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Page xviii
... Banâr is traditionally believed to have rebuilt Benares about eight hundred
years ago . Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , for 1863 , Supplementary
Number , p . xcvi . Vârâņasî is specified more than once in Patanjali's
Mahâbhâshya .
... Banâr is traditionally believed to have rebuilt Benares about eight hundred
years ago . Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , for 1863 , Supplementary
Number , p . xcvi . Vârâņasî is specified more than once in Patanjali's
Mahâbhâshya .
Page xix
The same idea occurs more than once in a putative appendage to the Skanda -
purána , 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 -
purána , the Kasi - khanda . It will suffice to quote XXX . , 20 , 21 :
दक्षिणोत्तरदिग्भागे कृत्वासिं वरणां
सुराः ॥
Page xxii
In the Mahabharata , frequent mention of Kâsi occurs , " according to Professor
Wilson , as quoted in Benares Illustrated , p . 8. I should be much surprised to find
Kâsî mentioned even once in the Mahábharata . Not till medieval times , it seems
...
In the Mahabharata , frequent mention of Kâsi occurs , " according to Professor
Wilson , as quoted in Benares Illustrated , p . 8. I should be much surprised to find
Kâsî mentioned even once in the Mahábharata . Not till medieval times , it seems
...
Page xxvi
... equally products 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 fol
...
... equally products 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 fol
...
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
Sinologist ...
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
Sinologist ...
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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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