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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... gates by the miniftering Brahmin . The gate of the pagoda univerfally fronts the Eaft , to admit the ray of the folar orb , and opening presents to the view an edifice partitioned out , according to M. Thevenot in his account of ...
... gates by the miniftering Brahmin . The gate of the pagoda univerfally fronts the Eaft , to admit the ray of the folar orb , and opening presents to the view an edifice partitioned out , according to M. Thevenot in his account of ...
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... 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 St. Andrew's crofs , allufive to the four elements , ) with a very high cupola in the centre of 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 St. Andrew's crofs , allufive to the four elements , ) with a very high cupola in the centre of the ...
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... gates that open into it ; and each gate is beautified with pilafters , but without any particular order of architecture . The high fteeples , or minarets , on the top of each gate , from which , he fays , the beadles of the mofque call ...
... gates that open into it ; and each gate is beautified with pilafters , but without any particular order of architecture . The high fteeples , or minarets , on the top of each gate , from which , he fays , the beadles of the mofque call ...
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... gate that looked towards the ocean , and embarked in boats to the number of four thoufand , with an in- tent to ... gates and round the walls , Mahmud entered the city , and approaching the temple was ftruck with the majestic grandeur of ...
... gate that looked towards the ocean , and embarked in boats to the number of four thoufand , with an in- tent to ... gates and round the walls , Mahmud entered the city , and approaching the temple was ftruck with the majestic grandeur of ...
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... gates , and trampled upon by devout and zealous muffulmen . · If the reader fhould now choose to afcend towards the city of Naugracut , in the great range of mountains fo called , whither few Europeans , befides John Albert de Mandelslo ...
... gates , and trampled upon by devout and zealous muffulmen . · If the reader fhould now choose to afcend towards the city of Naugracut , in the great range of mountains fo called , whither few Europeans , befides John Albert de Mandelslo ...
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