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, 1794 - India |
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Page 795
... India upon the great scale of its more extended geography , as the ancients feem to have understood the term , and as ftated by Sir William Jones in the A- fiatic Researches , that is to say , as an em- pire extending from the great ...
... India upon the great scale of its more extended geography , as the ancients feem to have understood the term , and as ftated by Sir William Jones in the A- fiatic Researches , that is to say , as an em- pire extending from the great ...
Page 798
... India , and imme- diately introduced into China the worship of that deity with all the train of abomina- ble images and idolatrous rites , by which that grofs fuperftition was in fo remarkable a manner manner distinguished . To what ...
... India , and imme- diately introduced into China the worship of that deity with all the train of abomina- ble images and idolatrous rites , by which that grofs fuperftition was in fo remarkable a manner manner distinguished . To what ...
Page 800
... India ; were it not probable , from the total filence of Scripture concerning the fu- ture incidents of the life of fo important a perfonage as the great and favoured patriarch and the mad unreftrained act of his progeny in building the ...
... India ; were it not probable , from the total filence of Scripture concerning the fu- ture incidents of the life of fo important a perfonage as the great and favoured patriarch and the mad unreftrained act of his progeny in building the ...
Page 801
... India , can scarcely admit of a doubt , espe- cially when Mr. Bryant's judicious obferva- tion , that , in Hoang , or Hoam - ti , the son See Mr. Bryant's Analyfis , vol . iii . p . 583 . of As of Shin Num , the veftiges of the ...
... India , can scarcely admit of a doubt , espe- cially when Mr. Bryant's judicious obferva- tion , that , in Hoang , or Hoam - ti , the son See Mr. Bryant's Analyfis , vol . iii . p . 583 . of As of Shin Num , the veftiges of the ...
Page 802
... Indian and Chinese antiquities , not to pafs unnoticed these cir- cumstances , the reader will naturally be led to expect a more extenfive investigation of thefe abftruse points hereafter . I shall , there- fore , at prefent , only ...
... Indian and Chinese antiquities , not to pafs unnoticed these cir- cumstances , the reader will naturally be led to expect a more extenfive investigation of thefe abftruse points hereafter . I shall , there- fore , at prefent , only ...
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affertion Afia Afiatic alfo Almai alſo altar amidſt ancient antiquity Apuleius Arrian aſtoniſhment Ayeen Akbery Brahma brahmins ceremony Chineſe Chriſtian confecrated confidered cuſtom dæmons dance darkneſs defcended deity deſcribed devotion divine doctrine dreadful earth Egypt eſtabliſhed exiſtence facred facrifice fame fays fecond fect feſtivals feven fevere fhall fhould fince fire firft firſt folemn fome fometimes foul fpirits ftate ftone fubject fuch fufferings fuperftition fymbol heaven herſelf himſelf Hindoo hiſtory idol India Indian inftance inveſtigation itſelf laſt leaſt leſs Lingam Mithra moſt muſt myfteries obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions pagoda Parmenides penance penitents Perfia perfons Pfyche philofopher Plato poffible Pooja Porphyry prefent prieſts purpoſe Pythagoras reader reaſon repreſented reſpect rites Sabian Saniaffi ſcarcely Seeva ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir William Jones ſome ſtate ſtill ſyſtem temple thefe themſelves theology theſe thofe thoſe thouſand throne tion tolahs univerfal uſe vafe vaſt Veefhnu whofe whoſe worſhip Yogee