Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency ..., 17권Printed at the Government Central Press, 1884 |
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397 페이지 - ... effect. Gilded balls and cupolas surmounted the tops of the royal tents, the outside of which, and the canvas walls, were of a variety of lively colours, disposed in a manner which heightened the general splendour. The entrance into the royal enclosure was through a spacious portal, flanked by two elegant pavilions, from which extended on each side rows of cannon forming an avenue at the extremity of which was an immense tent containing the great state drums and imperial band. A little...
406 페이지 - ... determination of the united chiefs as soon as they met. On the 3rd of June, Shinde and Raghuji Bhosle met at Bodwad near Malkapur and from that day, though they were shown that the treaty of Bassein was purely defensive, they evaded giving any answer till the 8th of July 1803. Both Shinde and Raghuji Bhosle then declared that they had no intentions to attack the British or their allies or to obstruct the execution of the treaty of Bassein, provided the British would not prevent the execution...
408 페이지 - Wellesley reconnoitred the ground near the fort, and on that evening Colonel Wallace with five companies of the 74th Regiment and the 2nd battalion of the 12th Regiment, seized a position within 400 yards of the wall. On this spot in the course of the night, a four-gun battery was built to take off the defences from the side on which General Wellesley proposed to attack.
397 페이지 - The canvas walls which encompassed the royal tents formed a circumference of 1200 yards and contained every description of apartment to be found in the most spacious palace. Halls of audience for public assemblies and privy councils, with all the courts and cabinets attached to them, each hall magnificently adorned and having within it a raised seat or throne for the emperor, surrounded by gilded pillars with canopies of velvet, richly fringed and superbly embroidered, separate tents as mosques and...
385 페이지 - Maloji was an active shiledar or cavalier, and acquitted himself so well in various duties entrusted to him that he began to rise to distinction. He had by some means made an addition to his small body of horse and was always much noticed by his first patron Jadhavrav. The story told of his rise to power in the Ahmadnagar court is, that in 1599 at the time of the Holi festival in...
6 페이지 - In the alternation of the strata there does not appear to be any uniformity ; but the general level, thickness, and extent of a stratum are preserved, as in sedimentary rocks, on both sides of a valley ; the basalt and hardest amygdaloids being traceable for miles in the parallel spurs or ranges ; but the imbedded minerals, and even the texture, vary in very short distances.
692 페이지 - Sindia and some other large buildings, seemed to have been a place of great splendour. In two rooms of the palace were found several dozen large handsome pier glasses, two electrifying machines, an organ, a pianoforte, lustres, chandeliers, globes, and many other luxuries. In other rooms were the richest stuffs of India, cloth of gold and silver, splendid armour, silks, satins, velvets, furs, shawls, plate, and...
398 페이지 - As they lay their swords were by their sides and their spears were generally at their horses' heads stuck in the ground. When halted on a plain groups of four or five might be seen stretched on the bare earth sound asleep, their bodies exposed to the...
296 페이지 - Brahman creditors, Marathas, Kunbis and Gujarat Vanis are mild and kindly. A Marwari will press a debtor when pressure means ruin. The saying runs that he will attach and sell his debtor's cooking and drinking vessels even when the family are in the midst of a meal. Brahmans, whose position in society tends to make them popular, are shrewd and cautious in their dealings, and as a class avoid extreme measures for the recovery of their debts. A Gujarat Vani, a Maratha or a Kunbi creditor will seldom...
408 페이지 - ... to desire that I should cease firing, in order that he might send a person to treat for his surrender. In my answer I told him, that I should not cease firing till I should have taken the fort, or he should have surrendered it ; but that I would listen to whatever he was desirous to communicate.