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Page xxx
Po - lo - ni - sse may , indeed , stand for Vârâņası , but — so indeterminate is the
Chinese alphabet , — may just as well disguise Vârâņasi , Varâņasi , Varaṇasi ,
Bârânasi , and scores more of quadrisyllables . M. Julien allows us an option ...
Po - lo - ni - sse may , indeed , stand for Vârâņası , but — so indeterminate is the
Chinese alphabet , — may just as well disguise Vârâņasi , Varâņasi , Varaṇasi ,
Bârânasi , and scores more of quadrisyllables . M. Julien allows us an option ...
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so extensively altered and repaired that it is hard to say that any one column
stands exactly as originally placed . The columns are four in each row , and are
seventy in number . They are all carved , as also , with a few exceptions , are the
...
so extensively altered and repaired that it is hard to say that any one column
stands exactly as originally placed . The columns are four in each row , and are
seventy in number . They are all carved , as also , with a few exceptions , are the
...
Page 52
What makes this latter supposition plausible is , that , on three sides of the
perpendicular face of the terrace on which the mosque stands , Buddhist pillars ,
of a simple and very early type , forming recesses or rooms , but which were ,
originally ...
What makes this latter supposition plausible is , that , on three sides of the
perpendicular face of the terrace on which the mosque stands , Buddhist pillars ,
of a simple and very early type , forming recesses or rooms , but which were ,
originally ...
Page 53
The gateway still stands ; but the space between the pillars has beenfilled up . A
peepul tree , adored as a god , overhangs both the gateway and the road ; but
the Hindus will not allow the Mohammedans to pluck a single leaf from it .
The gateway still stands ; but the space between the pillars has beenfilled up . A
peepul tree , adored as a god , overhangs both the gateway and the road ; but
the Hindus will not allow the Mohammedans to pluck a single leaf from it .
Page 55
There is really nothing in this temple of an ancient character ; but , on the eastern
side of the enclosure , the ground becomes considerably elevated , and upon it
stands a mosque built of very old materials , the pillars of which date as far back ...
There is really nothing in this temple of an ancient character ; but , on the eastern
side of the enclosure , the ground becomes considerably elevated , and upon it
stands a mosque built of very old materials , the pillars of which date as far back ...
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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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