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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... army penetrated , a truer no- tion of the geography of India . * ? The natural and ardent avidity of mankind after whatever delights by its novelty , or afto- nifhes by its fingularity , induced , however , many of those who fought for ...
... army penetrated , a truer no- tion of the geography of India . * ? The natural and ardent avidity of mankind after whatever delights by its novelty , or afto- nifhes by its fingularity , induced , however , many of those who fought for ...
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... army of Alexander , for the abfurd and incredible stories they propagated concerning the Indian country and people . At the fame time , he gives us himself , in the fif- teenth book of his invaluable treatise of Ancient Geography , the ...
... army of Alexander , for the abfurd and incredible stories they propagated concerning the Indian country and people . At the fame time , he gives us himself , in the fif- teenth book of his invaluable treatise of Ancient Geography , the ...
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... army can conveniently pafs ; " - from that ce- lebrated capital , where he refreshed himself and his army for fome days , the Macedonian con- queror advanced to the bank of the Hydafpes , the most wefterly of the five rivers , called in ...
... army can conveniently pafs ; " - from that ce- lebrated capital , where he refreshed himself and his army for fome days , the Macedonian con- queror advanced to the bank of the Hydafpes , the most wefterly of the five rivers , called in ...
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... army , and which may in fome degree account for the traditionary ftory mentioned by Mr. Hamilton , that he was a great magician , Alexander , in fpite of the army of Porus , drawn up on the oppofite fhore , paffed the Bidafpes ...
... army , and which may in fome degree account for the traditionary ftory mentioned by Mr. Hamilton , that he was a great magician , Alexander , in fpite of the army of Porus , drawn up on the oppofite fhore , paffed the Bidafpes ...
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... army attempted to defend against the veteran Greeks was called Sangala , which Mr. Rennel thinks was fituated between La- hore and Multan , and confiderably out of the direct route to the Ganges . It is but in very few inftances that we ...
... army attempted to defend against the veteran Greeks was called Sangala , which Mr. Rennel thinks was fituated between La- hore and Multan , and confiderably out of the direct route to the Ganges . It is but in very few inftances that we ...
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