Rough Notes of Journeys Made in 1868,'69,'70,'71, '72 &'73 in Syria, Down the Tigris, India, Kashmir, Ceylon, Japan [&c.]. - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII. Sreenuggur, capital of Kashmir--Guide-books' opinions very flowery--Throne of Solomon--Old temples--Lingam with serpents--Persian inscriptions--Temper iture delightful--Quaint city--No wheeled vehicles--An officer to take care of foreigners--Great hospitality of the Maharajah--Free bungalows for visitors--Four legalised routes--Provisions cheap-Shooting, fishing, and flirting--Origin of Kashmir shawl-pattern--Well-timbered land--Miles of orchards--Pandruttun--Hindoo temple--Shawl-shop--The city a jumble of houses, dirty streets--Hindoo temples--Mosques--The Government is Hindoo--Population, Mahometans and Hindoos--Manufactory of shawls crowded and stinking--New bazaar--Works in gold and silver--Labour cheap--Fort Hurri Purbut--Apple-tree Canal--Ruins of the Akhorn--Shah Hamza--Rock dedicated to Vishnu--Great mosque of Shah Jehan--Old ruins--Dul or City Lake--Lotus and other plants in flower--Shawl-washing--Kraleegur built on islands--Ruined mosque--Tomb--Floating gardens of melons and cucumbers--Hnzrutbal; the mosque has a hair of the Prophet's beard--Grovo of plane-trees--ShalimarBagh gardens--The zenana--Nusseb Bagh gardens--Wonderful tree vegetation--Origin of the valley--No rice, no man--The Badshah the noblest ruin in the city--The Maharajah owns all the land; lets for cultivation, and gets lion's share--He turns tombs of his predecessors into storehouses--Old mosque going to ruin--Caterpillars turned into wood--New palace--Ruins--Statues--Lingam--A word to the "weather-wise"--Mr Glaislier--Great flea nation--The Musjid built by NourmahaL the Light of the Harem, now a rice-store--Mahometan mosques turned into bams by Hindoos--Manusbul Lake; very large lotus--Ruins of palace, garden, and temple--The fakir preparing his grave--Palballan ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150243120
- ISBN 13 9781150243127
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages220
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