The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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Page vi
... work have , at various times , appeared in print , in contributions to the Calcutta Review and the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , and in a Lecture delivered before the Benares Institute , published in the vi PREFACE .
... work have , at various times , appeared in print , in contributions to the Calcutta Review and the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , and in a Lecture delivered before the Benares Institute , published in the vi PREFACE .
Page xi
... Bengali population of Benares . - The popular Temple of Kedareswar . - Legend of Kedár . - Mánsarwar Tank and sur- rounding Temples . — Bál - Krishna and Chaturbhuj Idols . — Máneswar Temple . - The great Image of Tilubhanḍeswar ...
... Bengali population of Benares . - The popular Temple of Kedareswar . - Legend of Kedár . - Mánsarwar Tank and sur- rounding Temples . — Bál - Krishna and Chaturbhuj Idols . — Máneswar Temple . - The great Image of Tilubhanḍeswar ...
Page xviii
... Bengal , for 1863 , Supplementary Number , p . xcvi . 1 Vârânasî is specified more than once in Patanjali's Mahábháshya . On the age of that work , see my edition of Professor Wilson's trans- lation of the Vishnu - purána , Vol . II ...
... Bengal , for 1863 , Supplementary Number , p . xcvi . 1 Vârânasî is specified more than once in Patanjali's Mahábháshya . On the age of that work , see my edition of Professor Wilson's trans- lation of the Vishnu - purána , Vol . II ...
Page xxii
... Bengal , for 1862 , pp . 14 , 15. The document in question , a land - grant , was issued by Vinayakapâla , Raja of Mahodaya or Kanauj , about the middle of the eleventh century , it may be . Kâsî is there indirectly described as in the ...
... Bengal , for 1862 , pp . 14 , 15. The document in question , a land - grant , was issued by Vinayakapâla , Raja of Mahodaya or Kanauj , about the middle of the eleventh century , it may be . Kâsî is there indirectly described as in the ...
Page xxvi
... Bengal , for 1862. p . 8 , first foot - note . It now appears to me rash to see , in it , proof that Benares was subordinate to Gauḍa , or anything else whatever claiming reliance . 1 Burnouf's Introduction à l'Histoire du Buddhisme ...
... Bengal , for 1862. p . 8 , first foot - note . It now appears to me rash to see , in it , proof that Benares was subordinate to Gauḍa , or anything else whatever claiming reliance . 1 Burnouf's Introduction à l'Histoire du Buddhisme ...
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ANCIENT REMAINS antiquity architraves Asiatic Aśoka Bakaríyá Kund banks Bará Barna bass-relief bathe Bengal Bisheswar Bodhi Brahmans bricks Buddha Buddhist building built capitals carved centre chaityas Cheit Singh Christian Chunar city of Benares cloister deer deities distance divine Durgá edifice enclosure entire erected excavations existence extent feet in height festival figure five formerly four Gaṇeś Ganges goddess ground held Hian Hindu Hinduism Hiouen Thsang honour hundred idolatry idols inches India inscription James Prinsep Jou-laï the Tathágata Káśí king large number Mahadeva Mahalla medan Melá miles Mohammedan monastery mosque mound native neighbourhood niches northern original ornamented persons pilgrimage pilgrims pillars portion present quadrangle Ráj Ghát Raja Rám Rámnagar regarded religion religious remarkable river road ruins sacred Sangam Sanskrit Sárnáth sculptured shrine side Siva spot square stands statue stone Stupa tank temple terrace tower Vihára Vishnu wall Warren Hastings worship