 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 832 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1881 - 380 pages
...Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost in Asia. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus...faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither to die ; for it was believed by the superstitious Hindu that a particularly happy fate awaited those... | |
 | Modern geographical readers - 1882 - 196 pages
...broad and stately flight of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province; and hundreds of devotees came hither every month to die : for it was believed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Hastings.) - 1883 - 244 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps, which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was 5 known. Hundreds of devotees came thither... | |
 | James Grant - 1883 - 680 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...innumerable multitude of worshippers. The schools md temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came 'hither every month to die : for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should... | |
 | James Kennedy (missionary.) - 1884 - 424 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps...crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahmanical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die, for it was believed... | |
 | World - 1884 - 560 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the hathing-places or syllo(,'bms like those of Chrysippus, was loo preposterous Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - 1885 - 740 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshipers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical... | |
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Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die: for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city into the sacred river. 
