Lexicographical Neighbors of Dhurna
Literary usage of Dhurna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to by Reginald Heber (1849)
"To sit " dhurna," or mourning, is to remain motionless in that posture, without
food, and exposed to the weather, till the person against whom it is ..."
2. Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta by Reginald Heber, Amelia Heber (1873)
"To sit " dhurna," or mourning, is to remain motionless in that posture, without
food, and exposed to the weather, till the person against whom it is ..."
3. The Christian Herald by John Edwards Caldwell (1817)
"The following account of the dhurna and the Tragga, is copied from a work, entitled,
... The dhurna is instituted to exact a debt, to enforce an obligation, ..."
4. Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal by India) Asiatick Society (Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vernor and Hood (1807)
"Whenever all the.requisites above-mentioned are found united, they constitute
dhurna ; but if any one of them be wanting, ..."
5. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"dhurna. Pers. name of takda, ‘ dunning ‘ or ‘ importunity.' C. 1747. ... by placing
him in dhurna . . . and that in so great a degree as even to stop the ..."
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