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 ix
... reign it will be of infinite ufe ; but was foreign to the fubjects more immediately under discussion . Of the second volume , which contains the geography of the Soobahs , and a concife hiftory of their several fovereigns , the reader ...
... reign it will be of infinite ufe ; but was foreign to the fubjects more immediately under discussion . Of the second volume , which contains the geography of the Soobahs , and a concife hiftory of their several fovereigns , the reader ...
Page lxviii
... reigns of the imperial house of TIMUR , I ex- pected , and have found material information from the perufal of them . In one of the let- ters of this Gentleman to the Chief of Patna , his fucceffor , he declares it to be the deter ...
... reigns of the imperial house of TIMUR , I ex- pected , and have found material information from the perufal of them . In one of the let- ters of this Gentleman to the Chief of Patna , his fucceffor , he declares it to be the deter ...
Page lxxxi
... reigns of Jehaungeer , Shahjehaun , and Aurungzeb , composed from authentic Persian manuscripts , by Mr. Gladwin , quarto , Calcutta . 17881 Manouchi's History of the Mogul Empire , by Father Catrou , octavo , Lond . 1709 Dr ...
... reigns of Jehaungeer , Shahjehaun , and Aurungzeb , composed from authentic Persian manuscripts , by Mr. Gladwin , quarto , Calcutta . 17881 Manouchi's History of the Mogul Empire , by Father Catrou , octavo , Lond . 1709 Dr ...
Page lxxxiv
... reign , And panting TIME toils after it in vain . Upon explaining to my friends , the dif agreeable dilemma in which I had been plunged by my defire to accommodate them , with a work , in which economy and utility fhould be united , it ...
... reign , And panting TIME toils after it in vain . Upon explaining to my friends , the dif agreeable dilemma in which I had been plunged by my defire to accommodate them , with a work , in which economy and utility fhould be united , it ...
Page cxxii
... reign of Baber , who may properly be called the FOUNDER OF THE MOGUL MONARCHY IN INDIA , and of his father , Ulug Beg , the great aftronomer , who equally awed the Defpots of Afia in the field by his arms , and delighted her Literati in ...
... reign of Baber , who may properly be called the FOUNDER OF THE MOGUL MONARCHY IN INDIA , and of his father , Ulug Beg , the great aftronomer , who equally awed the Defpots of Afia in the field by his arms , and delighted her Literati in ...
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