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 31
... used , when living , in his guardian care of mankind , to take long journeys ; and I must add , that this circumftance is another irrefragable proof , that many of the idols , adored in India , are DEIFIED MORTALS . He obferved likewife ...
... used , when living , in his guardian care of mankind , to take long journeys ; and I must add , that this circumftance is another irrefragable proof , that many of the idols , adored in India , are DEIFIED MORTALS . He obferved likewife ...
Page 77
... used to bloffom , and where foft mufic warbled to the found of the vibrating oar , crimsoned with the blood of the inhabi- tant , and echoing with the fhrieks of despair and death ? It would now be all in vain that the ftar of the Nile ...
... used to bloffom , and where foft mufic warbled to the found of the vibrating oar , crimsoned with the blood of the inhabi- tant , and echoing with the fhrieks of despair and death ? It would now be all in vain that the ftar of the Nile ...
Page 86
... used as obfervatories , It is un- neceffary for me to repeat in this place , that the deities , honoured in the Pagan world , were not originally adored in temples raised by the labour of man , but on the fummits of hills and in the ...
... used as obfervatories , It is un- neceffary for me to repeat in this place , that the deities , honoured in the Pagan world , were not originally adored in temples raised by the labour of man , but on the fummits of hills and in the ...
Page 93
... used as a temple , a temple probably in which the most profound arcana of the Egyptian theology were laid open to the initiated , and the most gloomy orgies anciently celebrated , propitiatory of malignant dæmons and stained with human ...
... used as a temple , a temple probably in which the most profound arcana of the Egyptian theology were laid open to the initiated , and the most gloomy orgies anciently celebrated , propitiatory of malignant dæmons and stained with human ...
Page 103
... used for an indefinite number , de- cifively points out the period of the proudeft glory of the Theban empire , which , as Ho- mer's correctnefs may be depended upon , was about the time of the Trojan war , that is , 1200 years before ...
... used for an indefinite number , de- cifively points out the period of the proudeft glory of the Theban empire , which , as Ho- mer's correctnefs may be depended upon , was about the time of the Trojan war , that is , 1200 years before ...
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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