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	Publisher: Dev Publishers And Distributors
	Author M. A. Sherring
	Language: English
	Pages: 387
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	8.5x5.5 inch
	Weight 574 gm
	Edition: 2025
	ISBN: 9789359440262
	HBM551

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About the Book The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and "The Modern Times" by Rev. M. A. Sherring offers a detailed exploration of Varanasi, one of Hinduism's holiest cities. The work traces the city's rich history, cultural significance, and religious practices, illuminating its role as a pilgrimage destination. Sherring delves into both ancient texts and contemporary observations, providing insights into the rituals, architecture, and daily life of its inhabitants. By highlighting the city's spiritual atmosphere and enduring traditions, the book serves as both a historical record and a reflection on the profound connection between place and faith in Hindu culture.

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.

Introduction ALIKE as to limits and as to influence, the Indian kingdoms of former times were, with few exceptions, inconsiderable; such of them as lay conterminous were often at open feud; and their cities, or fortified towns, constituted, in fact, their only stable boundaries. It was, probably, with the dominion of the Kasis as it was with other seats of Hindu power. Deriving its origin from some city, as Pratishthâna, or Vârâņasî, it must have acquired extent and consideration by very gradual development.

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