The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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Page 100
... inches or a foot in thickness . Its name is Kot - Lingeswar , from the circumstance that its surface is supposed to have a koti or ten millions of the emblems of Siva carved upon it . The actual number cut out on the superficies of the ...
... inches or a foot in thickness . Its name is Kot - Lingeswar , from the circumstance that its surface is supposed to have a koti or ten millions of the emblems of Siva carved upon it . The actual number cut out on the superficies of the ...
Page 136
... inches broad , in the plane of the meridian . By this instrument the sun's altitude and zenith distance , at noon ... inches high , and the other , twenty - two feet three and a half inches , sloping gradually upwards , so as to point ...
... inches broad , in the plane of the meridian . By this instrument the sun's altitude and zenith distance , at noon ... inches high , and the other , twenty - two feet three and a half inches , sloping gradually upwards , so as to point ...
Page 137
... inches high , and three feet seven and a half inches thick , surrounded by a wall of exactly its own height , at a distance of seven feet three and a quarter inches , which is again surrounded by another wall , double its height , and ...
... inches high , and three feet seven and a half inches thick , surrounded by a wall of exactly its own height , at a distance of seven feet three and a quarter inches , which is again surrounded by another wall , double its height , and ...
Page 175
... inch beyond its pre- cincts is devoid of any special virtue , every inch of soil within the boundary is , in the Hindu's imagina- tion , hallowed . It would seem , too , that every object , animate and inanimate , existing within the ...
... inch beyond its pre- cincts is devoid of any special virtue , every inch of soil within the boundary is , in the Hindu's imagina- tion , hallowed . It would seem , too , that every object , animate and inanimate , existing within the ...
Page 238
... inches in width , with intervals of fifteen feet between them . In each of the faces , at a height of twenty - four feet above the ground , there is a semi - circular headed niche , five and a half feet in width , and the same in height ...
... inches in width , with intervals of fifteen feet between them . In each of the faces , at a height of twenty - four feet above the ground , there is a semi - circular headed niche , five and a half feet in width , and the same in height ...
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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-laď 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