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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... These four publications I have used as a fort of commentary to rectify what was falfe , or elu- cidate what was obfcure in Diodorus Siculus , Herodotus , Strabo , Philoftratus , and Pliny ; and I trust the following pages , in which ...
... These four publications I have used as a fort of commentary to rectify what was falfe , or elu- cidate what was obfcure in Diodorus Siculus , Herodotus , Strabo , Philoftratus , and Pliny ; and I trust the following pages , in which ...
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... 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 aufpices of Sir William Jones , in Calcutta ...
... 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 aufpices of Sir William Jones , in Calcutta ...
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... these extended Differtations . The great work of the MAHABBARAT , now tranflating by Mr. Wilkins , and of which ' Abul Fazel himself anciently gave a Perfian verfion , not being , as yet , in the possession of the public , I can only ...
... these extended Differtations . The great work of the MAHABBARAT , now tranflating by Mr. Wilkins , and of which ' Abul Fazel himself anciently gave a Perfian verfion , not being , as yet , in the possession of the public , I can only ...
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... these enquries into the re- motest historical antiquities of Afia , as I have constantly kept the Sacred Volumes , and the invaluable fragments of Chaldĉan History by Berofus , before me , with all that Bifhop Cum- berland , Stanley ...
... these enquries into the re- motest historical antiquities of Afia , as I have constantly kept the Sacred Volumes , and the invaluable fragments of Chaldĉan History by Berofus , before me , with all that Bifhop Cum- berland , Stanley ...
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... and the Globe , the Wing , and the Serpent , which , ac- cording to Kircher , formed the Trinity of Egypt ; these were among the numerous , the delicate , delicate , and abftrufe topics , which neither the clerical [ xvi ]
... and the Globe , the Wing , and the Serpent , which , ac- cording to Kircher , formed the Trinity of Egypt ; these were among the numerous , the delicate , delicate , and abftrufe topics , which neither the clerical [ xvi ]
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