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WING, the GLOBE, and the SERPENT,

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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 AND PROFOUND LITERATURE,

OF

HINDOSTAN:

COMPARED, THROUGHOUT, WITH THE

RELIGION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT, AND LITERATURE,

OF

PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE.

THE WHOLE INTENDED AS INTRODUCTORY TO, AND ILLUSTRATIVE OF

THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN,

UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE.

VOL. III.

In which the SACRED EDIFICES and SYMBOLICAL RITES of HINDOSTAN and EGYPT are compared.

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1806.

Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, Knt. LL.D.

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OF LONDON,

AND A

MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT,

THIS PORTION OF THE

INDIAN THEOLOGY,

A SUBJECT

NOT TOTALLY UNCONNECTED

WITH THAT PROFESSION

IN WHICH HE FILLS WITH

HONOUR SO DISTINGUISHED A STATION,

IS RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULLY

INSCRIBED,

BY HIS OBLIGED OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THOMAS MAURICE.