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Carved Stones and Ancient Pillars . - Remains of small Buddhist Temple . -
Remains of larger Temple . — Traces of ... XI . , Stone Pillar standing in Sone ká
Táláo.Note . 288 CHAPTER XXI . Source of the great wealth of Benares — Its
chief ...
Carved Stones and Ancient Pillars . - Remains of small Buddhist Temple . -
Remains of larger Temple . — Traces of ... XI . , Stone Pillar standing in Sone ká
Táláo.Note . 288 CHAPTER XXI . Source of the great wealth of Benares — Its
chief ...
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In the fifth volume of the Asiatic Researches is a professed transcript of a short
inscription from a stone , now long disappeared from sight , which was exhumed
near Benares , in 1794. We read , therein , of a king of Gauda , Mahîpâla , father
of ...
In the fifth volume of the Asiatic Researches is a professed transcript of a short
inscription from a stone , now long disappeared from sight , which was exhumed
near Benares , in 1794. We read , therein , of a king of Gauda , Mahîpâla , father
of ...
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Granting that this theory is , in the main , true , we are not compelled to believe
that the earliest stone erections in India were as recent as the third century before
Christ ; or , if there were any before that date , that they have all been destroyed .
Granting that this theory is , in the main , true , we are not compelled to believe
that the earliest stone erections in India were as recent as the third century before
Christ ; or , if there were any before that date , that they have all been destroyed .
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... a large extent , of 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 ...
... a large extent , of 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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An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
after they must have known them to have been abandoned in other countries ,
and to have given place to vast edifices of wood and stone combined , covered
with ...
An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
after they must have known them to have been abandoned in other countries ,
and to have given place to vast edifices of wood and stone combined , covered
with ...
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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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