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. VII. and Final..Printed, for the author, by H.L. Galabin, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street, and sold by John White, Fleet-Street., 1800 - Coins, Ancient - 102 pages |
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Page 464
... less display hofpi- tality blended with munificence to the other ; for , when Xerxes marched with his innumera- ble army against Greece , the fame Pythias not only entertained , at Celænæ , in Phrygia , the whole of this vaft army , but ...
... less display hofpi- tality blended with munificence to the other ; for , when Xerxes marched with his innumera- ble army against Greece , the fame Pythias not only entertained , at Celænæ , in Phrygia , the whole of this vaft army , but ...
Page 466
... less important and interesting , their coined money , which , according to the general judg- ment of medallic writers , was not in existence before the conqueft of Babylon by Cyrus ; though others , on the credit of Herodotus , fix the ...
... less important and interesting , their coined money , which , according to the general judg- ment of medallic writers , was not in existence before the conqueft of Babylon by Cyrus ; though others , on the credit of Herodotus , fix the ...
Page 468
... caravan departed homewards , a jour- ney of not less than fix months . * In these compacts , however , the eye must often have * Vide Cofmas Indic . page 138 , et feq . been been deceived ; and the bulk of an article was [ 468 ]
... caravan departed homewards , a jour- ney of not less than fix months . * In these compacts , however , the eye must often have * Vide Cofmas Indic . page 138 , et feq . been been deceived ; and the bulk of an article was [ 468 ]
Page 477
... less a fum than four millions of thefe Darics ; and what vaft additional fums ftill remained in the royal coffers will fhortly be evident to the reader , when I return to the account of the plunder of the Perfian palaces and tem- ples ...
... less a fum than four millions of thefe Darics ; and what vaft additional fums ftill remained in the royal coffers will fhortly be evident to the reader , when I return to the account of the plunder of the Perfian palaces and tem- ples ...
Page 485
... less than nine thousand talents of coined gold , and of gold and filver bullion forty thousand talents . * It muft , however , have been in the more ancient periods of the empire that Sufa was the chief treasury ; because , great as ...
... less than nine thousand talents of coined gold , and of gold and filver bullion forty thousand talents . * It muft , however , have been in the more ancient periods of the empire that Sufa was the chief treasury ; because , great as ...
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Page 574 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 786 - And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
Page 760 - ... where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble.
Page 787 - With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
Page 685 - The breaker of a foot-bridge, of a public flag, ' of a palisade, and of idols made of clay, shall repair ' what he has broken, and pay a mulct of five hundred 'panas. 286. ' For mixing impure with pure commodities, for 'piercing fine gems, as diamonds or rubies, and for 'boring pearls or inferior gems improperly, the fine ' is the lowest of the three ; but damages must always
Page 643 - Bhairava, who assume my shape, are pleased a thousand years. An oblation of blood which has been rendered pure by holy texts, is equal to ambrosia ; the head and flesh also afford much delight to Chandika. Blood drawn from the offerer's own body is looked upon as a proper oblation to the goddess Chandika.
Page 574 - Gothic and Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit: and the Old Persian might be added to the same family.
Page 855 - Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness.
Page 585 - ... in the names of numbers, and the appellations of " fuch things as would be firft difcriminated on the immediate
Page 576 - Ethiopic letters, which bear a close relation to each other, both in the mode of writing from the left hand, and in the singular manner of connecting the vowels with the consonants.