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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... capital is the modern Herat for this , however , he is condemned by Cellarius , who obferves m , Quod de quatuor 66 Imaus . Thus Pliny : " Junguntur inter fe Imaus , Emodus , Paropamifus , Caucafus , a quibus tota decurrit India in pla ...
... capital is the modern Herat for this , however , he is condemned by Cellarius , who obferves m , Quod de quatuor 66 Imaus . Thus Pliny : " Junguntur inter fe Imaus , Emodus , Paropamifus , Caucafus , a quibus tota decurrit India in pla ...
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... capital of Taxiles , an Indian prince , or rajah , who on the approach of Alex- ander , convinced , perhaps , that all oppofition to fo formidable a power would be in vain , went forth with confiderable prefents to appeafe and join the ...
... capital of Taxiles , an Indian prince , or rajah , who on the approach of Alex- ander , convinced , perhaps , that all oppofition to fo formidable a power would be in vain , went forth with confiderable prefents to appeafe and join the ...
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... 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 modern language the Behat or Chelum , but in the Ayeen ...
... 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 modern language the Behat or Chelum , but in the Ayeen ...
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... capital was most probably Lahor , or Lawhore , the prefent metropolis of Panjab , whose name is often applied to the province itself . Lahore , or Lehawer , as it is faid in the Ayeen Akbery to have been called in ancient aftronomical ...
... capital was most probably Lahor , or Lawhore , the prefent metropolis of Panjab , whose name is often applied to the province itself . Lahore , or Lehawer , as it is faid in the Ayeen Akbery to have been called in ancient aftronomical ...
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... capital to capitulate , Alexander found a new and moft formidable foe to en- counter in the united forces of the Cathæi , the Malli , and the Oxydrace . The city which their combined army attempted to defend against the veteran Greeks ...
... capital to capitulate , Alexander found a new and moft formidable foe to en- counter in the united forces of the Cathæi , the Malli , and the Oxydrace . The city which their combined army attempted to defend against the veteran Greeks ...
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