 | Charles Henshaw Ward - 1920 - 584 pages
...The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathingplaces along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshipers. (5) The schools and tempJes drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 542 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 Hindus from every province where the Brahmanical... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 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... | |
 | John Murray - 1919 - 994 pages
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 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1969 - 768 pages
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 | William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1999 - 398 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... | |
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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. 
