choultry

This edifice is now occasionally converted into a kind of choultry, or cara - vansera, where travellers of rank are lodged in their jour - nies, upon the public service, through this part of the country.

An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary ; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy Gower, Erasmus, Sir, 1742-1814 1797

Sometimes two or three of a gang will take up their station in a choultry, or place where the traveller stops, and while he sleeps, they rouse him from his sleep, and cast the noose over his head and kill him.

Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder

The chiefs of the district, Bráhmans and others, had already met in the choultry; and no other cause being brought forward, they proceeded immediately to that of the four Bráhmans, who advanced into the middle of the court, and stated that a sharp contest having arisen among them, they were come to have it decided with fairness and impartiality.

The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869

The others agreed in the soundness of this advice; and having arrived at the village, they eagerly entered the choultry, to have their business settled by the arbitrator.

The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869

"AlakÚsa Kathß," in which a king's daughter becomes a disembodied evil spirit, haunting during the night a particular choultry (or serai) for travellers, and if they do not answer aright to her cries she strangles them and vampyre-like sucks their blood.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

We are within a short distance of Dharmapuri, where there is a choultry, at which all little causes are tried by the heads of the village; and let ours be judged among the rest. "

The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869

16 ANACCOUNt to any he could raife, whilfl: it was yet at it great diftance, pretended that he was defirous of yielding obedience, and requefted his ad - vancing with a fmall party to a choultry which ftood between the two armies, that he might there kifs his feet, and pray him to folicit his pardon from the king.

An historical account of the settlement and possession of Bombay, by the English East India company, and of the rise and progress of the war with the Mahratta nation 1781