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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... represented by animals characteristic of them . Thus , for inftance , his wisdom is fymbolized by a circle of heads , his ftrength by the elephant , his glory by horns , imitative of the folar ray , his creative energy by the male of ...
... represented by animals characteristic of them . Thus , for inftance , his wisdom is fymbolized by a circle of heads , his ftrength by the elephant , his glory by horns , imitative of the folar ray , his creative energy by the male of ...
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... represents the Egyptian priefts as flying with horror , and taking up their refidence in all the neighbouring countries of Afia , whofe inhabitants would afford them fhelter . Thefe holy and perfecuted men , throughout the regions which ...
... represents the Egyptian priefts as flying with horror , and taking up their refidence in all the neighbouring countries of Afia , whofe inhabitants would afford them fhelter . Thefe holy and perfecuted men , throughout the regions which ...
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... representing an ox , ill - shaped , lying down , with a bell about his neck , and yet reeking with the oil of the facrifices . He proposed to his fervant , who was a Parfé , to take it away with him , but that fervant refused . Another ...
... representing an ox , ill - shaped , lying down , with a bell about his neck , and yet reeking with the oil of the facrifices . He proposed to his fervant , who was a Parfé , to take it away with him , but that fervant refused . Another ...
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... represented by the Sommonacodom , was , among the Siamefe , what Confucius was among the Chinese . His hiftory and the rites of his religion are involved in the deepest gloom of mythology . According to the Balic books , he was born of ...
... represented by the Sommonacodom , was , among the Siamefe , what Confucius was among the Chinese . His hiftory and the rites of his religion are involved in the deepest gloom of mythology . According to the Balic books , he was born of ...
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... represented in a very forcible point of view . " Let us for a moment , " fays the ingenious writer , " form a comparison between these Indian buildings and thofe of Egypt , on which fo much more description and drawing have been ...
... represented in a very forcible point of view . " Let us for a moment , " fays the ingenious writer , " form a comparison between these Indian buildings and thofe of Egypt , on which fo much more description and drawing have been ...
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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