Ancient India as Described by Megasthenês and Arrian

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Thacker, Spink, 1877 - 223페이지
 

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87 페이지 - Those who have charge of the city are divided into six bodies of five each. The members of the first look after everything relating to the industrial arts. Those of the second attend to the entertainment of foreigners. To these they assign lodgings, and they keep watch over their modes of life by means of those persons whom they give to them for assistance.
210 페이지 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
32 페이지 - It is accordingly affirmed that famine has never visited India, and that there has never been a general scarcity in the supply of nourishing food.
220 페이지 - They wear shoes made of white leather, and these are elaborately trimmed, while the soles are variegated, and made of great thickness.
70 페이지 - in contrast to the general simplicity of their style, they love finery and ornament. Their robes are worked in gold and ornamented with precious stones, and they wear also flowered garments made of the finest muslin.
31 페이지 - many vast plains of great fertility, more or less beautiful, but all alike intersected by a multitude of rivers. The greater part of the soil moreover is under irrigation, and consequently bears two crops in the course of the year.
64 페이지 - ... of a fall of a separate year. From the brow of this curious wall of snow, and immediately above the outlet of the stream, large and hoary icicles depend ; they are formed by the freezing of the melted snow-water...
70 페이지 - The simplicity of their laws and their contracts is proved by the fact that they seldom go to law. They have no suits about pledges and deposits, nor do they require either seals or witnesses, but make their deposits and confide in each other. Their houses and property they generally leave unguarded. These things indicate that they possess sober sense. * * Truth and virtue they hold alike in esteem.
221 페이지 - ... there is nothing which can resist an Indian archer's shot — neither shield nor breastplate, nor any stronger defence if such there be.
86 페이지 - Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices by which water is let out from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it.

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