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On the river - front they nearly all end in gigantic flights of stone steps leading
down to the bathing - ghâts , for the city is built on a high ridge about a hundred
feet above the river . After the monsoon floods have subsided , the base of these
...
On the river - front they nearly all end in gigantic flights of stone steps leading
down to the bathing - ghâts , for the city is built on a high ridge about a hundred
feet above the river . After the monsoon floods have subsided , the base of these
...
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im a women whose saris repeat the colours of the dawn , fast fading now in the
white light of day ; the votiveofferings , the golden marigolds and rose - petals
which are piled in baskets on the ghât steps , and float on the surface of the water
.
im a women whose saris repeat the colours of the dawn , fast fading now in the
white light of day ; the votiveofferings , the golden marigolds and rose - petals
which are piled in baskets on the ghât steps , and float on the surface of the water
.
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Panchganga , or the ghât of the five sacred rivers , is so called from the five
colossal flights of steps which lead up to the city from this point . Great blocks of
picturesque buildings , flanking and overarching the steps , rise in tiers , one
behind ...
Panchganga , or the ghât of the five sacred rivers , is so called from the five
colossal flights of steps which lead up to the city from this point . Great blocks of
picturesque buildings , flanking and overarching the steps , rise in tiers , one
behind ...
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Contents
IN THE VEDIC TIMES | 1 |
THE HINDU EPICSHEROWORSHIP | 17 |
THE ADVENT OF BUDDHASARNATH AND | 32 |
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| Title | Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion |
| Author | Ernest Binfield Havell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | W. Thacker, 1912 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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