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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... fabricated by the ancient CUTHITES . T The Author , in the third volume , emerging from the gloom of SUBTERRANEOUS pagodas , introduces his readers into the fplendid temples that adorn the fur- face of Hindoftan their height , extent ...
... fabricated by the ancient CUTHITES . T The Author , in the third volume , emerging from the gloom of SUBTERRANEOUS pagodas , introduces his readers into the fplendid temples that adorn the fur- face of Hindoftan their height , extent ...
Page 41
... fabricate his daring impofitions in " a lonely cave , amidst the receffes of Mount Hara . " GROVES , facred to religion and science , were famous over all the Eaft . Abraham is faid to have " planted a grove in Beershebah , and to have ...
... fabricate his daring impofitions in " a lonely cave , amidst the receffes of Mount Hara . " GROVES , facred to religion and science , were famous over all the Eaft . Abraham is faid to have " planted a grove in Beershebah , and to have ...
Page 143
... fabricated them , nor the exact epoch of that fabrication . Of the various defcriptions of these excava- tions , all of which lie before me , from the first by Linschoten , in the fixteenth century , to the latest published in the ...
... fabricated them , nor the exact epoch of that fabrication . Of the various defcriptions of these excava- tions , all of which lie before me , from the first by Linschoten , in the fixteenth century , to the latest published in the ...
Page 162
... , ftanding on its bafe , but the top was round or convex . " Phyfics and mytho- logy , united together , at once formed the hy- pothefis Archæol , vol . vii . p . 325 . • pothefis and fabricated the representative em blem . An 1 162 1.
... , ftanding on its bafe , but the top was round or convex . " Phyfics and mytho- logy , united together , at once formed the hy- pothefis Archæol , vol . vii . p . 325 . • pothefis and fabricated the representative em blem . An 1 162 1.
Page 163
... fabricated the representative em blem . An attentive furvey of the powers of nature and her various modes of operation originally gave birth to that hypothefis ; for , according to the philofophy of India , " to deftroy is only to ...
... fabricated the representative em blem . An attentive furvey of the powers of nature and her various modes of operation originally gave birth to that hypothefis ; for , according to the philofophy of India , " to deftroy is only to ...
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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