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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 xxiv
The Puranas specify but one dynasty of Kasi kings; a goodly catalogue,
beginning, in the most authoritative of those works, with the son of Kasa.l To Kasa
, by a lapse of perhaps two centuries, succeeded Divodasa, in whose reign
Buddhism ...
The Puranas specify but one dynasty of Kasi kings; a goodly catalogue,
beginning, in the most authoritative of those works, with the son of Kasa.l To Kasa
, by a lapse of perhaps two centuries, succeeded Divodasa, in whose reign
Buddhism ...
Page xxx
Perhaps it is not strange that M. J ulien, 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. J ulien's method, mathematical certainty seems to have taken the ...
Perhaps it is not strange that M. J ulien, 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. J ulien's method, mathematical certainty seems to have taken the ...
Page xxxi
The iSiankara-cligvijaya of Madhava-which professes to abridge an older work,
but which, 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 ...
The iSiankara-cligvijaya of Madhava-which professes to abridge an older work,
but which, 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 ...
Page xxxiii
In so recent a composition, and one having to do with real localities, there must,
almost of necessity, be many facts interwoven with the fictions: the attempt to
discriminate them would, perhaps, be remunerated. The Benares of the present
day ...
In so recent a composition, and one having to do with real localities, there must,
almost of necessity, be many facts interwoven with the fictions: the attempt to
discriminate them would, perhaps, be remunerated. The Benares of the present
day ...
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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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