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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAleppo amongst amusement anecdote animal appearance bamboo beautiful Bedouin benefit called character cholera colour command conveyed corn creature deemed Delhi desired Divine Providence Durgah Durweish earth earthly eyes fancied Fatima favour female friends fruit Genii ghee give gold grass habits hand heard heart Hindoo Hindoostaun holy honour hookha horses humble India indulge inhabitants inquired Kannoge Khareem killaah King labour lady living Lucknow Mahumud maun meal medicine Meer Hadjee Shah ment mercy mind mohur monkey Moonshie mosque Mussul Mussulmaun Natives nature never Nizaam Nuwaub observed occasion offered ood deen party Pattaan period Persian language person poor possessed prayer present punkahs racters religious remarkable rendered replied resembles respect rose-water Saadie season seated servants Sheikh sherbet slaves Snake Soofie spirit stone suffered Syaad told tomb traveller tree Upper Provinces veneration Vizier whilst whole woman Yumen zeenahnah Popular passagesPage 323 - a few short hours he breathed his last." The unhappy man may have died of apoplexy. The ignorant part of the population of Hindoostaun hold a superstitious belief in the occasional visitations of the spirit of Sheikh Suddoo. It is very common to hear the vulgar people say if any one of their friends is afflicted Page 317 - associates taking care to catch them before they are well down,—others jump into the fire and out again instantly; lastly, the whole assembly trample and kick the remaining embers about, whilst a spark remains to be quenched by this means. These efforts, it is pretended, are sufficient to remove Page 69 - many ages, is here an article of very simple manufacture. The composition is prepared from lampblack and gum-arabic ; how it is made, I have yet to learn. The ink of the Natives is not durable ; with a wet spunge may be erased the labour of a man's life. Page 122 - gave camphor (to be worn about the person) to the poor in my vicinity, and to all the Natives over whom I had either influence or control; I caused the rooms to be frequently fumigated with vinegar or tobacco, and labaun (frankincense) burnt occasionally. I would not, however, be so presumptuous to insinuate even that these were Page 11 - children. The Saul-girrah is a day of annual rejoicing through the whole house of which the boy is a member; music, fireworks, toys, and whatever amusement suits his age and taste, are liberally granted to fill up the measure of his happiness; whilst his father and mother have each Page 159 - to that of a durweish of his faith, whom he imitates in expending his income on others without indulging in a single luxury himself. The Queen's manners are very amiable and condescending; she is reported to be as highly gifted with intellectual endowments as I can affirm she is with genuine politeness. I was induced to visit the mukhburrah of the great-great-grandfather of the present King of Oude, Page 7 - and the baby has no other food for the first three days, after which it receives the nurse's aid. After the third day a small proportion of opium is Page 211 - off, is rendered serviceable, and proves an excellent substitute for that useful invention, a birch-broom. The coarse parent grass, which shelters the sirrakee, is the only article yet found to answer the purposes for thatching the bungalows of the rich, the huts of the poor, the sheds for cattle, and roofs for boats. The religious devotee sets up a chupha-hut, without Page 210 - when plucked the separated blossoms have many varieties of hue from brown and yellow, to purple. The head or blossom is too light to weigh down the firm but flexible stalk; but as the wind presses against each patch of grass, it is moved in a mass, and returns to its erect position with a dignity and grace not to be described. Page 317 - beat time with a small tambourine to a song or dirge expressive of their love and respect to the memory of the departed saint, their founder and patron, and a hymn of praise to the Creator. The feast concluded, References from web pagesObservations on the Mussulmauns of India - Bibliography of Works ... Observations on the Mussulmauns of India by Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali ... JSTOR: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India, Descriptive of ... Observations on the Mussulmauns of India by Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali ... Observations on the Mussulmauns of India by Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali ... MRS. MEER HASSAN ALI:'OBSERVATIONS ON THE MUSSULMAUNS OF INDIA.' Mind, Body, Soul » Blog Archive » A Pious Muslim of India Speaking ... Libro - Mrs Meer Hassan Ali - Observations on the Mussulmauns of ... Results in Unicode Observations on the Mussulmauns of India | Handango Italia Bibliographic information
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