Thus has Sakshi-Gopal accepted, worship and stayed at Vidya-nagar for long.
Turki-Dardi" of Hunza-Nagar and Yassin measured by Risley and Capus give a stature above the average (1 m.
But his whole household came to ruin, and then the Raja of Nagar restored the temple, and the Kols remembered Raja Chandol and have venerated him ever since.
At Ahmadabad, again, there is a city headman, known as the Nagar Seth or "chief man of the town.
Another story is that the Nagar Brahman women were renowned for their personal beauty and also for their skill in music.
In Gujarat it is said that one section of them called Barud are the descendants of Nagar Brahman fathers who were unable to get wives in their own caste and took them from others.
Many Nagar Brahmans have taken to secular occupations and are land-agents and cultivators.
The above stories seem to show that the Nagar Brahmans are partly of impure descent.
Formerly the Nagar Brahmans observed very strict rules about defilement when in the state called Nuven, that is, having bathed and purified themselves prior to taking food.
And the second are the Nagar Brahmans, who have been long settled in Nimar and the adjacent tracts, and act as village priests and astrologers.
But now that the railway has been opened they have petitioned the Rao of Bhaunagar, who is the head of the caste, and a Nagar Brahman, to introduce intermarriage again between the two sections of the caste.
Badshah-nagar of a village between Bangarmau and Nanamau (Elliot's Onau, p.
It is noteworthy that from the men of the district against whom we had fought, Colonel Durand raised the Hunza-Nagar levies who later fought so well for us.
Footnote 342: Doubtless because the capital was transferred to the south where the shrine of Po-nagar had rival claims.
Of the many sanctuaries which have been discovered, the most remarkable are those of Mi-son, and Dong Duong, both in the neighbourhood of Tourane, and Po Nagar close to Nhatrang.
Po Nagar or Yang Po Nagar means the Lady or Goddess of the city.
The natives continued to use the name Champa but Satyavarman and the other kings of the dynasty do not mention Mi-so'n though they adorned and endowed Po-nagar and other sanctuaries in the south.
Mi-son and Po-nagar were so to speak national cathedrals where the kings worshipped on behalf of the country.
The Hunza-Nagar Expedition of 1891, under Colonel A.
Hunza and Nagar were occupied, the chief of Nagar was reinstated on making his submission, and the half-brother of the raja of Hunza was installed as chief in the place of his brother.
Durand, was due to the defiant attitude of the Hunza and Nagar chiefs towards the British agent at Gilgit.
Its superficial area is eighty-two square miles, comprising the pargana of Nagar Haveli.
The settlement is composed of two distinct parts; Damman and the pargana of Nagar Haveli, separated by a territory belonging to the English and by a railroad running through Bombay, Baroda, and Central India.
The Takht i Sulimán to the west of Srínagar is crowned by a little temple, whose lower walls are of great age.
Excellent imitations of Persian carpets are woven at Amritsar, and the Srínagar carpets do credit to the Kashmírís' artistic taste.
The Government of India is represented at Srínagar by a Resident, and a political agent at Gilgit exercises a general supervision over the Wazír Wazárat.
Hunza and Nagar lie to the north of Gilgit near the junction of the Muztagh and Hindu Kush ranges, and Yasín far to the west about the upper waters of the Gilgit river.
He is of the boatman or Hanz caste, whose reputation is by no means high, and can himself convey by water his vegetables and fruits to the Srínagar market.
Travellers who intend to go to Srínagar by water board their house boats here.
Nineteen miles from Srínagar containing a beautiful and well-preserved temple of the Sun god, dated variously from the fifth to the thirteenth century (page 202).
The production of fruit in Kashmír is very large, and the extension of the railway to Srínagar should lead to much improvement in the quality and in the extent of the trade.
There is an excellent poplar-lined road from Báramúla to Srínagar and a bad road to Gulmarg.
The settlement is divided into two parts, Damaun proper, and the larger pargana of Nagar Havili, the two being separated by a narrow strip of British territory.
The Hunza-Nagar levies, to the number of one hundred, were sent back to Ghizr on the other side of the Shandur to reinforce that post and be in communication with Gilgit.
Ashkuman junction, and nearly opposite the little station of Gilgit, the river receives certain further contributions from the north which are collected in the Hunza and Nagar basins.
We sent back a post to Mastuj by some Nagar Levies who had just brought in a post, and then had a good discussion as to the causes that led to the raising of the siege.
Poor Gough was being left behind at Laspur in command of the garrison, which consisted of some twenty-five Kashmir troops, and the Nagar and Punyal Levies, in all about a hundred.
Colonel Kelly determined to start himself the next morning, with the Nagar Levies and Shah Mirza, as we had managed to collect half a dozen coolies to carry our kits.
Here also we picked up the Hunza and Nagar Levies, numbering a hundred men, under their own leaders.
Chitral with his Bengal Sappers, and Edwardes, 2nd Bombay Infantry, to the same place, to take command of the Hunza Nagar Levies, which were now called out.
Wazir Taifu I did not get to know so well, as the Nagar Levies were left behind at Mastuj, when we went on from there to Chitral.
The Hunza and Nagar Levies came in to Gilgit on the 7th March.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nagar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
