Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and ReligionW. Thacker, 1912 - 226 pages |
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... sect founded by a teacher contemporary with Buddha , which still flourishes in northern India , and has many noble shrines , ancient and modern . It is only within recent years that the history of this sect has been made clear to ...
... sect founded by a teacher contemporary with Buddha , which still flourishes in northern India , and has many noble shrines , ancient and modern . It is only within recent years that the history of this sect has been made clear to ...
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... sect , gradu- ally disappeared from India and became merged in the various Vaishnavite sects which grew into prominence about the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . CHAPTER IV THE RISE OF MODERN HINDUISM As Benares never.
... sect , gradu- ally disappeared from India and became merged in the various Vaishnavite sects which grew into prominence about the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . CHAPTER IV THE RISE OF MODERN HINDUISM As Benares never.
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... sect of Hinduism . The Buddhist monasteries continued to exist at Sarnath , and elsewhere in India , until they were ... sects successively developed in which the worship of Vishnu and the idea of a personal God became more prominent ...
... sect of Hinduism . The Buddhist monasteries continued to exist at Sarnath , and elsewhere in India , until they were ... sects successively developed in which the worship of Vishnu and the idea of a personal God became more prominent ...
Contents
IN THE VEDIC TIMES | 1 |
The Kāsis The Vedic hymns The Upanishads | 9 |
THE HINDU EPICSHEROWORSHIP | 17 |
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