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 833
... fire , fhall come from the ex- tremities of the earth ; and a powerful and def- potic monarch finally prevailing fhall govern the universe with a rod of iron . " * His throne shall be established in Rome , ( a proof at what period they ...
... fire , fhall come from the ex- tremities of the earth ; and a powerful and def- potic monarch finally prevailing fhall govern the universe with a rod of iron . " * His throne shall be established in Rome , ( a proof at what period they ...
Page 838
... fire ; having confidered that religion , in a phyfical , mythological , and moral , view , as well as in what points it resembled or ap- peared to be connected with the Egyptian , Perfian , Grecian , and , finally , with our own more ...
... fire ; having confidered that religion , in a phyfical , mythological , and moral , view , as well as in what points it resembled or ap- peared to be connected with the Egyptian , Perfian , Grecian , and , finally , with our own more ...
Page 852
... FIRE , the juft emblem of power per- vading to the centre of that world which he made . With the two others he writes on OLLES , or Indian palm - leaves , poffibly in token of his having given the Hindoos the grand code of their ...
... FIRE , the juft emblem of power per- vading to the centre of that world which he made . With the two others he writes on OLLES , or Indian palm - leaves , poffibly in token of his having given the Hindoos the grand code of their ...
Page 857
... FIRE , that destroys all things . On this fubject I cannot forbear remarking , that it appears to me , in the course of these inquiries , that a fpecies of fuperftition , very diffimilar in feature from that which pre- vailed on the ...
... FIRE , that destroys all things . On this fubject I cannot forbear remarking , that it appears to me , in the course of these inquiries , that a fpecies of fuperftition , very diffimilar in feature from that which pre- vailed on the ...
Page 861
... fire till they are reduced to afhes , imagining they are , by this act , pleasing the Deity . " * In the fame book , the cataract of Wiffy is par- ticularized , which falls from the enormous altitude of 200 ells , with a noise that ...
... fire till they are reduced to afhes , imagining they are , by this act , pleasing the Deity . " * In the fame book , the cataract of Wiffy is par- ticularized , which falls from the enormous altitude of 200 ells , with a noise that ...
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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