Historical and Descriptive Account of British India from the Most Remote Period to the Present Time ...Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1855 - Great Britain |
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... Deities - Worship of Rivers - Of the Brute Creation - A Future State -- Transmigration of Souls - Ancient Temples - Elephanta - Kenneri - Carli - Ellora - Ma- habalipoor - Pagoda at Tanjore - Temples in Rajpootana -- Modern Structures ...
... Deities - Worship of Rivers - Of the Brute Creation - A Future State -- Transmigration of Souls - Ancient Temples - Elephanta - Kenneri - Carli - Ellora - Ma- habalipoor - Pagoda at Tanjore - Temples in Rajpootana -- Modern Structures ...
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... deity . Although , contrary to every military rule , they thus gave to the enemy full warning of the period of attack , it was made with such fury , and at such various points , that the goddess was scarcely ever defrauded of her bloody ...
... deity . Although , contrary to every military rule , they thus gave to the enemy full warning of the period of attack , it was made with such fury , and at such various points , that the goddess was scarcely ever defrauded of her bloody ...
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... Deities - Worship of Rivers - Of the Brute Creation -- A Future State -- Transmigration of Souls -- Ancient Temples - Elephanta - Kenneri - Carli - Ellora - Ma- habalipoor - Pagoda at Tanjore -- Temples in Rajpootana - Modern Structures ...
... Deities - Worship of Rivers - Of the Brute Creation -- A Future State -- Transmigration of Souls -- Ancient Temples - Elephanta - Kenneri - Carli - Ellora - Ma- habalipoor - Pagoda at Tanjore -- Temples in Rajpootana - Modern Structures ...
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... deities and heroes whose exploits they celebrate appear indeed to have been ancient monarchs who held sway over India ; but the details are so palpably fabulous , and at the same time so childishly absurd , as to be unfit for any of the ...
... deities and heroes whose exploits they celebrate appear indeed to have been ancient monarchs who held sway over India ; but the details are so palpably fabulous , and at the same time so childishly absurd , as to be unfit for any of the ...
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... deities . This sanguinary conflict appears to have termi- nated in the premature fate of almost all the leaders on both sides . The lunar and solar dynasties continued to reign con- temporaneously , during almost the whole of the third ...
... deities . This sanguinary conflict appears to have termi- nated in the premature fate of almost all the leaders on both sides . The lunar and solar dynasties continued to reign con- temporaneously , during almost the whole of the third ...
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