The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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Page vi
... observations on the influence which education , European civilization , and , above all , Christianity , are now exert- ing upon the city . As Benares has held a foremost place in the history of India for two thousand five hundred years ...
... observations on the influence which education , European civilization , and , above all , Christianity , are now exert- ing upon the city . As Benares has held a foremost place in the history of India for two thousand five hundred years ...
Page xxviii
... observed , too , that , instead of " environ , ” etc. , M. Klaproth had written : " Au nord [ sic ] de la ville coule la rivière Pho lo nă ( Varaṇâ ) ; sur son bord , à dix li de la ville , " etc .; Pho lo nă sse being , as he says just ...
... observed , too , that , instead of " environ , ” etc. , M. Klaproth had written : " Au nord [ sic ] de la ville coule la rivière Pho lo nă ( Varaṇâ ) ; sur son bord , à dix li de la ville , " etc .; Pho lo nă sse being , as he says just ...
Page xxxi
... observed anything like that liberality of literary curiosity which would be at much pains to perpetuate , by transcription , the holy writ of an antagonist creed ; and the fact of a persecution of the Buddhists cannot , accordingly , be ...
... observed anything like that liberality of literary curiosity which would be at much pains to perpetuate , by transcription , the holy writ of an antagonist creed ; and the fact of a persecution of the Buddhists cannot , accordingly , be ...
Page 3
... observe , with puncti- lious nicety , its religious ceremonies and social usages . Were the Hindus proverbially ... observation , they have elaborated a system of Grammar , of gigantic dimensions , far surpassing anything that has ever ...
... observe , with puncti- lious nicety , its religious ceremonies and social usages . Were the Hindus proverbially ... observation , they have elaborated a system of Grammar , of gigantic dimensions , far surpassing anything that has ever ...
Page 7
... observations . This wonderful personage , considering that some of the lead- ing dogmas which he expounded were borrowed from Hinduism , and had been advocated and set forth by various teachers previously to his time , cleverly availed ...
... observations . This wonderful personage , considering that some of the lead- ing dogmas which he expounded were borrowed from Hinduism , and had been advocated and set forth by various teachers previously to his time , cleverly availed ...
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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