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Gaulic Deities in Triple Groups copied from the Portal of an
ancient temple at Montmorillon in France.

From Mentfaucon.

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INDIAN ANTIQUITIES:

OR,

DISSERTATIONS,

RELATIVE TO

THE ANCIENT GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIÓNS,
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,

O F

PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE.

THE WHOLE

Intended as Introductory to, and Illuftrative of,

THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN,

UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE.

VOL V.

In which the Investigation of the ORIENTAL TRIADS OF DEITY
is continued; and the HORRIBLE PENANCES of the INDIAN
DEVOTEES are detailed.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD BY W. RICHARDSON,
UNDER THE ROYAL-EXCHANGE.

M.DCC.XCIV.

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THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ORIENTAL

TRIADS OF DEITY CONTINUED.

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EASTERN THEOLOGY, it is evident that the notion of a Divine Triad governing the universe, however darkened and degraded through the prevalence of a long fe ries of grofs fuperftitions, was a doctrine that immemorially prevailed in the schools of Afia. From whatever diftant fource derived, through fucceffive generations, and amidst a thousand perverfions, the GREAT TRUTH contended for beams forth with more or lefs fplendor in every country of the ancient world, and darts conviction upon the mind not prejudiced against the reception of it by the suggestions of human pride and the dogmas of falfe philo sophy.

To try the merits of this great cause in the court of human reafon, is evidently to bring

it

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