Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal,: For Inquiring Into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia. ... Printed Verbatim from the Calcutta Edition..J. Sewell; Vernor and Hood; J. Cuthell; J. Walker; R. Lea; Lackington, Allen, and Company; Otridge and son; R. Faulder; and J. Scatcherd., 1818 |
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Seite 386 - ... it required every exertion and care to guard against a slip of about a hundred feet into a current, which dashed with great force amongst fragments of marble, which in two or three points actually formed a bridge across the stream. — In another part we were obliged to climb up the face of a rock nearly perpendicular, and on which irregularities, for the toe to hang upon, were at a most inconvenient distance. My left foot having slipped off one of them, I lay for a few seconds upon the poise,...
Seite 246 - VARAHAMIHIRA, constantly quoted as the author of the Vdrahi sanhita and Pancha siddhantica, must be judged from those works, which are undoubtedly his by the unanimous consent of the learned, and by the testimony of the ancient scholiast BHATTOTPALA. The minor works, ascribed to the same author, may have been composed in later times, and the name of a celebrated author have been affixed to them, according to a practice, which is but too common in India as in many other countries.
Seite 423 - ... that played upon the forehead. The crown of the lappet was studded with small pearls, distributed in seven rows, and the lower part was decorated with green stones, something like turquoises, but marbled with coral beads, and many bands of silver and of a yellow metal, probably gold, about a finger's breadth. A stiff band of leather, something like a soldier's collar, was placed loosely round her neck, and ornamented with five rows of coral beads. The collar was secured with a button and clasp...
Seite 218 - Such motion, as results from the assigned revolutions, by which, places being calculated agree with those which are observed, must be admitted, whether taught by a holy sage or by a temporal teacher. If then the same places are deducible from other revolutions, which of the assigned motions is the true one ? The answer is, whichever agrees with present observation must be admitted. But, if in process of time, the difference become great, then men of genius, like BRAHMEGUPTA, will arise, who will...
Seite 460 - ... generally ; the cow has a material of the same kind, not much inferior in warmth and softness, which I apprehend might prove a substitute for beaver ; the hare has her fur of peculiar length and thickness ; and even the dog has a coat of fur added to his usual covering of hair. — The wild horse ( Equus...
Seite 228 - BENTLEY, in his ingenious essays inserted in the sixth and eighth volumes of our Researches.* Without entering at present into any disquisition on this subject, or discussing the accuracy of the premises; but acceding generally to the position, that the date of a set of astronomical tables, or of a system for the computation of the places of planets, is deducible from the ascertainment of a time when that system or set of tables gave results nearest to the truth...
Seite 190 - Kuim, with a stage in it upon which the coffin was set to be burnt. This was performed with small rockets, fixed upon ropes with rings of rattan, so as to slide along them, from the top of a hill, to the coffin, which was placed on the top of another hill. The rockets, being discharged, glided along the ropes, over the intermediate valley, to the coffin, which was set on fire by them, and, with its contents, quickly consumed.
Seite 425 - Daba is perched upon the top of a rock, which juts out towards the river with an irregular declivity, and is surmounted by the highest eminence in the whole line which defends it from the N. W. At...
Seite 229 - A, to show, that the Hindus had ascertained the quantity of the precession more correctly than PTOLEMY ; and had accounted for it by a motion in libration or trepidation, before this notion was adopted by any other astronomer whose labours are known to us. It appears also from a passage of BRAHMEGUPTA'S refutation of the supposed errors of that author, and from his commentator's quotation of ARYABHATT A'S text, that this ancient astronomer maintained the doctrine of the earth's diurnal revolution...
Seite 248 - Hindu astronomy, with its apparatus of excentrics and epicycles, bears in many respects to that of the Greeks, be thought to authorize a belief, that the Hindus received from the Greeks that knowledge which enabled them to correct and improve their own imperfect astronomy, I shall not be inclined to dissent from the opinion.