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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Page lxix
... reader with a lift of fuch books as I have , at an enormous expence , pro- vided for the completion of the Indian Hif- tory ; and , as I have not always been fo ac- curate in my references as I ought , I fhall add their respective dates ...
... reader with a lift of fuch books as I have , at an enormous expence , pro- vided for the completion of the Indian Hif- tory ; and , as I have not always been fo ac- curate in my references as I ought , I fhall add their respective dates ...
Page cxii
... reader , while he perufes the accounts from Ptolemy , Strabo and Pliny , in the geographical treatise , and pursues the rout of Alexander , through what is cal- led the PANJAB of India , or country wa- tered by the five great branches ...
... reader , while he perufes the accounts from Ptolemy , Strabo and Pliny , in the geographical treatise , and pursues the rout of Alexander , through what is cal- led the PANJAB of India , or country wa- tered by the five great branches ...
Page cxiii
... reader must be the ultimate judge , and perhaps , in conformity to that hypothefis , I ought , at once , to have adopted the ortho- graphy of Mr. Bryant , and written the word CUTHAI . I thought it would likewife gra . tify the reader's ...
... reader must be the ultimate judge , and perhaps , in conformity to that hypothefis , I ought , at once , to have adopted the ortho- graphy of Mr. Bryant , and written the word CUTHAI . I thought it would likewife gra . tify the reader's ...
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