The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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Page xvii
... perhaps , of the Muhammadans . It should appear that the metathesis of r and ṇ , in the original word , must be later than the times of Fă Hian and Hiouen Thsang . Vide infra , p . xxviii . , notes 1 and 2 . In the ordinary belief of ...
... perhaps , of the Muhammadans . It should appear that the metathesis of r and ṇ , in the original word , must be later than the times of Fă Hian and Hiouen Thsang . Vide infra , p . xxviii . , notes 1 and 2 . In the ordinary belief of ...
Page xxiv
... perhaps two centuries , succeeded Divodâsa , in whose reign Buddhism seems to have been still acting on the aggressive.2 In this synchronism there is no discernible improbability ; and , with some likelihood , it embodies an historic ...
... perhaps two centuries , succeeded Divodâsa , in whose reign Buddhism seems to have been still acting on the aggressive.2 In this synchronism there is no discernible improbability ; and , with some likelihood , it embodies an historic ...
Page xxx
... Perhaps it is not strange that M. Julien , in drawing up his suicidal Méthode , and even earlier , chose to shut his eyes to this presumption . Vide supra , p . xxvii . , note 2 . " With M. Julien's method , mathematical certainty seems ...
... Perhaps it is not strange that M. Julien , in drawing up his suicidal Méthode , and even earlier , chose to shut his eyes to this presumption . Vide supra , p . xxvii . , note 2 . " With M. Julien's method , mathematical certainty seems ...
Page xxxi
... perhaps , has no better basis , for the most part , than oral tradition , eked out by romance , -bears witness , it is true , to a ferocious spirit of opposition to those reli- gionists ; and such a spirit , if entertained after they ...
... perhaps , has no better basis , for the most part , than oral tradition , eked out by romance , -bears witness , it is true , to a ferocious spirit of opposition to those reli- gionists ; and such a spirit , if entertained after they ...
Page xxxiii
... perhaps , be remunerated . The Benares of the present day offers numerous and varied objects of interest1 to the contemplation of the devout Hindu ; and yet , a very few of them excepted , to speculate touching their age , in reliance ...
... perhaps , be remunerated . The Benares of the present day offers numerous and varied objects of interest1 to the contemplation of the devout Hindu ; and yet , a very few of them excepted , to speculate touching their age , in reliance ...
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ANCIENT REMAINS antiquity architraves Asiatic Aśoka Bakaríyá Kund banks Bará Barna bass-relief bathe Bengal Bisheswar Bodhi Brahmans bricks Buddha Buddhist building built capitals carved centre chaityas Cheit Singh Christian Chunar city of Benares cloister deer deities distance divine Durgá edifice enclosure entire erected excavations existence extent feet in height festival figure five formerly four Gaṇeś Ganges goddess ground held Hian Hindu Hinduism Hiouen Thsang honour hundred idolatry idols inches India inscription James Prinsep Jou-laï the Tathágata Káśí king large number Mahadeva Mahalla medan Melá miles Mohammedan monastery mosque mound native neighbourhood niches northern original ornamented persons pilgrimage pilgrims pillars portion present quadrangle Ráj Ghát Raja Rám Rámnagar regarded religion religious remarkable river road ruins sacred Sangam Sanskrit Sárnáth sculptured shrine side Siva spot square stands statue stone Stupa tank temple terrace tower Vihára Vishnu wall Warren Hastings worship