Adam's Peak: Legendary, Traditional, and Historic Notices of the Samanala and Srî-páda, with a Descriptive Account of the Pilgrim's Route from Colombo, to the Sacred Foot-print |
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... resident at the Panjali mountain at the source of the river Karindo , cognizant of his meditation , attended by a retinue of 500 sanctified disciples and by their supernatural power travelling through the air , * descended , and ...
... resident at the Panjali mountain at the source of the river Karindo , cognizant of his meditation , attended by a retinue of 500 sanctified disciples and by their supernatural power travelling through the air , * descended , and ...
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... residence for priests at that time ; but it does not settle the point as to whether the mountain peak was then a place of pilgrimage , and the alleged foot - print an object of worship . A tradition of a later period , current in the ...
... residence for priests at that time ; but it does not settle the point as to whether the mountain peak was then a place of pilgrimage , and the alleged foot - print an object of worship . A tradition of a later period , current in the ...
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... residence for 500 persons of various foreign religious faiths . Above the dwelling of Jótiyo [ a Brahman - his chief engineer ] and below the Gamini tank , he built a residence for the Paribájika devotees . In the same quarter , but on ...
... residence for 500 persons of various foreign religious faiths . Above the dwelling of Jótiyo [ a Brahman - his chief engineer ] and below the Gamini tank , he built a residence for the Paribájika devotees . In the same quarter , but on ...
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... residence therein , of the Father of Mankind . ‡ Sale , in the note already quoted from , JAMES MONTGOMERY'S " World before the Flood . " " It is from the summit of this mountain , a tradition reports , that Adam took his last view of ...
... residence therein , of the Father of Mankind . ‡ Sale , in the note already quoted from , JAMES MONTGOMERY'S " World before the Flood . " " It is from the summit of this mountain , a tradition reports , that Adam took his last view of ...
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... residence and popularity had excited the hatred of the Vizier , -to the " Maabar Districts " on the coast of Coromandel . His narrative will be found in the Appendix , accompanied with notes identi- fying many of the places mentioned in ...
... residence and popularity had excited the hatred of the Vizier , -to the " Maabar Districts " on the coast of Coromandel . His narrative will be found in the Appendix , accompanied with notes identi- fying many of the places mentioned in ...
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