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, 1794 - India |
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Page 775
... also afferted that the Roman miffionaries , arriving in those re- gions , found the people already in poffeffion of that fundamental doctrine of the true religion , which , among others , they came to impress upon their minds , and ...
... also afferted that the Roman miffionaries , arriving in those re- gions , found the people already in poffeffion of that fundamental doctrine of the true religion , which , among others , they came to impress upon their minds , and ...
Page 787
... also be adduced in evidence that a race , wandering from the neighbourhood of Caucafus , and traversing the vast deserts of Afia , towards the north- eastern extremity , paffed over the chain of islands , now known to exift between the ...
... also be adduced in evidence that a race , wandering from the neighbourhood of Caucafus , and traversing the vast deserts of Afia , towards the north- eastern extremity , paffed over the chain of islands , now known to exift between the ...
Page 868
... also hereafter adduce , with fome ad- ditional observations of an Indian kind , and relative to the Sanfcreet annals , that the He- brew word CoL ARETZ , tranflated , the whole earth , will likewife bear a very different translation ...
... also hereafter adduce , with fome ad- ditional observations of an Indian kind , and relative to the Sanfcreet annals , that the He- brew word CoL ARETZ , tranflated , the whole earth , will likewife bear a very different translation ...
Page 876
... also from them Indo - Scy- thia , waited only the fignal from their bre- thren to pass that frontier river , and rush up- on the devoted Panjab of India . The former , as feems to be intimated by numerous paf- fages which I fhall ...
... also from them Indo - Scy- thia , waited only the fignal from their bre- thren to pass that frontier river , and rush up- on the devoted Panjab of India . The former , as feems to be intimated by numerous paf- fages which I fhall ...
Page 917
... also , and tabors , formed a part of the facred concert . In regard to the first of these instruments , I have only to remark , that , in most of the engravings of Veeshnu , in the form of Creefhna , that god is reprefented playing to ...
... also , and tabors , formed a part of the facred concert . In regard to the first of these instruments , I have only to remark , that , in most of the engravings of Veeshnu , in the form of Creefhna , that god is reprefented playing to ...
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affertion Afia Afiatic alfo Almai alſo altar amidſt ancient antiquity Apuleius Arrian aſtoniſhment Ayeen Akbery Brahma brahmins ceremony Chineſe Chriſtian confecrated confidered cuſtom dæmons dance darkneſs defcended deity deſcribed devotion divine doctrine dreadful earth Egypt eſtabliſhed exiſtence facred facrifice fame fays fecond fect feſtivals feven fevere fhall fhould fince fire firft firſt folemn fome fometimes foul fpirits ftate ftone fubject fuch fufferings fuperftition fymbol heaven herſelf himſelf Hindoo hiſtory idol India Indian inftance inveſtigation itſelf laſt leaſt leſs Lingam Mithra moſt muſt myfteries obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions pagoda Parmenides penance penitents Perfia perfons Pfyche philofopher Plato poffible Pooja Porphyry prefent prieſts purpoſe Pythagoras reader reaſon repreſented reſpect rites Sabian Saniaffi ſcarcely Seeva ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir William Jones ſome ſtate ſtill ſyſtem temple thefe themſelves theology theſe thofe thoſe thouſand throne tion tolahs univerfal uſe vafe vaſt Veefhnu whofe whoſe worſhip Yogee