Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and ReligionW. Thacker, 1912 - 226 pages |
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Page 186
... PILGRIMAGE OF THE PANCH- KÔSI ROAD THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE SOUL One of the spiritual aids which Benares is supposed to afford to Hindus is that it contains within its limits various shrines constituted by Brahminical authority as equal in ...
... PILGRIMAGE OF THE PANCH- KÔSI ROAD THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE SOUL One of the spiritual aids which Benares is supposed to afford to Hindus is that it contains within its limits various shrines constituted by Brahminical authority as equal in ...
Page 187
... pilgrims circumambulating the sacred city of Lhasa . The pilgrimage of the Panch - kôsi road is now one which every Hindu inhabitant of Benares is enjoined to make , especially every third year , in the intercalary month which regulates ...
... pilgrims circumambulating the sacred city of Lhasa . The pilgrimage of the Panch - kôsi road is now one which every Hindu inhabitant of Benares is enjoined to make , especially every third year , in the intercalary month which regulates ...
Page 198
... pilgrimage is from Kapildhara to Barna Sangam , and thence along the ghâts to the starting - place , Manikarnika . On this day the pilgrims carry bags of barley , from which they scatter grain all along the route , as an oblation to ...
... pilgrimage is from Kapildhara to Barna Sangam , and thence along the ghâts to the starting - place , Manikarnika . On this day the pilgrims carry bags of barley , from which they scatter grain all along the route , as an oblation to ...
Contents
IN THE VEDIC TIMES | 1 |
The Kâsis The Vedic hymns The Upanishads | 9 |
THE HINDU EPICSHEROWORSHIP | 17 |
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