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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... fome of the more cele- brated Indian temples ; I fhall then direct the eye of the reader to the maffy fanes of the Thebais ; and the reflections , refulting from the furvey of those of either country , will be detailed in the ...
... fome of the more cele- brated Indian temples ; I fhall then direct the eye of the reader to the maffy fanes of the Thebais ; and the reflections , refulting from the furvey of those of either country , will be detailed in the ...
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... feet in breadth * . At the entrance of all the more confiderable pagodas there is a portico , fupported by rows B 3 See Mr. Crauford's Sketches , val . i . P. 106 . of of lofty columns , and afcended by a hand- fome [ 21 ]
... feet in breadth * . At the entrance of all the more confiderable pagodas there is a portico , fupported by rows B 3 See Mr. Crauford's Sketches , val . i . P. 106 . of of lofty columns , and afcended by a hand- fome [ 21 ]
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... fome flight of stone steps ; fometimes , as in the inftance of Tripetti , * to the number of more than a hundred . Under this portico , and in the courts ' that generally inclofe the whole building , an innumerable multitude af- fembled ...
... fome flight of stone steps ; fometimes , as in the inftance of Tripetti , * to the number of more than a hundred . Under this portico , and in the courts ' that generally inclofe the whole building , an innumerable multitude af- fembled ...
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... fome remote refemblance to the Doric ; and , indeed , the weight and magnitude of the buildings they support feemed to require pillars approaching in ftrength to those of that primitive , fimple , and robust , order . It is not ...
... fome remote refemblance to the Doric ; and , indeed , the weight and magnitude of the buildings they support feemed to require pillars approaching in ftrength to those of that primitive , fimple , and robust , order . It is not ...
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... fome extent . I omit , at present , his description of the monfters and demons affreux , as he calls them , with huge horns , and numerous legs and tails , fculptured in this pagoda , because it is my intention to notice thefe ...
... fome extent . I omit , at present , his description of the monfters and demons affreux , as he calls them , with huge horns , and numerous legs and tails , fculptured in this pagoda , because it is my intention to notice thefe ...
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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