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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... rites were first celebrated , and the fublime pre- cepts of philofophy first taught , in the facred folitude of GROVES and CAVERNS -the caverns of Salfette and Elephanta , undoubtedly stupendous fubterraneous tem- ples of the Deity ...
... rites were first celebrated , and the fublime pre- cepts of philofophy first taught , in the facred folitude of GROVES and CAVERNS -the caverns of Salfette and Elephanta , undoubtedly stupendous fubterraneous tem- ples of the Deity ...
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... rites used by the SCYTHIANS , as defcribed by Herodotus - decapitation , inhumation , or burning , the general mode adopted in India - an inftance of the former from the HEETOPADES - human facrifices common at the funerals of the ...
... rites used by the SCYTHIANS , as defcribed by Herodotus - decapitation , inhumation , or burning , the general mode adopted in India - an inftance of the former from the HEETOPADES - human facrifices common at the funerals of the ...
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... RITES , and SYM- BOLS . — Convinced that the mystery , considered by M. Anquetil Du Perron and M. Niebuhr as in- fcrutable , was only to be folved by a still closer exami- nation of the principles of the ZEND and the VEDAS , by means of ...
... RITES , and SYM- BOLS . — Convinced that the mystery , considered by M. Anquetil Du Perron and M. Niebuhr as in- fcrutable , was only to be folved by a still closer exami- nation of the principles of the ZEND and the VEDAS , by means of ...
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... rites and fymbols described with as much delicacy as poffible , confiftently with perfpicuity . The LINGAM fimilar to the PHALLUS of the Greeks and the PRIAPUS of the Romans . The facred recefs , or Sacellum , of SEEVA . -An extended ...
... rites and fymbols described with as much delicacy as poffible , confiftently with perfpicuity . The LINGAM fimilar to the PHALLUS of the Greeks and the PRIAPUS of the Romans . The facred recefs , or Sacellum , of SEEVA . -An extended ...
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... rites , to the principles and practices of that vitiated fon of NOAH , the earliest idolater of the poft - diluvian world , who led the first colony from Chaldæa to the banks of the Nile . That the moft venerated IDOLS - of $ of India ...
... rites , to the principles and practices of that vitiated fon of NOAH , the earliest idolater of the poft - diluvian world , who led the first colony from Chaldæa to the banks of the Nile . That the moft venerated IDOLS - of $ of India ...
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