Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and ReligionW. Thacker, 1912 - 226 pages |
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... rule of absolute nudity , a rule which afterwards led to the two great divisions of the Jain sect being named the Svźtāmbaras , " the white clothed " , and the Digambaras , " the un- clothed " . The name of the Jains is derived from the ...
... rule of absolute nudity , a rule which afterwards led to the two great divisions of the Jain sect being named the Svźtāmbaras , " the white clothed " , and the Digambaras , " the un- clothed " . The name of the Jains is derived from the ...
Page 76
... rule of Akbar and of the earlier Mogul emperors , the city may have recovered some of the splendour which it had in the palmy days of Hindu rule , but Aurangzīb in the seventeenth century levelled the temples to the ground and caused ...
... rule of Akbar and of the earlier Mogul emperors , the city may have recovered some of the splendour which it had in the palmy days of Hindu rule , but Aurangzīb in the seventeenth century levelled the temples to the ground and caused ...
Page 103
... rule of cremation of the dead . A sannyasi , the Brahmin who , after passing through the stages of studentship and householdership , has renounced a worldly life and entered upon the strict ascetic rule of his religion , is thereby ...
... rule of cremation of the dead . A sannyasi , the Brahmin who , after passing through the stages of studentship and householdership , has renounced a worldly life and entered upon the strict ascetic rule of his religion , is thereby ...
Contents
IN THE VEDIC TIMES | 1 |
The Kāsis The Vedic hymns The Upanishads | 9 |
THE HINDU EPICSHEROWORSHIP | 17 |
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