Widow-burning: A NarrativeLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 62페이지 |
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abolish Suttee abolitionists adhesion administration admits reason agitation Ajmere apprised Brahmin British Government brother diplomatists burn bystanders cause of abolition chargé d'affaires chief constable Christianity Code of Menu Council of Regency Court of Directors Dáhima declared deemed diplo dissuade divine dominions East efforts emissaries enactments faith fatal Financial Minister G. A. SPOTTISWOODE Gwalior High Priest's Hindoo rite Hindostan Hyderabad inaction India Indore INFANTICIDE Jodhpore Jypore Kotah locks and doors LONGMAN Lord Auckland Luchmun Maharána Mahomedan Mahratta Major Ludlow Max Müller measures messenger Meywar narrative native rulers New-street-Square nobles occa officer OLD ALTERNATIVE once Oodypore opinion Oriental scholars pile POSTSCRIPT present priesthood priests primitive authority prince Professor Wilson's prohibition of Suttee race Rajpoot Sovereign Rajpootána regarded religious reproach resident Vakeels retributory Rig-Veda sacrifice sanction Sikh sion sprung Square Miles subjects superstition Suttee's tána tion truth Vedas venerated victim Ward's View widow WIDOW-BURNING Wilson woman zenána
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31 페이지 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
41 페이지 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no highroads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument either of state or beneficence behind him.
44 페이지 - Brahmin came three or four days following, and stayed an hour or two each time. I told him all that God had done for mankind from the beginning ; the evidence of Christianity, the nature of it, the folly...
41 페이지 - Englishman is lost for ever to India. With us are no retributory superstitions, by which a foundation of charity compensates, through ages, to the poor, for the rapine and injustice of a day. With us no pride erects stately monuments which repair the mischiefs which pride had produced, and which adorn a country out of its own spoils. England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools.
42 페이지 - Plate; but a people for ages civilized and cultivated — cultivated by all the arts of polished life, whilst we were yet in the woods. There have been (and still the skeletons remain) princes once of great dignity, authority, and opulence. There are to be found the chiefs of tribes and nations. There is to be found an ancient and venerable priesthood, the depository of...
13 페이지 - ... They have obtained in every nation of India, and more especially in Rajpootana; for whenever a sovereign of these states has bidden farewell to life, the queens, through the yearnings of the inward spirit, have become Suttees,* notwithstanding that the relatives were averse to the sacrifice, and would have prevented it altogether. It is not in the power of a mortal to nullify a divine, though mysterious, ordinance.
13 페이지 - The term Suttee, or Sati, is strictly applicable to the person, not the rite ; meaning " a pure and virtuous woman ;" and designates the wife who completes a life of uninterrupted conjugal devotedness by the act of Saha-gamana, accompanying her husband's corpse. It has' come in common usage to denote the act.
41 페이지 - With us no pride erects stately monuments which repair the mischiefs which pride had produced, and which adorn a country out of its own spoils. England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools. England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs.
20 페이지 - ... of the pile. The sight of a widow burning is a most painful one; but it is hard to say whether the spectator is most affected by pity or admiration. The more than human serenity of the victim, and the respect which she receives from those around her, are heightened by her gentle demeanor and her care to omit nothing in distributing her last presents, and paying the usual marks of courtesy to the bystanders; while the cruel death that awaits her is doubly felt from her own apparent insensibility...
27 페이지 - ... and divisions been even temporarily suspended. But the advantage of this concert was rendered palpable to them by their delivery from a ruinous system of extortion, with all its frightful and unnatural results. They were aware that the merit of this social, rather than political, reform, was due to Ludlow's private exertions : and thus between him and themselves there sprung up a relation on such subjects, which the antipathies of race and religion very seldom allow of among Englishmen and Hindoos....