The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... Extent and Nature of the Remains . The Great Tower : Description of it by Major- General Cunningham , and account of his Excavations . - Age of Buddhist Topes or Towers . - Remains of a Buddhist Mon- astery Mr. Thomas's Account of them ...
... Extent and Nature of the Remains . The Great Tower : Description of it by Major- General Cunningham , and account of his Excavations . - Age of Buddhist Topes or Towers . - Remains of a Buddhist Mon- astery Mr. Thomas's Account of them ...
Page xvii
... extent and consideration by very gradual development . 2 At least since a hundred and twenty years before our era , Vârâņasî , as denoting a city , has been a name 1 Vide infra , p . xxv . , note 1 . 2 Also called Varâṇasî and Varanasî ...
... extent and consideration by very gradual development . 2 At least since a hundred and twenty years before our era , Vârâņasî , as denoting a city , has been a name 1 Vide infra , p . xxv . , note 1 . 2 Also called Varâṇasî and Varanasî ...
Page xxvi
... extent , equally products of ignorant mistake and misrepresentation . A good deal of weight has been allowed to this inscription ; and it has been , from time to time , honoured as a piece of genuine historic evidence . Uncritically ...
... extent , equally products of ignorant mistake and misrepresentation . A good deal of weight has been allowed to this inscription ; and it has been , from time to time , honoured as a piece of genuine historic evidence . Uncritically ...
Page xxxvi
... extent of the city , " the measured length along the banks of the river , by survey , is barely three miles ; and the average depth does not exceed one mile . " Benares Illustrated , p . 12. Hiouen Thsang found Benares , in the seventh ...
... extent of the city , " the measured length along the banks of the river , by survey , is barely three miles ; and the average depth does not exceed one mile . " Benares Illustrated , p . 12. Hiouen Thsang found Benares , in the seventh ...
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... extent of their investigations . One would have imagined that they who were exact in one subject would be exact in another ; and that , having acquired the habit of calmly noting points of agreement and difference , and of rigidly ...
... extent of their investigations . One would have imagined that they who were exact in one subject would be exact in another ; and that , having acquired the habit of calmly noting points of agreement and difference , and of rigidly ...
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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