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Page xvii
The latter of these vocabularies is of small authority . 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 ...
The latter of these vocabularies is of small authority . 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 ...
Page xxiv
To Kâsa , by a lapse of perhaps two centuries , succeeded Divodâsa , in whose
reign Buddhism seems to have been still acting on the aggressive . In this
synchronism there is no discernible improbability ; and , with some likelihood , it ...
To Kâsa , by a lapse of perhaps two centuries , succeeded Divodâsa , in whose
reign Buddhism seems to have been still acting on the aggressive . In this
synchronism there is no discernible improbability ; and , with some likelihood , it ...
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 to have taken ...
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 to have taken ...
Page xxxi
The Sankara - digvijaya of Mâdhava — 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 ...
The Sankara - digvijaya of Mâdhava — 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 ...
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
...
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
...
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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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