From Montfaucon.

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INDÌAN ANTIQUITIES:

LOR,
DISSERTATIONS,

RELATIVET

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,

.0F
PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE.

THE WHOLE

Intended as Introductory to, and Illustrative of,
THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN,

UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE.

THE INVESTIGATION of the OrientAL

TRIADS OF DEITY CONTINUED..

TROM the previous extensive survey of the

T various systems of Eastern TheologÝ, 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 gross superstitions, was a doctrine that immemorially prevailed in the schools of Asia. From whatever distant source derived, through successive generations, and amidst a thousand perversions, the GREAT TRUTH contended for beams forth with more or less splendor in eve. ry 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 false philosophy. • To try the merits of this great cause in the court of human reason, is evidently to bring