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Image of Mahákál , or Great Fate.— The Maņikarņiká Well and Ghát . - Legends ... Old Images . — Temples of Bágeswari , Jwarahareswar , and Siddheswar 82 CHAPTER VI . Benares , Káśí , and Kedár , the three Grand Divisions of the city .
Image of Mahákál , or Great Fate.— The Maņikarņiká Well and Ghát . - Legends ... Old Images . — Temples of Bágeswari , Jwarahareswar , and Siddheswar 82 CHAPTER VI . Benares , Káśí , and Kedár , the three Grand Divisions of the city .
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The great Image of Tilubhaņdeswar.Ancient mutilated Statue . — Temple of Duláreśwar . - Peepul tree at Chauki Ghát . --- Swinging gods 146 CHAPTER XIII . Durgá Kund Temple . - Bloody Sacrifices ; their meaning . - Sacred Monkeys .
The great Image of Tilubhaņdeswar.Ancient mutilated Statue . — Temple of Duláreśwar . - Peepul tree at Chauki Ghát . --- Swinging gods 146 CHAPTER XIII . Durgá Kund Temple . - Bloody Sacrifices ; their meaning . - Sacred Monkeys .
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... city in India in which the reverence paid to images is more absolute and complete than in Benares . It is remarkable , too , as showing the extent to which the spirit of idolatry has permeated all classes , that pandits and thinking ...
... city in India in which the reverence paid to images is more absolute and complete than in Benares . It is remarkable , too , as showing the extent to which the spirit of idolatry has permeated all classes , that pandits and thinking ...
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... in which images in immense multitudes were and are still deposited . These secondary shrines , if they be worthy of this designation , each occupied by one or more idols , are , in some parts of the city , exceedingly numerous .
... in which images in immense multitudes were and are still deposited . These secondary shrines , if they be worthy of this designation , each occupied by one or more idols , are , in some parts of the city , exceedingly numerous .
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Not content with depositing an image in a temple , they ornament its portico and walls with deities , or arrange them in rows in the temple enclosure . You may sometimes see twenty , fifty , and even a hundred of these idols in one ...
Not content with depositing an image in a temple , they ornament its portico and walls with deities , or arrange them in rows in the temple enclosure . You may sometimes see twenty , fifty , and even a hundred of these idols in one ...
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| Title | The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times |
| Author | Matthew Atmore Sherring |
| Contributor | Fitzedward Hall |
| Publisher | Trübner & Company, 1868 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2012 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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