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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 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 APPENDIX C. . . Further information concerning Divodás INDEX . 381 382 ...
Page xvii
A rational system of Romanized spelling would give us , instead of Benares ,
Banâras . The form qalth 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 ...
A rational system of Romanized spelling would give us , instead of Benares ,
Banâras . The form qalth 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 ...
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
... vicinity , hallowed by Buddhist 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 .
... vicinity , hallowed by Buddhist 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
... must be employed in the original , the passage or passages containing it being
left undesignated by the translator . No one can give much thought to the labours
of M. Julien , without detecting that they were never executed in contemplation ...
... must be employed in the original , the passage or passages containing it being
left undesignated by the translator . No one can give much thought to the labours
of M. Julien , without detecting that they were never executed in contemplation ...
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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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