The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... referred , by modern inventiveness , to a combination of Varanâ and Asi ; and all the other explanations that we have of its source are equally questionable . 66 2 Prinsep , but without naming his voucher for the statement , Benares was ...
... referred , by modern inventiveness , to a combination of Varanâ and Asi ; and all the other explanations that we have of its source are equally questionable . 66 2 Prinsep , but without naming his voucher for the statement , Benares was ...
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... referred to . By reason of some subtle and mysterious charm , it has linked itself with the religious sympathies of the Hindus through every century of its existence . For the sanctity of its inhabitants of its temples and reservoirs of ...
... referred to . By reason of some subtle and mysterious charm , it has linked itself with the religious sympathies of the Hindus through every century of its existence . For the sanctity of its inhabitants of its temples and reservoirs of ...
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... referred to a period so late as the fourth century after Christ . It has been asserted , on strong authority , that no ancient temples or religious monasteries , apart from the cave structures , exist in India , on the ground that the ...
... referred to a period so late as the fourth century after Christ . It has been asserted , on strong authority , that no ancient temples or religious monasteries , apart from the cave structures , exist in India , on the ground that the ...
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... referred , was , without doubt , the earliest introduced into Benares , perhaps into Hindustan ; and , whether the work of Bud- dhists or of Hindus is , doubtless , of high antiquity . Yet how it found its way here is open to question ...
... referred , was , without doubt , the earliest introduced into Benares , perhaps into Hindustan ; and , whether the work of Bud- dhists or of Hindus is , doubtless , of high antiquity . Yet how it found its way here is open to question ...
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... referred to are by no means intended as an exhaus- tive catalogue of the whole . There are very many others , more or less remarkable , which any one on the spot , interested in the subject , would , very likely , find to be deserving ...
... referred to are by no means intended as an exhaus- tive catalogue of the whole . There are very many others , more or less remarkable , which any one on the spot , interested in the subject , would , very likely , find to be deserving ...
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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