 Brahma has been established from the most remote antiquity in this secluded valley, where, in truth, there are nearly as many temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants, there not being a fountain, a river, or a hill within its limits, that is...  The General chronicle and literary magazine - Page 541811Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 568 pages
...temples in the valley of Nepaul, is fully corroborated by Colonel Kirkpatrick, who informs us, that ' there are nearly as many temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants.' Twenty of the former of most consideration are named and briefly described ; and he enumerates no less... | |
 | Asia - 1816 - 670 pages
...of Brahma has been established from the most remote antiquity in the Nipal valley, where there are as many temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants ; there not being a fountain, river, or hill within its limits, that is not consecrated to some one or other of the Hindoo deities.... | |
 | Francis Hamilton - Ethnology - 1819 - 402 pages
...has been established from the most remote antiquity in this secluded valley, where there are nearly as 'many idols as inhabitants, there not being a fountain, a river, or hill within its limits, that is not consecrated to one or other of the Hindu deities." What idea the... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...provisions with them; and the festival is called the " Mela." In the Nepaul valley, we are told, there are as many temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants; there not being a hill, a river, or a fountain, that is not consecrated to some one or other of the Hindoo deities '... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...provisions with them ; and the festival is called the " Mela." In the Nepaul valley, we are told, there are as many temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants ; there not being " Conquest of Cuttack, by an Officer. Asiat. Journ. vp 12. hill, river, or fountain, that is not consecrated... | |
 | John Wilson - Pyramids - 1856 - 524 pages
...of Brahma has been established from the most remote antiquity in the Nepaul valley, where there are as many temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants, there not being a fountain, river, or hill within its limits that is not consecrated to some one or other of the Hindoo deities.... | |
 | John Wilson (writer on astronomy.) - 1856 - 532 pages
...of Brahma has been established from the most remote antiquity in the Nepaul valley, where there are as many temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants, there not being a fountain, river, or hill within its limits that is not consecrated to some one or other of the Hindoo deities.... | |
 | Percy Brown - Architecture - 1912 - 346 pages
...of the earliest European historians of Nepal, has remarked in his description of the Valley that " there are nearly as many temples as houses, and as...limits that is not consecrated to one or other of the Hindu or Buddhist deities." And just as almost every situation is sanctified by its altar or shrine,... | |
 | Eden Vansittart - Travel - 1992 - 242 pages
...room to donht that the religion of Brahma has been established from the most remote antiquity in tint secluded valley, where, in truth, there are nearly...temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants.] • Asoka, King of Pntna, reigned from 256 to 219 BC, over the whole of Northern India, including Kashmir.... | |
 | Francis Buchanan Hamilton - 1996 - 354 pages
...has been established from the most remote antiquity in this secluded valley, where there are nearly as many idols as inhabitants, there not being a fountain, a river, or hill within its limits, that is not consecrated to one or other of the Hindu deities." What idea the... | |
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