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 and Profound Literature of Hindostan : Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt and Greece...H. L.Galabin, 1801 |
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Page vii
... rites , which have such an immediate and wonderful affinity with those of the Brahmins ; and the ancient commerce of the Phoenicians , Carthaginians , and Greeks , carried on , prior to the Chriftian æra , with India on the one hand ...
... rites , which have such an immediate and wonderful affinity with those of the Brahmins ; and the ancient commerce of the Phoenicians , Carthaginians , and Greeks , carried on , prior to the Chriftian æra , with India on the one hand ...
Page ix
... rites and fymbols , of which the prior Differtation in this volume is the refult . The bafis of my argument for their Indian extraction is , that the elder Buddha of India , who fhould never be confounded with the fecond Buddha , or ...
... rites and fymbols , of which the prior Differtation in this volume is the refult . The bafis of my argument for their Indian extraction is , that the elder Buddha of India , who fhould never be confounded with the fecond Buddha , or ...
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... DRUIDS ; AND ON THE STRIKING AFFINITY WHICH THE RELIGIOUS RITES AND CEREMONIES , ANCIENTLY PRACTISED IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS , BORE TO THOSE OF THE BRAHMINS . VOL . VI . B A DISSERTATION , & c . RTATIO SECTION I. The A ...
... DRUIDS ; AND ON THE STRIKING AFFINITY WHICH THE RELIGIOUS RITES AND CEREMONIES , ANCIENTLY PRACTISED IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS , BORE TO THOSE OF THE BRAHMINS . VOL . VI . B A DISSERTATION , & c . RTATIO SECTION I. The A ...
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... rites of the Brahmin religion , occa- fionally adopting thofe of the Scythians , and , together with them , finally emigrated to the western regions of Europe . To form any correct notion of the extent of the Indian empire , when in its ...
... rites of the Brahmin religion , occa- fionally adopting thofe of the Scythians , and , together with them , finally emigrated to the western regions of Europe . To form any correct notion of the extent of the Indian empire , when in its ...
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... rites in ufe among them , we have it in our power , through the fame authentic chan- nel , † to penetrate to the very birth of civil establishments , and find the primeval ancestors of the Hindoos fitting , in patriarchal majesty , the ...
... rites in ufe among them , we have it in our power , through the fame authentic chan- nel , † to penetrate to the very birth of civil establishments , and find the primeval ancestors of the Hindoos fitting , in patriarchal majesty , the ...
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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 cuſtom dæmon defcribed deity diftant Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Druids Eaft Egypt Egyptians erected eſtabliſhed extenfive facred fame fays feems feftival fent ferpent ferved fhall fhips fhore fhould filk filver fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome formed fpecies ftate ftill ftones fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fymbol Gaul gold Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus hiftory immenfe India inftance iſland itſelf leaſt lefs leſs metal moft moſt muft muſt nation navigation neceffary northern obferved old Britons paffage paffed Perfian period Phoenicians Pliny prefent prieſts purpoſe race regions Reſearches reſpect rites Sabian ſcience Scythian ſpecies ſtate ſtill ſtone Stonehenge Strabo Stukeley temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Tyre uſed vafes vaft veffels weft weſtern whofe whoſe worſhip