The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... BUDDHIST TOWER AT SÁRNÁTH 236 CARVING ON THE BUDDHIST TOWER , No. I. . 240 No. II . 241 22 " " ANCIENT BUDDHIST TEMPLE AT Bakaríyá Kund 283 ERRATA . Page 68. - For Purņas'ubhakaran , read Purṇas'ubhakaraṇí.
... BUDDHIST TOWER AT SÁRNÁTH 236 CARVING ON THE BUDDHIST TOWER , No. I. . 240 No. II . 241 22 " " ANCIENT BUDDHIST TEMPLE AT Bakaríyá Kund 283 ERRATA . Page 68. - For Purņas'ubhakaran , read Purṇas'ubhakaraṇí.
Page xxiv
... Buddhism seems to have been still acting on the aggressive.2 In this synchronism there is no discernible improbability ; and , with some likelihood , it embodies an historic fact . A reflexion of actual events may , likewise , be ...
... Buddhism seems to have been still acting on the aggressive.2 In this synchronism there is no discernible improbability ; and , with some likelihood , it embodies an historic fact . A reflexion of actual events may , likewise , be ...
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... Buddhist scriptures are little to be trusted for throwing light on the history of Benares . That Buddhism , or any Buddhist king , ever dominated there is altogether problematical . 3 Some relevant details , scant , but interesting as ...
... Buddhist scriptures are little to be trusted for throwing light on the history of Benares . That Buddhism , or any Buddhist king , ever dominated there is altogether problematical . 3 Some relevant details , scant , but interesting as ...
Page xxvii
... Buddhists , who 1 " About four thousand lis . " On the length of the li , consult Father Vivien de Saint - Martin , in Mémoires , etc. , Vol . II . , pp . 256- 259 . 2 On M. Julien's own showing , both in the Mémoires and in the Méthode ...
... Buddhists , who 1 " About four thousand lis . " On the length of the li , consult Father Vivien de Saint - Martin , in Mémoires , etc. , Vol . II . , pp . 256- 259 . 2 On M. Julien's own showing , both in the Mémoires and in the Méthode ...
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... Buddhist One need do no more than collate M. Julien's two versions of Hiouen Thsang's short account of Benares , to be satisfied that the translator's notion of the sense of his original is , sometimes , of the vaguest . 1 Its name is ...
... Buddhist One need do no more than collate M. Julien's two versions of Hiouen Thsang's short account of Benares , to be satisfied that the translator's notion of the sense of his original is , sometimes , of the vaguest . 1 Its name is ...
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ANCIENT REMAINS antiquity architraves Asiatic Aśoka Bakaríyá Kund banks Bará Barna bass-relief bathe Bengal Bisheswar Bodhi Brahmans bricks Buddha Buddhist building built capitals carved centre chaityas Cheit Singh Christian Chunar city of Benares cloister deer deities distance divine Durgá edifice enclosure entire erected excavations existence extent feet in height festival figure five formerly four Gaṇeś Ganges goddess ground held Hian Hindu Hinduism Hiouen Thsang honour hundred idolatry idols inches India inscription James Prinsep Jou-laï the Tathágata Káśí king large number Mahadeva Mahalla medan Melá miles Mohammedan monastery mosque mound native neighbourhood niches northern original ornamented persons pilgrimage pilgrims pillars portion present quadrangle Ráj Ghát Raja Rám Rámnagar regarded religion religious remarkable river road ruins sacred Sangam Sanskrit Sárnáth sculptured shrine side Siva spot square stands statue stone Stupa tank temple terrace tower Vihára Vishnu wall Warren Hastings worship