" Thus when food is cooked, an oblation is made by the Hindu to trees, with an appropriate invocation before the food is eaten.

On the same principle, it is worthy of note, as Mr. Fiske remarks that, "the Hindu commentators of the Veda certainly lay great stress on the fact that the palasa is trident-leaved."

Oh! one of father's Hindu converts had been a juggler.

This solitary exception was a Hindu carrier who chanced to tumble off the brink of a chasm in the Himalayas.

I would therefore invite the English friend, and every Englishman in India, and every Hindu, be he moderate or extremist, to make common cause with the Mahomedans and thereby compel the Government of India to do its duty, and thereby compel His Majesty's Ministers to do theirs.

And it will he a greater possibility if all the important men, English, Hindu and others of the country discountenance it.

In my humble opinion they are humiliating to the Supreme Council, to the British ministers, and if as a Hindu with deep reverence for Christianity I may say so, a denial of Christ's teachings.

If Indiaboth Hindu and Mahomedancan act as one man and can withdraw her partnership in this crime against humanity which the peace terms represent, she will soon secure a revision of the treaty and give herself and the Empire at least, if not the world, a lasting peace.

Your desire to unite Mohammedan and Hindu and to share with your Mohammedan brethren in seeking the satisfaction of Mohammedan aspirations, we can understand and sympathize with.

The Valhalla of the Norseman, the Nirvana of the Hindu, the Heaven of the Christian are natural hopes of beings whose cares and disappointments here are softened by belief that somewhere, Thor, Brahma or God gives compensation.

Here they were forestalled by the Hindu sages.

The Chinese annals also extend back to a remote period, for Confucius wrote history as well as ethics; but Chinese literature has comparatively little interest for us, as also that of all Oriental nations, except the Hindu Vedas and the Persian Zend-Avesta, and a few other poems showing great fertility of the imagination, with a peculiar tenderness and pathos.

"He looks like a Hindu thinking of reincarnation.

Had India not been an English colony, literature might not have had Kipling's fascinating Jungle Books and Hindu stories.

A Hindu boy was matched against a white one, a couple of wrestlers came next, and then two English sailors, with more spirit than skill, had a set-to which warmed the audience into enthusiasm and ended amid shouts, whistles, shrill cat-calls, and thunders of applause.

He was dreaming night and day of the Great Road through Chiltistan to the foot of the Hindu Kush.

Flinch, and the Road runs straight to the Hindu Kush.

Linforth had done his best to hinder it, as Ralston had bidden him to do, but he had failed, and the Road would go on to the foot of the Hindu Kush.

"Oh, man of one idea, in any case the Road will go on to the foot of the Hindu Kush.

That's the price which Chiltistan must pay as security for future peacethe military road through Kohara to the foot of the Hindu Kush.

Whether the Khan really believed the story of the fairiesthere is nothing more usual than a belief in fairies in the countries bordered by the snow-peaks of the Hindu Kushor whether he used the story as a blind to conceal the real source of his fear, the Resident could not decide.

"There are a number of Hindu merchants settled therewe will give you letters to them.

Akbar must have been a broad-minded man, for we found paintings of the Annunciation side by side with pictures of the Hindu god Ganesh.

Unlike Mughal art, it was a product of Hindu courts in Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills and unlike Mughal painting, its chief concern was with the varied phases of romance.

According to the ancient Hindu Scriptures, the proper amount of food is half of what can be conveniently eaten.