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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... tion for fire , as well as his erecting the ftupendous FIRE - 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 ...
... tion for fire , as well as his erecting the ftupendous FIRE - 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 ...
Page 16
... tion agreeable to the ufage of Eastern countries . Demonftrated to be fo by a paffage in Tavernier's Voyages in India ; and another in the Sketches of Mr. Crauford . The Author apologizes for going fo largely into fo difagreeable a ...
... tion agreeable to the ufage of Eastern countries . Demonftrated to be fo by a paffage in Tavernier's Voyages in India ; and another in the Sketches of Mr. Crauford . The Author apologizes for going fo largely into fo difagreeable a ...
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... tion proved in a fhort comparison of the thoretic fyftem of theology laid down in those oracles , and the practical worship of the Chaldæans , Perfians , and In- dians . The THREE PRINCIPLES mentioned in the Zoroastrian or Chaldaic ...
... tion proved in a fhort comparison of the thoretic fyftem of theology laid down in those oracles , and the practical worship of the Chaldæans , Perfians , and In- dians . The THREE PRINCIPLES mentioned in the Zoroastrian or Chaldaic ...
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... tion to what Strabo afferts concerning the coal - black steed , that the As WAMEDHA JUG , or horse - facrifice , was only properly perform- ed when the animal was white , with a black right ear ; which , however , being an object ...
... tion to what Strabo afferts concerning the coal - black steed , that the As WAMEDHA JUG , or horse - facrifice , was only properly perform- ed when the animal was white , with a black right ear ; which , however , being an object ...
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... tion with their neighbours of the more bar- barous north . The fanguinary ufage might have been univerfally adopted only in times prior to the inftitution of their first great le- giflator , whofoever , in reality , that legislator ...
... tion with their neighbours of the more bar- barous north . The fanguinary ufage might have been univerfally adopted only in times prior to the inftitution of their first great le- giflator , whofoever , in reality , that legislator ...
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