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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... period began , in a more particular man- ner , to be directed towards the history and literature of India . It fell into my hands at a period , when , from being engaged in writing upon a subject connected with an interesting period of ...
... period began , in a more particular man- ner , to be directed towards the history and literature of India . It fell into my hands at a period , when , from being engaged in writing upon a subject connected with an interesting period of ...
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... period , there were only three gentlemen who were fuppofed to be thoroughly acquainted with it , viz . Sir W. Jones , Mr. Halhed , and Mr. Wilkins . Mr. Halhed had already prefented to the public that aftonishing proof of the early ...
... period , there were only three gentlemen who were fuppofed to be thoroughly acquainted with it , viz . Sir W. Jones , Mr. Halhed , and Mr. Wilkins . Mr. Halhed had already prefented to the public that aftonishing proof of the early ...
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... periods of their empire . Happily , to gratify the excited curiofity of the public , the grand defiderata were foon obtained . Mr. Wilkins , who first sprang the mine , and has ever fince been indefatigable in his efforts to bring to ...
... periods of their empire . Happily , to gratify the excited curiofity of the public , the grand defiderata were foon obtained . Mr. Wilkins , who first sprang the mine , and has ever fince been indefatigable in his efforts to bring to ...
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... period far more ancient ; fince , according to the Brahmins , Dufhmanta , the regal hero of the piece , and husband of Sa- contala , fate upon the throne of India , above a thousand years before Christ ; and it is proba- ble that the ...
... period far more ancient ; fince , according to the Brahmins , Dufhmanta , the regal hero of the piece , and husband of Sa- contala , fate upon the throne of India , above a thousand years before Christ ; and it is proba- ble that the ...
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... period , defy the corroding violence of time .-- These were diligently sought for , not only in our own settlements in the east , but through all the extent of Hin- dostan , by that literary fociety of gentlemen established under the ...
... period , defy the corroding violence of time .-- These were diligently sought for , not only in our own settlements in the east , but through all the extent of Hin- dostan , by that literary fociety of gentlemen established under the ...
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