The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... Wall . - Carved Stones and Ancient Pillars . - Remains of small Buddhist Temple . Remains of larger Temple . - Traces of Buddhist Monastery - • 271 CHAPTER XX . Further Account of Ancient Remains recently discovered in Benares and its ...
... Wall . - Carved Stones and Ancient Pillars . - Remains of small Buddhist Temple . Remains of larger Temple . - Traces of Buddhist Monastery - • 271 CHAPTER XX . Further Account of Ancient Remains recently discovered in Benares and its ...
Page 26
... walls , deposited over drains , or lying neglected by the side of the road , there is nothing of an ancient character visible through- out a very large section of it . Yet all the northern quarter of the city , a district little ...
... walls , deposited over drains , or lying neglected by the side of the road , there is nothing of an ancient character visible through- out a very large section of it . Yet all the northern quarter of the city , a district little ...
Page 41
... walls , the cavities inside and outside many of the houses , and the spaces on the gháts , in which images in immense multitudes were and are still deposited . These secondary shrines , if they be worthy of this designation , each ...
... walls , the cavities inside and outside many of the houses , and the spaces on the gháts , in which images in immense multitudes were and are still deposited . These secondary shrines , if they be worthy of this designation , each ...
Page 51
... wall flanking this court . These are evidently not of modern manufacture . Their age , how- ever , does not seem to be known . The probability is , that they were taken from the ruins of the old temple of Bisheswar , which stood to the ...
... wall flanking this court . These are evidently not of modern manufacture . Their age , how- ever , does not seem to be known . The probability is , that they were taken from the ruins of the old temple of Bisheswar , which stood to the ...
Page 52
... walls are besmeared with a dirty white- wash , mixed with a little colouring matter . Its most interesting feature is a ... wall as their own . Con- sequently , they will not permit the Mohammedans to enter the mosque by more than one ...
... walls are besmeared with a dirty white- wash , mixed with a little colouring matter . Its most interesting feature is a ... wall as their own . Con- sequently , they will not permit the Mohammedans to enter the mosque by more than one ...
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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-laď 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