The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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Page xvii
... former times were , with few exceptions , inconsiderable ; such of them as lay conterminous were often at open feud ; and their cities , or fortified towns , constituted , in fact , their only stable boundaries . It was , probably ...
... former times were , with few exceptions , inconsiderable ; such of them as lay conterminous were often at open feud ; and their cities , or fortified towns , constituted , in fact , their only stable boundaries . It was , probably ...
Page xxiii
... former , we find , indeed , in post - vaidik books , two Divodâsas ; into whom a single personage seems to have been parted . One of them is son of Badhryaśwa , as in the Rigveda ; but it is the other , the son of Bhîmaratha , and ...
... former , we find , indeed , in post - vaidik books , two Divodâsas ; into whom a single personage seems to have been parted . One of them is son of Badhryaśwa , as in the Rigveda ; but it is the other , the son of Bhîmaratha , and ...
Page xxvii
... Benares a large kingdom , and one in which the Hindus much outnumbered the Buddhists ; and there must , then , have been many times ten thousand of the former . are stated to have been much in the minority , INTRODUCTION . xxvii.
... Benares a large kingdom , and one in which the Hindus much outnumbered the Buddhists ; and there must , then , have been many times ten thousand of the former . are stated to have been much in the minority , INTRODUCTION . xxvii.
Page xxxii
... former buildings . But I am not aware that Colonel Wilford has any authority for speaking of " the old city of Benares , north of the river Burna , " which old city , he says , is sometimes called Sonitapura . Asiatic Researches , Vol ...
... former buildings . But I am not aware that Colonel Wilford has any authority for speaking of " the old city of Benares , north of the river Burna , " which old city , he says , is sometimes called Sonitapura . Asiatic Researches , Vol ...
Page xxxvi
... former in- fluence is , in large measure , indebted . There is no ground for believing that Benares , in comparison of what we now see it , with its thousand temples , 1 and their concomitants of holy harpies and willing victims , can ...
... former in- fluence is , in large measure , indebted . There is no ground for believing that Benares , in comparison of what we now see it , with its thousand temples , 1 and their concomitants of holy harpies and willing victims , can ...
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