Image: Benares A Brahmin placing a garland on the holiest spot in the sacred city by James Prinsep 1832

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Description: "Benares, A Brahmin placing a garland on the holiest spot in the sacred city" - (aka: Varanasi) Lithograph, by the Anglo-Indian scholar and mint assay master James Prinsep. Courtesy of the British Library.
Title: Benares A Brahmin placing a garland on the holiest spot in the sacred city by James Prinsep 1832
Credit: Image taken from Benares illustrated, in a series of drawings. Calcutta : printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road, 1830-1834, frontispiece This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. It is also made available on a British Library website. Catalogue entry. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. বাংলা | Deutsch | English | Español | Euskara | Français | Македонски | 中文 | +/−
Author: James Prinsep
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License: Public domain
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