Handbook of the Punjab, Western Rajputana, Kashmir, and Upper SindhJ. Murray, 1883 - 334 страница |
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Afgháns áhe Ajmír Akbar Amritsar ancient arches ascend Ashoka Badnera Bágh banglá bank bázár beautiful Bhopal Bhusawal Brahman bridge British called cantonment capital carved cavalry cemetery centre Chhatrí church court crossed Cunningham dák Dihlí dín district dome Emperor English garden gate gateway Ghát ground guns Guru height hill Hindú Hiouen Thsang India Indus inscription Jahán Jalandhar Jaypúr Jhílam Kábul Kángra Kashmir Khán killed Láhor lake Mahárájá masonry miles Mosque Muḥammad Multán Muslim building Muslim style NAME AND LOCALITY Núwáb palace Panjab PANJÁBÍ Pass Peshawar pillars Quetta Ráí Railway Rájá Rájpúts Rám Ranjit Ranjit Singh Ráo reign river road rock roof rooms ROUTE ruins sandstone Saráí Sháh Shiva Shrinagar shrine side Sikhs SINDHÍ Singh Sinh Sirhind stone stream stupa tank Taxila tomb tower town traveller trees Ujjain valley village visitor wall white marble
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Страница 260 - When the shrines through the foliage are gleaming half shown, And each hallows the hour by some rites of its own. Here the music of prayer from a minaret swells, Here the Magian his urn, full of perfume, is swinging, And here, at the altar, a zone of sweet bells Round the waist of some fair Indian dancer is ringing.
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Страница 260 - 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?
Страница 132 - Delhi and Ajmir are probably unrivalled. Nothing in Cairo or in Persia is so exquisite in detail, and nothing in Spain or Syria can approach them for beauty of surface-decoration.
Страница 216 - On that memorable night the English were hardly masters of the ground on which they stood ; they had no reserve at hand, while the enemy had fallen back upon a second army, and could renew the fight with increased numbers.
Страница 171 - Simla is of peculiar beauty ; it presents a series of magnificent views, embracing on the S. the Umballa Plains with the Sabathu and Kasauli Hills in the foreground, and the massive block of the Chor, a little to the E. ; while just below the spectator's feet a series of huge ravines lead down into the deep valleys which score the mountain sides. Northwards the eye wanders over a network of confused chains, rising range above range, and crowned in the distance by a crescent of snowy peaks standing...
Страница 216 - December, the last remnants of the Sikhs were driven from their camp; but as the day advanced, the second wing of their army approached in battle-array, and the wearied and famished English saw before them a desperate, and perhaps, useless struggle.
Страница 261 - ... in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted roots. The bed floats, but is kept in its place by a stake of willow driven through it at each end, which admits of its rising or falling in accommodation to the rise or fall of the water.