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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Page xi
... origin and early history of those nations ; I truft I shall not be thought presumptuous for offering a decifive opinion with respect to that remote period , and those apparently fa- bulous events . I confider the whole as only a ...
... origin and early history of those nations ; I truft I shall not be thought presumptuous for offering a decifive opinion with respect to that remote period , and those apparently fa- bulous events . I confider the whole as only a ...
Page xix
... origin ; that their empire was the empire of ima- gination , in the skies , not of real power on this globe of earth ; that the day and year of Brah- ma , and the day and year of Mortals , are of a nature widely different ; that the ...
... origin ; that their empire was the empire of ima- gination , in the skies , not of real power on this globe of earth ; that the day and year of Brah- ma , and the day and year of Mortals , are of a nature widely different ; that the ...
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... origin , among other evident proofs , which will be hereafter adduced by me , one or two only shall be stated at prefent . In the first place , they are not adapted to the order in which the feafons fucceeded each other in Egypt . For ...
... origin , among other evident proofs , which will be hereafter adduced by me , one or two only shall be stated at prefent . In the first place , they are not adapted to the order in which the feafons fucceeded each other in Egypt . For ...
Page xciii
... oriental antiquity , had not discovered to us that interesting and impor- tant fact , that a dynafty of Hindoo princes , denominated MAHABADIAN , a title of Sanf- 02 creet creet origin , fate upon the throne of Iran , ( xciii )
... oriental antiquity , had not discovered to us that interesting and impor- tant fact , that a dynafty of Hindoo princes , denominated MAHABADIAN , a title of Sanf- 02 creet creet origin , fate upon the throne of Iran , ( xciii )
Page xciv
... origin , fate upon the throne of Iran , or Perfia , before the acceffion of Cayuma- ras , whom the TARIK MIRKHOND , and , after that chronicle Sir William himself , in his fhort hiftory of Perfia , formerly afferted to have been the ...
... origin , fate upon the throne of Iran , or Perfia , before the acceffion of Cayuma- ras , whom the TARIK MIRKHOND , and , after that chronicle Sir William himself , in his fhort hiftory of Perfia , formerly afferted to have been the ...
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