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A manufacturing town in the dep. of Hérault, 49 m. SW. of Montpellier; manufactures silk fabrics and confectionary.
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A town in Bengal, on the right bank of the Ganges, 265 m. NW. of Calcutta.
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(Song of Krishna), a poem introduced into the Mahabharata, divided into three sections, and each section into six chapters, called Upanishads; being a series of mystical lectures addressed by Krishna to his royal pupil Arjuna on the eve of a battle, from which he shrunk, as it was with his own kindred; the whole conceived from the point of view or belief, calculated to allay the scruples of Arjuna, which regards the extinction of existence as absorption in the Deity.
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A town in Burmah, the chief centre of trade with China, conducted mainly by Chinese, and a military station, only 40 m. from the Chinese frontier.
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A town in Rajputana, in a native state of the name; yielding wheat, maize, cotton, sugar, with quarries of building stone; 30 m. W. of Agra; carries on an industry in the manufacture of chowries.
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Indian author of apothegms, who appears to have lived in the 11th century B.C., and to have been of royal rank.
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A rude pro-Aryan race of Central India, still untrained to settled life; number 750,000.
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Name given to the aborigines of Thibet, and applied by the Hindus to all the Thibetan peoples.
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A well-governed native state in Central India, under British protection, with a capital city of the same name; under a government that has been always friendly to Britain.
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An independent state in the Eastern Himalayas, with magnificent scenery; subsidised by Britain; has a government like that of Thibet; religion the same, though the people are at a low stage of civilisation; the country exports horses, musk, and salt.
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