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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... adored in them . -EGYPT and INDIA feem to have affembled in these Pagodas the Animals deemed more peculiarly facred to each Country ; as , for inftance , the MEMPHIAN BULL and the CNEPH of Egypt are difcovered in the BULL of Seeva and ...
... adored in them . -EGYPT and INDIA feem to have affembled in these Pagodas the Animals deemed more peculiarly facred to each Country ; as , for inftance , the MEMPHIAN BULL and the CNEPH of Egypt are difcovered in the BULL of Seeva and ...
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... adored , furrounded by a ftone bal- luftrade to keep off the populace † . The rea- der for the prefent must check his curiofity in regard * See Voyage des Indes , tom . iii . p . 360. Edit . Rouen , 1713 . + See Thevenot's Travels in ...
... adored , furrounded by a ftone bal- luftrade to keep off the populace † . The rea- der for the prefent must check his curiofity in regard * See Voyage des Indes , tom . iii . p . 360. Edit . Rouen , 1713 . + See Thevenot's Travels in ...
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... adored in it , of the ceremonies and rites prac- tifed in it , of the frequent ablution of Jag- gernaut , and the great multitude of Brahmins and devout pilgrims daily fed at this auguft temple . The Brahmin fable , relative to its ...
... adored in it , of the ceremonies and rites prac- tifed in it , of the frequent ablution of Jag- gernaut , and the great multitude of Brahmins and devout pilgrims daily fed at this auguft temple . The Brahmin fable , relative to its ...
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... adored in India , are DEIFIED MORTALS . He obferved likewife , in this pagoda , a certain idol of black stone , or the SoмMONACODOM , concerning which fomething more particular will occur hereafter . That execrable spirit of bigotry ...
... adored in India , are DEIFIED MORTALS . He obferved likewife , in this pagoda , a certain idol of black stone , or the SoмMONACODOM , concerning which fomething more particular will occur hereafter . That execrable spirit of bigotry ...
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... adored in this grand temple , gave his name , not only to the city , but to a very extenfive tract of country around it ; fince , according to the Ayeen Akbery , * one of the grand divifions of the province of Guzzurat , is called by ...
... adored in this grand temple , gave his name , not only to the city , but to a very extenfive tract of country around it ; fince , according to the Ayeen Akbery , * one of the grand divifions of the province of Guzzurat , is called by ...
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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