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248: THE STORY OF AN INDIAN PRINCESS.
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* The Press Has Teemed Of Late Years Wit...
the exultant multitude , i _* ejoicing , in their blind and bloody superstition , at tlie insensate triumph over every human sense and feelthe
flames ing . The which scene had of been horror fed upon came living to an flesh end , sank at last down ; appeased hungry , herself
joine d with ying d a out in desperate the now concluding their and t convulsive ask ceremony was done : effort of ; , and bathing the * then almost now 1 in , childless calming the _ISTerbudda mother suste ,
and retired afterwards to her palace , where refusing - nanceshe remained for three days without . littering a word , absorbed , in speechless agony . The grief of the mother , however , could then no longer make her forget the duties of the monarch .
yet The roused royal herself sufferer from , thoug this h not state onl of y widowed almost insensibility , but now childless , applied and ,
herself soug to the ht her with onl : renewed y of consolation the lo dili st gence Muchta in building to and the her affairs a husband magnificent of the ; the State monument structure ,
thus erected memory being surpassed by very few of the modern temples of : IndiaThefaithful and attached Baramulwho was In
attendance upon . her . throughout this trying time , , took a melancholy leasure afterwards in recounting the sad circumstances , in telling
p ing of the out princess where 's rose sorel the y tested fatal pyre fortitude , and and where intense Ms mistress grief , and stood point to
watch the fatal sacrifice . Care and . fatigue and sorrow frame were of now Alia beg Bh inning still to take she
sp strict effect ared and upon not numerous herself even ; ; the and her labours strong devotin were her _unintermittent life onlto Heaven ye , her : fastings and her g y
peop some le said , she by thus her lived rig , id abstinence on , until the death year overtook 1795 , when her , at hastened the age as of
, sixt It y , is after related a rei that gn of the thirty lovel years but . wicked Anuntia Bhyethe wife
y , of Ragobah of * her , female growing attendants envious of to Alia ascertain ' s ever-increasing whether * this fame , much sent one
celebrated woman could rival her in beauty as well as put her to reporte shame d by the her woman goodness on . her " Alia return Bhye , _" has but not not a heavenl handsom beautiful y li ? g fe ht atures is on , "
her countenance / ' " But you say she is e " eagerly the with repe ' ated assurance which the mistress the that judgment as ; respected and was little _qii the heeding alifie charms d , she the consoled she expressive most herself valued testimony , with she
had still the supremacy . As regards features indeed , Alia was which rather , sorrow plain than could beautiful not dim , but nor a age peculiarl destroy y , p lent leasant a charm expression to her , lifeShe
countenance which it retained to the last hour of her . - - After was of the . middle death hei of ght her , very husb thin and , and who of was a clear killed olive before comp she lexion had .
reached the age of twenty , she , never appeared in rich or gay
248: The Story Of An Indian Princess.
248 : THE STORY OF AN INDIAN PRINCESS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/32/
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