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Page xiv
Translated by the author from the “Mémoires sur les Contrées Occidentales de
Hiouen Thsang,” of M. Stanislas Julien, translator of the original . 341 . 364
Chinese work . . 366 APPENDIX C. Further information concerning Divodas .
Translated by the author from the “Mémoires sur les Contrées Occidentales de
Hiouen Thsang,” of M. Stanislas Julien, translator of the original . 341 . 364
Chinese work . . 366 APPENDIX C. Further information concerning Divodas .
Page xvii
A rational system of Romanized spelling would give us, instead of Benares,
Banaras. The form “TIE was the work, perhaps, of the Muhammadans. It should
appear that the metathesis of r and gr, in the original word, must be later than the
times ...
A rational system of Romanized spelling would give us, instead of Benares,
Banaras. The form “TIE was the work, perhaps, of the Muhammadans. It should
appear that the metathesis of r and gr, in the original word, must be later than the
times ...
Page xxv
Not only are the blunders in this inscription, as printed, so many and so gross that
we are forbidden to suppose they were in the original; but they provoke the
surmise that the interspersed patches of the record which read as if correct
Flagrant ...
Not only are the blunders in this inscription, as printed, so many and so gross that
we are forbidden to suppose they were in the original; but they provoke the
surmise that the interspersed patches of the record which read as if correct
Flagrant ...
Page xxviii
One need do no more than collate M. Julien's two versions of Hiouen Thsang's
short account of Benares, to be satisfied that the translator's notion of the sense of
his original is, sometimes, of the vaguest. 1 Its name is not specified. Fa Hian—of
...
One need do no more than collate M. Julien's two versions of Hiouen Thsang's
short account of Benares, to be satisfied that the translator's notion of the sense of
his original is, sometimes, of the vaguest. 1 Its name is not specified. Fa Hian—of
...
Page xxix
... was thereby unavoidably misled to the conclusion that Po-lo-na'z', the so-
called shortened or depraved form of Po~lo-m'-sse, must be employed in the
original, the passage or passages containing it being left undesignated by the
translator.
... was thereby unavoidably misled to the conclusion that Po-lo-na'z', the so-
called shortened or depraved form of Po~lo-m'-sse, must be employed in the
original, the passage or passages containing it being left undesignated by the
translator.
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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 | Fitz-Edward Hall |
| Publisher | Trübner, 1868 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2012 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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