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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... account given , by Philoftratus , of a moft fuperb temple to the Sun- another from the Ayeen Akbery . - The Indian my- fterious triliteral word AUM the fame with the Egypti- * 9 } an - -- an oм , and both used to fignify [ 10 ]
... account given , by Philoftratus , of a moft fuperb temple to the Sun- another from the Ayeen Akbery . - The Indian my- fterious triliteral word AUM the fame with the Egypti- * 9 } an - -- an oм , and both used to fignify [ 10 ]
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... temples mentioned in the fame book to have flou- rifhed at Benares , Rai - Jird , and other places , in the time of the second Boodh , about a thousand years be- fore Chrift . The Moon , or CHANDRA , a male deity in Hindoftan - that ...
... temples mentioned in the fame book to have flou- rifhed at Benares , Rai - Jird , and other places , in the time of the second Boodh , about a thousand years be- fore Chrift . The Moon , or CHANDRA , a male deity in Hindoftan - that ...
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... temples of either country the fimilitude aftonishing , but reserved for full examination after the caverns of Salfette and . Elephanta fhall have been defcribed . The ftu- pendous myfteries of fuperftition practifed in them attempted to ...
... temples of either country the fimilitude aftonishing , but reserved for full examination after the caverns of Salfette and . Elephanta fhall have been defcribed . The ftu- pendous myfteries of fuperftition practifed in them attempted to ...
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... TEMPLE at Balk , the author forms those con- clufions which are fubmitted to the reader in the pages more immediately following . The author fupports his deductions , by a very curious paffage , given åt large by Origen , from Celfus ...
... TEMPLE at Balk , the author forms those con- clufions which are fubmitted to the reader in the pages more immediately following . The author fupports his deductions , by a very curious paffage , given åt large by Origen , from Celfus ...
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... temple of SEEVA , with the PHALLUS , every where difcernible Visible receffes for the lamps that , probably , were kept con- tinually burning - The aftonishing height of the GREAT ALTAR , and magnitude of the coloffal ftatues An attempt ...
... temple of SEEVA , with the PHALLUS , every where difcernible Visible receffes for the lamps that , probably , were kept con- tinually burning - The aftonishing height of the GREAT ALTAR , and magnitude of the coloffal ftatues An attempt ...
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