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- copied from the Stupendous CAVERN-PAGODA of ELEPHANTA, and supposed by NIEBUHR to represent the aspects of the grand triple divinity,BRAHMA VEESHNU? ŠEEVA

HISTORY

O F

HINDOSTAN,

SANSCREET and CLASSICAL,

FROM THE

BIRTH of BRAHMA.

SECTION I

CONTAINING

INDIAN ANTIQUITIES

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INDIAN ANTIQUITIES:

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DISSERTATIONS,

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RELATIVE TO

- THE ANCIENT GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS,

THE PURE SYSTEM OF PRIMEVAL THEOLOGY,
THE GRAND CODE OF CIVIL LAWS,

THE ORIGINAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND
THE VARIOUS AND PROFOUND LITERATURE

OF HINDOSTAN.

COMPARED, THROUGHOUT, WITH THE
RELIGION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT and LITERATURE

O F

PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE.

THE WHOLE

Intended as Introductory to, and Illustrative of,
THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN.

VOL. I. PART I.

Containing the DISSERTATIONS on the GEOGRAPHICAL
DIVISIONS, and the THEOLOGY, of HINDOSTAN.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR

AND SOLD BY P. ELMSLEY, IN

THE STRAND; W. RICHARDSON, UNDER THE ROYAL
EXCHANGE; AND BY THE BOOKSELLERS OF
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.

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