The Bengali ReaderWm. H. Allen, 1862 - 192 pages |
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The Bengālī Reader: Consisting of Easy Selections from the Best Authors ... Duncan Forbes Affichage du livre entier - 1874 |
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Page 177 - A mountain or mountainous range, from which the best sandal wood is brought, answering to the western Ghats in the peninsula of India.
Page 146 - ... a hole in the ground for receiving and preserving consecrated fire, a fire-altar. {• 'ji-b' kundä, sm (dakh.) A large or small earthen dish, shallow pan, charger or platter.
Page 173 - a kind of juggler or tumbler who exhibits tricks with a discus or a wheel (?) " MW So, doubtfully, BHSD 7 Vaitdhka, " a bard whose duty it is to awaken a chief or prince at dawn with music and song.
Page 167 - A cataclysm, the general dissolution or destruction of the world which takes place at the end of every Kalpa, (qv) s.
Page 160 - The hot season (two months previous to the rains, about May and June). s.
Page 72 - Bengali the verb does not necessarily agree with its nominative " in number and person," as good old Lindley Murray would have it (see Grammar, § 46 and § 103).