Lexicographical Neighbors of Pujahs
Literary usage of Pujahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"They are forced to be content with . . . the annual pujahs performed ... on behalf
of the ... Calcutta has been in the throes of tho pujahs since yesterday. ..."
2. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture by Nitya Gopal Mukerji (1901)
"... one gets very high price for the canes during the pujahs ... chewing canes
during the pujahs when they fetch a very high price in a town like Calcutta. ..."
3. India's Women (1888)
"... on occasions of pujahs and festivals. We have taken up the work more particularly
during this last year, and it appears to us to be most hopeful, ..."
4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1851)
"... natives were m:iking pujahs. I stopped and began to speak. They immediately
left their worship and others collected, till I had a good congregation, ..."
5. Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Purānicby William Joseph Wilkins by William Joseph Wilkins (1882)
"How we did "the Lions" of the North-West: A Trip in the Durga-pujahs to Lucknow,
Delhi, Agra. By FOB Re. I. HOMEWARD, VIA AMERICA. ..."
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