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Identifier: indikacountrypeo00hursuoft Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903 Subjects: Sri Lanka India Publisher: New York, Harper Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: /rsf •■.•;... A WINDOW IN BENARES. bewildering and revolting. One face I can never forget—anaged man, absorbed, with eyes fixed upon the sun, as thoughhoping that he might be wafted that moment from the Gangesto the celestial city. Brahmanism and Mohammedanism exist Temple, India in 1880, p. 35. 568 INDIKA. side by side here. We drift with the current until we comeopposite the tall minaret built by the great Aurangzeb. When the Mohammedans captured Benares, three centuriesago, they mutilated many of the temples, but did not prohibitHindu worship. Their policy in India was more liberal, per-haps, than on any other conquered field. While permittingmany of the Hindu temples to stand, they planted their ownmosques, and reared their minarets, in close proximity. Themosque and minarets of Aurangzeb, on the bank of the Ganges,at Benares, however, stand on the site of a temple of Mahadev,or Shiv, or, as he is commonly called, Siva. Yiew from a Minaret. The minarets are of singularly g
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