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Father Vivien de Saint - Martin — the genesis of whose fictitious river I trace in note 2 to p . xxviii . , - began with being disposed to make the Asî an affluent to the Varâņâ , with a Varâņasî below their confluence , and the city ...
Father Vivien de Saint - Martin — the genesis of whose fictitious river I trace in note 2 to p . xxviii . , - began with being disposed to make the Asî an affluent to the Varâņâ , with a Varâņasî below their confluence , and the city ...
Page xxviii
As the Chinese pilgrim again and again names the Ganges , it seemed to me unlikely that he should anywhere speak of it by a periphrasis like that of the river of London . " I had observed , too , that , instead of " environ , ” etc.
As the Chinese pilgrim again and again names the Ganges , it seemed to me unlikely that he should anywhere speak of it by a periphrasis like that of the river of London . " I had observed , too , that , instead of " environ , ” etc.
Page xxix
Warned by my past experience , and weighing the premises just recited , I at once suspected management , issuing in the obliteration , in two places , of the river Varaņâ . I had recourse to Professor James Summers , a distinguished ...
Warned by my past experience , and weighing the premises just recited , I at once suspected management , issuing in the obliteration , in two places , of the river Varaņâ . I had recourse to Professor James Summers , a distinguished ...
Page xxx
... and P'o - lo - ni - sse , and between “ Varâņaçi ” and “ Vârâņaçi . ” It cannot be proved that Hiouen Thsang did not hear , and do his best to spell , as the names of the river and city , Barņâ — the very word now used ...
... and P'o - lo - ni - sse , and between “ Varâņaçi ” and “ Vârâņaçi . ” It cannot be proved that Hiouen Thsang did not hear , and do his best to spell , as the names of the river and city , Barņâ — the very word now used ...
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... the fields are thickly strewed with bricks and other remains of former buildings . But I am not aware that Colonel Wilford has any authority for speaking of “ the old city of Benares , north of the river Burna , ” which old city ...
... the fields are thickly strewed with bricks and other remains of former buildings . But I am not aware that Colonel Wilford has any authority for speaking of “ the old city of Benares , north of the river Burna , ” which old city ...
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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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