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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... thousand years ; and that it contained all the grand mysteries of the Hindoo Religion . The GEETA was ushered into the world with all the importance which fo invaluable a monument of Indian science seemed to merit : it was prefaced by a ...
... thousand years ; and that it contained all the grand mysteries of the Hindoo Religion . The GEETA was ushered into the world with all the importance which fo invaluable a monument of Indian science seemed to merit : it was prefaced by a ...
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... thousand years ago , and poffibly at a 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 ...
... thousand years ago , and poffibly at a 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 ...
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... ; coins and medals , ftruck in commemoration of grand and im- portant events , have been recovered from the fepulchral darkness of two thousand years ; years ; and the obsolete characters engraved on their fuperficics [ vii ]
... ; coins and medals , ftruck in commemoration of grand and im- portant events , have been recovered from the fepulchral darkness of two thousand years ; years ; and the obsolete characters engraved on their fuperficics [ vii ]
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... - actions performed , during the period of near four thousand years , on that grand theatre , I fhould never have ventured upon an under- taking at once fo arduous , and fo hazardous . As As foon as I had formed the refolution , in [ xiii ]
... - actions performed , during the period of near four thousand years , on that grand theatre , I fhould never have ventured upon an under- taking at once fo arduous , and fo hazardous . As As foon as I had formed the refolution , in [ xiii ]
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... be folved . Guided by such indisputable authorities , I truft , I have proved in the first volume of my history , that the personages who are said to have flourished fo many thousand years in the earliest ages have [ xviii ] 1 ...
... be folved . Guided by such indisputable authorities , I truft , I have proved in the first volume of my history , that the personages who are said to have flourished fo many thousand years in the earliest ages have [ xviii ] 1 ...
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