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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... age of VYASA to the prefent day - The first cause of that degeneracy ftated to be the fymbolizing of the ATTRIBUTES of the Deity in the veneration paid to brave and pious RAJAHS deceased , especially to those in whom the great Indian ...
... age of VYASA to the prefent day - The first cause of that degeneracy ftated to be the fymbolizing of the ATTRIBUTES of the Deity in the veneration paid to brave and pious RAJAHS deceased , especially to those in whom the great Indian ...
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... age to age by the Hindoos , the reader will , I hope , candidly impute the defect to the obfcure , the exten- five , and complex , nature of the fubject un- der examination . During the intercourfe which the ancients maintained with ...
... age to age by the Hindoos , the reader will , I hope , candidly impute the defect to the obfcure , the exten- five , and complex , nature of the fubject un- der examination . During the intercourfe which the ancients maintained with ...
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... age , iffued the light of philosophy and the beams of religion . ZOROASTER , or ZER- DUSHT , the great reformer of the fect of the Perfian Magi , between whofe doctrines and those of BRAHMA I fhall hereafter , in many points , trace a ...
... age , iffued the light of philosophy and the beams of religion . ZOROASTER , or ZER- DUSHT , the great reformer of the fect of the Perfian Magi , between whofe doctrines and those of BRAHMA I fhall hereafter , in many points , trace a ...
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... ages , the crafty impostor Mohammed , in order more effectually to establish the pretended fanctity of his cha- racter , thought it necessary to shun the society of men , and retired to fabricate his daring impofitions in " a lonely ...
... ages , the crafty impostor Mohammed , in order more effectually to establish the pretended fanctity of his cha- racter , thought it necessary to shun the society of men , and retired to fabricate his daring impofitions in " a lonely ...
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... , wife of Xerxes , had happily attained to mature age , with confirmed health , fhe D 4 Herodoti , lib . vii . p . 477 , edit . Steph . † Ζώοντας κατώρυσσον . The ordered fourteen children of the nobleft families of Perfia [ 55 ]
... , wife of Xerxes , had happily attained to mature age , with confirmed health , fhe D 4 Herodoti , lib . vii . p . 477 , edit . Steph . † Ζώοντας κατώρυσσον . The ordered fourteen children of the nobleft families of Perfia [ 55 ]
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