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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Page 13
... height and ex- tent ; while the ftones , of which they are compofed , are of a magnitude hardly credible . The height , for inftance , of the pyramidal gateway , leading to the magnificent pagoda of CHILLAMBRUM , on the coaft of ...
... height and ex- tent ; while the ftones , of which they are compofed , are of a magnitude hardly credible . The height , for inftance , of the pyramidal gateway , leading to the magnificent pagoda of CHILLAMBRUM , on the coaft of ...
Page 26
... height ; par un ef- calier de 193 marches , chacune d'un pied de haut , I add the original that I may not appear to exaggerate , Leaving these comparatively small edifices and this immediate route of our traveller , let us once more ...
... height ; par un ef- calier de 193 marches , chacune d'un pied de haut , I add the original that I may not appear to exaggerate , Leaving these comparatively small edifices and this immediate route of our traveller , let us once more ...
Page 29
... height . They are without any light whatever within , except what comes through a small door scarcely five feet high . In the CENTRE of the building is a dark chamber , lighted by one folitary lamp , where the rites of their religion ...
... height . They are without any light whatever within , except what comes through a small door scarcely five feet high . In the CENTRE of the building is a dark chamber , lighted by one folitary lamp , where the rites of their religion ...
Page 32
... height , feem to look down with triumph and exultation on the humbled pride and degraded devotion of this once flourishing city and university . There is another remarkable inftance of the brutal conduct of Aurengzeb in regard to the ...
... height , feem to look down with triumph and exultation on the humbled pride and degraded devotion of this once flourishing city and university . There is another remarkable inftance of the brutal conduct of Aurengzeb in regard to the ...
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... height , forty- feven of which were buried in the ground ; and , on that spot , according to the Brahmins , he had been worshipped between four and five thousand years , a period beyond which , it is remarkable , they never venture to ...
... height , forty- feven of which were buried in the ground ; and , on that spot , according to the Brahmins , he had been worshipped between four and five thousand years , a period beyond which , it is remarkable , they never venture to ...
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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