Dras for the thundering Suru, and for some bad bridges and infamous bits of road before reaching Kargil, where the mountains swing apart, giving space to several villages.
Thalvan Dras told him, with a touch of impatience.
That's one of the companies Thalvan Dras gets his money from.
If there's as much excitement on Home Time Line as I think, Dras would turn somersaults and jump through hoops to get us to one of his dinners, right now.
Thalvan Dras was holding forth, when Vall returned, on one of his favorite preoccupations.
Even if he never pays any attention to business, Drasstill owns Consolidated Outtime Foodstuffs," he said.
She asked me to tell you that you are invited to dinner, this evening, with Thalvan Drasat his apartment.
Thalvan Dras would cherish spite, and a word from the Mavrad of Mnirna and Thalvabar would set a dozen critics to disparaging Jandar's work.
But our rocket doesn't blast off for two hours--" Thalvan Dras had stopped talking and was looking at them in annoyance.
I just called Dras up and told him that our vacation was off, and he invited us before I could begin hinting.
Those of good family will not perform religious rites for Śûdras and treat the Brahmans who do so as inferiors.
They admit Śûdras as religious teachers and abbots, and lay little stress on caste while not entirely rejecting it.
Hence the /S/ûdras are not qualified (for the knowledge of Brahman).
To this we reply that the /S/ûdras have no such claim, on account of their not studying the Veda.
That the /S/ûdras are not qualified, follows from that circumstance also that in different places of the vidyâs such ceremonies as the upanayana and the like are referred to.
I gave orders to make liberal promises to my Dras coolies to keep them in good humour, as I could not possibly discharge them.
The lower part of the valley of Dras is a deep and narrow rocky ravine, bordered by precipices of granite, which are so steep that the bottom of the valley is quite inaccessible.
In the open plain below Dras I observed many withered stems of Prangos, the celebrated Umbelliferous plant so much valued by the inhabitants of Dras as a food for their sheep, still bearing ripe seeds.
To have remained at Dras so long would have been impossible.
It was expected that the pass between Dras and Kashmir would be easily accessible by the time I should reach it.
The vegetation of Dras was still very Tibetan, but transitional forms were becoming frequent.
On the 6th of April, I entered the Dras valley, and encamped at Ulding Thung, where there were still a few patches of snow.
The alluvium often capped low hills in the open valley many hundred feet above the bed of the river, and it was observed at frequent intervals in every part of the valley, from the junction of the Pashkyum river to Dras itself.
At Gagangir, which is the first village of Kashmir by the route along which I was travelling, I was enabled to relieve my Dras porters, who had accompanied me so far.
The valley of the Dras river begins to expand at the village of Bilergu, four or five miles above Ulding.
On the heights above the Dras we pass the famous stone figures of Buddha, and then we descend a narrow picturesque valley to Karbu.
The Dras is an imposing river; its waters pour over numerous blocks that have fallen into its bed, and produce a dull grinding sound.
The deep trough of the Dras is crossed by small, neat wooden bridges, and after a couple of hours' journey one rides as through a portal into the great, bright valley of the Indus, and has the famous river before one.
We approached the striking spot, where two valleys converge and the Drasjoins the Wakkha, passed the sharp rocky angle, and rode up close by the bank of the Wakkha.
And as the knowledge of Brahman may be reached in this way not only by Sûdras but also by Brâhmanas and members of the other higher castes, the poor Upanishad is practically defunct.
Knowledge of Brahman may thus spring up in the mind of Sûdras and the like, owing to instruction received from one of those men who have passed beyond all prohibition.
All this proves that Sûdras also have a claim to the knowledge of Brahman.
And that Sûdras are allowed to hear Itihâsas and Purânas is meant only for the end of destroying their sins, not to prepare them for meditation on Brahman.
The Sûtras now enter on a discussion of the question whether the Sûdras also are qualified for the knowledge of Brahman.
In this way the qualification of Sûdras for the knowledge of Brahman is perfectly clear.
It is thus a settled matter that the Sûdras are not qualified for meditations on Brahman.
On these general grounds we object to Sûdras being viewed as qualified for meditation on Brahman.
Kshatriyas the royal and military, Vaiśyas the mercantile, and Śúdras the servile.
The privileges which Hindu law grants to the illegitimate children of Sûdras are due to the notion that the marriage of a member of this caste is itself considered to be of so low a nature as to be on a par with irregular connections.
On the other hand, the Sûdras as such were not slaves, though it was their duty to serve the other castes; they chose the persons to whom they would offer service, and claimed adequate compensation.
From the Zoji La the road continues by easy gradients, following the line of the Dras drainage, to the Indus, when it turns up the valley to Leh.
Such assertions are little more than rhetorical flourishes, for Brâhmans never were either so omnipotent or so unamiable as the Code would represent them; nor were the Sûdras ever so degraded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
