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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... JONES , Calcutta WARREN HASTINGS , Efq . NATHANIEL SMITH , Efq . IS Grace the Duke of Northumberland HIS His Grace the Duke of Marlborough Her Grace the Duchefs of Marlborough Moft Noble the Marquis of Salisbury- Moft Noble the ...
... JONES , Calcutta WARREN HASTINGS , Efq . NATHANIEL SMITH , Efq . IS Grace the Duke of Northumberland HIS His Grace the Duke of Marlborough Her Grace the Duchefs of Marlborough Moft Noble the Marquis of Salisbury- Moft Noble the ...
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... Jones , Mr. Halhed , and Mr. Wilkins . Mr. Halhed had already prefented to the public that aftonishing proof of the early wisdom of the Indians , and their extensive fkill in jurifprudence " the Code of Gentoo Laws " compiled at Benares ...
... Jones , Mr. Halhed , and Mr. Wilkins . Mr. Halhed had already prefented to the public that aftonishing proof of the early wisdom of the Indians , and their extensive fkill in jurifprudence " the Code of Gentoo Laws " compiled at Benares ...
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... Jones denominates " the most beautiful , if not the most ancient collection of apologues in the world , " was originally written in Sanfcreet , about eleven hundred years ago , by a venerable Brahmin of the name of Veeshnu - Sarma . So ...
... Jones denominates " the most beautiful , if not the most ancient collection of apologues in the world , " was originally written in Sanfcreet , about eleven hundred years ago , by a venerable Brahmin of the name of Veeshnu - Sarma . So ...
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... Jones published his Tranflation of SACONTALA , or the Fatal Ring , an Indian Drama , written by Calidas , an author of diftinguished merit in that clafs of Indian literature , who flourished about a century before the commencement of ...
... Jones published his Tranflation of SACONTALA , or the Fatal Ring , an Indian Drama , written by Calidas , an author of diftinguished merit in that clafs of Indian literature , who flourished about a century before the commencement of ...
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... Jones , in Calcutta , denominated the Afiatic Society . The scientific labours of these gen- tlemen are displayed in that grand repository of Sanfcreet information , the two volumes of ASIATIC RESEARCHES , which have fucceff- fively ...
... Jones , in Calcutta , denominated the Afiatic Society . The scientific labours of these gen- tlemen are displayed in that grand repository of Sanfcreet information , the two volumes of ASIATIC RESEARCHES , which have fucceff- fively ...
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