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CHAPTER XXVIII.

District of Chandode.. solemn groves.. sanctity of Chandode.. brahmins.. temples..

altars..Jaggernaut.. account of the ceremonies there by Dr. Buchanan.. funeral

ceremony of the Hindoos.. beautiful address to the elements.. extract from Sa-

contala.. four grand divisions of Hindoo castes.. temple and village worship..

sealing of the worshippers.. mark on the forehead very generally adopted..orna-

ments and paintings in the temples.. Menu's Hindoo laws.. preliminary dis-

course.. brahminical belief in the unity of God.. polytheism of the Hindoos..

beautiul letter from a Hindoo rajah to Aurungzebe.. doctrine of the metempsy-

chosis.. doctrines of the Grecian philosophers, compared with the religion of the

patriarchs.. character of a real Yogee.. pure brahminism.. mysteries in their reli-

gion.. sublimity admitted.. truth and beauty of divine revelation far beyond them

..happy death of a christian contrasted by Hindoo darkness and superstition..

further considerations on that subject..idea of the Indian natives respecting

christianity in its doctrines and practice.. the subject pursued in different points

of view..effects of modern philosophy among the Europeans in India.. its different

effects.. an interesting conversion.. further reflections.. character of an excellent

minister, Swartz, and other Indian missionaries.. interest taken by George the

First and Archbishop Wake for the conversion of the Hindoos; letter from the

prelate to the missionaries.. cause and effects of irreligion.. a sovereign remedy..

beautiful extract from the writings of Bishop Horne.. conclusion of the solemn

subject.

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CHAPTER XXIX.

Conquest of Ahmedabad by General Goddard..journey from Dhuboy thither,

through Baroche, Ahmood, Jamboseer, and Cambay.. Guzerat coss.. Ahmood

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purgunna.. town of Ahmood.. swelling of the Indian rivers.. account of a dread-

ful storm in Guzerat.. mode of crossing the Guzerat rivers.. mango topes.. Jam-

boseer purgunna.. plentiful crops.. general effects of famine in Hindostan..

particulars of a dreadful famine in the Bengal provinces.. British humanity on

that occasion.. town of Jamboseer.. Gurry.. Hindoo houses. . Coolies, a tribe

of robbers.. poetical description of a Hindoo village. manner of travelling..

brahminic kites and vultures.. Pariar dogs.. erroneous geography of Pliny..sar

donyx mountains.. river Myhi.. further account of the Coolies.. their country

described.. Cambay purgunna.. remains of antiquity near Cambay.. Cambat..

ancient pillar.. pillar of Feroze Shah.. Sacred Isles of the West, a very curious

research.. resemblance between the Hindoo and English festivals.. that of the

Hooli, and Vastu Puja..singular ceremonies of Hindoo worship.. strange mis-

conception of a transaction at Dhuboy.. cruel oppressions by the nabob of Cam-

bay.. ruinous state of his country and capital.. noble character of Akber.. arrival

at Cambay, and polite reception by the Nabob and Vizier..elegant entertain-

ment at the Vizier's house.. Persian emigrants at Cambay.. magnificent jewels..

the hill of lustre, and ocean of lustre, two transcendant diamonds in Persia..

Tucht-Taoos, the peacock throne.. its value..commerce of Cambay in the reign

of Queen Elizabeth.. its former opulence.. causes of its decline.. Dr. Robertson's

picture of a Hindoo rajah proved to be erroneous.. wild beasts in Guzerat.. dis-

covery of lions.. perilous adventure of a company of sportsmen on that occasion

..departure from Cambay.. Sejutra.. Guzerat villages and cultivation.. beauty of

the antelopes.. Soubah of Guzerat in the reign of Akber.. division of the empire

at that period.. valuable oxen in Guzerat.. horses in India.. ancient splendor of

Guzerat.. beautiful mausoleums at Betwah.. affectionate veneration for the dead

in Hindostan.. description of the Taje Mahal at Agra.. estimate of the expenses

in building that wonderful structure.. short comparison with Solomon's temple at

Jerusalem....

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CHAPTER XXX.

Description of Ahmed-abad.. when built by Sultan Ahmed.. its former magnitude,

and great decay, compared with Nineveh and Babylon..contrast between the

Mogul palaces and Mahratta hovels.. melancholy situation of the reduced Mogul

families.. charities in Hindostan.. caravansaries.. those on the royal roads de-

scribed.. Jumma-musjed at Ahmed-abad, its uncommon grandeur and extent..

tomb of sultan Ahmed.. mosques of Sujaatt Khaun.. ivory mosque..dreadful

heat.. public wells and aqueducts.. palaces and gardens..city of dust..banian

hospital.. gold formerly coined there.. public hummums.. news writers.. Kokarea

uncommon palmyra.. Dutch burying-ground.. Dutch and English factories..

trade at that time.. manufactures.. artists.. Persian and Mogul beauties.. nurses

in India.. mausoleums and mosque at Sercaze.. palace and gardens at Shah-

Bhaug.. park and pleasure-grounds.. Zenana.. arrangement in Akber's haram..

Damascus rose..ottar of roses.. Nurse's well, a most costly structure.. sepulchres

of Mahomedan nurses.. Narwallee, the ancient capital of Guzerat.. conquered by

Afghans.. indolent and peaceable character of the Hindoos..became an easy

conquest to these northern invaders.. immense plunder..splendid taste of their

monarchs.. the celestial bride, a gorgeous temple erected by sultan Mahmood..

Afghans conquered by the Mogul Tartars.. character of Timur-Lung.. his dread-

ful cruelty in the massacre at Delhi.. his posterity to the beginning of the eigh-

teenth century.. declining state of the empire, and usurpation of the nabobs..

the cause of Ahmed-abad and Cambay becoming independent.. Ahmed-abad

conquered by the Mahrattas.. nabob flies to Cambay, and pays tribute to that

power.. taken by the English under General Goddard.. Ayeen Akbery.. Akber..

Abul Fazel..his sublime and beautiful preface to the Institutes of Akber..succes-

sors to that emperor.. splendid taste of the Mogul princes.. the Dewane-khass, a

magnificent hall in the palace of Shah Allum, described.. reflections on the

Mogul history.........

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CHAPTER XXXI.

Departure from Ahmedabad.. visit the mosques and tombs at Peerana.. Dolcah, a

large and strong town.. Cusbattees on military tenure.. beauty of the country..

depredations of the Coolies.. Bursora.. return to Cambay.. summer palaces and

gardens.. palace in Cuttek..correspondence with Mirza Zummaun, vizier of

Cambay, when disgraced by the nabob.. Siddees and attendants on the nabob..

slavery in India.. portrait of an Asiatic sovereign..cruelty of zemindars and offi-

cers of government.. purchase of slaves.. nabob's entertainment at Dil Gusha..

gardens.. temple of fountains.. luxury of an oriental evening.. pavilions.. danc-

ing-girls.. songs.. poetry.. Persian stanzas and distichs.. Persian feast.. professed

story-tellers at Cambay.. illustrations of Scripture by modern customs in India..

Voltaire's philosophy.. fatal tendency of infidelity in India.. David Hume..dis-

crimination in the oriental entertainments as to food and presents of apparel.. a

passage in scripture explained from Homer, and modern manners in Hindostan

..further illustrations. . familiarity of the inferior Mahomedans at great feasts..

subjection of Asiatic females.. tents and pavilions.. palanquins.. hackaree..feast

of Ahasuerus contrasted with modern entertainments.. great similarity of ancient

and modern despotism.. princely banquet from a Persian story.. intelligent brah-

mins.. departure from Cambay.. reflections on the journey.

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CHAPTER XXXII.

Improvement in the population, cultivation and revenue of the Dhuboy purgunnas

.. irruptions of the Gracias and Bheels.. character of those banditti.. endeavours

to bring them to terms.. insolence and cruelty of the Gracias.. their shameful

behaviour at the Gate of Diamonds.. expedition against their capital of Mandwa

.. instructions of the British commanding officer.. success of the enterprize.. cap-

ture of the town, and the ladies in the haram.. their treatment as hostages at

Dhuboy.. correspondence with Kessoor Khan, chief of Vazeria.. account of the

Bhauts, demanded as security for the good behaviour of the Gracias.. similarity

in the language and conduct of those people, with several in ancient times..

treaties entered into with the Gracia chieftains on Bhaut security; hostages re-

leased, and peace restored.. Hindoo legend of the Bhauts.. bards proclaim the

praises of heroes, and sometimes of females. . account of the Charuns, a similar

tribe.. astrologers and soothsayers in Hindostan compared with Balaam, and those

in the Grecian and Roman annals.. astrology and geomancy taught in the Hin-

doo seminaries.. schools instituted by Akber.. wise women of the east.. known

among the Jews, Greeks, and Romans.. consulted chiefly by lovers in India..

one of them applied to by Zeida.. anecdote of this interesting female and an

English gentleman, after such an application.. warm imagination and lofty flights

of the Persian poets.. stanzas from the Yusef Zelakha of Jami.. virtues of oint-

ments and love-potions.. passage from Horace.. spells and charms complained of

in the courts of Adawlet at Baroche and Dhuboy.. virtues of the Hinna.. poisons

and enchantments.. on the death of Germanicus.

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