 In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies for her husband are finished and his body has begun to burn. The side of the bamboo scaffold nearest to the fire is protected by...  Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society - Página lxxiii1877Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1877 - 514 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1877 - 550 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
 | Reinhold Rost - 1887 - 332 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her •dress is white, her breasts... | |
 | Reinhold Rost - 1887 - 328 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
 | Reinhold Rost - 1887 - 322 páginas
...ceremonies for her husband are finished and his body has begun to burn. The side of the bamboo scaflbld nearest to the fire is protected by a wall of wet...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
 | Malcolm Potts, Roger Short - 1999 - 372 páginas
...the time for the leap draws near. There is a door at the end of the bridge that is not removed until the last minute. The victim sits in the house on the bridge, accompanied by a female priest and her relatives . . . Then she makes her toilet; her hair especially is combed, the mirror used, and... | |
 | Reinhold Rost - 2000 - 332 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
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