The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 2N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... five miles in cir- cuit . The whole extent of this space , in its present state , is one scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ruins of broken columns , walls , gateways , and porticoes , in huge fragments of stone and ...
... five miles in cir- cuit . The whole extent of this space , in its present state , is one scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ruins of broken columns , walls , gateways , and porticoes , in huge fragments of stone and ...
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... five senses as authentic . In the time it had been visited by Fa Hian there were seven great stupas or towers containing the relics of Buddha and his principal disciples , and twenty monasteries with three thousand monks . Fa Hian and ...
... five senses as authentic . In the time it had been visited by Fa Hian there were seven great stupas or towers containing the relics of Buddha and his principal disciples , and twenty monasteries with three thousand monks . Fa Hian and ...
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Bholanauth Chunder. ples was five only . It is not told whether the gods worshipped in those temples were images of Vishnu or of Krishna , or emblems of Shiva , to enable us to know whether the modified worship of Vishnu in the character ...
Bholanauth Chunder. ples was five only . It is not told whether the gods worshipped in those temples were images of Vishnu or of Krishna , or emblems of Shiva , to enable us to know whether the modified worship of Vishnu in the character ...
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... five golden idols whose eyes were of rubies , valued at 50,000 dinars , ' or two lacs and fifty thousand rupees . A sixth golden image weighed one thousand one hun- dred and twenty pounds , and was decorated with a sap- phire weighing ...
... five golden idols whose eyes were of rubies , valued at 50,000 dinars , ' or two lacs and fifty thousand rupees . A sixth golden image weighed one thousand one hun- dred and twenty pounds , and was decorated with a sap- phire weighing ...
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... five - and- twenty years of his life in Vrij — a classic region , every inch of which is deemed hallowed ground by his acts and adventures . Here , on his deification , rose the first altars to his worship . It is not known when and ...
... five - and- twenty years of his life in Vrij — a classic region , every inch of which is deemed hallowed ground by his acts and adventures . Here , on his deification , rose the first altars to his worship . It is not known when and ...
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