Identifier: indikacountrypeo00hursuoft (find matches)
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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rth and seventh cen-turies visited Sarnath, and described the two towers, but with-out throwing light on the purpose of either. The later of thepilgrims states that the kingdom of Yarakasi, or Benares, wassix hundred and sixty-seven miles in circumference; that in thecity there were thirty Buddhist, monasteries, which supportedthree thousand monks; that the great tower was built by Asoka;that the Deer Park monastery was divided into eight parts, andcontained palaces; that each of the niches in the tower held astatue of Buddha in embossed gold; that west of this was thetank where Buddha bathed; and that, farther along, was thetank where he washed his monks water-pot; and, still farther,the one where he washed his clothes. We went within the wall enclosing the ancient monastery, A RIDE THROUGH BENARES. .-::; and examined every part. From there we proceeded to thesmaller of the two towers, and clambered up the elevation onwhich it stands, and then to the top of the structure its. If. The
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BUDDHIST TOWER AT BAKNATH, NEAB BENARB8, view of the beautiful country, and the city in the distance, wascharming. The ride home through the English cantonment wasdelightful, and a fit close to my busiest day in Benares the Sacred. CHAPTER LXIII. A HALT AT ALLAHABAD Me. Howard, an advocate of Allahabad, accompanied me tothe chief points of interest in that Holy City. That gentle-man had come to India when a very young man, and was inAllahabad when the mutiny broke out. He was one of themany civilians who saw the danger, shouldered his musket, anddid excellent service until the mutiny was conquered. It wasa rare pleasure to have the society of a gentleman of such variedculture, and especially of such intimate acquaintance with thehistorical associations of the city and its fortifications. The Allahabad of to-day is, in the Indian sense, a new city.About three centuries ago Akbar, greatest of the Moguls, foundedboth the city and fort. But this was by no means the first Al-lahabad. Here

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