Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Volume 13Vepery mission Press., 1844 |
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Agastya Anjuwannam appears Arjuna Asuras bill bird Blyth Brahmans bramins brown Canarese Captain catal Chalukya chief Chola Colonel colour copy Cumari Dated in Sal distinct district excavation fane feathers feet figure gaseous pressure Ghauts given Government grant Gundert Hallux head Hegira hill honor huns inches inscription Kerala king length M. S. Book Madras Literary Society Mahishasura Mahratti Malabar Malayalam Managing Committee Manigramam means nayak Neilgherries Newbold observations obtained Pagodas paper Parasu Rama Perumal Pier piles plumage Poligar present procured quill Raja Read a letter referred Resolved revenue rock Royal Asiatic Society rufous Rupees sculptures Secretary Siva Society and Auxiliary Society's Southern India species specimens stone surf T. C. JERDON tail coverts Tamil Tank tarsus Temminck temperature temple tion translation Travancore Trichinopoly village Vishnu Walter Elliot whole wing
Populaire passages
Pagina 9 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Pagina 20 - About eighty yards west of this place, on the top of the hill, may be found, after a little research, the stone bed, with a lion for its pillow, which, in the account published in the Asiatic Researches already alluded to, is called the Dharmaraja's lion-throne, {No. 10); and at a trifling distance SW of this, is the bath of Draupadi. The lion and bed measure in length 9 feet 6 inches, and in breadth 3 feet 6 inches ; the lion is 18 inches high, and stretching across the south end appears as if intended...
Pagina 32 - O Durga, thou hast deign'd to shield Man's feeble virtue with celestial might, Gliding from yon jasper field, And, on a lion borne, hast...
Pagina 43 - Mirasi rights, a copy and translation of the >Sa£uvan Kuppam inscription will be found, which, had it been known at the time, would have rendered the publication of that given in a former part of this volume (p. 47)'"' unnecessary. The two documents agree pretty nearly, but Mr. Ellis seems to have had a less accurate transcript,, than the one prepared for me, which was obtained from two copies made by different individuals acquainted with the ancient character, and these were carefully collated...
Pagina 2 - Mamallaipur and the origin of the excavations and sculptures. With his habitual modesty he seemed to doubt his competency to deal with the latter subjects, but promised to revise and dilate his former paper. I then suggested that he should solicit the assistance of his old and valued friend, the Rev. "W. Taylor, in ascertaining something of the history of the place. This gentleman, so well known as an accomplished oriental linguist, having been recently engaged in the examination of the Mackenzie...
Pagina 17 - Avatara, or fifth incarnation of Vishnu, undertaken by him to punish pride and presumption. The story is this : Mahabali, a prince who lived in the Treta yuga, or the second age, was so elated by his prosperity, that he omitted to perform the more essential sacrifices to the gods. This being highly offensive to them, Vishnu, determined to check so bad an example, became incarnate and assumed the form of a wretched Brahman dwarf. Mahabali was at that time in possession of the whole universe, having...
Pagina 108 - ... months of the year made it obvious that a double progression in the diurnal variation of the force of the wind must exist, and rendered it highly probable that a double progression of the gaseous pressure would also be found. It was therefore with great pleasure that I received, through the kindness of Dr. Buist, a copy of the monthly abstracts of the two-hourly meteorological observations, made under that gentleman's superintendence at the observatory at Bombay in the year 1843 ; accompanied...
Pagina 38 - gentle reader," if you have it in your power, to visit these singular vestiges of antiquity at Mamallaipur. I can promise you ample recompense for your trouble. If you have antiquarian curiosity, you may here satisfy it. If you have any disposition to moralize, — as a Christian should do, — -on the end of human greatness, you will see that though here it has been attempted to " grave it in the rock for ever...
Pagina 29 - ... canopy over the sleeping God; and from each of its mouths issues a forked tongue, seeming to threaten instant death to any whom rashness might prompt to disturb him. The whole lies almost clear of the block on which it is hewn, It is finely imagined, and is executed with great skill.
Pagina 18 - Perhaps the former may represent /Sukra and Mahabali at the moment when the prince was first made acquainted by his counsellor with the true character of the dwarf, but was too proud to withdraw his royal pledge : and the latter the same after he had fallen from his high estate : or the two falling figures may imply that the two steps of Vishnu had deprived him of the dominion of heaven and earth. What the rest of the figures may illustrate, I do not conjecture.! On the wall of the opposite or north-eastern...