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But this is not the simple nature - worship of the early Aryan patriarchs , who three
thousand years before recited their odes to Ushas , Surya , and Agni , lighted the
sacred fire , and pressed the soma - juice on the banks of the Ganges .
But this is not the simple nature - worship of the early Aryan patriarchs , who three
thousand years before recited their odes to Ushas , Surya , and Agni , lighted the
sacred fire , and pressed the soma - juice on the banks of the Ganges .
Page 99
Almost every sect and caste of Hinduism are represented among the thousands
of worshippers , differing in race , language , and customs , who daily throng the
ghấts . Many are simple , ignorait peasants , coming on a pilgrimage to the ...
Almost every sect and caste of Hinduism are represented among the thousands
of worshippers , differing in race , language , and customs , who daily throng the
ghấts . Many are simple , ignorait peasants , coming on a pilgrimage to the ...
Page 105
They are singing the praises of Rudra , the Mighty , the Terrible , lord of sacrifices
, who has a thousand eyes , and carries a thousand quivers full of arrows of
destruction . CHAPTER VII THE GHÂTS . ASI - SANGAM TO NEPÂLI.
They are singing the praises of Rudra , the Mighty , the Terrible , lord of sacrifices
, who has a thousand eyes , and carries a thousand quivers full of arrows of
destruction . CHAPTER VII THE GHÂTS . ASI - SANGAM TO NEPÂLI.
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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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