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| Pilgrim Shrines of India: Mythology, Archaeology, History and Art | ||
| 作者 | Khanna, Amar Nath |
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| 出版日期 | 2003.01 |
| 頁次 | 248 |
| 出版者 | Aryan |
| 出版地 | New Delhi, India [新德里, 印度] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | India; Antiquities; South Asia ; Antiquities; Shrines |
| 摘要 | The tradition of visiting sacred spots, places and buildings to attain religious merit, washing off the sins and accomplishment of desire has been a common practice in India and elsewhere in the Old World since time immemorial. Such an act has traditionally been regarded as noble and often equated with purification of body and mind, and achievement of merits. The present work makes an attempt to introduce to the reader various pilgrim centers, sacred shrines and holy sites connected with different faiths and traditions in India, which, in the words of Lord Lytton, were 'for variety, extent, completeness and beauty unsurpassed, perhaps unequalled in the world'. An account of eighty pilgrim shrines scattered throughout India has been given while many more in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have been listed. Bamiyan in Afghanistan has been described in an appendix. Some hermitages in India have also been listed. The survey of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian and Sufi pilgrim |
| ISBN | 8173052387 |
| 點閱次數 | 202 |
| 建檔日期 | 2008.09.10 |
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