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... or Religious Festivals , held periodically , in Benares 213 CHAPTER XVIII . 1
The Buddhist Ruins at Sárnáth - Their Antiquity . - Summary of the Narratives of
Fa Hian and Hiouen Thsang , respecting the buildings formerly existing at
Sárnáth ...
... or Religious Festivals , held periodically , in Benares 213 CHAPTER XVIII . 1
The Buddhist Ruins at Sárnáth - Their Antiquity . - Summary of the Narratives of
Fa Hian and Hiouen Thsang , respecting the buildings formerly existing at
Sárnáth ...
Page 5
The five Bhikshus , or religious hermits , men of considerable note in the early
history of Buddhism , who had formerly been associated with him , but had
subsequently abandoned him , and who happened , at that time , to be at the
Ísipattana ...
The five Bhikshus , or religious hermits , men of considerable note in the early
history of Buddhism , who had formerly been associated with him , but had
subsequently abandoned him , and who happened , at that time , to be at the
Ísipattana ...
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... some of which were curiously carved , from Bakaríyá Kund , on the confines of
the city and not more than a mile from the college which he was erecting , without
reflecting that they might possibly be relics of ancient buildings formerly situated ...
... some of which were curiously carved , from Bakaríyá Kund , on the confines of
the city and not more than a mile from the college which he was erecting , without
reflecting that they might possibly be relics of ancient buildings formerly situated ...
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If there be anything in the argument based on the simplicity of a style , or on its
ornamentation , as bearing on its greater or less antiquity , then we can predicate
of the buildings which formerly stood in this part of Benares various stages of ...
If there be anything in the argument based on the simplicity of a style , or on its
ornamentation , as bearing on its greater or less antiquity , then we can predicate
of the buildings which formerly stood in this part of Benares various stages of ...
Page 32
The consequence is , that the Hindus of the present day , blindly following the
example of their predecessors of two centuries ago , commonly build their
religious edifices of the same dwarfish size as formerly ; but , instead of plain ,
ugly ...
The consequence is , that the Hindus of the present day , blindly following the
example of their predecessors of two centuries ago , commonly build their
religious edifices of the same dwarfish size as formerly ; but , instead of plain ,
ugly ...
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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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