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 177
... appear in my reflections on this head of the THEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES , maintained from 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 ...
... appear in my reflections on this head of the THEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES , maintained from 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 ...
Page 177
... appear , the VEDAST themselves enjoin the oblation , on fome occafi- ons , of a MAN , a BULL , and a HORSE , under the names of NERAMEDHA , GOMEDHA , and As- WAMEDHA , Holwell , part ii . p . 84 . † Afiat . Research . vol . i . p . 265 ...
... appear , the VEDAST themselves enjoin the oblation , on fome occafi- ons , of a MAN , a BULL , and a HORSE , under the names of NERAMEDHA , GOMEDHA , and As- WAMEDHA , Holwell , part ii . p . 84 . † Afiat . Research . vol . i . p . 265 ...
Page 177
... appears on all the monuments of the ancients ? In the Abbé's opinion it is a forcible figurative emblem of the renovated warmth and vigour of the sun , who , ha- ving paffed without heat and strength the cold wintry * See Banier's ...
... appears on all the monuments of the ancients ? In the Abbé's opinion it is a forcible figurative emblem of the renovated warmth and vigour of the sun , who , ha- ving paffed without heat and strength the cold wintry * See Banier's ...
Page 179
... appears upon the neck of the animal , juft above the part into which the dagger is plunged , and which , the Abbé fays , has perplexed all the antiquaries ; the meaning will appear very evident , when we confider that NAMA may poffibly ...
... appears upon the neck of the animal , juft above the part into which the dagger is plunged , and which , the Abbé fays , has perplexed all the antiquaries ; the meaning will appear very evident , when we confider that NAMA may poffibly ...
Page 187
... appears , however , as if the victim in India generally perished by fire , or decapitation , or perhaps I may add ... appearing in the fculptures above , as if fit- ting in judgment upon the criminals . The doctrine of the metempsychofis ...
... appears , however , as if the victim in India generally perished by fire , or decapitation , or perhaps I may add ... appearing in the fculptures above , as if fit- ting in judgment upon the criminals . The doctrine of the metempsychofis ...
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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