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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... also a passage , written in the true romantic Ayle of Indian Allego- rifts , which occurs in Sir William Jones's Discourse on the Chronology of the Hin- doost , which difplays their conceptions on See Dow's Introduction to the Hiftory ...
... also a passage , written in the true romantic Ayle of Indian Allego- rifts , which occurs in Sir William Jones's Discourse on the Chronology of the Hin- doost , which difplays their conceptions on See Dow's Introduction to the Hiftory ...
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... army . Even the Indian women and girls are faid to have been adorned with a profufion of precious ftones , and had bracelets and rings of gold , and jewels , not only on their E 4 hands hands and feet , but also on their toes . [ 55 ]
... army . Even the Indian women and girls are faid to have been adorned with a profufion of precious ftones , and had bracelets and rings of gold , and jewels , not only on their E 4 hands hands and feet , but also on their toes . [ 55 ]
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... also on their toes . Of thefe precious ornaments every individual had fecured fo ample a store , that they refused the incum- brance of more , and vaft heaps of various plun- der of inestimable value were left behind . These are nearly ...
... also on their toes . Of thefe precious ornaments every individual had fecured fo ample a store , that they refused the incum- brance of more , and vaft heaps of various plun- der of inestimable value were left behind . These are nearly ...
Page 75
... also another most sumptuous gallery feen by Tavernier , which fronted the river ; and which the fame monarch had pur- pofed to cover entirely over with a kind of let- tice - work of emeralds and rubies , that should have represented to ...
... also another most sumptuous gallery feen by Tavernier , which fronted the river ; and which the fame monarch had pur- pofed to cover entirely over with a kind of let- tice - work of emeralds and rubies , that should have represented to ...
Page 95
... extremity of Hindoftan , and carry it to Zabuliftan , that while he is writ- ing , not only Turan and Iran , but also other countries , may be added to the account . BENGAL . 3 BENGAL . • t " Bengal ( including Oriffa [ 95 ]
... extremity of Hindoftan , and carry it to Zabuliftan , that while he is writ- ing , not only Turan and Iran , but also other countries , may be added to the account . BENGAL . 3 BENGAL . • t " Bengal ( including Oriffa [ 95 ]
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