet is the Prophet of God.
Page 351 - On the other hand, the Kashmirian fanes are distinguished by the graceful elegance of their outlines, by the massive boldness of their parts, and by the happy propriety of their decorations.