INDEX.
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A.
Aboo, tomb of, vol. ii.
223
.
Abrus precatorius, i.
315
.
Acacia Arabica, i.
221
; ii.
74
.
Achibut chamber, i.
213
.
—, sacred, i.
214
.
Adansonia digitata, i.
116-118
,
225
.
Æschynomene grandiflora, i.
316
.
— paludosa, i.
286
.
Āghā Meer, i.
165
.
Agra, great gun at, i.
276
.
Akbar Shāh, tomb of, at Secundra, i.
374
.
Albatross, i.
8
,
9
; ii.
354
.
Ali Merdan Khan, palace of, ii.
218
.
— — —, his canal of paradise, ii.
194
.
Allahabad, arrival at, i.
71
.
—, residence at, i.
77
.
—, sātī at, i.
91
.
—, temple of Bhawānī at, i.
95
.
—, pillar in the fort at, i.
309
; ii.
295
,
468
.
—, city of, i.
309
.
—, garden, caravan-sarā’e, and great well at, ii.
465-467
.
Alligarh, fortress of, ii.
187
.
Alligators, tame, ii.
88
.
— in their own wildernesses, i.
328
.
Alms, necessity of giving, i.
465
,
466
.
Amaranthus Gangeticus, i.
314
,
315
.
— Tricolor, i.
314
.
Amazonian Mahratta lady, ii.
54
,
55
.
Amherst, Lord, i.
58
.
Andaman Islands, i.
18
; ii.
476
.
Anna, Purna-Devi, ii.
179
.
Ants, strange notion of the Muhammadans respecting, i.
314
.
—, white, i.
145
,
146
,
312
,
313
.
Arwarī fish, i.
393
; ii.
182
,
295
.
Apathy of the natives, i.
296
.
Appa Sāhib, his six wives, ii.
9
.
Archer, Lord, i.
58
.
Architect of the gods, ii.
64
.
Arrak, i.
147
,
148
.
Arrows, poisoned, ii.
73-76
,
366
.
—, whistling, i.
235
.
— of the Coles, i.
236
.
—, Persian and Arabian, ii.
41
.
Artocarpus integrifolia, i.
233
.
Arzumund Bānū, account of, i.
350
,
351
.
Asclepias gigantea, i.
275
.
— rosea, i.
311
.
Asiatic Society of Calcutta, ii.
105
.
Asoca, a shrub sacred to Mahadēo, ii.
175
.
Assam leaf insect, ii.
104
.
Auckland, Lord, arrival of, at Allahabad, ii.
137
.
—, Lord, and the Misses Eden visit the ex-Queen of Gwalior, ii.
137
,
138
.
Avatars, the ten, ii.
153-168
.
Ayha, revenge of an, i.
137
.
— and durwān, i.
142
,
143
.
B.
Baboo Ramohun Roy, i.
29
.
Bāghmars, tiger-killers, ii.
130-133
.
Bāgh-sira, i.
290
.
Bāiza Bā’ī, her Highness the, ii.
2-9
,
22
,
32-39
,
43-52
,
54-56
,
61-63
,
109-113
,
116-118
,
135-138
,
291-293
,
296
,
342-344
,
465
.
Balaiyā lenā, ceremony of, ii.
110
.
Bandarponch, the mountain, ii.
265-269
.
Banglā of the pilgrim, view from the, ii.
237
.
Barāh or Varāha, the third avatar, ii.
156
.
Barkandāz, i.
67
,
135
,
299
.
Barrackpūr, i.
38
; ii.
101
.
Basil.—
See
Tulsī
.
Bassia longifolia, i.
122
.
Baths, steam, i.
86
,
100
,
368
,
419
.
Bauhinia scandens, ii.
77
,
78
.
Bazār, Barā, i.
57
.
Beauty, female, notions of, entertained by the natives of India, i.
385
.
Beetle-wings used in embroidery, i.
67
.
Beggars, river, ii.
102
.
Ben Oge, ii.
244
.
Benares, i.
66-68
; ii.
61
,
435
,
470
.
Bengālī woman, i.
60
; ii.
97
.
Berhampūr, ii.
98
,
99
.
Bhadráj, expedition to the summit of, ii.
248
.
Bhadrināth, great peak of, ii.
260
,
261
.
—, town and temple of, ii.
262
,
263
.
Bhagwān, or Bhawānī, the goddess, ii.
450
.
—, temple of, ii.
449
.
—, a form of Dūrgā, ii.
179
.
—, temple in Alopee Bagh, i.
95
,
96
.
Bhardoajmun, temples of, i.
216
.
Bhoodder Ram, the dwarf, i.
224
.
Bhora, a lucky mark, ii.
9
.
Bhŭgŭvŭtēē, the cow, a form of Dūrgā, ii.
174
.
Bhurtpore, i.
55
.
Bihishtī, i.
299
.
Biloa, or Malura, a shrub, ii.
175
.
Bird-catchers, i.
338
.
—, Chiri-mārs, peculiar method of snaring their game, ii.
278
.
Birds, worshipped by the Hindūs, ii.
328
.
—, springes for, i.
338
.
—, Indian, ii.
232
,
234
.
Blundell, Major, death of, ii.
235
.
Board of works, i.
111-114
.
Bojesmāns, ii.
360
,
362
.
Bombax ceiba, i.
341
.
Booteah Chharrā, used as shot, ii.
255
.
—, probable origin of, ii.
255
,
256
.
Borassus flabelliformis, ii.
69
.
Bore, the, ii.
391
.
Boundaries, how determined in the Hills, ii.
275
.
Bow, charmed, i.
237
.
—, pellet, i.
236
,
237
,
312
.
— of the Coles, i.
236
.
—, a, reversed, i.
297
.
— of the Hill-men, ii.
76
,
77
.
—, the spring, ii.
73
.
Bower, of the pilgrim, i.
310-312
.
Bracelet-bound brother and sister, ii.
117
,
118
.
Brahma, the creator, ii.
149-151
.
—, the first personage of the Hindū triad, ii.
149
.
Brahmanī bull, i.
66
; ii.
427
.
— ducks (anas cæsarca), i.
341
; ii.
80
,
417
.
Brahmanical thread, i.
304
,
305
.
Bricks, ancient, ii.
88
.
Britons, ancient, resemblance between them and the Hindūs, i.
218
; ii.
259
.
Brŭmhū, or Brahm, the one god without a second, ii.
148
,
149
.
Buddha, history of, the ninth avatar, ii.
162-168
.
Buffaloes, curious manner of crossing rivers, i.
161
.
Bulliah, the fair at, ii.
67
,
413
.
Bunce, little Jack, i.
118
,
222
.
Būndelā, children, sale of, ii.
294
,
295
.
Bungalow, or banglā, i.
137
.
Burāt, the day of, i.
437-446
.
Burtreenath, the god, his residence, ii.
61
.
Butea frondosa, i.
309
.
— superba, i.
310
.
Buxar, the stud at, ii.
67
.
By’ā birds, i.
220
,
221
; ii.
74
.
Byragies, i.
256
.
C.
Cachnár, ii.
77
,
78
.
Cairipūr, ruins of an ancient fort near, i.
38
.
Calcutta, i.
20
,
21
.
Camel, how to dress a, ii.
36
.
—, curious method of stealing a, ii.
192
.
— battery, Major Pew’s, ii.
299
,
300
.
— camelus bactrianus, i.
224
.
Cape hen, battle of one with a terrier, i.
10
.
Carāites, hymn of the, i.
269
,
270
.
Carnicobar, i.
14-18
.
Casowtee stone, ii.
88
,
89
.
Cassia fistula, i.
317
.
Cawnpore, i.
121
.
Chak-chakkī wālās, i.
299
.
Chakwā.—
See
Brahmanī Ducks
.
Champa, i.
274
.
Chandar-nagar, ii.
100
.
Chāotree, i.
447
.
Chapel at Pennycross, ii.
341
.
Chārpāī, description of, i.
387
.
Chaunrīs, i.
239
.
Cheetā hunting, i.
398
,
399
.
Chinsurah, ii.
100
.
Chiraghdanīs, ii.
62
.
Chitpore, corn-mills at, ii.
101
.
Cholera, dread of, entertained by the natives, ii.
253
.
—, insanity cured by the fear of, i.
202
.
—, remarkable method of frightening it away, i.
281
.
Chounsah, its murda-ghāt, or place for burning the dead, ii.
66
,
67
.
Chowringhee, i.
20
.
Christians, native, i.
175
; ii.
293-295
,
288
.
Christmas, presents at, i.
120
,
171
.
Churīs, or bracelets, i.
388
; ii.
308
.
Chŭrŭk Pūja, i.
26-28
.
Cicalas, ii.
236
,
237
.
Cintra oranges, ii.
99
.
Cloud-end, ii.
231
.
Cocky-olli bird purchased by the pilgrim, ii.
142
.
Coins, Assam, ii.
14
,
15
.
—, ancient, found at Kannouj, ii.
29
,
30
.
— —, of Secunder-al-Sānī, i.
133
.
—, Putlī, ii.
55
,
56
.
— —, conjectured to be Venetian, ii.
55
.
Coles, the bow and quiver of the, i.
236
.
—, war hatchet of the,
ib.
Colgong, rocks of, ii.
71
,
72
.
Combermere, Lord, i.
75
.
Commission, curious, given to the pilgrim by the Bāiza Bā’ī, ii.
291
,
292
.
Constantia wine, why so expensive, ii.
312
.
Conway, inscription on a tombstone in the church of, ii.
336
.
Coodseah Begam, garden of, ii.
218
.
Cornwallis, Marquis, his tomb, ii.
65
.
Coronation of the king of Oude, anniversary of the, i.
87-90
.
Corpses, Hindū, horrible appearance of, in the river, i.
167
.
Corruption of words by the natives, i.
278
.
Cotton plant, i.
341
.
—, Bourbon,
ib.
— tree,
ib.
— seed, i.
58
.
Cow, the, a form of Dūrgā or Bhawānī, i.
157
,
158
.
— tails, i.
238
,
239
.
Cows, manner of doing pūja to, i.
307
.
Cross, the Southern, ii.
375
.
Crossing the line, i.
5
.
Crows, whimsical mode of frightening, practised by the natives, i.
220
.
Cummer-o’-deen, Cawn, palace of, ii.
218
.
Curamnassa river, i.
65
.
Cusu or kooshŭ grass, i.
307
; ii.
425
.
D.
Dākait, adventures of one at Gaur, ii.
82
,
83
.
Darah Shekoah, palace of, ii.
218
.
Darzī, native tailor, i.
141
.
Dasturī, what, i.
22
.
Datura, species of, i.
148
.
Dead, burning the, i.
167
; ii.
424
,
432
.
Death, indifference of the Hindoos concerning, i.
331
.
Debts, interest on, i.
37
.
Deer, mouse, i.
40
.
—, spotted,
ib.
Delhi, first view of, very imposing, ii.
192
,
193
.
—, plan of the fort and palace of, ii.
193
.
—, church at,
ib.
—, the throne of the padshāh, i.
368
.
Dēodar oil, ii.
253
.
Devi, the goddess, an appellation applied particularly to Dūrga, ii.
177
.
Devotee, Indian, singular vow of one, i.
227
.
Dewālī, festival of the, i.
162
.
Dewtas, or deotās, the mountain spirits of the Himalaya, ii.
268
.
Dhrumsālā, description of a, i.
116
.
Dhul Dhul, i.
298
.
Dil-Kushā, park of, i.
181
.
Diseases, native, method of transmitting through flowers, i.
223
.
Dishes, ready dressed, i.
65
.
Dispute, theological, between a Musalmān and a Hindū, ii.
287
,
288
.
Dividend, satisfactory, i.
273
.
Dīwān-i-am, ii.
217
.
Dīwān-i-khāss,
ib.
Dolīs, for carrying women, ii.
227
.
Domnī, i.
426
,
427
.
Dūb-grass, i.
232
.
Ducks, wild, curious method of catching, i.
228
.
Dŭkshina-rayŭ, the god, ii.
107
.
Dūrga, the goddess, i.
34
; ii.
178
.
Dūrga-pūja, i.
34
,
35
.
Durwān, door-keeper, i.
142
.
E.
Earthquake at Prāg, i.
222
,
285
.
— in the Hills, ii.
240
,
244
,
248
.
— in Assam, ii.
132
.
Eating the air, i.
140
.
Eclipse of the moon, horror of the natives at, ii.
112
.
Eed, festival of the, i.
353
.
Egg, mundane, of the Hindoos, ii.
180
.
Ektara, musical instrument so called, i.
251
.
Elephant Minār, i.
407
.
— -fights, i.
176
.
—, -swimming, an, i.
159
; ii.
68
.
Elephantiasis, i.
26
.
Etmad-od-Doulah, tomb of, i.
372
.
F.
Fakīr near Barrackpore, i.
38
.
— at Prāg, his cruel treatment by thieves, i.
306
.
—’s rock at Janghira, ii.
71
.
Fakīrs, their character of dishonesty, i.
64
.
—, libertinism of, i.
258
.
Famine at Kanauj, ii.
144
,
145
.
Fan palm, ii.
69
.
Fane, Sir Henry, arrival of at Allahabad, ii.
60
.
Fathīghar, ii.
1
.
Fathīpoor Sicri, i.
401
.
— —, pilgrimage of Akbar Shāh to, i.
402
.
Fevers, Indian, i.
82
,
83
.
Ficus Indica, i.
214
.
Fights, buffalo, i.
178
.
—, elephant, i.
176
.
—, horse and tiger, i.
178
.
—, quail, i.
74
,
75
.
—, ram, i.
178
.
—, rhinoceros, i.
177
.
—, tiger, i.
178
.
Fish, flying, i.
4
; ii.
491
.
—, order of the, i.
458
,
459
.
Foot of a Chinese lady, model of the, ii.
105
.
Forgery, i.
145
.
Fortune-tellers, precepts of Muhammad concerning, i.
282
.
Fox, flying, i.
307
.
France, Isle of, i.
138
.
— —, visionary old man at, i.
139
.
Frazer, murder of Mr. Wm., ii.
50
,
51
.
—, Wm. tomb of, at Delhi, ii.
193
.
Frontispiece, description of the, i.
263-266
.
Fulbertus Sagittarius, i.
59
.
G.
Gaja Rājā Sāhib, ii.
3
,
4
,
6
.
— — — performs pūja at the shrine of Mahadēo, ii.
111
.
Ganesh, history of, in the
Introduction to Vol. I.
—, description of plate of, i.
263
.
— gigantic image of, on the banks of the Ganges, i.
68
.
—, his battle with Parashu-Rāma, ii.
176
.
Ganges, happiness of dying in sight of the, ii.
392
.
Gangoutrī, Captain Hodgson’s description of, ii.
264
,
265
.
—, peak of, ii.
244
.
Gardner, Colonel, i.
90
,
181
,
183
,
229-231
,
251
,
408
,
418
,
420-428
.
— —, death of, and of his begam, i.
458
.
— — and his begam, their tombs, ii.
185
.
Garuda, the Man-Eagle, or Bird-God,
see
Gŭroorŭ
, ii.
174
.
Gaur, the ruins of, ii.
84-87
.
— — —, Chambers’ description of, ii.
89-96
.
Gazooddeen Cawn, madrasa, or college of, ii.
219
,
220
.
Ghāzīpūr, palace of the Nawāb of, ii.
65
,
418
.
Ghirgit, the, why held accursed by the Muhammedans, i.
300
,
301
.
Ghurī, description of the, i.
250
.
Ghuznee, remains of the ancient city of, ii.
325
,
326
.
Gillespie, Gen., death of, ii.
242
,
248
.
Goat, balancing, i.
273
.
Goats, Bengālī, i.
77
.
—, Jumnapar,
ib.
Goblin, address of a Hindū to a, ii.
12
.
Gods, 330,000,000 in the Hindū Pantheon, ii.
147
.
—, pedigree of the, ii.
148-181
.
Gooltura, i.
317
.
Goorz, Goorzmar, i.
465
.
Gopalŭ, ii.
122
.
Gopī Nat’hŭ,
ib.
Gosain, detection of theft by a, i.
102
,
103
.
—, his temple, i.
104
,
105
.
Gosseina, i.
193
,
194
.
Gossypium herbaceum, i.
341
.
Govinda, songs of, ii.
116
,
117
.
Gram-grinder, description of a, i.
232
,
233
.
Grass-cutter, i.
231
.
Grasshoppers, enamelled, i.
275
.
Great gun at Agra, account of the, i.
276-278
.
Gumuki, i.
267
.
Gunduc river, the rapidity of its stream, ii.
68
.
Gūnth, or Hill pony, description and character of one, ii.
226
.
Gŭroorŭ, the vahan of Vishnŭ, description of, ii.
328
.
— invoked by the Hindoos to obtain protection from snakes, ii.
328
.
Gynee club, i.
251
.
H.
Hæmanthus toxicaria, ii.
366
.
Hanasa, the swan, the vahan of Brahma, ii.
174
.
Hail, tremendous storm of, i.
291
.
Hair, washing the, i.
136
.
Hanging one’s self for spite, i.
249
.
Harrow boys, i.
53
.
Hastings, Lord, death of, i.
71
.
Heat, prickly, i.
5
.
Heber, Bishop, death of, i.
60
.
Hebrew hymn, i.
270
.
Hessing, Colonel, tomb of, i.
418
.
Hibiscus cannabinus, i.
316
.
— Indica,
ib.
— longifolius, i.
315
.
— mutabilis,
ib.
— sabdariffa, i.
316
.
Hill people, ii.
75-77
.
Hills on fire, ii.
246
.
Himalaya mountains, elevation of, ii.
260-270
.
Hindostanī song, i.
133
,
134
.
Hindū triad, ii.
147
.
Hindūs will neither make converts or be converted, ii.
288
.
Hoogly river, ii.
102
.
— —, introduction of steam boats on the, i.
32
.
Hooqŭ cakes, ii.
8
.
Horrors, bottle of, i.
243
.
Horseradish tree, i.
314
.
Horse, Skinner’s, i.
76
.
Horses, lucky and unlucky marks on, ii.
9-11
.
—, native, extremely vicious, ii.
279
.
—, poisoning of, by the natives, i.
138
.
Horses, stud of, marks on, i.
161
.
House, pakka, what, i.
137
.
Houses, Indian, style of, i.
21
.
Hukāk, i.
113
.
Humaioon, mausoleum of, at Delhi, ii.
197
,
198
.
Humming birds, i.
311
.
Hŭnoomān, the Monkey-god, account of, i.
109
.
—, temple of, i.
115
.
—, his fiery tail, ii.
269
.
Hurdwar, ii.
265
.
Hyat-ool-Nissa Begam, the pilgrim’s visit to, ii.
213
,
214
.
Hymn, Hebrew, i.
270
.
I. J.
Jagana’th, a form of Krishna, ii.
172
.
— made of the vertebra of an animal, i.
262
.
—, temple of, ii.
381
.
—, the idol, ii.
384
.
—, the swing of, ii.
382
.
—.—
See
Krishna
.
Jahānārā Begam, tomb of, i.
371
,
372
.
Jahāngīrī Mahul, i.
361
.
Jama Khānas, i.
354
.
Jamh O Deen Muhammad, visit from, i.
33
.
Jampān, description of a, ii.
227
.
Janao, or sacred thread, i.
304
,
305
; ii.
62
.
Jasmine, double Arabian, i.
274
.
Jasminum sambac pleno,
ib.
Ice, consumption of American, i.
287
.
— pits at Allahabad, i.
78
,
222
.
Ichneumon, i.
314
.
Idiot son of a Brahman, i.
225
.
Jellinghy flat, vessel so called, ii.
105
.
Jerrīpānī, ii.
236
.
Jodh Bā’ī, tomb of, i.
407
; ii.
465
.
Illness, singular mode of getting rid of, believed in by the natives, i.
223
.
—, feigned, punishment of, ii.
303
.
Imām-Bārā, i.
179
.
Imāms, leaders of the faithful, i.
293-295
.
John Strong, the drummer, presents his wife to a comrade, and desires to contract a second matrimonial alliance, ii.
293
.
Ipomæa quamoclit, i.
310
.
— speciosa, i.
311
.
Ishk-pechā, i.
310
.
Jumna, storm on the, ii.
53
,
54
.
Jumnotrī, peaks of, ii.
265
.
Jungipūr, toll at, ii.
97
.
Jŭtayoo, a bird worshipped by the Hindoos, ii.
328
.
K.
Kadam-i-rasūl, history of the, ii.
86
,
87
.
Kadam Sharīf, footprints of the prophet, at Gaur, ii.
86
.
Kafir warrior, ii.
369
.
Kailās, the mountain, ii.
266
.
Kaldung, the mountain, ii.
269
.
Kalī, a name of Dūrga, ii.
178
.
Kalī Mā’ī, temple of, at Kalī Ghāt, ii.
104
.
Kalī Nadī river, ii.
28
.
Kalkī, or the horse, the tenth and final avatar yet to come, ii.
168
.
Kaloo-rayŭ, a form of Shivŭ, ii.
106
,
107
.
Kalsās, i.
96
; ii.
417-421
.
Kalunga, brave defence of, by the Ghoorkas, ii.
242
,
243
.
Kam-dhenū, the cow of plenty, ii.
159
.
Kama-Deva, the god of love, ii.
171
,
172
.
Kanauj, ruins of, ii.
29
,
30
.
—, legend of, ii.
146
.
—, ancient Hindū ruin at, ii.
143
.
Kanwar Wālā, i.
260
.
Kartikeya, the god of war, ii.
176
.
Kasīm bazār, ii.
98
.
Kedernāth, peak of, ii.
263
.
—, temple of,
ib.
Keeree pass, ii.
276
,
277
.
Kharīta of her Highness the Bāiza Bā’ī, ii.
250
.
Khud, a narrow valley between two hills, so called, ii.
240
.
Khŭnjŭnŭ, the wagtail, a form of Vishnŭ, ii.
329
.
Kimkhwāb, manufactory of, ii.
62
.
Kodalee, the Thugs’ pickaxe, i.
153
.
Kookree of the Ghoorkas, description of, ii.
243
.
Korah, or bughalee, of the Ghoorka officers, ii.
243
.
Kos Minār, i.
377
; ii.
188
.
Kotīla of Feroze Shāh, ii.
198
.
Krishn, or Kaniyā-jee, history of, ii.
118-24
.
— and the 16,000 gopīs, sporting as elephants, horses, &c.. ii.
121
.
— as gopalū and gopī nat’hŭ, ii.
122
.
— Radha, i.
263
,
264
; ii.
116
,
122
.
Krishn, descent of Vishnŭ as, ii.
168-171
.
— the bones of, and history, ii.
381-385
.
Kurma, the tortoise, the second avatar, ii.
155
.
Kutab Kí Lāt, ii.
205
,
206
.
Kutab Minār, ii.
202-205
.
Kutcherry, a, i.
122
.
Kywan Jah, Prince, i.
73
.
L.
Lachhmī, the goddess of beauty, i.
42
,
206
,
207
.
—, the wife of Vishnŭ, ii.
176
,
177
.
Ladies, native, their amusements in the zenāna, i.
230
,
231
.
La Martinière, i.
179
.
Landowr, ii.
229
.
Lāthī, what, i.
132
.
Leaf-grasshopper, i.
242
.
Leprosy, Arabian, i.
204-206
.
Line, ceremonies of crossing the, i.
5-7
.
Light, phosphoric, of the waves; description of the animal causing, ii.
353
.
Lights, festival of, i.
162
,
163
.
Locusts, i.
288
,
289
.
Lucnow, visit to, i.
73
.
—, second visit to, i.
175
.
M.
Mach, Machchha, the Fish, or first avatar, ii.
153-155
.
Magellan clouds, ii.
353
,
375
.
Magic, temple of, i.
404
.
Mahabarat, a poem composed by Vyasa, ii.
179
.
Mahadēo, or Mahā-Dēva, a form of Shivŭ, ii.
175
,
176
.
Mahratta Camp, ii.
32
,
33
.
Map of Delhi, ii.
222
.
“Marchioness of Ely,” voyage in the, i.
2
.
Marriage of a nīm to a peepul, i.
72
.
— of Susan Gardner to Unjun Sheko, i.
420-448
.
Martine, General Claude, i.
179
.
—, his magnificent tomb,
ib.
Martynia, proboscidea, i.
319
.
Masjid Jāma, the great mosque at Delhi, ii.
220
,
221
.
— Kala, or black mosque, ii.
221
,
222
.
— Akbārābādee, ii.
200
.
— of the Princess of China, i.
373
,
374
.
—, the Golden, ii.
84
.
—, Motī, the mosque of pearl, i.
360
.
Mats, Calcutta, i.
313
.
Meerunke Sarā’e, ii.
143
.
Melaleuca Kȳ’a-pootie, i.
317
.
Mem Sāhiba, speech of the, i.
334
.
Menagerie at Lucnow, i.
182
.
— at Barrackpūr, i.
39
.
Mendicants, religious, i.
39
.
—, account of, i.
256-260
.
Menhdī, day of, i.
430-435
.
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, arrival of, at Allahabad, ii.
49
.
Mher-ul-Nissa, or Noormahul, or Noor-jahān, history of, i.
361-364
.
Michelia champaca, i.
274
.
Milton, descendants of, ii.
380
.
Mint at Gwalior, ii.
56
.
Miriam Zumanī, tomb of, i.
377
.
Monghir, ii.
69
.
Monkey, holy, ii.
125
.
—, one kept in or near a stable, and why, ii.
13
.
Moorshadabad, palace of the Nawāb at, ii.
98
.
Mor-pankhī, a kind of pleasure-boat so called,
ib.
Mountain storm, ii.
251
.
Moustache, to dye the, i.
320
.
Muhammad, the prophet, i.
107
,
293-301
,
453
,
454
,
459-466
.
—, anecdotes concerning, i.
248
,
282
.
Muharram, account of the, i.
295-300
; ii.
17-21
,
374
.
Mulka Begam, i.
381
.
— —, divorce of, from Mirza Selīm, and marriage to Mr. James. Gardner, i.
382
.
Mulka Zumanī, i.
192
,
193
.
Mŭndodŭrēē, the wife of the giant Ravuna, i.
110
.
Murder of two ladies in a zenāna, ii.
56
.
N.
Nāch girls, i.
29
,
30
,
391
,
427-429
,
431
.
Nāg-panchamī, i.
308
.
Nalāpanī, ii.
269
.
Nara-Singha, or the Man-Lion, the fourth avatar, ii.
157
.
Native servants, ludicrous quarrels of, i.
146
,
147
.
Nauclea gambir, i.
318
.
— Orientalis,
ib.
Nawāb, the, the Merchant, and the Palkī, ii.
306
,
307
.
—, a Muhammadan title of honour, singularly bestowed also on the ladies of the family of the Emperor of Delhi, i.
394
,
415
,
458
.
— Hakīm Menhdī, his house and zenāna, ii.
17-20
.
— — —, reappointed minister in Oude, ii.
135
.
— — —, his death, ii.
139
.
— — —, suspension-bridge of, ii.
182
.
Newlands, ii.
235
,
371
.
Nicobar, islands of, i.
14
; ii.
476
.
Nicumbha the fiend, i.
35
.
Nīm tree, i.
71
,
72
,
112
.
Nobutpoor, i.
65
.
Noor-jahān, history of, i.
361-364
.
—, turret of, i.
364
.
Nose-ring, i.
385
.
“Not at home,” Indian expression equivalent to, i.
388
.
Nulgoon Pass, ii.
269
.
Nusseer-ood-Deen-Hydur, death of, ii.
114
.
Nut Log, or wandering gipsies, account of, i.
272
.
Nyctanthes the sorrowful, i.
312
.
Nymphæa, the, i.
311
.
O.
Oats, i.
223
.
Obelisk at Gaur, ii.
92-94
.
Observatory near Delhi, ii.
209-212
.
Ocymum album, i.
217
.
— pilosum,
ib.
Oleander, i.
78
.
Omens, bad, during the march of the Nawāb Hakīm Menhdī, ii.
135
.
One-eyed men supposed to be more knowing than others, ii.
13
.
Oomeid Thug, narrative of, i.
243-246
.
Orange, H.R.H. Prince Henry of, and the Hon. the Misses Eden visit Lucnow, ii.
140
.
Oude, heir apparent of, ii.
139
.
—, King of, Ghazee-ood-Deen Hyder, i.
173
.
— — —, his meeting with the Governor-General, i.
174
.
P.
Pachīsī-board, i.
405
,
406
.
Padshah Bāgh, the, i.
180
.
Paganini of the East, i.
251
.
Paharīs, or Hill-men, description of, ii.
227
.
—, curious customs of the, relating to marriage, ii.
259
.
Palanquins, i.
24
.
Palia Gadh, glen of, ii.
267
.
— — — —, wild legends connected with the, ii.
268
.
Palma, island of, i.
3
,
4
; ii.
350
.
Pān and Atr, ii.
4
,
5
,
445
.
— Gardens, ii.
86
.
Panchāyāt, or native court of justice, ii.
305
.
Pandanus odoratissimus, i.
318
.
Pankhā, i.
25
.
Paper, sheets of, immense, ii.
201
,
202
.
Paradise, canal of, ii.
195
.
Parda of the Mahrattas, ii.
45
.
—, procession in, ii.
46
,
47
.
Parisnāth, temple of, i.
324
; ii.
166
.
Parkyal, ii.
269
.
Parswanáth, the god, Budhist or Jain, i.
325
; ii.
166
.
Pārvutī, ii.
145
,
175
.
Pathan, barbarous treatment of a, i.
284
.
Peacock, goose, and owl, the, worshipped by the Hindoos, ii.
329
.
Pebbles from the Soane and Cane rivers, i.
113
,
114
.
Pedigree of the gods, ii.
147
,
148
.
— of Col. Wm. L. Gardner, i.
420
.
— of the kings of Oude, i.
186
.
Peepul tree, i.
217
,
221
,
222
.
— —, remarkable quality of its seeds, ii.
295
.
— —, its skeleton leaves, i.
218
.
Pheasant, red, ii.
232
.
—, blue, of the Himalaya, ii.
232
.
Phŭlŭ-Hŭrēē, i.
164
,
165
.
Pico, the island of, ii.
494
.
Pigeon, Cape, i.
8
.
Pilgrim, the, and another lady, are mistaken for cadets, ii.
302
,
303
.
— the, taken for a foreigner; also for a lancer, ii.
329
.
Pintado, i.
8
.
Pīr Shāh, tomb of, ii.
223
.
Plague, alleged appearance of, at Palee, ii.
110
.
Poinciana pulcherrima, i.
317
.
Poison, African, and poison-bulb, ii.
366
,
367
.
Polyanthus tuberosa, i.
318
.
Porto Santo, island of, i.
3
.
Powder works and rocket manufactory, i.
225
,
226
.
Punica granatum, i.
317
.
Punishment, brutal, inflicted by the King of Oude, i.
169
.
Punishments of the grave, Muhammadan notions concerning the, i.
464-466
.
Purānas, the sacred, ii.
179
.
Q.
Quail shooting, i.
229
.
—, pitched battle of, i.
74
,
75
.
Quarrel, laughable, between an ayha and an abdār, i.
140
,
141
.
Qui hys, old Indians why so called, i.
145
.
Quicksand, accident in a, i.
247
.
R.
Radha Krishn, ii.
122
.
Rājā, a Hindū sovereign; a title bestowed also most singularly upon the ladies of Scindia’s family, ii.
342
,
465
.
Rāj ghāt, Allahabad, i.
114
.
Rākhī, or bracelet, festival of the, ii.
117
,
118
.
Rāma, or Rām, descriptions of, i.
263
.
— Parashu, the sixth avatar, ii.
159
.
— Chandra, the seventh avatar, ii.
160
,
161
.
— Bala, the eighth avatar, ii.
161
.
— Sīta, i.
342
; ii.
161
.
— Leela festival, i.
108
.
Ranayana, an epic poem, ii.
179
.
Rās, sacred dance so called, ii.
116
.
Rat, the vahan of Ganesh, ii.
174
.
Rat’s granary, ii.
241
.
—, Bandicote, i.
51
.
Ravuna, the giant, i.
109
,
110
.
Reeçee Khoond, warm spring at, ii.
71
.
Reflection of distant objects, extraordinary power of seeing the, i.
139
.
Rhododendron, white, ii.
232
.
— —, juice of the petals of the, alleged to have an intoxicating quality, ii.
232
.
Rice, trial by, i.
40
.
Riding, style of, practised by the Mahratta ladies, ii.
5
,
6
.
Roasting a sirdar-bearer, charge for, ii.
30
.
Rockets, i.
225
.
Roomal, or handkerchief of the Thugs, i.
156
.
Roomee Durwāza, i.
179
.
Rosaries, i.
258-260
,
267
.
Runjeet Singh, meeting of Lord Auckland with, ii.
297
.
Rupees, recovery of the stolen, i.
102
.
S.
Saadut Ulee Khan, tomb of, i.
182
.
— — —, baths of, ii.
218
,
219
.
— — —, palace of, ii.
218
.
Sāchak, day of, i.
428
.
Saharanpūr, botanical garden at, ii.
224
.
Sā’īs, whimsical complaint of a, i.
234
.
Salt-box, peculiar kind of, used by the Hill-men, ii.
89
.
Salvia Bengalensis, i.
315
.
Saraswatī, the goddess of learning, science, and the fine arts, ii.
177
,
178
.
—, picture of, riding on a peacock,
on the cover of Vol. I.
— the river, i.
213
.
Sarson, a species of mustard plant, ii.
88
.
Sāti without a head, stolen and brought on board the pinnace, ii.
25
.
— at Allahabad, i.
91
.
— at Nobutpoor, i.
65
.
— at Ghazīpūr, ii.
419
.
— abolished, i.
161
.
— mounds in Alopee Bagh, i.
95
.
— — at Beerpūr, ii.
66
.
School, experimental, fecundity of the young ladies in, ii.
293-295
.
Scorpion, the fact of its self-destruction when tormented by fire, ii.
238
,
239
.
“Seagull,” the pinnace, description of, i.
322
.
—, loss of the, ii.
59
.
Sefder Jung, palace of, ii.
218
.
Sekunder al Sānī, ii.
25
.
—, inscriptions on coins of, i.
133
.
Selīm Ghar, i.
364
.
—, Shaik, of Cheestie, tomb of, i.
403
.
Sensitive plant, i.
315
.
Serampūr, ii.
101
.
Servants, list of, i.
209
.
Shah’ālam, tomb of, ii.
208
.
Shah Burj, the royal tower, ii.
218
.
— Kubbeer-oo-deen Ahmud, i.
65
.
Shahjahan, i.
349
.
Shāhjahānabad, modern city of, ii.
193
.
Shalgramŭ, description of the, i.
43-45
.
Shalimar, gardens of, ii.
218
.
Shark, blue, i.
8
.
Shawl, looking-glass, i.
239
,
240
.
Sheep, Doomba, i.
78
.
—, Karral, ii.
239
.
Sher Afgan, i.
361
.
Shield, silver, presented to Mr. Blood by the 16th Lancers, ii.
188
.
Shīsha-mahal, or house of glass, i.
365
,
366
.
Shivŭ, the destroyer, the third personage of the Hindū triad, ii.
172
,
173
.
Sholā floats (com. sola), ii.
100
.
Shooting season on the ocean, i.
9
,
10
.
Shubbeah Begam, i.
422
.
Sikrī Gālī, ii.
72
,
397
.
Simundee Begam, tomb of, i.
358
.
Sircar, or Sarcar, i.
21
,
22
.
Sīta Khūnd, boiling spring of, ii.
69
,
70
.
Sitar, description of a, i.
250
.
Sitee Khānam, i.
359
.
Skip-jacks, i.
5
.
Slang, essay on, ii.
283
,
284
.
Slavery at the Cape, extraordinary story relative to, ii.
357
.
Sling, peculiar, used by the Hill-men, ii.
243
.
Small pox, ravages of, ii.
110
.
Snake-boats, ii.
98
.
— charmers, ii.
436
.
— —, imposture of a, i.
108
.
— sea, i.
12
.
Snakes, directions of Mohummud relative to, i.
107
,
108
.
—, dread of, not innate in man, i.
302
.
Sneezing, Hindū superstitions relative to, ii.
289
.
Snowy ranges of the Himalaya, first view of the, ii.
224
.
Soane, blue waters of the, ii.
67
.
Soap stone, i.
343
.
Sola, hats and other articles made of, i.
286
; ii.
100
.
Sonahlā Mahal, or chamber of gold, i.
375
,
377
.
Song, Hindostanī, i.
134
.
Sorcery, practised with a charmed bow, i.
237
.
Spider, the, why held sacred by the Muhammedans, i.
300
,
301
.
Spirit of a man destroyed by a tiger, superstition relating to the, ii.
13
,
14
.
Sporting in Assam, ii.
125-133
.
Spring-bow, ii.
73
,
74
,
131
.
Squirrel, Jack Bunce the, i.
18
.
Srīphul, or the flower of Srī, the poetic name of the biloa, ii.
175
.
Stars, falling, Mahomedan philosophy of i.
248
.
St. Helena, ii.
316-320
.
Stone, flexible, ii.
256
.
Stones, those used in the Mosaic of the Tāj, i.
357
.
Storm, the spirit of the, ii.
349
.
Strelitzia regina, ii.
365
.
Sugar mills, ii.
457-460
.
Sunderbands, ii.
106
.
Superstitions of the natives, ii.
9
.
Surya-Kund, hot spring of, ii.
262
.
Sutherland, Major, Resident of Gwalior, ii.
183
,
184
,
186-188
.
T.
Tailors not allowed to make clothes for Hindū ladies, ii.
113
.
Tāj Mahul, i.
348-359
.
— —, ground plan of the, i.
356
.
Taziya, what, i.
296
.
Temple of the Gosain, i.
104
.
Theatre, Artillery, at Meerut, ii.
190
.
Theodore, Mrs., her collection of stuffed birds and beasts, ii.
225
.
Thermantidote, i.
199
,
208
.
Thief detected by a Gosā’īn, i.
102
,
103
.
Thieves, domestic, i.
101-104
.
Thug, confessions of a, i.
123-131
.
—, escape of a gentleman from a, i.
168
.
Thugs, execution of eleven, i.
151
,
152
.
—, — — twenty-five, i.
201
,
202
.
—, customs of the, i.
153-158
.
—, dice, i.
151
.
—, slang terms used by the, i.
130
.
Tiger,
au naturel
, ii.
225
.
— hunting on foot, ii.
128-130
.
— tracks, ii.
72
,
73
.
— claws, charms made of, ii.
12
,
13
.
Tīka, ornament so called, description of the, i.
254
.
Timber rafts, ii.
99
,
100
.
Title conferred on the pilgrim by her Highness the ex-Queen of Gwalior, ii.
7
.
Toddy, injurious, i.
147
,
148
.
Tongue, protrusion of the, an expression of shame among the Hindū women, i.
165
.
Tooth-brushes regarded with horror, i.
462
.
Travati the Elephant, the vahan of Indra, ii.
174
.
Treasures, hidden, ii.
41
,
42
.
Triveni, what, i.
213
.
—, pilgrimage to the, i.
212
,
213
.
—, the Gāja Rājā and all her ladies bathe at the, ii.
48
.
Tulsī, pūja of the, i.
42
.
—, sweet,
ib.
—, various sorts of, i.
217
.
Turban, arrangement of a, i.
234
.
U.
Ubruk (talc) applied to many uses, i.
219
.
Unicorn, alleged existence of the, in the Himalaya, i.
239
.
Up-Country men, their hatred of the Bengalīs curiously exemplified, ii.
309
,
310
.
Ussuf-ood-Dowla, his tomb, i.
179
.
V.
Vaccine department done away with, evils resulting therefrom, ii.
110
.
Valmiki, the first Indian poet, ii.
179
.
Vamana, or the Dwarf, the seventh avatar, ii.
157-159
.
Vase, silver, a prize gained by the pilgrim in a lottery, ii.
112
.
Vedas, the, ii.
180
,
181
.
Vessel, spirit of a, i.
345
.
Viasa, an Indian poet, compiler of the Vedas, ii.
179
.
Vishnŭ the Preserver, the second personage of the Hindū triad, i.
27
,
42-45
; ii.
151
,
152
.
Visionary old man, the, i.
139
.
Voyage on the Ganges, vessels for, i.
31
.
W.
Waterspouts, ii.
475
,
493
.
Wax of the human ear, i.
177
.
Wax, sealing, i.
309
.
Widows, Hindū, the privations to which they are subjected, ii.
7
,
8
.
Wind raised by a sāti, ii.
25
.
Wolff, the Rev. Joseph, i.
268-272
.
Women, Bengālī, ii.
97
,
98
.
—, their great influence over men in India, i.
140
.
Wood-cutters of Bengal, their peculiar mode of worshipping Kuloo-rayŭ, ii.
107
.
Y.
Yāk, or cow of Thibet, tail of, i.
238
,
239
.
Yam, rut aloe, (dioscorea sativa,) i.
316
.
Z.
Zamia horrida, ii.
365
,
366
.
— longifolia,
ib.
Zeenut-al-Masjid, ii.
200
.
Zenāna or zanāna of a Calcutta baboo, i.
60
.
— of the king of Oude, i.
87-90
,
192-195
.
—, revelations of life in the zenāna of a Timoorian princess, i.
379
.
—, life in the, and chīta hunting, i.
391
.
—, marriage in the zenāna, i.
421
— of the Nāwab Hakim Menhdi, ii.
19
,
20
.
— of Nāwab of Fathīgarh, ii.
16
.
Zenāna-ghar, ii.
208
.
Zoffani, picture painted by, i.
181
.
Zumanī Miriam, tomb of, i.
377
.