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, AND THE VARIOUS AND PROFOUND LITERATURE OF HINDOSTAN: COMPARED, THROUGHOUT, WITH THE RELIGION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT AND LITERATURE OF PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE. THE WHOLE Intended as Introductory To, and Illustrative Of, THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN.. Containing the DISSERTATIONS on the GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, and the THEOLOGY, of HINDOSTAN, Volume 1THE AUTHOR, 1793 |
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... subject connected with an interesting period of Persian history , I had recently perufed with attention the very learned work of Dr. Hyde , " De Hiftoria Religi- onis Veterum Perfarum , " and , as I thought I traced a furprifing ...
... subject connected with an interesting period of Persian history , I had recently perufed with attention the very learned work of Dr. Hyde , " De Hiftoria Religi- onis Veterum Perfarum , " and , as I thought I traced a furprifing ...
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... subject ; and indeed its affertions were , in many inftances , diametrically oppofite to what , from the information of modern tra- vellers of high repute , is known to be the fact . Whatever genuine information could poffibly be ...
... subject ; and indeed its affertions were , in many inftances , diametrically oppofite to what , from the information of modern tra- vellers of high repute , is known to be the fact . Whatever genuine information could poffibly be ...
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... subject which he profeffed to elucidate , an immediate anfwer was returned , and forty fets of the Hiftory fubfcribed for . Both the Letter itself and the Answer are printed by way of Intro- duction to the first volume of the History ...
... subject which he profeffed to elucidate , an immediate anfwer was returned , and forty fets of the Hiftory fubfcribed for . Both the Letter itself and the Answer are printed by way of Intro- duction to the first volume of the History ...
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... subject , mate- rially injured my health . It was an attentive and accurate inspection of the Solar and Lu- nar Zodiacs of India , inserted in the fame va- luable collection , the former confisting , like that of Egypt and Greece , of ...
... subject , mate- rially injured my health . It was an attentive and accurate inspection of the Solar and Lu- nar Zodiacs of India , inserted in the fame va- luable collection , the former confisting , like that of Egypt and Greece , of ...
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... subject which the reader will find fo largely investigated near the close of the present volume . However , in my history of the three first Indian Avatars , I have been able to adduce far more decisive evidence , re- lative to the ...
... subject which the reader will find fo largely investigated near the close of the present volume . However , in my history of the three first Indian Avatars , I have been able to adduce far more decisive evidence , re- lative to the ...
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