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Source: Singhi Jain Series: Ratnaprabha-suri’s Kuvalayamala-katha (history)Sails (of boats and ships) were unfurled, as part of preparatory rituals performed before Sea-voyages in ancient India (known in Prakrit as: jattā, or Sanskrit: yātrā), and was vividly depicted in the Kathās (narrative poems) such as Uddyotanasūri in his 8th-century Kuvalayamālā (a Prakrit Campū, similar to Kāvya poetry).—[...] When the ship was to take off auspicious musical instruments were sounded, conch-shells were blown, auspicious songs were sung, Brahmins muttered the āsīsā; and thus in the sound of invocation and jaya jaya the ship took off its voyage, the sails were unfurled, the ropes and riggings were pulled up, the oars began to be operated, the helmsman took observations, the ship fell into its course, favourable winds began to blow: thus the ship started its journey being tossed on the high sea waves.
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Starts with (+204): Cailakam, Cailam, Cailantiram, Cailapati, Cailastuni, Cailataran, Caili, Sailab, Sailaba, Sailadori, Sailaga, Sailambha, Sailamgi, Sailani, Sailaniyah, Sailavanem, Sailavani, Sailavinem, Sailemdri, Sailla.
Ends with: Gussail.
Full-text (+144): Sida, Avajara, Shidakathi, Phogi, Paramana, Shiki, Kalambi, Parabana, Lakara, Marutpata, Civata, Vasarum, Damana, Hayidoni, Hayihadagu, Javanika, Patavilisu, Indrushayari, Vatacer, Arye.
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Heimskringla (by Snorri Sturlson)
Part 110 - King Olaf's Voyage From Vindland < [Chapter VI - King Olaf Trygvason's Saga]
Part 185 - Of King Olaf's Voyage < [Chapter VII - Saga Of Olaf Haraldson]
Part 112 - Of King Olaf's People < [Chapter VI - King Olaf Trygvason's Saga]
Egypt Through The Stereoscope (by James Henry Breasted)
Position 15 - The Great Nile Bridge At Cairo Open For The Passage Of The Daily Fleet Of Cargo Boats < [Standpoints In Egypt]
Position 33 - Dahabiyehs On The River Ready For The Journey To The Upper Nile < [Standpoints In Egypt]
Position 92 - The Nubian Temple Of Kalabsheh, Built In The Days Of The Roman Emperor Augustus (view East) < [Standpoints In Egypt]
Childhood < [July – September, 1990]
The Lure of the Sunderban < [December 1944]
Human Associations < [January – March, 1990]
Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification) (by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu)
The Five Similes < [Chapter IV - The Earth Kasiṇa (Pathavī-kasiṇa-niddesa)]
The Visuddhimagga and its Author < [Introduction]
The Religion and Philosophy of Tevaram (Thevaram) (by M. A. Dorai Rangaswamy)
Chapter 86 - Thiruketheeswaram or Tirukketiccaram (Hymn 80) < [Volume 3.7 - Unto the last]
Chapter 30 - Thirupurampayam or Tiruppurampayam (Hymn 35) < [Volume 3.3 - Pilgrim’s progress: to Chola (later?)]
Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po) (by George N. Roerich)
Chapter 29 - Sonam Gyatso (bsod nams rgya mtsho) < [Book 10 - The Kālacakra]