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Title: Beyond the Pir Panjal; life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Neve, Ernest Frederic, 1861-
Subjects: Kashmir Missions, Medical Mountaineering
Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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his birth till theday when he dies and his son sets light to his funeral pyre,is regulated by an elaborate code of religious rites, ceremoniesand customs. These involve daily worship with ablutionsand offerings to idols of flowers and food, frequent fastings,and the observance of a very large number of holy days. As we continue to traverse the crowded streets, a line ofladen ponies is driven with shouts and objurgations throughthe throng, or a solitary rider with many cries of hosh hosh makes his way along. But there is hardly any wheeledtraffic. Of the city population more than a half are provisionsellers or artificers. This includes some 25,000 engaged inthe wool industry. The most important trades are—graindealers, vegetable and fruit sellers, dairymen, butchers,workers in metal and shoemakers. On either side of theroad there is a deep gutter. Five feet above this are theopen shop windows with stalls and shelves, one aboveanother, laden with articles of commerce—piles of cotton
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P:;f i! SRINAGAR 241 cloth, bottles of ghee, blocks of rock-salt, baskets of grain,maize, rice, lentils, flour, walnuts and sacks of turmeric.Here is a row of stalls with brass pots and pans and cooking-vessels; a little further on the deafening clang assails theear of a copper-workers shop, where large saucepans andboilers of all sorts are being hammered into shape. In othershops there are heaps of red earthenware pottery, rows ofnative shoes, saddlery, embroidery, large iron pans full ofboiling syrup and piles of round slabs of sugar. Then wepass a line of bakers shops with rows of wheaten and maizecakes and large flat chapattis like the unleavened bread ofthe Jews, and it is wonderful how like in appearance to Jewsmany of the people are. There is a curious legend, inventedby the founder of the heretical Mohammedan Quadiani sect, tothe effect that an ancient grave in Kashmir, of a saint namedYuz-asaf, who died in the fifteenth century, is really the graveof Christ, who did not die o

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