Ancient India

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Luzac & Company, 1911 - 451 pagini
 

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Pagina 22 - all poor or helpless patients suffering from all kinds of infirmities. They are well taken care of, and a doctor attends them ; food and medicine being supplied according to their wants. Thus they are made quite comfortable, and when they are well, they may go away...
Pagina 186 - The tank has been ruined and useless for very many years, and its bed is now almost wholly overgrown with high and thick jungle. It is said traditionally that its ruin was wilful and the act of an invading army. Near the southern extremity of the bund there is a village now surrounded by jungle, called Gungacundapoorum. Immediately in its vicinity is a pagoda of very large size and costly workmanship, and close by, surrounded and overgrown with jungle, are some reo Revenue Rupees bO l| § a Name.
Pagina xiii - Kulottunga in AD 1118. It is clear from the details on record that the administration of the kingdom was ' highly systematized
Pagina 72 - If the wind called Hippalus be blowing, Muziris, the nearest mart of India, can be reached in forty days. It is not a desirable place of call, pirates being in the neighbourhood who occupy a place called Nitrias, and besides it is not well supplied with wares for traffic.
Pagina 36 - ... the Yadavas of Devagiri, the Kakatiyas of Warangal, and the Hoysalas of Dvarasamudra.
Pagina 72 - India, considers that the coin finds lead to the following conclusions1: 1. There was hardly any commerce between Rome and India during the Consulate. 2. With Augustus began an intercourse which, enabling the Romans to obtain oriental luxuries during the early days of the empire, culminated about the time of Nero, who died AD G8.
Pagina 172 - When one who is on the committees is found guilty of (any) offence, be shall be removed (at once). For appointing the committees after these have retired, the members of the 'committee...
Pagina 73 - From the date of Caracalla it almost entirely ceased. 5. It revived again, though slightly, under the Byzantine emperors. He also infers that the trade under the early emperors was...
Pagina 171 - Of the thirty men thus chosen, those who had (previously) been on the 'garden committee' and on the 'tank committee', those who are advanced in learning, and those who are advanced in age, shall be chosen for the annual committee ; of the rest, twelve shall be taken for the 'garden committee' and the remaining six shall form the 'tank committee'.
Pagina xiii - It is clear from the details on record that the administration of the kingdom was ' highly systematized ' from an early date. For instance, there is abundant evidence that ' the lands under cultivation were carefully surveyed and holdings registered at least a century before the famous Domesday record of William the Conqueror...

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