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Page xviii
1 Vârâņasî is specified more than once in Patanjali's Mahábháshya . On the age of that work , see my edition of Professor Wilson's translation of the Vishnu - purána , Vol . II . , p . 189 , ad calcem . . So allege the Pandits of the ...
1 Vârâņasî is specified more than once in Patanjali's Mahábháshya . On the age of that work , see my edition of Professor Wilson's translation of the Vishnu - purána , Vol . II . , p . 189 , ad calcem . . So allege the Pandits of the ...
Page xix
The same idea occurs more than once in a putative appendage to the Skanda - puráņa , the Kasi - khanda . It will suffice to quote XXX . , 20 , 21 : दक्षिणोत्तरदिग्भागे कृत्वासिं वरणां सुराः ॥
The same idea occurs more than once in a putative appendage to the Skanda - puráņa , the Kasi - khanda . It will suffice to quote XXX . , 20 , 21 : दक्षिणोत्तरदिग्भागे कृत्वासिं वरणां सुराः ॥
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I should be much surprised to find Kâsî mentioned even once in the Mahábharata . Not till medieval times , it seems , do we read of the city of Kâsî . To the authority , on this behalf , of the Purâņas may be added that of an ...
I should be much surprised to find Kâsî mentioned even once in the Mahábharata . Not till medieval times , it seems , do we read of the city of Kâsî . To the authority , on this behalf , of the Purâņas may be added that of an ...
Page xxvi
... 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 enough , I once followed ...
... 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 enough , I once followed ...
Page xxix
Warned by my past experience , and weighing the premises just recited , I at once suspected management , issuing in the obliteration , in two places , of the river Varaņâ . I had recourse to Professor James Summers , a distinguished ...
Warned by my past experience , and weighing the premises just recited , I at once suspected management , issuing in the obliteration , in two places , of the river Varaņâ . I had recourse to Professor James Summers , a distinguished ...
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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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