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 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, Volume 2C. & W. Galabin, 1800 - India |
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... sculptures A curious paffage apparently corrobora- tive of the latter hypothefis from the ARCHEOLOGIA Another remarkable paffage adduced from Ezekiel , in proof that images refembling thofe in the Indian caverns , decked with fimilar ...
... sculptures A curious paffage apparently corrobora- tive of the latter hypothefis from the ARCHEOLOGIA Another remarkable paffage adduced from Ezekiel , in proof that images refembling thofe in the Indian caverns , decked with fimilar ...
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... sculptures that adorn them . I con- fider them , not only as ftupendous fubterra- neous temples of the Deity , but as occafionally used by the Brahmins for inculcating the pro- foundest arcana of those sciences , for which they were so ...
... sculptures that adorn them . I con- fider them , not only as ftupendous fubterra- neous temples of the Deity , but as occafionally used by the Brahmins for inculcating the pro- foundest arcana of those sciences , for which they were so ...
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... edit . Paris , 1719. See also a similar sculpture , engraved in Dr. Hyde's first plate , with other curious aftronomical appendages , which will be noticed hereafter . cient Perfians , which will ftill more immedi- ately elucidate [ 60 ]
... edit . Paris , 1719. See also a similar sculpture , engraved in Dr. Hyde's first plate , with other curious aftronomical appendages , which will be noticed hereafter . cient Perfians , which will ftill more immedi- ately elucidate [ 60 ]
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... sculpture , yet it ought by no means to be omitted , that , on the right fide of this monument , stand two youths , with fimilar habits and tiaras , holding each a torch ; the one raised aloft and blazing in full fplendor ; the other ...
... sculpture , yet it ought by no means to be omitted , that , on the right fide of this monument , stand two youths , with fimilar habits and tiaras , holding each a torch ; the one raised aloft and blazing in full fplendor ; the other ...
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... of the firmament , is also fre- quently called the prince of the Dewtahs . But Brahma is the fu- preme first - born Dewtah . Confult the Gentoo Code , p . 39 . } • SCULPTURE on an ancient Mausoleum , at Persepolis ed with [ 90 ]
... of the firmament , is also fre- quently called the prince of the Dewtahs . But Brahma is the fu- preme first - born Dewtah . Confult the Gentoo Code , p . 39 . } • SCULPTURE on an ancient Mausoleum , at Persepolis ed with [ 90 ]
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