The Story of GondwanaSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1916 - 228 páginas |
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aborigines Amarkantak amongst the Gonds army arose arrow Asaf Khan ASIRGARH Bakt Bakt Buland Ballal Shah Ballal Singh began Berar Bhagawan Bhonsla brethren British Burhan Shah called capital cavalry Central Provinces Chanda Chauragarh daughters death deer Delhi Deogarh Dhawalagiri district Durgavati elephants Emperor fell fire fortress four brothers four Gonds Garha Garha-Mandla goddess gods Gond gods Gond kingdom Gond kings Gond Rajah Gond rulers Gondwana hand head Hear hill Hindu Hirde Shah India Jadurai Jatba Jubbulpore jungle Kachikopa Lahugad Kherla killed Lingo liver looked Mahadeva Mandla Maratha marriage miles mission missionary Moghul Mohammedan Moslem Mudhoji Nagpur Narayan Narsingh nephew Nerbudda old Gond PACHMARHI Pardhans Parvati Pharsa Pen Raghuji Rajput Rayetal realise rice river rule sacred Sangram Satpuras seven sisters Shah's Shiva Sir Richard Temple Sitabaldi sixteen scores Southern Gond stood story to-day took Tortoise tree uncle village Vishnu wild worship young
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Página 149 - Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen, Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are sung or spoken...
Página 192 - Ye who love the haunts of Nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches, And the rain-shower and the snow-storm, And the rushing of great rivers Through their palisades of pine-trees, And the thunder in the mountains...
Página 206 - Farewell, O my Laughing Water ! All my heart is buried with you, All my thoughts go onward with you ! Come not back again to labor, Come not back again to suffer, Where the Famine and the Fever Wear the heart and waste the body. Soon my task will be completed, Soon your footsteps I shall follow To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!
Página 98 - ... to those with whom they were either openly or secretly connected ; but nowhere did they present any point of attack ; and the defeat of a party, the destruction of one of their cantonments, or the temporary occupation of...
Página 97 - Pindarrees were encumbered neither with tents nor baggage; each horseman carried a few cakes of bread for his own subsistence, and some feeds of grain for his horse. The party, which usually consisted of two or three thousand good horse, with a proportion of mounted followers, advanced at the rapid rate of forty or fifty miles a day, turning neither to the right nor left till they arrived at their place of destination.
Página 97 - ... time the most horrid atrocities, and destroying what they could not carry away. They trusted to the secrecy and suddenness of the irruption for avoiding those who guarded the frontiers of the countries they invaded; and before a force could be brought against them, they were on their return. Their chief strength lay in their being intangible. If pursued, they made marches of extraordinary length (sometimes upwards of sixty miles) by roads almost impracticable for regular troops. If overtaken,...
Página 97 - ... to the right nor left till they arrived at their place of destination. They then divided and made a sweep of all the cattle and property they could find : committing at the same time the most horrid atrocities, and destroying what they could not carry away. They trusted to the secrecy and suddenness of the irruption for avoiding those who guarded the frontiers of the countries they invaded ; and before a force could be brought against them, they were on their return. Their chief strength lay...
Página 96 - ... its special and peculiar tax. In short, a poor man could not shelter himself, or clothe himself, or earn his bread, or eat it, or marry, or rejoice, or even ask his gods for better weather, without contributing separately on each individual act to the necessities of the State...
Página 124 - ... the flesh to creep. The next second he burst upon our agonised sight in a most manful leap, descending feet foremost with terrific rapidity, till, in mid career, a projecting rock reversed his position, and caused a headlong fall. Instant death followed this descent of ninety feet, and terminated the existence of this youth, whose strength of faith and fortitude would have adorned the noblest cause, and must command admiration when feelings of horror have subsided. Thus closed, the truly appalling...
Página xvi - ... presence. He now resolved upon attempting the conquest of Garha-katanka. In the vast territories of Hindustan there is a country called Gondwana, that is, the land inhabited by the tribe of Gonds, —a numerous race of people, who dwell in the wilds, and pass most of their time in eating and drinking and the procreation of children. They are a very low race, and are held in contempt by the people of Hindustan, who look upon them as outcasts from their religion and laws. To the east of this country...