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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... 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 highly has the HEETOPADES ...
... 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 highly has the HEETOPADES ...
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... beautiful original . In 1788 Sir William 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 ...
... beautiful original . In 1788 Sir William 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 ...
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... beautiful country , the delightful furvey of which , has in every age of the world awakened the envy , inflamed the jea- lousy , and stimulated the avarice of neigh- bouring defpots . The alternate operation of these base and degrading ...
... beautiful country , the delightful furvey of which , has in every age of the world awakened the envy , inflamed the jea- lousy , and stimulated the avarice of neigh- bouring defpots . The alternate operation of these base and degrading ...
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... tory of the Ten Avatars would have been totally unintel- ligible . I have prefented my fubfcribers with one beautiful plate from each of thofe writers . rately by Sir Robert Barker , in the Philofo- phical [ xlviii ]
... tory of the Ten Avatars would have been totally unintel- ligible . I have prefented my fubfcribers with one beautiful plate from each of thofe writers . rately by Sir Robert Barker , in the Philofo- phical [ xlviii ]
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... beautiful fabrication produced by thofe of the tribe of BICE ; as well as for the patient and unrepining gentlenefs , amidst accumulated infult and oppreffion , of the industrious and numerous family of SOODER ; I never intended to ...
... beautiful fabrication produced by thofe of the tribe of BICE ; as well as for the patient and unrepining gentlenefs , amidst accumulated infult and oppreffion , of the industrious and numerous family of SOODER ; I never intended to ...
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