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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... RITES of HINDOSTAN and EGYPT are compared . LONDON : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND -OF THE UNIVERSIT SOLD BY JOHN WHITE , FLEET - STREET . 1801 . THE GIFT O FARNARD S DS 418 MA 1800 3972 V. .3 Luke Hanfard , Maurice, Thomas, 1154-1824 ...
... RITES of HINDOSTAN and EGYPT are compared . LONDON : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND -OF THE UNIVERSIT SOLD BY JOHN WHITE , FLEET - STREET . 1801 . THE GIFT O FARNARD S DS 418 MA 1800 3972 V. .3 Luke Hanfard , Maurice, Thomas, 1154-1824 ...
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... rites paid in those caverns to the folar orb and fire , and in unfolding all the wonders of the fidereal metempsy- chofs , will attend his progress through the DELTA and the THEBAIS ; and , for the first time that the attempt has in any ...
... rites paid in those caverns to the folar orb and fire , and in unfolding all the wonders of the fidereal metempsy- chofs , will attend his progress through the DELTA and the THEBAIS ; and , for the first time that the attempt has in any ...
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... rites ob- ferved by the devotees in the Indian temples , till the enfuing chapter , which will fully de- fcribe them . Our more immediate business is with the temples themselves . The Peninsula was the region of India laft conquered by ...
... rites ob- ferved by the devotees in the Indian temples , till the enfuing chapter , which will fully de- fcribe them . Our more immediate business is with the temples themselves . The Peninsula was the region of India laft conquered by ...
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... rites prac- tifed in it , of the frequent ablution of Jag- gernaut , and the great multitude of Brahmins and devout pilgrims daily fed at this auguft temple . The Brahmin fable , relative to its erection , afferts that the spot on which ...
... rites prac- tifed in it , of the frequent ablution of Jag- gernaut , and the great multitude of Brahmins and devout pilgrims daily fed at this auguft temple . The Brahmin fable , relative to its erection , afferts that the spot on which ...
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... rites of their religion are performed . The famous pagoda of TANJORE is not different from thofe of Deogur , but in its improved form and decorations . * Let us now attend M. Tavernier to the re- gion properly called Hindoftan , and ...
... rites of their religion are performed . The famous pagoda of TANJORE is not different from thofe of Deogur , but in its improved form and decorations . * Let us now attend M. Tavernier to the re- gion properly called Hindoftan , and ...
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