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... Frequent usurpations and. Civet Dogs Singhalese belief in the efficacy of charms Leopards Curious belief Anecdotes of leopards Palm - cat The green calotes Page Chameleon Ceratophora • ing limbs Crocodiles . . Jackal The horn of the ...
... Frequent usurpations and. Civet Dogs Singhalese belief in the efficacy of charms Leopards Curious belief Anecdotes of leopards Palm - cat The green calotes Page Chameleon Ceratophora • ing limbs Crocodiles . . Jackal The horn of the ...
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... Frequent usurpations and the cause . 361 Disputed successions . Page Page The animals that so bury them- Anecdotes of their instinct and selves in India ( note ) 220 ravages • Analogous case of ( note ) 221 ( text and note ) 254 V ...
... Frequent usurpations and the cause . 361 Disputed successions . Page Page The animals that so bury them- Anecdotes of their instinct and selves in India ( note ) 220 ravages • Analogous case of ( note ) 221 ( text and note ) 254 V ...
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An Account of the Island Physical Sir James Emerson Tennent. Frequent usurpations and the cause . 361 Disputed successions . Rising influence of the priesthood 338 B.C. 104. Their first endowment with land Rapid increase of the temple ...
An Account of the Island Physical Sir James Emerson Tennent. Frequent usurpations and the cause . 361 Disputed successions . Rising influence of the priesthood 338 B.C. 104. Their first endowment with land Rapid increase of the temple ...
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... frequent inconvenience . In my tours throughout the interior , I found ancient monuments , apparently defying decay , of which no one could tell the date or the founder ; and temples and cities in ruins , whose destroyers were equally ...
... frequent inconvenience . In my tours throughout the interior , I found ancient monuments , apparently defying decay , of which no one could tell the date or the founder ; and temples and cities in ruins , whose destroyers were equally ...
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... frequently employed in the construction of Buddhist tem- ples . At Piagalla , on the road be- tween Galle and Colombo , within about four miles of Caltura , there is a gneiss hill of this description on which a temple has been so ...
... frequently employed in the construction of Buddhist tem- ples . At Piagalla , on the road be- tween Galle and Colombo , within about four miles of Caltura , there is a gneiss hill of this description on which a temple has been so ...
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Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical James Emerson Tennent No preview available - 2019 |
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abundance Adam's Peak amongst Anarajapoora ancient Anim appear Asiat Báhu Batticaloa birds Blyth Boisd Brahmans Brug Buddha Buddhist century Ceylon Chemn coast cobra coco-nut Colombo colour Conch Cram cultivation dagoba described ditto Dohrn Dutugaimunu early eastern European exhibit Fabr feet fish flowers forests frequent gneiss Gray Guén Hagen Helic hills Hist Horsf Hübn Icon inches India inhabitants insects island Jaffna jungle Kandy Kandyan Kelaart king labour land larvæ Latr Layard Leach Linn Maha Mahawanso Malabar Méth Monog monsoon mountains natives Neuera-ellia Niet Pali Pasc peculiar period Pfeiff plants portion present priests Proc rain Raja Rajaratnacari Rajavali Reeve reign resembling rivers rocks Rohuna sacred shells Singhalese species Steph Syst tanks Taprobane temples tion Tissa trees Trincomalie TURNOUR'S Epitome vegetation Vert wanderoo Westw whilst wiharas Wijayo wind wood Zool
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Page 519 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.