Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: SátáraGovernment Central Press, 1885 |
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Seite 474 - Regularly perform thy prayer at the declension of the sun, at the first darkness of the night, and the prayer of daybreak; for the prayer of daybreak is borne witness unto by the angels.
Seite 474 - Do ye reckon the giving drink to the pilgrims, and the visiting of the holy temple, to be actions as meritorious as those performed by him who believeth in God and the last day, and fighteth for the religion of God? They shall not be held equal with God.
Seite 293 - The Mahratta dominion attained its greatest extent under Ballajee Rao's administration ; and most of the principal Bramin families can only date their rise from that period. In short, the condition of the whole population was in his time improved, and the Mahratta peasantry, sensible of the comparative...
Seite 302 - Row's professions of gratitude for past favours and of entire dependence on its moderation, once more resolved to continue him on his throne, after imposing such terms on him as might secure it from his future perfidy. The principal of these terms was a commutation of the contingent which the...
Seite 237 - Sawunt-Waree, used a species of firelock, the invention of the lock for the flint having been early received from the Portuguese. Every tenth man, instead of fire-arms, carried a bow and arrows, which were useful in night attacks and surprises, when the fire-arms were kept in reserve or prohibited. The Hetkurees excelled as marksmen ; but they could seldom be brought to desperate attacks, sword in hand, for which the Mawulees of Sivajee became celebrated.
Seite 167 - By the close of November the demand for special Government help had ceased. The following details show, month by month, the various phases through which distress passed and the measures taken to relieve it In September 1876 rain so completely held off that people could not prepare their fields for the cold-weather crops. The early crops failed in...
Seite 573 - Azim Shah, and conveyed stores to the besieged. The grand attack was directed against the NE angle, which is one of the strongest points, the rock being 42 ft. high, with a bastion on the top of 25 ft. of masonry. Tarbiyat Khan undertook to mine this angle, and at the end of four and a half months had completed two mines.
Seite 249 - ... grand procession, so that when the match was ready to be applied, hundreds of the Mahrattas, attracted by his splendid retinue, crowded to the rampart, and amongst others Pryagjee the commandant. The first mine was fired, it burst several fissures in the rock, and occasioned so violent a concussion, that a great part of the masonry was thrown inwards, and crushed many of the garrison in its ruins. The storming party, in their eagerness, advanced nearer ; the match was applied to the train of...
Seite 473 - ASSISTANCE; REVEALED AT MECCA IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD When the assistance of God shall come, and the victory; and thou shalt see the people enter into the religion of God by troops: celebrate the praise of thy Lord, and ask pardon of him ;* for he is inclined to forgive.
Seite 263 - Senaputtee, charged with the command of a great proportion of the Raja's personal troops, were ordered to direct their attention to the general protection and defence of the territory. The former had authority to levy the government dues in...