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 32
... remarkable inftance of the brutal conduct of Aurengzeb in regard to the pagoda of Ahmed - Abad , in Guzzurat , which therefore may not improperly be noticed here . It is called the pagoda of Santidas , the name of its founder , and is ...
... remarkable inftance of the brutal conduct of Aurengzeb in regard to the pagoda of Ahmed - Abad , in Guzzurat , which therefore may not improperly be noticed here . It is called the pagoda of Santidas , the name of its founder , and is ...
Page 38
... remarkable , they never venture to ascend ; for , it is a period at which their Cali , or pre- fent age , commences : it is , in fhort , the pe- riod of that flood , beyond which , Mr. Bryant judicioufly obferves , human records cannot ...
... remarkable , they never venture to ascend ; for , it is a period at which their Cali , or pre- fent age , commences : it is , in fhort , the pe- riod of that flood , beyond which , Mr. Bryant judicioufly obferves , human records cannot ...
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... remarkable a manner , prevailed on the banks of the Nile . If this explication of the introduction into India of fo many idols , peculiar to Egypt , be allowed to have any weight , it will also account for various striking features of ...
... remarkable a manner , prevailed on the banks of the Nile . If this explication of the introduction into India of fo many idols , peculiar to Egypt , be allowed to have any weight , it will also account for various striking features of ...
Page 66
... remarkable , however , that the Brahmins , while they rejected the re- ligious worfhip of BoоDH , which , at present , flourishes in Ceylone and Siam , retained one peculiar and agreeable appendage of that reli- gion : " the women , or ...
... remarkable , however , that the Brahmins , while they rejected the re- ligious worfhip of BoоDH , which , at present , flourishes in Ceylone and Siam , retained one peculiar and agreeable appendage of that reli- gion : " the women , or ...
Page 69
... remarkable among those with which he has made us acquainted : that the two branches of the Nile , which form the tract called the Delta , divide at the head of that Delta at a place called BATN EL BAKARI , or , the Cow's Belly ; and the ...
... remarkable among those with which he has made us acquainted : that the two branches of the Nile , which form the tract called the Delta , divide at the head of that Delta at a place called BATN EL BAKARI , or , the Cow's Belly ; and the ...
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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