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The Dhobi's donkey is a familiar sight as one meets him on the road still toiling as in the time of Issachar between two bundles of clothes each larger than himself, and he has also become proverbial, '_Dhobi ka gadha neh ghar ka neh ghat ka_,'
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Other divisions are the Lingayats who belong to the sect of this name, the Gadhewal or Gadhere who make tiles and carry them about on donkeys (_gadha_), the Bardia who use bullocks for transport and the
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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From this place Çiva's worship extended into the East, M [= a] gadha (Beh [= a] r), around Gokarna in the West, and even to the Kalinga country in the extreme Southeast.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Gautama journeyed as a _muni_, or silent ascetic sage, till after seven years he abandoned his teachers (for he had become a disciple of professed masters), and discontentedly wandered about in M [= a] gadha
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Descendants of the great Serpent-race that once ruled M [= a] gadha
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Vedic people may be reckoned (not, however, in Oldenberg's opinion, with any great certainty) as being in Northern Beh [= a] r (M [= a] gadha).
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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They abstain from smelling or touching a flower called _gadha_.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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His father is called king, but he was probably hereditary chief of a district incorporated as a suburb of the capital city of Videha, while by marriage he was related to the king of Videha, and to the ruling house of M [= a] gadha.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Yamun [= a] and Gang [= a] (Jumna and Ganges).] [Footnote 3: M [= a] gadha; called Beh [= a] r from its many monasteries, _vih [= a] ras_, in Açoka's time.] [Footnote 4: So, plausibly, Müller, _loc. cit_. below.] [Footnote 5: The tribes became Hinduized, their chiefs became
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Buddha, and his protector (for he was King of M [= a] gadha), gives him a park, perhaps the first donation of this sort, the origin of all the monastic foundations: "The King of M [= a] gadha, Bimbis [= a] ra, thought
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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