The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana, and the Indian embassies to Rome from the reign of Augustus to the death of Justinian |
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Page 132 - When the father of a family perceives his muscles become flaccid, and his hair grey, and sees the child of his child, let him then seek refuge in a forest. Abandoning all food eaten in towns, and all his household utensils, let him repair to the lonely wood, committing the care of his wife to her sons, or accompanied by her, if she choose to attend him.
Page 126 - They have houses and temples of a royal foundation, and in them stewards, who receive from the king a certain allowance of food, bread, and vegetables for each convent. When the convent bell rings, all strangers then in the house withdraw, and the Shamans enter and betake themselves to prayer. Prayer ended, at the sound of a second bell the servants place before each individual, for two never eat together, a dish of rice, but to any one who wants variety they give besides either vegetables or fruit....
Page 90 - For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram : once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Page 32 - As. Res., viii. 298. which should stand on a par with that of the statesman or the general has by the fault of sailors themselves, become contemptible and degraded. Besides the best of my acts in that life no one then thought worthy even of praise.
Page 112 - Gamini laid himself on his bed with his hands and feet gathered up. The princess mother enquired : " My boy why not stretch thyself on thy bed and lie down comfortably ?" " Confined," replied he, " by the Damilos beyond the river (Mahawelliganga), and on the other side by the unyielding ocean, how can I lie down with outstretched limbs.
Page 125 - ... of trees which are found in plenty near the river and which afford an almost constant succession of fresh fruits, and, should these fail, on the self-sown wild rice that grows there. To eat any other food, or even to touch animal food, they hold to be the height of impiety and uncleanness. Each man has his own cabin, and lives as much as he can by himself, and spends the day and the greater part of the night in prayers and hymns to the gods. And they so dislike society, even that of one another,...
Page 128 - ... when danger threatens the country. ' Both Shamans and Brahmans have such a notion of death that they impatiently bear with life, and view it but as a necessary though burdensome service imposed upon them by nature. They hasten, therefore, to free the soul from the body. And often when a man is in good health, and no evil whatever presses upon him, he will give notice of his intention to quit the world, and his friends will not try to dissuade him from it, but rather account him happy, and give...
Page 22 - They are crested; and though in the young the crest is small (fi/rptov), when they are full-grown, it reaches to a conspicuous height. They are of a fiery colour, with serrated backs, and bearded ; their necks are erect, and their scales shine like silver. The pupils of their eyes are a fiery stone of wonderful and mystic properties. They are hunted for the sake of their eyes, skin, and teeth. A dragon of this kind will sometimes attack an elephant ; both then perish, and are a " find
Page 138 - ... or twelve cubits high, standing upright with its hands folded crosswise — and the right half of its face was that of a man, and the left that of a woman; and in like manner the right hand and right foot, and in short the whole right side was male and the left female, so that the spectator was struck with wonder at the combination, as he saw how the two dissimilar sides coalesced in an indissoluble union...