Dhak

Ritual drummers – dhakis, carrying large leather-strung dhak –– show off their skills during ritual dance worships called aarati. ❋ Photographerno1 (2009)

The Tejpal Pujo has a beautifully decorated idol with an Arati carried out in the midst of playing of the dhak. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (1925)

The coral, the silk-cotton and the _dhak_ are resplendent with red foliage. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The message ran then: -- "A widow dhak flower and bhusa -- at eleven o'clock." ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhak tree in the center of the plain. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The Bagrees were encamped to one side of the Mahratta troops in a small jungle of _dhak_ and slim-growing bamboos that afforded them privacy. ❋ William Alexander Fraser (1896)

Beyond the bridge they passed across a lower level, jungle clad with delicate bamboos and dhak, and sweet-scented shrubs, and clusters of gorgeous oleanders. ❋ William Alexander Fraser (1896)

When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhak-tree in the center of the plain. ❋ Unknown (1893)

-- Mahomdee, eleven miles, over a level plain of muteear soil of the best quality, well supplied with groves and single trees of the finest kind; but a good deal of the land is out of tillage, and covered with the rank grass, called garur, the roots of which form the fragrant khus, for tatties, in the hot winds; and dhak (butea frondosa) jungle. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

These jungles are not thick, or unhealthy, consisting of the small dhak or palas tree, with little or no underwood; and the surface they now occupy would soon be covered with fine spring crops, and studded with happy village communities, were people encouraged by an assurance of protection to settle upon it, and apply their capital and labour to its cultivation. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

Even today people can't stop staring at her sensuous dhak dhak dance sequence in Beta. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He reproduces sounds of drums - dhak, dhak, the tinkling of different kinds of bells from those round necks of goats and those round necks of oxen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Avtarni, a gold bracelet with liberal use of diamonds, coloured stones and enamelling, depicts the autumn festival, with motifs that include kaash phool and dhak. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With her graceful moves and her new toned, slim look, the dhak-dhak ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Big box] of Dhak ❋ Yuhsistaman (2016)