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Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010741064
Author : Ernest Binfield Havell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015011235960
Author : Rev M. a. Sherring
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1519579977
From the PREFACE. The history of a country is sometimes epitomized in the history of one of its principal cities. The city of Benares represents India, religiously and intellectually, just as Paris represents the political sentiments of France. There are few cities in the world of greater antiquity, and none that have so uninterruptedly maintained their ancient celebrity and distinction. In Benares, Buddhism was first promulgated; in Benares, Hinduism has had her home in the bosom of her most impassioned votaries. This city, therefore, has given impulse and vigour to the two religions which to this day govern half the world. An account of a city of such remarkable associations, which has occupied such a prominent place in the annals of the human race, is not without its importance, and ought not to be devoid of interest. Having resided in it for several years, I have enjoyed peculiarly favourable opportunities for becoming acquainted with its inner life and character. The task I have set myself is not that of discussing the religious systems existing there, which -would he an unnecessary undertaking, it having been so frequently accomplished by abler hands, - but of giving a representation of Benares as she was in the past, and as she is in the present. Her early condition, her connexion with ancient Buddhism - her architectural remains - her famous temples, holy wells and tanks, and numerous ghats or stairs leading down to the Ganges - the legends concerning them - the peculiar customs at the temples - the ceremonies of the idolater - the modes of worship - the religious festivals, and other topics, illustrative of the character which Benares maintains as the sacred city of India, are dwelt upon, with some amount of detail, in this volume. I have deemed it of moment, also, in a book of this nature, to make some observations on the influence which education, European civilization, and, above all, Christianity, are now exerting upon the city. As Benares has held a foremost place in the history of India for two thousand five hundred years, at the least, so, in all likelihood, she is destined to retain that position in the new era of enlightenment which has already dawned upon the land. Portions of this work have, at various times, appeared in print, in contributions to the Calcutta Review and the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and in a lecture delivered before the Benares Institute, published in the Transactions of that Society. I would express my warmest thanks to Charles Horne, Esq., C.S., late Judge of Benares, for his very valuable assistance in the archaeological researches described in this book, especially in Chapters xix. and xx. My thanks are also due to J. H. B. Ironside, Esq., C.B., Magistrate of Benares, for his kindness in placing at my disposal a paper on the Melas or Festivals of Benares, drawn up by Babu Sital Prasad, Deputy Inspector of Schools. I would likewise acknowledge my great obligations to D. Tresham, Esq., Head Master of the Government Normal School, Benares, for his excellent photographs of the city, from which the illustrations of this volume have been taken. M. A. SHERRING, July 2nd, 1868.
Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : 8121299837
Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : 9380755848
Author : Ernest Binfield Havell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1330270991
Excerpt from Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion It is, perhaps, because Benares is not forbidden, that such a mine of human interest, and one of the most extraordinary cities of the East, is now probably less known to most Europeans than Lhasa. Even of the Europeans who have seen Benares, few have any adequate conception of the ideas and beliefs which many millions of our fellow-subjects associate with it. Few, indeed, have either the time or the inclination to read through the increasing accumulation of very solid literature which deals with the philosophic side of Hinduism; and the more popular missionary accounts (with our national tendency to underrate the enemy's strength) generally make the mistake of representing all Hinduism as a mass of degraded superstitions and idolatry, only held together by the profound ignorance and backwardness of the Indian people. These sketches are not offered as a contribution to oriental scholarship, or to religious controversy, but as an attempt to give an intelligible outline of Hindu ideas and religious practices, and especially as a presentation of the imaginative and artistic side of Indian religions, which can be observed at few places so well as in the sacred city and its neighbourhood - the birthplace of Buddhism and of one of the principal sects of Hinduism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Matthew A. Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641521941
Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring,Fitzedward Hall
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358414785
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Author : M. A. Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337950337
Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0371828570
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Author : M. A. Sherring
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9353974410
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Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0331639874
Excerpt from The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times The history of a country is sometimes epitomized in the history of one of its principal cities. The city of Benares represents India, religiously and intellectually, just as Paris represents the political sentiments of France. There are few cities in the world of greater antiquity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : M. A. Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 8173032351
Written just after the freedom struggle of 1857 it offers a piercing insight into the culture of Benares as seen through the eyes of a European, telling why it has been for over two and a half thousand years a pre-eminent sacred city of Hindus.