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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... nature , his will , and of the mode by which he would be worshipped . The Deity not a folitary , occult , and inacceffible , being , but perpetually prefent with his creatures , and in all his works . - The ancient doctrine of DIVINE ...
... nature , his will , and of the mode by which he would be worshipped . The Deity not a folitary , occult , and inacceffible , being , but perpetually prefent with his creatures , and in all his works . - The ancient doctrine of DIVINE ...
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... nature of the fubject un- der examination . During the intercourfe which the ancients maintained with India , by means of the con- quefts of ALEXANDER , and the commerce af- terwards carried on with the nations inhabit- ing the ...
... nature of the fubject un- der examination . During the intercourfe which the ancients maintained with India , by means of the con- quefts of ALEXANDER , and the commerce af- terwards carried on with the nations inhabit- ing the ...
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... nature ) paid likewise a religious ho- mage to water : and Herodotus , in the page cited before , fays , that , on the arrival of the army * Strabo , lib . xi . p . 487 , edit . Bafil . The edition referred to throughout . - army at the ...
... nature ) paid likewise a religious ho- mage to water : and Herodotus , in the page cited before , fays , that , on the arrival of the army * Strabo , lib . xi . p . 487 , edit . Bafil . The edition referred to throughout . - army at the ...
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... nature and origin were the vin- dictive deities , whofe implacable fury exacted , from the benignant Hindoo , rites from which his nature feems to have been fo abhorrent ? Let us explore the latent fources of this wonderful and ...
... nature and origin were the vin- dictive deities , whofe implacable fury exacted , from the benignant Hindoo , rites from which his nature feems to have been fo abhorrent ? Let us explore the latent fources of this wonderful and ...
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... nature ; while others again had more particularly in charge the management of this terreftrial globe , and ... nature and difpofition , or xanodaiμoves , whose conftant employment and whofe in- fernal delight it was to derange the ...
... nature ; while others again had more particularly in charge the management of this terreftrial globe , and ... nature and difpofition , or xanodaiμoves , whose conftant employment and whofe in- fernal delight it was to derange 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