Hindu Infanticide: An Account of the Measures Adopted for Suppressing the Practice of the Systematic Murder by Their Parents of Female Infants; with Incidental Remarks on Other Customs Peculiar to the Natives of India. Ed., with Notes and Illustrations, by Edward MoorEdward Moor J. Johnson and Company, 1811 - 312 стор. |
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ancient appear Avatara Baroda Bombay Bombay Government Brahman called caste Chap chief chieftain Colonel WALKER Court crime custom DAMAJI dated daughters deity derived destroy DEVA Dherole ditto DUNCAN durbar engagements existence extract father FATTEH MAHOMED favour female children female Infanticide Gaikawar goddess Gondal GOVIND RAO Guzerat Hindu Pantheon Honourable Company horrid human India influence inhabitants instance Jainas Jarejahs JAYA CHANDRA JEHAJI Jemadar Karara Kattywar killing king Koer Kutch letter Mahomedan Mahratta Mahratta empire Major WALKER marriage means mother Murvi native noticed observed offered offspring origin paragraph parents Peninsula of Guzerat perhaps Persian person Peshwa Pirate PIT'HAURA Poona practice of female practice of Infanticide present preserved prevailed put to death RAHU Raj-Gur Raja Rajah Rajekoomars Rajputs reference religion Remarks rendered renounce Resident respect sacrifice Sanskrit Sastras sect SHAMSHIR SIVA sometimes Sravakas SUNDERJI SIVAJI Thakur ticide Tomara tribe VISHNU word written Yatis
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Сторінка 188 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits away : Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades ; As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
Сторінка 232 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Сторінка 257 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Сторінка 188 - The world of matter, with its various forms, All dies into new life. Life born from death Rolls the vast mass, and shall for ever roll. No single atom, once in being, lost, With change of counsel charges the Most High.
Сторінка 257 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Сторінка 263 - The Romans," says Montesquieu, " deserved well of human nature, for ." making it an article in their treaty with the " Carthaginians, that they should abstain from " SACRIFICING their CHILDREN to their Gods.
Сторінка 236 - In the time of ignorance, while they used this method to get rid of their daughters, Sasaa, grandfather to the celebrated poet Al Farazdak, frequently redeemed female children from death, giving for every one two shecamels big with young, and a he-camel ; and...
Сторінка 255 - By a son a man obtains victory over all people; by a son's son he enjoys immortality; and afterwards by the son of that grandson he reaches the solar abode.
Сторінка 235 - The law of Mohammed also put a stop to the inhuman custom, which had been long practised by the pagan Arabs, of burying their daughters alive, lest they should be reduced to poverty by providing for them, or else to avoid the...
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