Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon Including AllBritish India, the Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Indian StatesJ. Murray, 1892 |
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Page xxiv
... supported by stalactite pillars like Gothic arches . Beyond are smaller caves , which have been traversed to a distance of 288 ft . In Windmill Hill are the four Genista caves , where many bones of men and animals have been discovered ...
... supported by stalactite pillars like Gothic arches . Beyond are smaller caves , which have been traversed to a distance of 288 ft . In Windmill Hill are the four Genista caves , where many bones of men and animals have been discovered ...
Page 9
... supported by wrought - iron stands , illuminated , and made in the School of Art . The " memorial mar- bles , " are of alternate colours of white , red , yellow , and blue ; and beneath them there runs the following inse tion , painted ...
... supported by wrought - iron stands , illuminated , and made in the School of Art . The " memorial mar- bles , " are of alternate colours of white , red , yellow , and blue ; and beneath them there runs the following inse tion , painted ...
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... supported upon ela- borately sculptured corbels . Here and there are mosques and Hindu temples gaudily painted . The streets teem with life . Sir Edwin Arnold writes of them : " A tide of Asiatic humanity ebbs and flows up and down the ...
... supported upon ela- borately sculptured corbels . Here and there are mosques and Hindu temples gaudily painted . The streets teem with life . Sir Edwin Arnold writes of them : " A tide of Asiatic humanity ebbs and flows up and down the ...
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... supported by two figures below . The The W. wing , opposite the Lingam chapel first described , and across a court to the W. , is a small excavation in the face of the hill dedicated to Ganesh , who is seated at the S. extremity with a ...
... supported by two figures below . The The W. wing , opposite the Lingam chapel first described , and across a court to the W. , is a small excavation in the face of the hill dedicated to Ganesh , who is seated at the S. extremity with a ...
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... supports an image of Buddha , whose head is canopied by five heads of the hooded snake . The left column has three dwarf figures on the top , which once , perhaps , supported a wheel . The whole space at the farther end of the portico ...
... supports an image of Buddha , whose head is canopied by five heads of the hooded snake . The left column has three dwarf figures on the top , which once , perhaps , supported a wheel . The whole space at the farther end of the portico ...
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Agra Akbar ancient arches ascend Aurangzib Bagh bank beautiful Benares Bengal Bijapur Bombay Brahmans bridge British Buddhist building built Calcutta called Canal cantonment capital carved cave Cawnpore centre chief Church close court dagoba Delhi district dome elephants enclosure English entrance erected European Fergusson figures front garden garrison Gate gateway Ghat gopura Government guns Gwalior Haidarabad hall handsome height hill Hindu Hiouen Thsang India inscription Jain Jumma junc Khan king lake Madras Mahal Marathas ment Mohammedan mosque Muhammad Musjid native Nawab officers ornamented palace Parsis pass pavilion Peshwa picturesque pillars plain Portuguese railway Rajah residence river road rock roof round ruins Shah Jehan Shiva shrine side Sikhs Sing square stands station stone surrounded tank temple tion Tipu tomb tower town traveller trees troops Umballa village Vishnu wall white marble