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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 Chinese work 366 66 APPENDIX C. Further information concerning Divodás INDEX . . 381 382 .
Translated by the author from the Mémoires sur les Contrées Occidentales de Hiouen Thsang , ” of M. Stanislas Julien , translator of the original Chinese work 366 66 APPENDIX C. Further information concerning Divodás INDEX . . 381 382 .
Page xvii
... instead of Benares , Banâras . The form qarth was the work , perhaps , of the Muhammadans . It should appear that the metathesis of r and ņ , in the original word , must be later than the times of Fă Hian and Hiouen Thsang .
... instead of Benares , Banâras . The form qarth was the work , perhaps , of the Muhammadans . It should appear that the metathesis of r and ņ , in the original word , must be later than the times of Fă Hian and Hiouen Thsang .
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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
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 .
Page xxix
... misled to the conclusion that Po - lo - naï , the so - called shortened or depraved form of Po - lo - ni - sse , must be employed in the original , the passage or passages containing it being left undesignated by the translator .
... misled to the conclusion that Po - lo - naï , the so - called shortened or depraved form of Po - lo - ni - 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 | Fitzedward Hall |
| Publisher | Trübner & Company, 1868 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2012 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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