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" ... and minarets and balconies and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended... "
Vizier Ali Khan; Or, The Massacre of Benares: a Chapter in British Indian ... - Page 11
by John Francis Davis - 1871 - 98 pages
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...and not less holy bulls. The broad «ml stately flights of steps which descended from these s\yarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were...multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drevr crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundred* of...
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The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times

Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 460 pages
...thousand, and perhaps more, while the population of the surrounding villages is exceedingly dense. and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
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The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times

Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 454 pages
...villages is exceedingly dense. and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung hy hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
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The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times

Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 456 pages
...his way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
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The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times

Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 452 pages
...his way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
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The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times

Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 544 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathI ing-places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
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The Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine, Volume 4

1868 - 598 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps, which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
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Our Oriental Missions. ...

Edward Thomson - 1870 - 276 pages
...broad and stately flights 4^f steps which descended from these swarming haunts, and the bathing places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshipers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical...
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The countries of the world, Volume 5; Volume 79

Robert Brown - 1876 - 362 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerahle multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every...
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The Sunday Magazine for Family Reading, Volume 1

1878 - 924 pages
...traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulk. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended...crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Lrahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came hither every month to die; for it was believed...
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