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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,
THE WIDELY-EXTENDED COMMERCE, AND
THE VARIOUS AND PROFOUND LITERATURE,
OF HINDOSTAN:

COMPARED, THROUGHOUT, WITH THE RELIGION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT, and LITERATURE,

O F

PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE,

THE WHOLE INTENDED

AS INTRODUCTORY TO AND ILLUSTRATIVE OF

THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN,

UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE.

VOL. II.

Commencing the SURVEY of the THEOLOGY of HINDOSTAN; and confidering that Theology, principally, in its physical and fymbolical Allufions.

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DISSERTATION II.

THE

THEOLOGY

OF

HINDOST A N:

COMPREHENDING THE HISTORY OF THE RISE,

PROGRESS, AND DIFFUSION, OF SU

PERSTITION, DURING THE

MOST EARLY PERIODS,
IN ASIA.