The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... HINDUS . CHAPTER I. --- EARLY history of Benares . - Sanctity of the city . - Mythic character of Indian history ... Hindus , as coeval with the birth of Hinduism , a notion derived both from tradition and from their own writings ...
... HINDUS . CHAPTER I. --- EARLY history of Benares . - Sanctity of the city . - Mythic character of Indian history ... Hindus , as coeval with the birth of Hinduism , a notion derived both from tradition and from their own writings ...
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... Hindu ever beholds the city in one peculiar aspect , as a place of spotless holiness and heavenly beauty , where the spiritual eye may be delighted and the heart may be purified ; and his imagination has been kept fervid , from ...
... Hindu ever beholds the city in one peculiar aspect , as a place of spotless holiness and heavenly beauty , where the spiritual eye may be delighted and the heart may be purified ; and his imagination has been kept fervid , from ...
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... Hindus proverbially reckless in their state- ments and opinions , and had they never produced any great work exhibiting ... Hindu race . While excellent grammarians , they are meagre historians . They pos- sess BENARES , PAST AND PRESENT . 3.
... Hindus proverbially reckless in their state- ments and opinions , and had they never produced any great work exhibiting ... Hindu race . While excellent grammarians , they are meagre historians . They pos- sess BENARES , PAST AND PRESENT . 3.
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... Hindu history , manufactured by themselves , will ever be satisfactorily separated into its two component parts , is as hopeless as to expect that the waters of the Jumna will ever cease to mingle with the waters of the Ganges . Were ...
... Hindu history , manufactured by themselves , will ever be satisfactorily separated into its two component parts , is as hopeless as to expect that the waters of the Jumna will ever cease to mingle with the waters of the Ganges . Were ...
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... Hindu family . Notwithstanding her destruction by fire , applied by the hand of Krishna , which may or may not be true , and the manifestations , in her physical aspects , of repeated changes , shiftings of site , and resuscitations ...
... Hindu family . Notwithstanding her destruction by fire , applied by the hand of Krishna , which may or may not be true , and the manifestations , in her physical aspects , of repeated changes , shiftings of site , and resuscitations ...
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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