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, and the Various and 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 ...author and sold, 1793 - India |
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Page 149
... ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN ; that is , of the AVATARS , and the SURYA- BANS , and CHANDRA - BANS , or the ancient race of RAJAHS , denominated the CHILDREN OF THE SUN AND MOON . In that volume the claims to unfathomable antiquity ...
... ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN ; that is , of the AVATARS , and the SURYA- BANS , and CHANDRA - BANS , or the ancient race of RAJAHS , denominated the CHILDREN OF THE SUN AND MOON . In that volume the claims to unfathomable antiquity ...
Page 157
... astronomical inftru- ments at the obfervatory of Benares , and other places . -The Indians believed the stars to be exactly what the Phoenicians imagined their zOPHESAMIN to be , ANIMATED INTELLIGENCES - of the former , evi- dence ...
... astronomical inftru- ments at the obfervatory of Benares , and other places . -The Indians believed the stars to be exactly what the Phoenicians imagined their zOPHESAMIN to be , ANIMATED INTELLIGENCES - of the former , evi- dence ...
Page 214
... astronomical remark ; and it would appear from that re- mark , that the accuracy of the poet's defcrip- tion does him greater honour than the fulfome compliment contained in them did Augustus . 4 # The contagion of fidereal worship , in ...
... astronomical remark ; and it would appear from that re- mark , that the accuracy of the poet's defcrip- tion does him greater honour than the fulfome compliment contained in them did Augustus . 4 # The contagion of fidereal worship , in ...
Page 286
... astronomical , as well as to the mythological , notions prevailing in India , cannot be doubted by any body who confiders , how intimately , in the ancient world , these fciences were connected , or rather that their mythology ...
... astronomical , as well as to the mythological , notions prevailing in India , cannot be doubted by any body who confiders , how intimately , in the ancient world , these fciences were connected , or rather that their mythology ...
Page 287
... astronomical speculations . It has been afferted by the ancients , and the affertion has been received with implicit con- fidence by the moderns , that HIEROGLYPHICS were invented by the priests of Egypt , to shade , under a veil of ...
... astronomical speculations . It has been afferted by the ancients , and the affertion has been received with implicit con- fidence by the moderns , that HIEROGLYPHICS were invented by the priests of Egypt , to shade , under a veil of ...
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adored affertion Afia Afiatic Reſearches aftronomy amidſt ancient antiquity aſtoniſhing Ayeen Akbery becauſe Brahma Brahmins caverns celebrated celeftial circumſtances confecrated Dæmon defcended defcribed defcription deity Diodorus Siculus diſtinguiſhed divine doctrine Egypt Egyptian Elephanta emblem engraving eſtabliſhed exiſtence facred facrifice faid fame fays fciences fculptured fecond feems feet ferpent feven fhall fhould fide figures fimilar fince fire firft firſt folar fome foul ftate ftatues ftone ftupendous fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fymbols Geeta Heetopades Herodotus hieroglyphics himſelf Hindoftan Hindoos hiſtory Holwell India Indian caverns inveſtigation itſelf lefs legiflator MITHRA moft moſt muſt myftic myſterious obfcure obferved occafion Ofiris paffage pagoda Perfian philofophers poffibly Porphyry practifed preſent prieſts purpoſe reader receffes refidence refpect religion remarkable repreſented reſembling rites Sanfcreet Scythians ſhall Sir William Jones ſome ſtate ſtill ſuppoſed temple thefe themſelves theology theſe thofe thoſe tion univerfal uſed Vedas Veefhnu veneration whofe whoſe worſhip Zoroafter