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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... ancient ; fince , according to the Brahmins , Dufhmanta , the regal hero of the piece , and husband of Sa- contala , fate upon the throne of India , above a thousand years before Christ ; and it is proba- ble that the poet would fo far ...
... ancient ; fince , according to the Brahmins , Dufhmanta , the regal hero of the piece , and husband of Sa- contala , fate upon the throne of India , above a thousand years before Christ ; and it is proba- ble that the poet would fo far ...
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... ancients were very fuperficially acquainted , and which they have , frequently , very grofsly mifrepresented . These four publications I have used as a fort of commentary to rectify what was falfe , or elu- cidate what was obfcure in ...
... ancients were very fuperficially acquainted , and which they have , frequently , very grofsly mifrepresented . These four publications I have used as a fort of commentary to rectify what was falfe , or elu- cidate what was obfcure in ...
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... ancient Chaldæan history and traditions , and therefore have referred the incidents of the GREAT WAR re- corded in the Mahabbarat , and all the ro- mantic accounts , given in the fame volume , of the battles of the Indian SOORS and ...
... ancient Chaldæan history and traditions , and therefore have referred the incidents of the GREAT WAR re- corded in the Mahabbarat , and all the ro- mantic accounts , given in the fame volume , of the battles of the Indian SOORS and ...
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