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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... described by Tavernier as une pa- gode fort grande , not inclofed with walls , but erected upon fifty - two lofty columns , with statues of the Indian deities standing between the columns . Though the temple itself thus defcribed ...
... described by Tavernier as une pa- gode fort grande , not inclofed with walls , but erected upon fifty - two lofty columns , with statues of the Indian deities standing between the columns . Though the temple itself thus defcribed ...
Page 68
... described by Pococke and Norden , and we shall discover a ftriking resemblance , even in the pillars , the ornaments , and the reliefs . The temple of the ferpent Cnuphis , in an island , called alfo anciently Elephan- tina , is an oval ...
... described by Pococke and Norden , and we shall discover a ftriking resemblance , even in the pillars , the ornaments , and the reliefs . The temple of the ferpent Cnuphis , in an island , called alfo anciently Elephan- tina , is an oval ...
Page 119
... described by the celebrated Paul Lucas , who travelled through Egypt about the commencement of the laft century , and found , like Tavernier , a noble patron in Louis the Fifteenth ; one of a race of kings , who , whatever might be ...
... described by the celebrated Paul Lucas , who travelled through Egypt about the commencement of the laft century , and found , like Tavernier , a noble patron in Louis the Fifteenth ; one of a race of kings , who , whatever might be ...
Page 205
... described , and a plan of them given , in that writer . The obfervatory is an ancient edifice with apertures at the top , to let in the folar light , and windows fronting the Eaft . The well beneath , for astronomical observations ...
... described , and a plan of them given , in that writer . The obfervatory is an ancient edifice with apertures at the top , to let in the folar light , and windows fronting the Eaft . The well beneath , for astronomical observations ...
Page 207
... described to have been celebrated in the gloomy aifles and ranging receffes of the facred Indian caverns , and , in fucceeding ages , at Eleufis , were there performed ; the rites of initiation , the mysteries of ferpent - worship , the ...
... described to have been celebrated in the gloomy aifles and ranging receffes of the facred Indian caverns , and , in fucceeding ages , at Eleufis , were there performed ; the rites of initiation , the mysteries of ferpent - worship , the ...
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