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An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
CHAPTER XIV . Temple of the Maharaja of Benares at Ramnagar . - Raja Cheit
Singh's Tank . – Virtue of Pilgrimage to the Rámnagar side of Benares.- Temple
of ...
An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
CHAPTER XIV . Temple of the Maharaja of Benares at Ramnagar . - Raja Cheit
Singh's Tank . – Virtue of Pilgrimage to the Rámnagar side of Benares.- Temple
of ...
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An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
or Temple - monastery .-- Small Building , containing Sixty Sculptures . — The
Seal Chaityas . — The Buddhist Formula . — Sákya ni , the historical Buddha -
His ...
An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
or Temple - monastery .-- Small Building , containing Sixty Sculptures . — The
Seal Chaityas . — The Buddhist Formula . — Sákya ni , the historical Buddha -
His ...
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An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE RAJA OF AHMETY'S TEMPLE Frontispiece
TEMPLE AT MANIKARNIKÁ Ghát 70 RAJA OF NAGPORE'S GHÁT 72 THE ...
An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE RAJA OF AHMETY'S TEMPLE Frontispiece
TEMPLE AT MANIKARNIKÁ Ghát 70 RAJA OF NAGPORE'S GHÁT 72 THE ...
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Ancient Buddhist records respecting Benares . S'ákya Muni , or Buddha ,
preached the doctrine of Buddhism first in Benares . — Antiquity of Benares . -
Hiouen Thsang's account of his visit to the city in the seventh century of the
Christian era.
Ancient Buddhist records respecting Benares . S'ákya Muni , or Buddha ,
preached the doctrine of Buddhism first in Benares . — Antiquity of Benares . -
Hiouen Thsang's account of his visit to the city in the seventh century of the
Christian era.
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An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
grammarians , they are meagre historians . They possess no single record ,
among the ten thousand separate manuscript works of which their ancient
literature is ...
An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times Matthew Atmore Sherring.
grammarians , they are meagre historians . They possess no single record ,
among the ten thousand separate manuscript works of which their ancient
literature is ...
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| Title | The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times |
| Author | Matthew Atmore Sherring |
| Contributor | Fitzedward Hall |
| Publisher | Trübner & Company, 1868 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2012 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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