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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... venerated attributes are 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 ...
... venerated attributes are 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 ...
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... Let us now attend M. Tavernier to the re- gion properly called Hindoftan , and explore the See the account prefixed to the engravings of these temples in DESIGNS IN INDIA . the great and highly - venerated pagoda of Be- nares [ 29 ]
... Let us now attend M. Tavernier to the re- gion properly called Hindoftan , and explore the See the account prefixed to the engravings of these temples in DESIGNS IN INDIA . the great and highly - venerated pagoda of Be- nares [ 29 ]
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... venerated pagoda of Be- nares . This pagoda , he obferves , derives a confiderable portion of the diftinguifhed cele- brity which it enjoys from the fuperior fancti- ty of the city in which it ftands , the ancient and renowned CASI , a ...
... venerated pagoda of Be- nares . This pagoda , he obferves , derives a confiderable portion of the diftinguifhed cele- brity which it enjoys from the fuperior fancti- ty of the city in which it ftands , the ancient and renowned CASI , a ...
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... venerated on that coaft , was , previoufly to the irruption of the Gaznavide fultans , the moft celebrated refort of devotees in this ever moft populous and beft cultivated region of Hindoftan . Indeed , the idol , adored in this grand ...
... venerated on that coaft , was , previoufly to the irruption of the Gaznavide fultans , the moft celebrated refort of devotees in this ever moft populous and beft cultivated region of Hindoftan . Indeed , the idol , adored in this grand ...
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... veneration of the Hindoos for this auguft pagoda had de- clined , and the devotion , fo fervently paid at its hallowed fhrine in ancient time , was al- moft totally neglected . The reason which he affigns for this general neglect of the ...
... veneration of the Hindoos for this auguft pagoda had de- clined , and the devotion , fo fervently paid at its hallowed fhrine in ancient time , was al- moft totally neglected . The reason which he affigns for this general neglect of 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