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270 BENARES, PAST AND PRESENT.
were seen, broken or whole, the pottery vessels of every
day requirement; and the iron nails which connected
the cross rafters, still fixed in the larger beams that had
escaped complete combustion. Among other bits of
iron-work, there remained a well-fashioned ring-bolt,
that might pass muster at the present day. Of matters
of domestic utility, I must not omit to mention a clay
chirdgh or lamp, of the pointed wick-holder description,
which, though it has retained its position in that form
in other parts of India, is now superseded, in local use,
by the ordinary small circular saucers of baked clay." J
Thus perished Buddhism in India, where it had
reigned, as the dominant religious power, for, at least,
seven hundred years, and had exerted an influence of
gradually diminishing strength during several hundred
years more.
1 Bengal Asiatic Journal for 1854, p 476.
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were seen, broken or whole, the pottery vessels of every
day requirement; and the iron nails which connected
the cross rafters, still fixed in the larger beams that had
escaped complete combustion. Among other bits of
iron-work, there remained a well-fashioned ring-bolt,
that might pass muster at the present day. Of matters
of domestic utility, I must not omit to mention a clay
chirdgh or lamp, of the pointed wick-holder description,
which, though it has retained its position in that form
in other parts of India, is now superseded, in local use,
by the ordinary small circular saucers of baked clay." J
Thus perished Buddhism in India, where it had
reigned, as the dominant religious power, for, at least,
seven hundred years, and had exerted an influence of
gradually diminishing strength during several hundred
years more.
1 Bengal Asiatic Journal for 1854, p 476.
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