Caves & Jungles of Hindostan

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Nicholas Weeks
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Caves & Jungles of Hindostan

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Have not read this spiritual adventure for many years. For an exploration of India in the 1880s by Helena Blavatsky do consider it. She wrote it installments for Russian magazines. It is much more than a travelogue, with sprinklings of philosophy, history etc. Even her Guru appears, in veiled form, as the Thakur.
This translation is by Boris de Zirkoff, her distant relative and is the only complete one. The other one that is all over the internet was done in 1892 and was chopped down to less than half the size of the original.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/453 ... -hindostan
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In the 1880s reaching the Karli cave temple was very difficult, only on foot the last few hundred yards. Here, within the complex is the stupa that Blavatsky and her friends saw. Dating of this cave temple is roughly 200 bc:

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