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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... according to M. Thevenot in his account of Chitanagar , in the manner of the ancient cave - temples of Elora , having a central nave , or body ; a gallery ranging on each fide ; and , at the farther end , a fanctuary , or chapel of the ...
... according to M. Thevenot in his account of Chitanagar , in the manner of the ancient cave - temples of Elora , having a central nave , or body ; a gallery ranging on each fide ; and , at the farther end , a fanctuary , or chapel of the ...
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... according to the annals of the country and the facred books , the pagoda of Jaggernaut is inconteftably the moft ancient ; and that , were its inward fanctuaries examined , in those facred receffes would probably be discovered the most ...
... according to the annals of the country and the facred books , the pagoda of Jaggernaut is inconteftably the moft ancient ; and that , were its inward fanctuaries examined , in those facred receffes would probably be discovered the most ...
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... according to that gentleman , fhew the earlieft ftages of Hindoo architecture , being fimply pyramids , by piling one maffy ftone upon another to a vaft height . They are without any light whatever within , except what comes through a ...
... according to that gentleman , fhew the earlieft ftages of Hindoo architecture , being fimply pyramids , by piling one maffy ftone upon another to a vaft height . They are without any light whatever within , except what comes through a ...
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... according to our traveller , a regular flight of ftone steps de- fcends , leading directly down from the gate of the pagoda . The body of the temple itself , he informs us , * is conftructed in the form of a VAST CROSS , ( that is , a ...
... according to our traveller , a regular flight of ftone steps de- fcends , leading directly down from the gate of the pagoda . The body of the temple itself , he informs us , * is conftructed in the form of a VAST CROSS , ( that is , a ...
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... according to the greater or less folem- nity of the festival . Upon this altar Taver- nier faw feveral idols ; but one in particular , fix feet high , arrested his attention , the neck of which was fplendidly decorated with a chain of ...
... according to the greater or less folem- nity of the festival . Upon this altar Taver- nier faw feveral idols ; but one in particular , fix feet high , arrested his attention , the neck of which was fplendidly decorated with a chain of ...
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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