The Legends of the Panjâb, 第 1 卷

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Education Society's Press, 1884
 

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第 5 頁 - It is- little I see of thee, my son, but I see much dust. The mother whose son goes away on a journey becomes as a powder.
第 vi 頁 - ... family history of the local chief, which alas! he shifts and changes to suit the exigencies of the hour, till a mushroom family develops a lineage adequate to its present position. He is not always a very reputable personage, and is a fair representative of the lower classes that hang about an Indian chief's palace.
第 xviii 頁 - ... made itself felt, and reaction set in until at the present day the price of marten skins in northwestern Alaska does not exceed $1.50, though in the southeastern section excessive competition still keeps up a higher figure. A few more fur-bearing animals existing in Alaska may be mentioned, but they are not of sufficient importance to deserve more than a passing notice.
第 vi 頁 - ... through hundreds of lines of legend, sometimes a story picked up from the regular professional singers, and sometimes a tale connected with the object of worship peculiar to his class or sect, and always valuable. And lastly, there is the rough villager — especially in the hills — with a turn for poetry and recitation, who relates stories strictly local in their scope to an admiring crowd of his friends and neighbours, in language that is at once the joy of the philologist and the plague...
第 3 頁 - ... was born the daughter of a rajah swore an oath that if ever she married it would only be him, Rasalu. And she had ordered that a palace be built for her on that very river. From there she beheld Rasalu just as he was preparing for his ablution. On seeing him, the rajah's daughter spoke to him thus: The day thou wast born I built this palace and lived in it If thou be the prince then show me thy facei Bui the time of love had not come yet, and Rasalu left and went home.
第 vi 頁 - There are several kinds of bards. There is the bard proper, kept at the courts of native grandees who sings, inter alia, national legends and warlike feats, and is the depositary of the genealogy and family history of the local chief, which alas! he shifts and changes to suit the exigencies of the hour, till a mushroom family develops a lineage adequate to its present position.
第 50 頁 - Edjd mere da wain haih ? ike khard « dhor ? 0 Raja wandering beneath 'the palace: art thou a true man or a thief ? Art thou an enemy to my Raja ? or does an animal stand there ? * The kingdom of this celebrated hero appears to have extended from Atak to as far as Jalalabad beyond the Khaibar Pass. Atki Mall as a name seems to have an obvious referrence to Atak.
第 64 頁 - Muhammadans become saints, Sakhi Sarwar well deserves his high place amongst holy men, for the spot selected by him is the last place that any one, who in the least regarded his personal comfort, would choose as an abode.
第 vi 頁 - Ho will sing any kind of song, from a fine national legend to the filthiest dirt imaginable, and he is invariably a most disreputable rascal. Quite another kind of being is he who performs, as one of themselves, at the feasts and festivals of the low 'out-castes' of India — in imitation if the Brahman reciter of the true swung.
第 40 頁 - Alessandro over and began to talk pleasantly to him, asking him who he was, where he came from, and where he was going.

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