History of India . ... , ?I. »?& iflA >jH0j2fi2:uL!,.. .:;•;, -i-ACi-y- A Dancing Girl, or Bayadere The nautch girls, or professional dancers in India, are sometimesspoken of in European writings as the Bayaderes, u term borrowed fromthe Portuguese, who thus designated them. They are frequently connected?with the temples and called DeTSadasis, Servants of the Gods, acting ashandmaidens of the priests who minister in the KOES ACCOUNT OF JAHANGIR 75 flagons. So drinking, and commanding others, his Maj-estie and all his Lords became the finest men I eversaw, of a thousand htimours. A
History of India . ... , ?I. »?& iflA >jH0j2fi2:uL!,.. .:;•;, -i-ACi-y- A Dancing Girl, or Bayadere The nautch girls, or professional dancers in India, are sometimesspoken of in European writings as the Bayaderes, u term borrowed fromthe Portuguese, who thus designated them. They are frequently connected?with the temples and called DeTSadasis, Servants of the Gods, acting ashandmaidens of the priests who minister in the KOES ACCOUNT OF JAHANGIR 75 flagons. So drinking, and commanding others, his Maj-estie and all his Lords became the finest men I eversaw, of a thousand htimours. At other times Jahan-gir waxed solemn and sentimental: * The good Kingfell to dispute of the Lawes of Moses, Jesus, and Ma-homet, and in drinke was so kinde, that he turned tome and said: I am a king, you shall be welcome: Chris-tians, Moores, Jewes, he medled not with their faith;they came all in love, and he would protect them fromwrong, they lived under his safety, and none shouldoppresse them; and this often repeated, but in extreame?drunkenesse, he fell to weeping and to divers passions,and so kept us till midnight. On another occasion theambassador found him sharing the coarse meal of * afilthy beggar — a holy fakir, no doubt — taking himTip in his armes, which no cleanly body durst, imbracinghim, and three times laying his hand on his heart, call-ing him father : for superstition was a potent factorin this singul
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