The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... Stones and Ancient Pillars . - Remains of small Buddhist Temple . Remains of larger Temple . - Traces of Buddhist ... Stone Pillar standing in Sone ká Táláo.- Note . . 288 CHAPTER XXI . Source of the great wealth of Benares - Its ...
... Stones and Ancient Pillars . - Remains of small Buddhist Temple . Remains of larger Temple . - Traces of Buddhist ... Stone Pillar standing in Sone ká Táláo.- Note . . 288 CHAPTER XXI . Source of the great wealth of Benares - Its ...
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... stone , now long disappeared from sight , which was exhumed near Benares , in 1794. We read , therein , of a king of Gauḍa , Mahîpâla , father of Sthirapâla and Vasantapâla ; and , at the end , the date 1083. An easy credulity may ...
... stone , now long disappeared from sight , which was exhumed near Benares , in 1794. We read , therein , of a king of Gauḍa , Mahîpâla , father of Sthirapâla and Vasantapâla ; and , at the end , the date 1083. An easy credulity may ...
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... stone , and that , therefore , there is a necessary limit to our investigations , beyond which it is useless to attempt to go ; for that the wooden archetypes have mostly , if not entirely , perished , and the stone are of a later ...
... stone , and that , therefore , there is a necessary limit to our investigations , beyond which it is useless to attempt to go ; for that the wooden archetypes have mostly , if not entirely , perished , and the stone are of a later ...
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... stone ; especially seeing that various kinds of durable stone were easily procurable in India . If , on the other hand , the architects were natives who had learnt the principles of their art chiefly from Assyria or Persia , or from a ...
... stone ; especially seeing that various kinds of durable stone were easily procurable in India . If , on the other hand , the architects were natives who had learnt the principles of their art chiefly from Assyria or Persia , or from a ...
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... stone combined , covered with carvings and sculptures . We arrive , therefore , at this conclusion , that , as there is every reason to believe that solid buildings partly if not entirely of stone were erected in India several hundred ...
... stone combined , covered with carvings and sculptures . We arrive , therefore , at this conclusion , that , as there is every reason to believe that solid buildings partly if not entirely of stone were erected in India several hundred ...
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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