 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
 | W. Kirkpatrick - Nepal - 1996 - 432 pages
...since the sacred books of the Hindoos scarcely leave any room to doubt that the religion of Bramha has been established from the most remote antiquity...structure of masonry, about breast high, and from two to three feet in diameter ; over this work is placed a circular plate of brass, called Dhurmadhat Munsera,... | |
 | H. W. Tilman - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 938 pages
...place without either temples or shrines. As Kirkpatrick, one of the earliest writers on Nepal, said: '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.' But the concentrated essence of religious art is to be found in the Darbar... | |
 | Henry Ambrose Oldfield - Buddhism - 2005 - 404 pages
...to enumerate all the festivals that take place annually in a valley where, as Kirkpatrick remarks, " 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." Each of these different temples has its own set of votaries, and many shrines... | |
 | 290 pages
...place without either temples or shrines. As Kirkpa trick, one of the earliest writers on Nepal, said: ' 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. ' But the concentrated essence of religious art is to be found in the Darbar... | |
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