Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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... Temple , placed on the back of an elephant and carried round the Temple in a procession before enormous crowds of Sinhalese who flocked into Kandy for the festival . If shown to distinguished persons , the caskets were taken off so that ...
... Temple , placed on the back of an elephant and carried round the Temple in a procession before enormous crowds of Sinhalese who flocked into Kandy for the festival . If shown to distinguished persons , the caskets were taken off so that ...
Page 163
... temples , the horrible jugger- naut processions with the terrible retinue of fakirs , sani- yasis , and beggars ... temple which he is restoring at great cost . He explained to me , as we went round , the symbolism behind the images ...
... temples , the horrible jugger- naut processions with the terrible retinue of fakirs , sani- yasis , and beggars ... temple which he is restoring at great cost . He explained to me , as we went round , the symbolism behind the images ...
Page 228
... temple kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a Buddhist Sinhalese villager . When I told his story to my servant , a Hindu Jaffna Tamil , he said that that was " all tales " : the God is Kandeswami and no one else . But he ...
... temple kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a Buddhist Sinhalese villager . When I told his story to my servant , a Hindu Jaffna Tamil , he said that that was " all tales " : the God is Kandeswami and no one else . But he ...
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