dhak

Ritual drummers – dhakis, carrying large leather-strung dhak –– show off their skills during ritual dance worships called aarati.

Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009

The Tejpal Pujo has a beautifully decorated idol with an Arati carried out in the midst of playing of the dhak.

Archive 2006-10-01 Abodh 2006

The Tejpal Pujo has a beautifully decorated idol with an Arati carried out in the midst of playing of the dhak.

Pujo in Mumbai Abodh 2006

He had been accustomed in India to a big receipt of letters -- a big dhak, as he called it, using the Hindustani word -- now he received no letters at all; and he told Rosalie that when you are in the habit of getting a regular daily post, its gradual falling off and then its complete cessation is one of the most melancholy things that can befall a man.

This Freedom 1925

The coral, the silk-cotton and the _dhak_ are resplendent with red foliage.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

His long-suffering hosts smiled and made him welcome, and when he paused to admire, with pretty picked words, the blossom of the blood-red dhak-tree that had flowered untimely for a sign of what was coming, they smiled more than ever.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

It was at twilight when he saw the well-remembered grazing-grounds, and the dhak-tree where Gray Brother had waited for him on the morning that he killed Shere Khan.

The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

The message ran then: -- "A widow dhak flower and bhusa -- at eleven o'clock."

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

In the packet was the half of a broken glass-bangle, one flower of the blood-red _dhak_, a pinch of _bhusa_ or cattle-food, and eleven cardamoms.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhak tree in the center of the plain.

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900