The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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... Hindu records is spoken of by the Buddhists . His name is Bhimaśukla . See Der Buddhismus , translated from the Russian of Professor Wassiljew , Part I. , p . 54 . 3 Mr. R. S. Hardy's Manual of Budhism , p . 134 . So states the ...
... Hindu records is spoken of by the Buddhists . His name is Bhimaśukla . See Der Buddhismus , translated from the Russian of Professor Wassiljew , Part I. , p . 54 . 3 Mr. R. S. Hardy's Manual of Budhism , p . 134 . So states the ...
Page xxxi
... Hindus . Not only was the character of their religion pacific , but at no time during their presence in India ' were they ... Hindu . Further , we find that monarch figuring as dedicatee of the Nágánanda , and also of the Ratnávali , two ...
... Hindus . Not only was the character of their religion pacific , but at no time during their presence in India ' were they ... Hindu . Further , we find that monarch figuring as dedicatee of the Nágánanda , and also of the Ratnávali , two ...
Page xxxiii
... Hindu ; and yet , a very few of them excepted , to speculate touching their age , in reliance on the data hitherto made available , would be much too perilous for pru- dence . 1 Unless we are deceived by identity of names , scores of ...
... Hindu ; and yet , a very few of them excepted , to speculate touching their age , in reliance on the data hitherto made available , would be much too perilous for pru- dence . 1 Unless we are deceived by identity of names , scores of ...
Page xxxiv
... Hindu temples . The subsequent history of the place , for named in the Ayeen Akbery , in Mr. Gladwin's translation of which , Vol . III . , pp . 255 , 256 , Mathurâ and Avantikâ are disguised as Mehtra and Ownitka . At least thirty or ...
... Hindu temples . The subsequent history of the place , for named in the Ayeen Akbery , in Mr. Gladwin's translation of which , Vol . III . , pp . 255 , 256 , Mathurâ and Avantikâ are disguised as Mehtra and Ownitka . At least thirty or ...
Page xxxv
... Hindu edifice of the 4 1 Fiscally , too , it had come , in the days of Akbar , to be of very secondary note . See the Ayeen Akbery , Vol . II . , Appendix , p . 28 . 2 I have met with this substitute for Benares in an Urdű book written ...
... Hindu edifice of the 4 1 Fiscally , too , it had come , in the days of Akbar , to be of very secondary note . See the Ayeen Akbery , Vol . II . , Appendix , p . 28 . 2 I have met with this substitute for Benares in an Urdű book written ...
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