Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life And Religion
Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life And Religion
E B Ernest Binfield Havell
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im.m mm mi MiiiW-' Afc^AdCajLA^ ff r • CHAPTER VII THE GHATS. ASI-SAXGAM TO NEPALI GHAT . The European traveller generally makes first ac- quaintance with the ghats of the river- at DasA- samedh — the ghdt* of the Ten- Horse Sacrifice — to which the principal roads of the city converge. It is also an important point in the river traffic, for the boats bringing stone from . the. Chunar quarries, which have supplied Benares with building material from 'times immemorial, here discharge their cargo...es. The popular legend which accounts for die name of the ghit probably refers to the time when the Brah- mins were beginning to recover their authority in the city, on the decline of Buddhism. The story goes that all the gods had been expelled from Benares by Raja DivodAs, who had acquired extraordinary power by the practice of religious rites. Shiva, wish- ing to return to the city, invoked the aid of Brahmi, who transformed himself into an aged Brahmin, and sought an interview with the raja.
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