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" The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. 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 of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times - Page 10
by Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 388 pages
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Tales and Sketches: 1843-1849

Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 768 pages
...multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province . . . Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die...believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man t Some other parallels are mentioned in the endnotes. Î This source has been independently noticed...
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Warren Hastings: King of the Nabobs

Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 pages
...of an innumerable multitude of 45 worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was...awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city 30 into the sacred river. Nor was superstition the only motive which allured strangers to that great...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 44

1842 - 574 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...peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from1 the sacred city into the sacred river. Nor was superstition the only ntotive which allured strangers...
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