 | 1868 - 1206 pages
...inhabitants — of its temples and priests— of its wells and streams — of its roads and stairs — of the very soil that is trodden — of the very air...everything in it and around it — Benares has been famed throughout her long career. The Hindu ever beholds the city in one peculiar aspect — as a place of... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1922 - 960 pages
...the religious sympathies of the Hindus through every century of its existence. For the sanctity of its inhabitants —of its temples and reservoirs —...very air that is breathed — and of everything in and around it, Benares has been famed for thousands of years. . . . Previously to the introduction... | |
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For the sanctity of its inhabitants, of its temples and tanks, of its wells and streams, of the very soil that is trodden, of the very air that is breathed, and of everything in it and around it, Benares has been famed for thousands of years. 
