 | Alfred Frederick Pollock Harcourt - Delhi (India) - 1866 - 172 pages
...that particular extent of land which " would require &prastha of seed, that is, 48 double-handsfull " or about 48 imperial pints or two-thirds of a bushel....original meaning, but in the lapse of time " it must have gradually acquired the meaning which it still " has of any good-sized piece of open plain. Indraprastha... | |
 | Archaeological Survey of India - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 570 pages
...that particular extent of land which would require a prastha of seed, that is, 48 double handfulls, or about 48 imperial pints, or two-thirds of a bushel....have acquired the meaning, which it still has, of any good sized piece of open plain. Indraprastha would, therefore, mean the plain of Indra, which was,... | |
 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 614 pages
...that particular extent of land which would require a prastha of seed, that is, 48 double Landfalls, or about 48 imperial pints, or two-thirds of a bushel....have acquired the meaning, which it still has, of any good sized piece of open plain. Indraprastha would, therefore, mean the plain of Indra, which was,... | |
 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 578 pages
...the lapse of time it must gradually have acquired the meaning, which it still has, of any good sized piece of open plain. Indraprastha would, therefore,...assigns the five pats to the five Pandu brothers. The date of the occupation of Indraprastha as a capital by Judhisthira, may, as I believe, be attributed,... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1038 pages
...that particular extent of land which would require a prastha of seed, that is, 48 double hands-ful, or about 48 imperial pints, or two-thirds of a bushel....would, therefore, mean the plain of Indra, which was, seemingly the name of the pejrson who first settled there. Popular tradition assigns the five pat to... | |
 | Edward Balfour - Asia, Southeastern - 1885 - 1210 pages
...that particular extent of land which would require a prastha of seed, that is, 48 double handsful, or about 48 imperial pints, or two-thirds of a bushel....must gradually have acquired the meaning, which it stifl has, of any good-sized piece of open plain. Indraprastha would therefore mean the plain of Indra,... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1885 - 1216 pages
...that particular extent of land which would require a prastha of seed, that is, 48 double handsful, or about 48 imperial pints, or two-thirds of a bushel. This was no doubt its original meaning, but iu the lapse of time it must gradually have acquired the meaning, which it still has, of any good-sized... | |
| |
Landfalls, or about 48 imperial pints, or two-thirds of a bushel. This was, no doubt, its original meaning, but in the lapse of time it must gradually have acquired the meaning, which it still has, of any good sized piece of open plain. 