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 156
... mentioned in the fame book to have flourished at Benares , Rai- Jird , and other places , in the time of the fecond Boodh , about a thousand years before Chrift . - The Moon , or CHANDRA , a male deity in Hindoftan- that very fingular ...
... mentioned in the fame book to have flourished at Benares , Rai- Jird , and other places , in the time of the fecond Boodh , about a thousand years before Chrift . - The Moon , or CHANDRA , a male deity in Hindoftan- that very fingular ...
Page 159
... mentioned , the author is enabled to describe the particular or- naments of that lonely CAVE to which he afterwards retired in Media , " the aftronomical fymbols , and other mathematical apparatus , " with which it was decorated , and ...
... mentioned , the author is enabled to describe the particular or- naments of that lonely CAVE to which he afterwards retired in Media , " the aftronomical fymbols , and other mathematical apparatus , " with which it was decorated , and ...
Page 173
... mentioned in the Zoroaftrian , or Chaldaic oracles , the moft early corruption of the doctrine of the Hebrew Trinity - The Perfian Triad of deity , OROMASDES , MITHRAS , ARIMANIUS ; or , rather , the three - fold power of the God MITHRA ...
... mentioned in the Zoroaftrian , or Chaldaic oracles , the moft early corruption of the doctrine of the Hebrew Trinity - The Perfian Triad of deity , OROMASDES , MITHRAS , ARIMANIUS ; or , rather , the three - fold power of the God MITHRA ...
Page 175
... mentioning these rabbinnical vagaries , viz . to fhew their perverfion of fcripture texts , and their fenfual and carnal notions of what is purely spiritual ; among which may be numbered , that moft baleful spring of all their ...
... mentioning these rabbinnical vagaries , viz . to fhew their perverfion of fcripture texts , and their fenfual and carnal notions of what is purely spiritual ; among which may be numbered , that moft baleful spring of all their ...
Page 177
... mentioned before , which extended no lefs than thirty cofe , might well contribute to render In the SACONTALA , an ancient Indian drama , the Brah mins are reprefented as refiding in the bofom of a deep forest , + Ayeen Akbery , vol ...
... mentioned before , which extended no lefs than thirty cofe , might well contribute to render In the SACONTALA , an ancient Indian drama , the Brah mins are reprefented as refiding in the bofom of a deep forest , + Ayeen Akbery , vol ...
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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