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 x
... present , submit to that public the epitome of its contents which is prefixed to Ferifhtah's Hiftory of Hindostan , compared throughout , with great diligence , with the Perfian Annals of Mirkhond , with the Tartar Hiftory of Abulgazi ...
... present , submit to that public the epitome of its contents which is prefixed to Ferifhtah's Hiftory of Hindostan , compared throughout , with great diligence , with the Perfian Annals of Mirkhond , with the Tartar Hiftory of Abulgazi ...
Page xxx
... present on any parti- cular instances that might be brought to illuf- trate the foregoing affertion ; but fhall pass on to the curfory confideration of one or two re- markable circumstances that ftruck my eye , in reviewing the folar ...
... present on any parti- cular instances that might be brought to illuf- trate the foregoing affertion ; but fhall pass on to the curfory confideration of one or two re- markable circumstances that ftruck my eye , in reviewing the folar ...
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... present volume . However , in my history of the three first Indian Avatars , I have been able to adduce far more decisive evidence , re- lative to the general deluge , than can be col- lected from any fymbols , or displayed in any hiero ...
... present volume . However , in my history of the three first Indian Avatars , I have been able to adduce far more decisive evidence , re- lative to the general deluge , than can be col- lected from any fymbols , or displayed in any hiero ...
Page lxix
... present the reader with a lift of such books as I have , at an enormous expence , pro- vided for the completion of the Indian Hif- tory ; and , as I have not always been fo ac- curate in my references as I ought , I fhall add their ...
... present the reader with a lift of such books as I have , at an enormous expence , pro- vided for the completion of the Indian Hif- tory ; and , as I have not always been fo ac- curate in my references as I ought , I fhall add their ...
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... present the reader with the former , which was copied by Mr. Holwell's artist , from the walls of an ancient pagoda , and is the one most def- criptive of her favage character , and nefa- rious rites . But as the venerable author is ...
... present the reader with the former , which was copied by Mr. Holwell's artist , from the walls of an ancient pagoda , and is the one most def- criptive of her favage character , and nefa- rious rites . But as the venerable author is ...
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