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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Page lxxxvi
... buft , I have myfelf adhered as strictly to the written relation of the Swedish traveller , as my engraver has to the defign of it , in his expensive vo- Jumes . cundra , cundra , near Agra ; and those of the walls ( lxxxvi )
... buft , I have myfelf adhered as strictly to the written relation of the Swedish traveller , as my engraver has to the defign of it , in his expensive vo- Jumes . cundra , cundra , near Agra ; and those of the walls ( lxxxvi )
Page lxxxvii
... Agra ; and those of the walls of the grand pagoda of Seringham , which arc four miles in circumference , has often fub- jected me to the smile of farcafm , and the fuf- picion of credulity ; but we are not to judge of oriental ...
... Agra ; and those of the walls of the grand pagoda of Seringham , which arc four miles in circumference , has often fub- jected me to the smile of farcafm , and the fuf- picion of credulity ; but we are not to judge of oriental ...
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... Agra . THE riches , the fplendour , and magnitude of a capital are the most decifive proof of the extended commerce , the power , and confe quence of an empire . In reviewing the ancient glory of each fucceffive metropolis of India we ...
... Agra . THE riches , the fplendour , and magnitude of a capital are the most decifive proof of the extended commerce , the power , and confe quence of an empire . In reviewing the ancient glory of each fucceffive metropolis of India we ...
Page 42
... Agra , in which Canouge tands , is remarkable for producing very excel- ient beetle - leaf . In the fame book , under Sircar KINOJE , ( p . 41. ) the reader will notice PUTTYALY , and PuTTYALYPOOR . felf felf independant in his ...
... Agra , in which Canouge tands , is remarkable for producing very excel- ient beetle - leaf . In the fame book , under Sircar KINOJE , ( p . 41. ) the reader will notice PUTTYALY , and PuTTYALYPOOR . felf felf independant in his ...
Page 47
... Agra have been in later periods of the em- pire in general ; and that , in the accounts given of them by foreigners , they have been frequently confounded together , or the one mistaken for the other . The city of DELHI , according to ...
... Agra have been in later periods of the em- pire in general ; and that , in the accounts given of them by foreigners , they have been frequently confounded together , or the one mistaken for the other . The city of DELHI , according to ...
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