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, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale ...The Author, 1801 - India |
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... king- doms , as far as the China of the Hindoos , or Sin of the Arabian geographers ; not to men- tion the whole western peninsula with the ce- lebrated island of Sinhala , or Lion - like men , at its fouthern extremity . * If the ...
... king- doms , as far as the China of the Hindoos , or Sin of the Arabian geographers ; not to men- tion the whole western peninsula with the ce- lebrated island of Sinhala , or Lion - like men , at its fouthern extremity . * If the ...
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... kings , writ- ten in Sanfcreet Roy , bears as near affinity to the Gaulic Roi , as that of Ranna , a race of Indian queens , to the Spanish Renna , and the Gaulic Rein ; both used in exactly the fame fignification , though in countries ...
... kings , writ- ten in Sanfcreet Roy , bears as near affinity to the Gaulic Roi , as that of Ranna , a race of Indian queens , to the Spanish Renna , and the Gaulic Rein ; both used in exactly the fame fignification , though in countries ...
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... king , as I have elsewhere endea- voured to make fully evident , who caused that moft ancient and fublime fymbol of the Tri - une Deity , the WING , the GLOBE , and the SER- PENT , to be exalted on the lofty portals of all the Egyptian ...
... king , as I have elsewhere endea- voured to make fully evident , who caused that moft ancient and fublime fymbol of the Tri - une Deity , the WING , the GLOBE , and the SER- PENT , to be exalted on the lofty portals of all the Egyptian ...
Page 58
... king comes out , a fquare of fifty - fix paces in length , and forty - three in breadth , is railed in , and covered with fair canopies of cloth of gold , filk , or velvet , joined together , and held up with canes covered after the ...
... king comes out , a fquare of fifty - fix paces in length , and forty - three in breadth , is railed in , and covered with fair canopies of cloth of gold , filk , or velvet , joined together , and held up with canes covered after the ...
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... king's throne . The form of this throne was fquare , the matter , wood inlaid with mother - of - pearl , borne up with four pillars , and covered with cloth of gold . About the edge , over head , like a va- lence , was a net fringe of ...
... king's throne . The form of this throne was fquare , the matter , wood inlaid with mother - of - pearl , borne up with four pillars , and covered with cloth of gold . About the edge , over head , like a va- lence , was a net fringe of ...
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Abury æra afferted Afia Afiatic aftronomical againſt alfo alſo ancient antiquity Brahmins Britain Britiſh called Carthage Carthaginians celebrated circumftance coaft colonies commerce confiderable confifting Cornwall courſe cuftom dæmon defcendants defcribed deity diftant Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Druids Eaft Egypt Egyptians erected eſpecially eſtabliſhed extenfive facred fame fays fcience feems feftival ferpent ferved fhall fhips fhore fhould filk filver fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome formed fpecies ftate ftill ftones fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fyftem fymbol Gaul gold Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus hiftory hypothefis immenfe India inftance iſland itſelf leaſt lefs metal moft moſt muft muſt nation navigation neceffary northern obferved old Britons paffage paffed Perfian period Phoenicians Pliny prefent purpoſe race refpect regions Reſearches rites Sabian Sanfcreet Scythian Sir William Jones Stonehenge Strabo Stukeley temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Tyre uſed vafes vaft veffels weft weſtern whofe whoſe worſhip