Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale ...The Author, 1801 - India |
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Page 60
... Nile . If this explication of the introduction into India of fo many idols , peculiar to Egypt , be allowed to have any weight , it will also account for various striking features of resemblance in the idolatrous ceremonies common to ...
... Nile . If this explication of the introduction into India of fo many idols , peculiar to Egypt , be allowed to have any weight , it will also account for various striking features of resemblance in the idolatrous ceremonies common to ...
Page 63
... Nile is exprefsly called , by Dionyfius , an azure ftream ; that he is strongly of opinion that Egyptian priests have actually come from the Nile to the Ganga and Yamana , ( Jumna , ) which the Brahmins moft affuredly would never have ...
... Nile is exprefsly called , by Dionyfius , an azure ftream ; that he is strongly of opinion that Egyptian priests have actually come from the Nile to the Ganga and Yamana , ( Jumna , ) which the Brahmins moft affuredly would never have ...
Page 68
... Nile are hollowed into grottoes , not unlike the buildings which are raised on the furface of the defert plains . The fimilar struc- tures , which Mr. Norden describes in Nubia , are on the fame plan ; and , if we may judge from the few ...
... Nile are hollowed into grottoes , not unlike the buildings which are raised on the furface of the defert plains . The fimilar struc- tures , which Mr. Norden describes in Nubia , are on the fame plan ; and , if we may judge from the few ...
Page 69
... Nile , which form the tract called the Delta , divide at the head of that Delta at a place called BATN EL BAKARI , or , the Cow's Belly ; and the reader , by referring back to the preceding geographical treatise , will observe that the ...
... Nile , which form the tract called the Delta , divide at the head of that Delta at a place called BATN EL BAKARI , or , the Cow's Belly ; and the reader , by referring back to the preceding geographical treatise , will observe that the ...
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... Nile , was , in an- cient times , holden in Egypt , and which is ftill confidered as facred in India . Herodotus flourished in the fifth century before Chrift ; and M. Savary , who writes in the eighteenth century of the Chriftian æra ...
... Nile , was , in an- cient times , holden in Egypt , and which is ftill confidered as facred in India . Herodotus flourished in the fifth century before Chrift ; and M. Savary , who writes in the eighteenth century of the Chriftian æra ...
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adored adorned æra afcended affertion Afiatic aftoniſhing aftronomical alfo animals antiquity architecture Aurengzeb beautiful becauſe Brahmins caverns celebrated circumftance coloffal columns confecrated confidered conftruction dæmons decorated defcendants defcribed defcription defigns deity Diodorus Diodorus Siculus dome Doric order edifice Egypt Egyptian engraved erected fabricated facred fame fays fculptured feems feet ferpent feven fhall fhould fhrine fide figns fimilar fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome fquare ftatues ftill ftones ftructure ftupendous fuch fuperb fuperftition fuppofed fupported fymbol Gazna grand groves Herodotus hieroglyphics hiftory himſelf Hindoftan Hindoo idol Ifis India Indian inftance itſelf Jaggernaut lefs lofty maffy magnificent majeſtic marble Mithra moft ancient moſt muſt Nile obferved Ofiris paffage pagoda Perfian Plutarch Pococke portico prefent prieſts purpoſe pyramids reader reafon receffes repreſented Reſearches reſemblance rites roof Savary temple Thebais thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion Typhon univerfally uſed vafe vaft veneration Vitruvius walls whofe worſhip