The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... Idolatry in Benares and Northern India generally . - Influence of education on Hindu youths . - A Martin Luther for India . — Influence and spread of Christianity.— Gungá - putras , or sons of the Ganges . - Literary and Religious ...
... Idolatry in Benares and Northern India generally . - Influence of education on Hindu youths . - A Martin Luther for India . — Influence and spread of Christianity.— Gungá - putras , or sons of the Ganges . - Literary and Religious ...
Page 17
... idolatry , in their vast aggregate , cause the Hindu religion to be visible to the eye , in this city , in a manner and degree unknown elsewhere . Were a stranger , visiting Benares , to wander about amongst its shrines and sacred ...
... idolatry , in their vast aggregate , cause the Hindu religion to be visible to the eye , in this city , in a manner and degree unknown elsewhere . Were a stranger , visiting Benares , to wander about amongst its shrines and sacred ...
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... idolatry the worship of uncouth idols , of monsters , of the linga and other indecent figures , and of a multi- tude of grotesque , ill - shapen , and hideous objects . Some of them are wild parodies on the animal kingdom , representing ...
... idolatry the worship of uncouth idols , of monsters , of the linga and other indecent figures , and of a multi- tude of grotesque , ill - shapen , and hideous objects . Some of them are wild parodies on the animal kingdom , representing ...
Page 39
... idolatry , the resources of which had , in so many places , begun to fail . The new school , enlightened and doubting , ceases to build new temples , or endow the old ones . The old school , prospering in trade , growing in wealth ...
... idolatry , the resources of which had , in so many places , begun to fail . The new school , enlightened and doubting , ceases to build new temples , or endow the old ones . The old school , prospering in trade , growing in wealth ...
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... idolaters , to sustain Hinduism , and to thwart Christianity , it is a fact , admitting of distinct proof , that the one is on the decline and the other is in the ascendant , the one is decaying and crumbling to pieces , while the other ...
... idolaters , to sustain Hinduism , and to thwart Christianity , it is a fact , admitting of distinct proof , that the one is on the decline and the other is in the ascendant , the one is decaying and crumbling to pieces , while the other ...
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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