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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... curious philofophical reafon adduced from Plutarch .-- FOUNTAINS facred to the Moon in India- no lefs than 360 fountains confecrated to that orb at Kehrow , in Cashmeer a circumstance pointed out as exceed- ingly remarkable , being the ...
... curious philofophical reafon adduced from Plutarch .-- FOUNTAINS facred to the Moon in India- no lefs than 360 fountains confecrated to that orb at Kehrow , in Cashmeer a circumstance pointed out as exceed- ingly remarkable , being the ...
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... curious paffage , given åt large by Origen , from Celfus , one of the most learned philofophers among the ancients , concerning the SEVEN GATES , emblematical of the SEVEN PLANETS , erected in the MITHRATIC caverns , through which the ...
... curious paffage , given åt large by Origen , from Celfus , one of the most learned philofophers among the ancients , concerning the SEVEN GATES , emblematical of the SEVEN PLANETS , erected in the MITHRATIC caverns , through which the ...
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... curious but degrading fuperftition . The Lingam an emblem , in India , of the creative power - allotted as a fymbol to Seeva , the DESTRUCTIVE POWER , upon that philofophical principle of the Brahmins , that " to destroy is only to ...
... curious but degrading fuperftition . The Lingam an emblem , in India , of the creative power - allotted as a fymbol to Seeva , the DESTRUCTIVE POWER , upon that philofophical principle of the Brahmins , that " to destroy is only to ...
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... curious particulars , re- lated by MEURSIUS , in regard to the NUMEROUS AB- LUTIONS in the Grecian myfteries , compared with those recounted in the Ayeen Akbery , as neceffary to be undergone by the BRAHME CHAREE , or Brah- min of the ...
... curious particulars , re- lated by MEURSIUS , in regard to the NUMEROUS AB- LUTIONS in the Grecian myfteries , compared with those recounted in the Ayeen Akbery , as neceffary to be undergone by the BRAHME CHAREE , or Brah- min of the ...
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... 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 ornaments , and ...
... 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 ornaments , and ...
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