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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... AYEEN AKBERY , and the three principal tranflations yet made from ancient Sanfcreet writings , viz . the GEETA , the HEETOPADES , and the SACONTALA - the fect of the fun - worship- pers at this day called SAURA- the account given , by ...
... AYEEN AKBERY , and the three principal tranflations yet made from ancient Sanfcreet writings , viz . the GEETA , the HEETOPADES , and the SACONTALA - the fect of the fun - worship- pers at this day called SAURA- the account given , by ...
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... Ayeen Akbery ; of the latter , proof brought from Bishop Cumberland's Sanchoniatho . Their greatest princes , legislators , and heroes , confequently exalted to the skies - reprefentative images formed of them thofe images by degrees ...
... Ayeen Akbery ; of the latter , proof brought from Bishop Cumberland's Sanchoniatho . Their greatest princes , legislators , and heroes , confequently exalted to the skies - reprefentative images formed of them thofe images by degrees ...
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... Ayeen Akbery , in proof that there actually did exift , even fo laté as in Abul Fazil's time , among the rocky mountains in Upper Hindoftan , EXCAVATIONS the most nume- rous and prodigious , and CARVED IDOLS of the most aftonishing ...
... Ayeen Akbery , in proof that there actually did exift , even fo laté as in Abul Fazil's time , among the rocky mountains in Upper Hindoftan , EXCAVATIONS the most nume- rous and prodigious , and CARVED IDOLS of the most aftonishing ...
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... Ayeen Akbery , as neceffary to be undergone by the BRAHME CHAREE , or Brah- min of the first degree . Mr. Bryant's affertion , that the rites of ISIS and OSIRIS were originally infti- tuted in memory of the deluge , confidered and cor ...
... Ayeen Akbery , as neceffary to be undergone by the BRAHME CHAREE , or Brah- min of the first degree . Mr. Bryant's affertion , that the rites of ISIS and OSIRIS were originally infti- tuted in memory of the deluge , confidered and cor ...
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... Ayeen Akbery , and corrobo- rated in fome degree by the Afiatic Re- fearches , that TIRHOOт , a city fituated in the north of Bahar , poffeffes a prior claim to that honour ; for , it is faid , " from old time , to have been the ...
... Ayeen Akbery , and corrobo- rated in fome degree by the Afiatic Re- fearches , that TIRHOOт , a city fituated in the north of Bahar , poffeffes a prior claim to that honour ; for , it is faid , " from old time , to have been the ...
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adored adorned affertion Afia Afiatic Reſearches aftoniſhing aftronomical alfo alſo ancient antiquity Ayeen Akbery becauſe Brahma Brahmins caverns celebrated circumſtance confecrated dæmon defcended defcribed deity deſcription divine doctrine Egypt Egyptian Elephanta emblem engraving eſtabliſhed facred facrifice faid fame fays fculptured fecond feems feet ferpent feven fhall fhould figures fimilar fince fire firſt folar fome foul ftatue ftill ftone ftupendous fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fymbols Geeta Greece Heetopades Herodotus hieroglyphics hiftory himſelf Hindoftan Hindoos Holwell India Indian caverns inveſtigation itſelf lefs legiſlator Mithra moft moſt muſt myftic myſteries obfcure obferved Ofiris paffage pagoda Perfian philofophers poffibly Porphyry practifed prefent prieſts purpoſe reader receffes refidence refpect religion repreſented rites Sabian Salfette Sanfcreet ſcience Scythians Seeva ſhall Sir William Jones ſphere ſtate ſtatues ſtill ſtone Strabo ſyſtem temple thefe themſelves theology theſe thofe thoſe tion univerfally uſed vafes Vedas veneration whofe whoſe worſhip Zoroafter