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 154
... circumstances , but particularly from the impreffive one of an ancient con- queft of Hindoftan by Oguz Cawn , and recorded by Abulgazi the Tartar hiftorian . The fubject confi- dered in a more general point of view - the probable origin ...
... circumstances , but particularly from the impreffive one of an ancient con- queft of Hindoftan by Oguz Cawn , and recorded by Abulgazi the Tartar hiftorian . The fubject confi- dered in a more general point of view - the probable origin ...
Page 177
... circumstances press for confideration , that I am almoft at a lofs from what point to commence the wide furvey . If a lefs degree of order and connection than I could wish should appear in my reflections on this head of the THEOLOGICAL ...
... circumstances press for confideration , that I am almoft at a lofs from what point to commence the wide furvey . If a lefs degree of order and connection than I could wish should appear in my reflections on this head of the THEOLOGICAL ...
Page 177
... circumstances were found equally favourable to the pro- pagation of fcience , and tended to impress upon the minds of the hearers the awful dictates of truth and wisdom . The BRAHMINS of Afia , and the DRUIDS of Europe , were therefore ...
... circumstances were found equally favourable to the pro- pagation of fcience , and tended to impress upon the minds of the hearers the awful dictates of truth and wisdom . The BRAHMINS of Afia , and the DRUIDS of Europe , were therefore ...
Page 179
... circumstance of the oblation . As to the other inscription , NAMA SABASIO , which 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 ...
... circumstance of the oblation . As to the other inscription , NAMA SABASIO , which 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 ...
Page 212
... circumstance , that the days of the week , in India , are arranged as in Egypt . and Greece , according to the number of the planets , and are distinguished by fimilar appel- lations , and , for my own part , I have not a • Phil ...
... circumstance , that the days of the week , in India , are arranged as in Egypt . and Greece , according to the number of the planets , and are distinguished by fimilar appel- lations , and , for my own part , I have not a • Phil ...
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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