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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... tion , if not with grofs error . PORUS , or ra- ther POURAVA , ( for that , Sir W. Jones has informed me , was the real name of the un- daunted oppofer of the great Alexander ) the reigning reigning rajah of a country called the PAN ...
... tion , if not with grofs error . PORUS , or ra- ther POURAVA , ( for that , Sir W. Jones has informed me , was the real name of the un- daunted oppofer of the great Alexander ) the reigning reigning rajah of a country called the PAN ...
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... tion of Sir Ifaac Newton , that Chiron formed the first sphere , for the use of the Argonauts in their voyage to Colchis , he yet allows that many of the conftellations of the Grecian , that is , as Mr. Coftard in another treatise has ...
... tion of Sir Ifaac Newton , that Chiron formed the first sphere , for the use of the Argonauts in their voyage to Colchis , he yet allows that many of the conftellations of the Grecian , that is , as Mr. Coftard in another treatise has ...
Page xxx
... confideration of one or two re- markable circumstances that ftruck my eye , in reviewing the folar and lunar Zodiacs of ent ecom tiag of a oph fabu tion that the India ; [ xxx ] world, appeared to merit ftill more attentive ...
... confideration of one or two re- markable circumstances that ftruck my eye , in reviewing the folar and lunar Zodiacs of ent ecom tiag of a oph fabu tion that the India ; [ xxx ] world, appeared to merit ftill more attentive ...
Page xxxi
... tion that the as tile r- n . 0 India in the former of which there is , in my opinion , a strong corroborative teftimony of that deluge which the Brahmins fo pe remptorily deny ever to have taken place in Hindoftan . It is in the fign ...
... tion that the as tile r- n . 0 India in the former of which there is , in my opinion , a strong corroborative teftimony of that deluge which the Brahmins fo pe remptorily deny ever to have taken place in Hindoftan . It is in the fign ...
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... tion , in arts and fciences , when those affump- tions do not militate against all the received . opinions and traditions of mankind . Not- withstanding their abfurd geographical no- tions , which the reader will find exhibited , from ...
... tion , in arts and fciences , when those affump- tions do not militate against all the received . opinions and traditions of mankind . Not- withstanding their abfurd geographical no- tions , which the reader will find exhibited , from ...
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