 | Basil Hall - 1845 - 252 페이지
...fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints. in a situation which does not admit of attempting a severe blow without...of dislocating the first joints of all the fingers. The set-to or battle consists of a mixture of -wrestling and boxing, but the head is th« only object... | |
 | Mark Wilks - 1869 - 588 페이지
...weapon, it is fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints, in a situation, it will be observed, which does not admit...and after making their prostrations, first to the Kaja seated on his ivory throne, in a balcony which overlooks the arena, and then to the lattices behind... | |
 | Mark Wilks - 1869 - 568 페이지
...weapon, it is fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints, in a situation, it will be observed, which does not admit...their names and abodes are proclaimed ; and after makmg their prostrations, first to the Raja seated on his ivory throne, in a balcony which overlooks... | |
 | Edgar Thurston - 1906 - 682 페이지
...weapon, it is fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints, in a situation, it will be observed, which does not admit,...without the risk of dislocating the first joints of .•ill the fingers. Thus armed, and adorned with garlands of flowers, the successive pairs of combatants,... | |
 | Edgar Thurston - 1906 - 680 페이지
...Mysore, 1800t Historical sketches, Mysore, 1810-17. matched by the masters of the feast, are led in to the arena ; their names and abodes are proclaimed...prostrations first to the Raja seated on his ivory throne, and then to the lattices behind which "the ladies of the court are seated, they proceed to the combat,... | |
 | Edgar Thurston - 1906 - 694 페이지
...weapon, it is fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints, in a situation, it will be observed, which does not admit of attempting a severe blow withont the risk of dislocating the first joints of .-ill the fingers. Thus armed, and adorned with... | |
 | Edgar Thurston - 1909 - 562 페이지
...weapon, it is fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints, in a situation, it will be observed, which does not admit...prostrations, first to the Raja seated on his ivory throne, and then to the lattices behind which the ladies of the court are seated, they proceed to the combat,... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1995 - 298 페이지
...fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints, in a situation which does not admit of attempting a severe blow without...of dislocating the first joints of all the fingers. The set-to or battle consists of a mixture of wrestling and boxing, but the head is the only object... | |
 | Basil Hall - 2005 - 304 페이지
...fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints, in a situation which does not admit of attempting a severe blow without...of dislocating the first joints of all the fingers. The set-to or battle consists of a mixture of wrestling and boxing, but the head is the only object... | |
 | Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) - 1927 - 272 페이지
...weapon, it is fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second lower joints, in a situation, it will be observed, which does not admit...of dislocating the first joints of all the fingers" (M. Wilks, Historical Sketches of the South of India. I, p. 32. London 1869). The Jettis of Mysore... | |
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This instrument, properly placed, would enable a man of ordinary strength to cleave open the head of his adversary at a blow ; but the fingers being introduced through the weapon, it is fastened across them at an equal distance between the first and second... 