Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandirs
Literary usage of Mandirs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1876)
"Sometimes one or two more porches were added in front of this one, and called
Nat and Bhog mandirs ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1880)
"1 in the Central Provinces, б in the ib, 3 in Sinde, 6 in Bombay, and 6 in 9.
Forty-four of them had "mandirs," ces of worship. ..."
3. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1864)
"... of several mandirs or shrines and pressed them into the service of Vishnu.
Now this veteran Vaishnava refused point blank to acknow- edge the supremacy ..."
4. The Theosophical Glossary by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, George Robert Stow Mead (1892)
"... and have much landed property and numerous mandirs (temples) in Bombay.
They have degenerated into a shamefully licentious sect. ..."
5. Indo-Aryans: Contributions Towards the Elucidation of Their Ancient and by Raja Rājendralāla Mitra (1881)
"Figures of Vishnu and some other divinities may be found located in oblong rooms,
but such structures are nowhere reckoned as temples (mandirs). ..."
6. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"Two houses have small brick mosques, and 15 have small temples (mandirs), as
private places of worship. Twenty-five families have part of their houses ..."
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