The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... crown of the head , go naked , and are destitute of any kind of clothing . Some besmear their bodies with ashes , and practise zealously severe austerities , in order to obtain release from life and death ( that is , from transmigration ) ...
... crown of the head , go naked , and are destitute of any kind of clothing . Some besmear their bodies with ashes , and practise zealously severe austerities , in order to obtain release from life and death ( that is , from transmigration ) ...
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... long tuft depending from his crown behind , the sacred cord being thrown over one shoulder or ear , and the symbol of S'iva being displayed upon his forehead , -who performs his devotions with 48 BENARES , PAST AND PRESENT .
... long tuft depending from his crown behind , the sacred cord being thrown over one shoulder or ear , and the symbol of S'iva being displayed upon his forehead , -who performs his devotions with 48 BENARES , PAST AND PRESENT .
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... crown to the Brah- manical invaders ; or , it may be , that , in a remote age in the history of Hinduism , the Raja may have become possessed of the city , perhaps by right of conquest , and , being attached to another creed , may have ...
... crown to the Brah- manical invaders ; or , it may be , that , in a remote age in the history of Hinduism , the Raja may have become possessed of the city , perhaps by right of conquest , and , being attached to another creed , may have ...
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... crown , surmounted with balls , like the coronets of the nobility . Her person is covered with a cloth ; and from her neck depend several garlands of flowers . The goddess is seated on a lion in a recumbent posture . These figures are ...
... crown , surmounted with balls , like the coronets of the nobility . Her person is covered with a cloth ; and from her neck depend several garlands of flowers . The goddess is seated on a lion in a recumbent posture . These figures are ...
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... size . The height of the head is partly owing to the mode in which the hair is arranged upon it ; for it is plaited and bound round the crown , so as to have the appearance of a high head - dress . 152 BENARES , PAST AND PRESENT .
... size . The height of the head is partly owing to the mode in which the hair is arranged upon it ; for it is plaited and bound round the crown , so as to have the appearance of a high head - dress . 152 BENARES , PAST AND PRESENT .
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ANCIENT REMAINS antiquity architraves Asiatic Society Aśoka Bakaríyá Kund Bará Barna bass-relief bathe Benares Bengal Bisheswar Brahmans Buddha Buddhist building carved Ceylon chaityas Cheit Singh Chinese Christian cloister cloth College Crown 8vo deities Demy 8vo DICTIONARY Durgá edifice Edited enclosure English erected excavations existence F. J. FURNIVALL feet festival figure five formerly four Ganges Ghát goddess Government GRAMMAR ground height Hensleigh Wedgwood Hindu Hinduism Hiouen Thsang honour hundred idols inches India inscription Kâsis king Language LL.D Mahadeva Mahalla Melá miles Mohammedan monastery mosque native neighbourhood niches original ornamented pilgrims pillars plates portion Post 8vo present Professor Ráj Ghát Raja Rám Rámnagar religion religious river road Royal Asiatic Society ruins sacred Sanskrit Sárnáth sculptured sewed shrine side Siva spot stone Stupa T. W. RHYS DAVIDS tank temple terrace Text tower Translated Vihára viii wall Warren Hastings worship
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Page 4 - Commerce had as many pilgrims as religion. All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the balls of St. James's and of Versailles, and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude were mingled with the jewels of Golconda and the shawls of Cashmere.
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