ফুলমণি ও করুণার বিবরণ
THE HISTORY
OF
PHULMANI AND KARUNA;
A BOOK FOR
NATIVE CHRISTIAN WOMEN.
ফুলমণি ও করুণার
বিবরণ,
স্ত্রীলোকদের শিক্ষার্থে বিরচিত।
CALCUTTA:
PRINTED FOR THE CALCUTTA CHRISTIAN TRACT AND BOOK
SOCIETY, BY J. BAPTIST, AT BISHOP’S COLLEGE PRESS.
PREFACE.
The nature and object of this little work are thus explained by the writer herself, in a note addressed to the Secretary of the Calcutta Christian Tract and Book Society:—
“It is a book specially intended for Native Christian women. I have endeavored to show in it the practical influence of Christianity on the various details of domestic life, such as the forming of marriage connections, behaviour to husbands, moral training of children, and the duty of women, specially to the poor, to the sick, and to the heathen. I have also touched upon the following topics;—the necessity of the private study of the Bible, of keeping the Lord's day holy, of attending the house of God, and of female education; also the bad effects of running into debt, of confining females strictly to their own houses, of injudicious treatment of the sick, of certain superstitions which are still in full force among many Native Christians, and of marriages where the parties know nothing of each other, or where their tastes are dissimilar,—the duty of domestic economy, of cleanliness, of cheerfulness, and of industry, &c.
“The above subjects are worked into the little story, fictitious on the whole, but founded upon facts; for many of the incidents related in it have come under my own notice, and others I have heard from Missionaries’ wives in the country. Throughout the whole book, true heart-religion has been shown to be the basis of every good work, and the simple Gospel plan of salvation has been repeatedly explained, and referred to.”
At the close of the book are two lists of Bengálí names, of good, or at least unobjectionable, import, with an exhortation to parents to give such to their children rather than English names, which the natives generally cannot pronounce, or those having reference to the idolatrous objects of Hindu worship. Certain rules are also given whereby similar names can be easily formed. A third list of names, the terminations of which rhyme with each other, is added to gratify the harmless propensity of many native parents, who like to have their children’s names thus correspond in sound.
সূচীপত্র
এই লেখাটি ১ জানুয়ারি ১৯২৯ সালের পূর্বে প্রকাশিত এবং বিশ্বব্যাপী পাবলিক ডোমেইনের অন্তর্ভুক্ত, কারণ উক্ত লেখকের মৃত্যুর পর কমপক্ষে ১০০ বছর অতিবাহিত হয়েছে অথবা লেখাটি ১০০ বছর আগে প্রকাশিত হয়েছে ।