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

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English: "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.
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Image taken from Benares illustrated, in a series of drawings. Calcutta : printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road, 1830-1834, frontispiece

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