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Title: The Australian abroad on branches from the main routes round the world
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hingston, James, b. 1830
Subjects: Australia -- Description and travel East Asia -- Description and travel New Zealand -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Melbourne, W. Inglis
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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k-cut temples are something of an exception to that descrip-tion. They are but a mile from the walls of a half-deserted and whollydecayed old town, and are a terrace of temples hewn out all around from themount at their back, and not, as in other cases, burrowed into the mount incavern fashion. They may be said to be hewn both without and within. IfKarlee has the finest one to show in the way of these wonders, Ellora hasmany of such excellence as to make up for the prominence of its single rival.The Kailas, or Paradise cave, at Ellora, is considered by many travellers tosurpass all others. Regarding the question of the cost of such immenselabours, I am told that it is demonstrably more economical to cut a house outof a single stone than to build it up of many. The interest of all such works as these temples is increased by the thoughtwhich occurs to the western-world man, that mankind have generally dealtwith underground work either for gain and profit in minerals and precious stones,
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CAVE TEMPLE OF AJANIA. Page SI8. Brahniinical Worship. 319 or as abodes for the dead only, and not as temples for worship by the living.The ancient Egyptians hollowed chambers in the rocks and the hill-sides, butit was as receptacles for the sarcophagus of some sacred bull, or bird, ormummied magnate only. In these rock-cut temples, however, nothing wasentombed. Since the curious worship I saw at Benares, the religion of the Hindoos has<Treatly troubled me. I pick up particulars from some learned and communica-tive Parsees to whom I appeal for all Hindoo information. I am showing myignorance, of course, but I am always doing that, and especially in seeking tolearn why people believe in things repugnant to the senses, and not to beestablished by reason. I find that the great bulk of the two hundreds ofmillions of India hold the faith called Brahminism, which appears to the outward senses in deities, demi and semi-deities, their wives and transmigratedforms, and in image worship, rit

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