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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... erected temples of either country . The fame eminent Sanscreet scholars , MR . HAlhed , SIR WILLIAM JONES , and MR . WILKINS , who were his guides before in difcuffing the myfterious rites paid in those caverns to the folar orb and fire ...
... erected temples of either country . The fame eminent Sanscreet scholars , MR . HAlhed , SIR WILLIAM JONES , and MR . WILKINS , who were his guides before in difcuffing the myfterious rites paid in those caverns to the folar orb and fire ...
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... erected Temples formed to resemble Groves and Caverns . - The ftupendous Mag- nitude and Elevation of the Indian Pagodas . -The most ancient and celebrated in Hindof- tan , viz . that of JAGGERNAUT BENARES - that of MATTRA - that of ...
... erected Temples formed to resemble Groves and Caverns . - The ftupendous Mag- nitude and Elevation of the Indian Pagodas . -The most ancient and celebrated in Hindof- tan , viz . that of JAGGERNAUT BENARES - that of MATTRA - that of ...
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... pleasure the regions illumined by the glorious SUN himself . Let us now contemplate thofe more confpicuous , but not lefs majestic , monuments of antiquity , THE THE PAGODAS THAT ADORN THE SURFACE , and erect their [ 12 iz ]
... pleasure the regions illumined by the glorious SUN himself . Let us now contemplate thofe more confpicuous , but not lefs majestic , monuments of antiquity , THE THE PAGODAS THAT ADORN THE SURFACE , and erect their [ 12 iz ]
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... erect their lofty fummits in every quarter , of HINDOSTAN . To the folemn myfteries of fuperftition , celebrated in caves and amidst the fecret receffes of the fecluded foreft , fucceeded the not lefs fplendid and oftentatious wor- fhip ...
... erect their lofty fummits in every quarter , of HINDOSTAN . To the folemn myfteries of fuperftition , celebrated in caves and amidst the fecret receffes of the fecluded foreft , fucceeded the not lefs fplendid and oftentatious wor- fhip ...
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... erected in the form of ftupendous pyramids , refem- bling huge caverns , and admitting the light of heaven at one folitary door ; they are , how- ever , within artificially illuminated by an infi- nite number of lamps , fufpended aloft ...
... erected in the form of ftupendous pyramids , refem- bling huge caverns , and admitting the light of heaven at one folitary door ; they are , how- ever , within artificially illuminated by an infi- nite number of lamps , fufpended aloft ...
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