 | 1819 - 406 páginas
...greatest violence; observing at the same time, that at Baroda the government had the pre» caution to bury the dead; while this act, so necessary for...than the party returned to repeat the same office to another. It is worthy of remark, that latterly the females were engaged in removing the dead and committing... | |
 | 1832 - 446 páginas
...the rites required by the Hindoo faith, and the half-consumed bodies on the banks of the Pabeirmuttee evince, at this hour, to what straits the Hindoos...raged in that unhappy city would scarcely be credible. The disease pervaded every habitation, entire families fell victims to its unsparing hand ; and, in... | |
 | 1832 - 438 páginas
...the rites required by the Hindoo faith, and the half-consumed bodies on the banks of the Pabeirmuttee evince, at this hour, to what straits the Hindoos...raged in that unhappy city would scarcely be credible. The disease pervaded every habitation, entire families fell victims to its unsparing hand ; and, in... | |
 | 1833 - 468 páginas
...the rites required by the Hindoo faith, and the half-consumed bodies on the banks of the Pabeirmuttee evince, at this hour, to what straits the Hindoos...raged in that unhappy city would scarcely be credible. The disease pervaded every habitation, entire families fell victims to its unsparing hand; and, in... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 páginas
...the half-consumed bodies on the banks of the I'.ibiiinnuttef evince, at this hour, to what «traits the Hindoos were reduced in fulfilling the last duties to their kindred. [We shall again return to this highly interesting work.J KILKENNY PEASANTRY. THE peasantry of the neighbourhood... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1845 - 252 páginas
...banks of the Saburmuttee, evince at this hour, (February 1815, or two years and a half afterward,) to what straits the Hindoos were reduced in fulfilling the last duties to their kindred.' It is also stated, that in the later periods of the famine, many females were engaged in removing the... | |
 | 1843 - 522 páginas
...the banks of the Saburmuttee evince at this hour (February, 1815, or two years and a half afterwards) to what straits the Hindoos were reduced in fulfilling the last duties to their kindred.'' Many of the details given by Captain Carnac, of scenes which came under his own notice, are too distressing... | |
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Ahmedabad is computed at a hundred thousand souls, a number nearly equal to one half of its population. The demand for wood to burn the Hindoos, called for the destruction of the houses ; even this was barely sufficient for the performance of the rites... 