The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 2N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... stone rampart with battlements and towers , five miles in cir- cuit . The whole extent of this space , in its present state , is one scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ruins of broken columns , walls , gateways , and ...
... stone rampart with battlements and towers , five miles in cir- cuit . The whole extent of this space , in its present state , is one scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ruins of broken columns , walls , gateways , and ...
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... stone stairs , twenty- four feet high , is perhaps the grandest in the world . It is however getting fast dilapidated - the annual rains sweeping down the hill are here loosening a slab and there dislodging another . On the right side ...
... stone stairs , twenty- four feet high , is perhaps the grandest in the world . It is however getting fast dilapidated - the annual rains sweeping down the hill are here loosening a slab and there dislodging another . On the right side ...
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... stone and brick protrude from its surface , as if struggling for resurrec- tion . Perched on the summit is a small white unpre- tending temple , embosomed in a grove of trees . The mound excites not a little curiosity , and it is ...
... stone and brick protrude from its surface , as if struggling for resurrec- tion . Perched on the summit is a small white unpre- tending temple , embosomed in a grove of trees . The mound excites not a little curiosity , and it is ...
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... stone temples overhanging the ghauts are highly wrought and ornamented . What time , and skill , and labour , have been expended in reducing rough blocks to polished shafts , in adjusting their proportions , in carving their rich ...
... stone temples overhanging the ghauts are highly wrought and ornamented . What time , and skill , and labour , have been expended in reducing rough blocks to polished shafts , in adjusting their proportions , in carving their rich ...
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... stone or copper , though some of them had been very colossal figures . The pictorial Muttra of the tenth and eleventh cen- turies having been reduced to ashes , lay in obscurity for many a century . No notice of it has been taken by ...
... stone or copper , though some of them had been very colossal figures . The pictorial Muttra of the tenth and eleventh cen- turies having been reduced to ashes , lay in obscurity for many a century . No notice of it has been taken by ...
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