History of the Suppression of Infanticide in Western India Under the Government of Bombay: Including Notices of the Provinces and Tribes in which the Practice Has PrevailedSmith, Taylor and Company, 1855 - 457 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
adopted Ahmadnagar appear arrangements ascertain attention authority Baroda Bháíyád Bhuj births Bombay Government Bráhman British Government Captain Carnac caste cause census Colonel Walker communication connexion Court of Directors crime of Infanticide custom darbár daugh daughters death dejás desired districts duty effect endeavours engagements expense fanticide favour feelings female children female Infanticide female infants Gáikawád Gondal Governor in Council Gujarát Highness the Ráo Hindu Hinduism Honourable the Governor humanity I'ḍar icide India Infanticide Fund inquiry Jacob Jáḍejá chiefs Jádejás Jaitwá Jám Jhálá Kachh kárkun Káthiáwád Kunbís letter Major males marriage married Márwádí measures mehtás ment Muhammadans murder Murví native Nawánagar notice number of females object observed offspring paragraph person Peshwa political agent population Porbandar practice of infanticide present preserved proclamation proposed province punishment Rájá Rájkot Rajputs received respect returns rupees Shástras Sindh sirkár Sumrá suppression of Infanticide táluká Thákur tion tribes villages Willoughby
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Página 21 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac ; and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said ; That in Isaac shall thy seed be called ; accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Página 18 - First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol.
Página 403 - And let us not be weary in well-doing ; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Página 34 - No sacrifice is allowed to women apart from their husbands, no religious rite, no fasting : as far only as a wife honours her lord, so far she is exalted in heaven.
Página 33 - Women have no business with the texts of the Veda; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no knowledge of expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself ; and this is a fixed rule.
Página 66 - Raja of their caste, who had a daughter of singular beauty and accomplishments, desired his Rajgur, or family Brahman, to affiance her to a prince of desert and rank equal to her own.
Página 379 - Om! Let these women, not to be widowed, good wives, adorned with collyrium, holding clarified butter, consign themselves to the fire. Immortal, not childless, nor husbandless, well adorned with gems, let them pass into fire, whose original element is water.
Página 33 - BY a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing must be done, even in her own dwelling place, according to her mere pleasure : 148.
Página 82 - Gondul (the custom of female infanticide having long prevailed in our caste,) do hereby agree, for ourselves and for our offspring, as also we bind ourselves, in behalf of our relations and their offspring, for ever, for the sake of our own prosperity, and for the credit of the Hindoo faith, that we shall from this day renounce this practice ; and, in default of this, that we acknowledge ourselves offenders against the Sircars.