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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... armies , or at leaft were joined in the ftricteft bonds of alliance , for their names are invariably mentioned together . The king p Arrianus , p . 324 . of of the Gangarides was moft probably a raja tris butary [ 32 ]
... armies , or at leaft were joined in the ftricteft bonds of alliance , for their names are invariably mentioned together . The king p Arrianus , p . 324 . of of the Gangarides was moft probably a raja tris butary [ 32 ]
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... raja tris butary to the fupreme raja of Palibothra , or , as was formerly conjectured , Cattouge . Diodorus 9 informs us , that when Alexander had paffed the Hyphafis , he was informed that if he continued his progrefs towards the ...
... raja tris butary to the fupreme raja of Palibothra , or , as was formerly conjectured , Cattouge . Diodorus 9 informs us , that when Alexander had paffed the Hyphafis , he was informed that if he continued his progrefs towards the ...
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... rajas , a name which is likewife applied to a deity of the Hindoos . “ That ' ancient city , " fays Sir W. Jones , in the Afiatic Refearches " , " extended , if we may be- lieve the Bramins , over a line of ten yojans , or about forty ...
... rajas , a name which is likewife applied to a deity of the Hindoos . “ That ' ancient city , " fays Sir W. Jones , in the Afiatic Refearches " , " extended , if we may be- lieve the Bramins , over a line of ten yojans , or about forty ...
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... rajas , dependent upon his authority . With him the re- gular empire of India may be faid to have fallen ; for after this event many years of discord and anar- chy enfued , and each more powerful raja became al- ternately a competitor ...
... rajas , dependent upon his authority . With him the re- gular empire of India may be faid to have fallen ; for after this event many years of discord and anar- chy enfued , and each more powerful raja became al- ternately a competitor ...
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... rajas , and fixed the fupreme dominion once more in his own martial line , This difquifition , how- ever , more properly belongs to the general hif tory of India , than to this abridged account of Canouge and its kings , I fhall ...
... rajas , and fixed the fupreme dominion once more in his own martial line , This difquifition , how- ever , more properly belongs to the general hif tory of India , than to this abridged account of Canouge and its kings , I fhall ...
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