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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... Hindoos , and of the ark of Noah refting upon the Indian Caucafus , instead of mount Baris in Armenia . After having read with laborious attention whatever has been written concerning India by the Perfian and Arabian hiftorians , of ...
... Hindoos , and of the ark of Noah refting upon the Indian Caucafus , instead of mount Baris in Armenia . After having read with laborious attention whatever has been written concerning India by the Perfian and Arabian hiftorians , of ...
Page xxxiv
... Hindoos can urge to fuperiority , either in regard to their early civilization , or their rapid progrefs to perfec- tion , in arts and fciences , when those affump- tions do not militate against all the received . opinions and ...
... Hindoos can urge to fuperiority , either in regard to their early civilization , or their rapid progrefs to perfec- tion , in arts and fciences , when those affump- tions do not militate against all the received . opinions and ...
Page lix
... Hindoos . In the geographical differtation for the moft part , and through- out the whole of my hiftory , when names of places occur , I have conftantly used the mode of orthography adopted by Major Rennel , who is undoubtedly the best ...
... Hindoos . In the geographical differtation for the moft part , and through- out the whole of my hiftory , when names of places occur , I have conftantly used the mode of orthography adopted by Major Rennel , who is undoubtedly the best ...
Page lxxv
... Hindoos , in the AYEEN AKBERY , vol 3 Mr. Holwell on the Fafts and Feftivals , and the Me- tempfychofis of the Hindoos , 2 vols 8vo . Lond . 1766 Montfaucon and Banier on the fevere Rites of Initia- tion into the Myfteries of Mithras ...
... Hindoos , in the AYEEN AKBERY , vol 3 Mr. Holwell on the Fafts and Feftivals , and the Me- tempfychofis of the Hindoos , 2 vols 8vo . Lond . 1766 Montfaucon and Banier on the fevere Rites of Initia- tion into the Myfteries of Mithras ...
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... Hindoo Aftronomy , in the third volume of the AYEEN AKBERY , quarto , Sir William Jones on the aftronomy of the Hindoos in the fecond volume of the ASIATIC RE- ibid . Calcutta , 1785 SEARCHES Mr. Mr. Davis on their Aftronomical ...
... Hindoo Aftronomy , in the third volume of the AYEEN AKBERY , quarto , Sir William Jones on the aftronomy of the Hindoos in the fecond volume of the ASIATIC RE- ibid . Calcutta , 1785 SEARCHES Mr. Mr. Davis on their Aftronomical ...
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