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Updated: May 1, 2025
Showy shops, where the inexperienced traveller may see all the products of Sind and Benares, and Cutch and Cashmere, spread before him at fixed prices, are multiplying rapidly and taking the bread from the mouth of the poor hawker. But the snake-charmer seems safe from that kind of competition.
He held out his hand feebly toward the closed window, modest with its half-lifted curtains. "Look Benares and Allahabad. A sumptuous ceremony tiaras insignia, and women's ornaments. In the foreground, the high priest, with his elaborate head-dress in tiers a vague pagoda, architecture, epoch, race. How different we are from those creatures. Are /they/ right or are /we/ right?"
The vast sum required for the support of the priesthood comes mainly from the offerings of the people. The "Imperial Gazetteer" of India gives no account in its last census of the castes of Benares, but we are sure that many thousands of the inhabitants are Brahmans.
If Christ returned to earth and walked the streets of New York, displaying his divine powers, it would cause the same excitement that was created by Trailanga decades ago as he passed through the crowded lanes of Benares. On many occasions the swami was seen to drink, with no ill effect, the most deadly poisons.
I remember its pleasures, and also its difficulties and trials. I feel as if I was engaged in preaching to the Hindus among whom I have spent a great part of my life, and discussing with them the great questions which affect God and man. I am consequently in danger of saying more than can be interesting to my readers. In Benares it is rare to have only Hindus for our hearers.
All hours of the twenty-four are alike to Orientals, and their passenger traffic is regulated accordingly. 'This is where the fire-carriages come. One stands behind that hole' Kim pointed to the ticket-office 'who will give thee a paper to take thee to Umballa. 'But we go to Benares, he replied petulantly. 'All one. Benares then. Quick: she comes! 'Take thou the purse.
The river Goomtee, which flows by Lucknow, enters the Ganges a few miles from Benares. It was at that time in full flood, and a flotilla might be easily gathered by which, in a few days, a large body of armed men with the munitions of war could have reached us.
Then he managed to escape and came to the one Christian place he knew, the Salvation Army, and asked to be taken in. After about two weeks he disappeared as abruptly as he came. Then one day he came back, and told his Salvation friend that he had been carried to Benares, their holy city, and forced to bathe in the Ganges.
Several shops were visited, but we liked the modern styles less than the old Benares brass with which we were familiar. One thought was uppermost while in Benares; I had pondered over it before in our visit to India. It was that with the masses Hinduism to-day means superstition and idolatry, in spite of the fact that the earlier teaching was of a pure character.
Jung soon after accompanied a secret mission to Benares, to meet one from the north-west, with the view of organising a war against the British. The vigilance of our authorities, however, discovered the existence of this conspiracy, and Jung, together with his compatriots, was ignominiously taken back to his own frontier, and there liberated.
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