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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... Western empire , was already com- pleted , though not committed to the press . Of the numerous and cruel incurfions made by Mahommedan princes into the Upper India , from the Caliph Valid , in the seventh century , traced regularly down ...
... Western empire , was already com- pleted , though not committed to the press . Of the numerous and cruel incurfions made by Mahommedan princes into the Upper India , from the Caliph Valid , in the seventh century , traced regularly down ...
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... west , by that stupendous chain of mountains to which the ancients gave the gene- ral name of Caucafusk ; on the eaft , by the h Ptolemæi Geogr . lib . vii . Strabonis Geogr . lib . xv . i That is , by its most westerly branch . facred ...
... west , by that stupendous chain of mountains to which the ancients gave the gene- ral name of Caucafusk ; on the eaft , by the h Ptolemæi Geogr . lib . vii . Strabonis Geogr . lib . xv . i That is , by its most westerly branch . facred ...
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... western termination , will be here- after more clearly evinced , by a quotation from an author in elegance and accuracy hardly in- ferior to himself , when we come to confider Hindoftan according to the divifions of the Ori- entals ...
... western termination , will be here- after more clearly evinced , by a quotation from an author in elegance and accuracy hardly in- ferior to himself , when we come to confider Hindoftan according to the divifions of the Ori- entals ...
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... western confines of India Propria , the most eminent ( for I fhall confine myself , in this geographical sketch , to the confideration of those only which were dis- tinguished by their opulence and power ) was Taxila , fituated on the ...
... western confines of India Propria , the most eminent ( for I fhall confine myself , in this geographical sketch , to the confideration of those only which were dis- tinguished by their opulence and power ) was Taxila , fituated on the ...
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... western bank , on the fite where his camp had stood . No more particu lar notice is taken of Nicea by the ancients than what is related above ; nor can I find a town in the map of modern India correfponding with it in fituation . Lahore ...
... western bank , on the fite where his camp had stood . No more particu lar notice is taken of Nicea by the ancients than what is related above ; nor can I find a town in the map of modern India correfponding with it in fituation . Lahore ...
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