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 ...The Author, 1800 - India |
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... Indus to be the boundary of India Propria on the weft ; for he affigns as its con- fines on that fide , the territory of the Paropa- mifada ( the Afghans of the present day ) ; the province of Arachofia , the modern Zableftan ; and that ...
... Indus to be the boundary of India Propria on the weft ; for he affigns as its con- fines on that fide , the territory of the Paropa- mifada ( the Afghans of the present day ) ; the province of Arachofia , the modern Zableftan ; and that ...
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... Indus . By our conftantly giving , when we have any tolerable authority to guide us , the modern , together with the ancient appellation of any place , readers of every class will natu- rally be more interested in the narrative ; and ...
... Indus . By our conftantly giving , when we have any tolerable authority to guide us , the modern , together with the ancient appellation of any place , readers of every class will natu- rally be more interested in the narrative ; and ...
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... Indus , and along the eastern borders of the Ganges . Ptolemy , who makes Arachofia , Gedrofia , together with the Para- pamifadæ , and not the Indus , the western boundary of India , if he had been apprised of the courfe of the ...
... Indus , and along the eastern borders of the Ganges . Ptolemy , who makes Arachofia , Gedrofia , together with the Para- pamifadæ , and not the Indus , the western boundary of India , if he had been apprised of the courfe of the ...
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