 | John Francis Davis - 1871 - 116 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 Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges, were worn everyday by the 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. . . . Commerce had as many pilgrims... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Granges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither... | |
 | James Grant - 1876 - 602 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 hither... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1876 - 362 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 innumerahle multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every... | |
 | 1878 - 924 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 Lrahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came hither... | |
 | James Grant - 1879 - 606 pages
...flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges, fere worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came hither... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...broad and stately nights 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 - 1880 - 828 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... | |
 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 850 pages
...broad and stately nights 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. 
