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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... breadth , between the fhoulders , ex- pands to the enormous amount of near twenty feet . Even the relation of these dimenfions in company , particularly , of those of the stupendous erections by Sultan Akber , at Se- * The palm of ...
... breadth , between the fhoulders , ex- pands to the enormous amount of near twenty feet . Even the relation of these dimenfions in company , particularly , of those of the stupendous erections by Sultan Akber , at Se- * The palm of ...
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... breadth fifteen stadia ; that it had a fortification of wood , with turrets for the archers to fhoot from , and was furrounded by a vaft ditch , as well for the fake n Plinius , lib . vi . cap . 19 .. Strabo , lib , xy . p.667 . of of ...
... breadth fifteen stadia ; that it had a fortification of wood , with turrets for the archers to fhoot from , and was furrounded by a vaft ditch , as well for the fake n Plinius , lib . vi . cap . 19 .. Strabo , lib , xy . p.667 . of of ...
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... breadth as Strabo ; mentions the prodigious foffe , whose breadth was λpov , fex jugerum , and forty- five feet deep ; that there were on its walls five hundred and feventy towers , and that it had fixty - five gates . Such is the ...
... breadth as Strabo ; mentions the prodigious foffe , whose breadth was λpov , fex jugerum , and forty- five feet deep ; that there were on its walls five hundred and feventy towers , and that it had fixty - five gates . Such is the ...
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... breadth . According to the Mahabbarit , Owde continued the imperial city during the space of about fifteen hundred years , when one of the princes of the dynasty of the Surajas , a race who boasted their name and defcent from the Sun ...
... breadth . According to the Mahabbarit , Owde continued the imperial city during the space of about fifteen hundred years , when one of the princes of the dynasty of the Surajas , a race who boasted their name and defcent from the Sun ...
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... breadth twenty cofe . We Without following the Ayeen Akbery through all the minuter divifions of each Soo- bah , I fhall notice what is there remarked con- cerning its principal city , climate , productions , force , commerce , and ...
... breadth twenty cofe . We Without following the Ayeen Akbery through all the minuter divifions of each Soo- bah , I fhall notice what is there remarked con- cerning its principal city , climate , productions , force , commerce , and ...
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