The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 pages |
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Page xxviii
... religious houses , tenanted by three thousand inmates , all of the Sammatîya sect . In the capital1 were twenty Hindu temples , and a latten statue of Siva , a hundred feet in height . We are not apprised whether there were any sacred ...
... religious houses , tenanted by three thousand inmates , all of the Sammatîya sect . In the capital1 were twenty Hindu temples , and a latten statue of Siva , a hundred feet in height . We are not apprised whether there were any sacred ...
Page xxxi
... religion pacific , but at no time during their presence in India ' were they , albeit in the ascendant , beyond doubt a majority of the people . It 1 How the Buddhists came to leave India has not yet been shown satisfactorily . The ...
... religion pacific , but at no time during their presence in India ' were they , albeit in the ascendant , beyond doubt a majority of the people . It 1 How the Buddhists came to leave India has not yet been shown satisfactorily . The ...
Page xxxv
... religious character was not , in the eyes of its Islamite masters , a thing to recommend it ; and commercial or political importance it had none . ' Even Akbar , with all his toleration of Hinduism , and occasional partiality to it ...
... religious character was not , in the eyes of its Islamite masters , a thing to recommend it ; and commercial or political importance it had none . ' Even Akbar , with all his toleration of Hinduism , and occasional partiality to it ...
Page 1
... religious history of half the human race . - Its connexion with Buddhism . - Life and labours of Buddha . - Benares subsequently to the fall of Buddhism in India . The Brahman . - Sons of the Ganges . -Devotees and pilgrims . - Benares ...
... religious history of half the human race . - Its connexion with Buddhism . - Life and labours of Buddha . - Benares subsequently to the fall of Buddhism in India . The Brahman . - Sons of the Ganges . -Devotees and pilgrims . - Benares ...
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... religious sympathies of the Hindus through every century of its existence . For the sanctity of its inhabitants of its temples and reservoirs of its wells and streams - of the very soil that is trodden - of the very air that is breathed ...
... religious sympathies of the Hindus through every century of its existence . For the sanctity of its inhabitants of its temples and reservoirs of its wells and streams - of the very soil that is trodden - of the very air that is breathed ...
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ANCIENT REMAINS antiquity architraves Asiatic Aśoka Bakaríyá Kund banks Bará Barna bass-relief bathe Bengal Bisheswar Bodhi Brahmans bricks Buddha Buddhist building built capitals carved centre chaityas Cheit Singh Christian Chunar city of Benares cloister deer deities distance divine Durgá edifice enclosure entire erected excavations existence extent feet in height festival figure five formerly four Gaṇeś Ganges goddess ground held Hian Hindu Hinduism Hiouen Thsang honour hundred idolatry idols inches India inscription James Prinsep Jou-laï the Tathágata Káśí king large number Mahadeva Mahalla medan Melá miles Mohammedan monastery mosque mound native neighbourhood niches northern original ornamented persons pilgrimage pilgrims pillars portion present quadrangle Ráj Ghát Raja Rám Rámnagar regarded religion religious remarkable river road ruins sacred Sangam Sanskrit Sárnáth sculptured shrine side Siva spot square stands statue stone Stupa tank temple terrace tower Vihára Vishnu wall Warren Hastings worship