The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... 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 ) . In the capital there are twenty ( Hindu ) temples of the ...
... 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 ) . In the capital there are twenty ( Hindu ) temples of the ...
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... clothing upon their persons ; yet many of them , by their carriage , and by the jewels and gold with which they are adorned , show that they occupy a very respectable position in native society . The women are , for the most part ...
... clothing upon their persons ; yet many of them , by their carriage , and by the jewels and gold with which they are adorned , show that they occupy a very respectable position in native society . The women are , for the most part ...
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... cloth which conceals a large portion of the idol , and , in front , is so tucked in as to resemble the cloth which a barber wraps about a man before shaving him . At the feet of the god is the figure of a rat , -the animal on which he ...
... cloth which conceals a large portion of the idol , and , in front , is so tucked in as to resemble the cloth which a barber wraps about a man before shaving him . At the feet of the god is the figure of a rat , -the animal on which he ...
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... cloth . A short distance from this spot is Mír Ghát , leading down to the river . The ghát is narrow , but strongly made ; and its stairs are placed at convenient intervals for persons ascending and descending them , so as to induce as ...
... cloth . A short distance from this spot is Mír Ghát , leading down to the river . The ghát is narrow , but strongly made ; and its stairs are placed at convenient intervals for persons ascending and descending them , so as to induce as ...
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... cloth ; and from her neck depend several garlands of flowers . The goddess is seated on a lion in a recumbent posture . These figures are in a chapel in the inner chamber of the temple , which appears to have been once painted of 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 in a chapel in the inner chamber of the temple , which appears to have been once painted of a ...
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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.
Page 3 - Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and...