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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... tion of the monftrous Idols adored in them . -EGYPT and INDIA feem to have affembled in these Pagodas the Animals deemed more peculiarly facred to each Country ; as , for inftance , the MEMPHIAN BULL and the CNEPH of Egypt are ...
... tion of the monftrous Idols adored in them . -EGYPT and INDIA feem to have affembled in these Pagodas the Animals deemed more peculiarly facred to each Country ; as , for inftance , the MEMPHIAN BULL and the CNEPH of Egypt are ...
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... tion in the purifying stream . Where no ri- yer flows near the foot of the pagoda , there is invariably , in the front of it , a large tank , or refervoir of water . Thefe are , for the moft part , of a quadrangular form , are lined ...
... tion in the purifying stream . Where no ri- yer flows near the foot of the pagoda , there is invariably , in the front of it , a large tank , or refervoir of water . Thefe are , for the moft part , of a quadrangular form , are lined ...
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... tion on the Indian architecture , to refrain from defcribing any temples , however grand and ftupendous , as many of the Mohammedan mofques , erected in India , are , that were not ftrictly Hindoo ; but , as the style of building of the ...
... tion on the Indian architecture , to refrain from defcribing any temples , however grand and ftupendous , as many of the Mohammedan mofques , erected in India , are , that were not ftrictly Hindoo ; but , as the style of building of the ...
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... tion of ВOODH . - Additional Evidence of an early and familiar Intercourfe fubfifting be- tween the EGYPTIANS and INDIANS ad- duced . First , in their mutual Veneration of the facred Loros . - Secondly , in their early Cultivation of ...
... tion of ВOODH . - Additional Evidence of an early and familiar Intercourfe fubfifting be- tween the EGYPTIANS and INDIANS ad- duced . First , in their mutual Veneration of the facred Loros . - Secondly , in their early Cultivation of ...
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... tion of what Father Bouchet has afferted , in the Lettres Edifiantes , that the Indians had borrowed most of their fuperftitious ceremo nies from the Hebrews and Egyptians , I fhall no longer detain the reader from the con templation of ...
... tion of what Father Bouchet has afferted , in the Lettres Edifiantes , that the Indians had borrowed most of their fuperftitious ceremo nies from the Hebrews and Egyptians , I fhall no longer detain the reader from the con templation of ...
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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