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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... hundred years , when one of the princes of the dynafty of the Surajas , a race who boafted their name and defeent from the Sun , erected upon the banks of the Ganges the great city of Canouge , the circumference of whofe walls is there ...
... hundred years , when one of the princes of the dynafty of the Surajas , a race who boafted their name and defeent from the Sun , erected upon the banks of the Ganges the great city of Canouge , the circumference of whofe walls is there ...
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... hundred thousand horfe , and four hundred thousand foot ; a force which , except in the number of elephants , ought not to be thought incredible , fince ( not to mention Xerxes's mil- lion ) Timur is acknowledged to have had at one time ...
... hundred thousand horfe , and four hundred thousand foot ; a force which , except in the number of elephants , ought not to be thought incredible , fince ( not to mention Xerxes's mil- lion ) Timur is acknowledged to have had at one time ...
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... hundred thousand men ; fince the army which followed Mahom- med Shah to the plains of Karnal was fo vaft as to defy computation , and according to the ftrong expreffion of a modern writer , " to be famished by its own numbers ; " and ...
... hundred thousand men ; fince the army which followed Mahom- med Shah to the plains of Karnal was fo vaft as to defy computation , and according to the ftrong expreffion of a modern writer , " to be famished by its own numbers ; " and ...
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