Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Charles Allen

A Brahmin pandit expounding the 'Puranas' in a Hindu temple in Varanasi. a lithography of James Prinset from his drawing made in the 1820s and published by him in his "Banaras Illustrated"

Chakravala , chakravarti: A universal monarch who rules over all four continents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men. They are honoured not only by columns and inscriptions in their own land, but in foreign nations on memorial graven not on stone but in the hearts and minds of men. ~ Thucydides, ‘History of the Peloponnesian War,’ 404 BCE