THE CUSTOMS, MANNERS, RITES, SUPERSTITIONS, TRADITIONS, PARABOLICAL, IDIOMATICAL, AND PROVERBIAL FORMS OF SPEECH, CLIMATE, WORKS OF ART, AND LITERATURE, OF THE HINDOOS, DURING A RESIDENCE IN THE EAST OF NEARLY FOURTEEN YEARS. BY JOSEPH ROBERTS, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE. MDCCCXLIV. 2010 MEMENTO OF AFFECTION ΤΟ THE REV. JABEZ BUNTING, D.D., TO THE REV. JOSEPH TAYLOR, AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE LAMENTED REV. RICHARD WATSON, THE GENERAL SECRETARIES OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN THE YEAR 1818, WHEN THE WRITER OF THESE PAGES WAS ORDAINED AS A MISSIONARY TO THE EAST. |