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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... Indian Theology is confidered in the following Differtation under two general heads , the physical and fymbolical , and the more pure and fublime . The ancient phyfical theology of India is principally treated of in the former part of ...
... Indian Theology is confidered in the following Differtation under two general heads , the physical and fymbolical , and the more pure and fublime . The ancient phyfical theology of India is principally treated of in the former part of ...
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... India - the idolatrous devotion practifed in confecrated groves feverely anathematised in holy writ -the fanguinary rites performed in those of Scythia 1 - the very ancient , but not the original , religion of India proved to be of a ...
... India - the idolatrous devotion practifed in confecrated groves feverely anathematised in holy writ -the fanguinary rites performed in those of Scythia 1 - the very ancient , but not the original , religion of India proved to be of a ...
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... India - an inftance of the former from the HEETOPADES - human facrifices common at the funerals of the ancient sovereigns of Scythia , or Tartary , and at thofe of the Indian Ra- jahs - inftances of the latter from Texeira , Anci- ennes ...
... India - an inftance of the former from the HEETOPADES - human facrifices common at the funerals of the ancient sovereigns of Scythia , or Tartary , and at thofe of the Indian Ra- jahs - inftances of the latter from Texeira , Anci- ennes ...
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... Indian em- pires , is pointed out- -particularly in their mutual belief in ONE SUPREME PRESIDING DEITY , governing the universe by inferior agents , and adored in Persia under the name of OROMASDES , and , in India , under that of ...
... Indian em- pires , is pointed out- -particularly in their mutual belief in ONE SUPREME PRESIDING DEITY , governing the universe by inferior agents , and adored in Persia under the name of OROMASDES , and , in India , under that of ...
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... India has not borrowed her my- thology from Egypt , where the Moon was a female divinity , adored under the name of Isis , and whence the Greeks had their horned goddefs Io . The In- dian Chandra drawn by antelopes - a RABBIT his fymbol ...
... India has not borrowed her my- thology from Egypt , where the Moon was a female divinity , adored under the name of Isis , and whence the Greeks had their horned goddefs Io . The In- dian Chandra drawn by antelopes - a RABBIT his fymbol ...
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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