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 xxxvii
... DELHI . 1 To an undertaking thus comprehensive in its defign , and important in regard to its objects , an undertaking generally allowed to be , at this moment , a defideratum in Li- terature , it might naturally have been ex- pected ...
... DELHI . 1 To an undertaking thus comprehensive in its defign , and important in regard to its objects , an undertaking generally allowed to be , at this moment , a defideratum in Li- terature , it might naturally have been ex- pected ...
Page lxvii
... Delhi , that firmaun by which the Eaft India Company became entitled , under the fanc- tion of the Mogul Monarchs , before the sub- verfion of their empire , to very extensive commercial privileges . As Mr. STEPHENSON filled a high ...
... Delhi , that firmaun by which the Eaft India Company became entitled , under the fanc- tion of the Mogul Monarchs , before the sub- verfion of their empire , to very extensive commercial privileges . As Mr. STEPHENSON filled a high ...
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... Delhi ftands . In the Ayeen Akbery the Jo- manes is called the Jown . Delhi was , at the period of this invafion , a place of little import- Dance , having been but newly founded , accord- ing to Ferifhta , by Delu the ufurper of the ...
... Delhi ftands . In the Ayeen Akbery the Jo- manes is called the Jown . Delhi was , at the period of this invafion , a place of little import- Dance , having been but newly founded , accord- ing to Ferifhta , by Delu the ufurper of the ...
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... Delhi , Lahore , and 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 ...
... Delhi , Lahore , and 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 ...
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