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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... , through the venality , fervility , or ambition , of fucceffive priests Its progrefs in degeneracy traced from the age of VYASA to the prefent day - The first cause of of that degeneracy stated to be the symbolizing of the [ 165 * ] •
... , through the venality , fervility , or ambition , of fucceffive priests Its progrefs in degeneracy traced from the age of VYASA to the prefent day - The first cause of of that degeneracy stated to be the symbolizing of the [ 165 * ] •
Page 177
... age to age by the Hindoos , the reader will , I hope , candidly impute the defect to the obfcure , the extenfive , and com- plex , nature of the fubject under examination . During the intercourfe which the ancients . maintained with ...
... age to age by the Hindoos , the reader will , I hope , candidly impute the defect to the obfcure , the extenfive , and com- plex , nature of the fubject under examination . During the intercourfe which the ancients . maintained with ...
Page 177
... age , iffued the light of philosophy and the beams of religion . ZOROASTER , OF ZERDUSHT , the great reformer of the fect of the Perfian Magi , between whofe doctrines and thofe of BRAH- MA I shall hereafter , in many points , tracé a ...
... age , iffued the light of philosophy and the beams of religion . ZOROASTER , OF ZERDUSHT , the great reformer of the fect of the Perfian Magi , between whofe doctrines and thofe of BRAH- MA I shall hereafter , in many points , tracé a ...
Page 177
... ages , the crafty impoftor Mohammed , in order more effectually to establish the pretended fanctity of his cha- racter , thought it necessary to shun the society of men , and retired to fabricate his daring im- pofitions in " a lonely ...
... ages , the crafty impoftor Mohammed , in order more effectually to establish the pretended fanctity of his cha- racter , thought it necessary to shun the society of men , and retired to fabricate his daring im- pofitions in " a lonely ...
Page 177
... age , with confirmed health , fhe or- dered fourteen children of the nobleft families of Perfia to be buried alive , in grateful facrifice to the fubterraneous deity . This practice , however , was equally contrary to the precepts of ...
... age , with confirmed health , fhe or- dered fourteen children of the nobleft families of Perfia to be buried alive , in grateful facrifice to the fubterraneous deity . This practice , however , was equally contrary to the precepts 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