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, 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.. Containing the DISSERTATIONS on the GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, and the THEOLOGY, of HINDOSTAN, Volume 1THE AUTHOR, 1793 |
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... army , who refused to follow him over that dreary defart of twelve days journey which still lay between them and the Ganges , and to en gage in unequal conteft with the innumerable armies which they were informed the powerful and ...
... army , who refused to follow him over that dreary defart of twelve days journey which still lay between them and the Ganges , and to en gage in unequal conteft with the innumerable armies which they were informed the powerful and ...
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... army of Alexander pursued their march towards the banks of the Ganges , in a few days they would have arrived at another confiderable river of India Propria , called by Pliny the Jomanes , and in modern lan- guage the Jumna , upon which ...
... army of Alexander pursued their march towards the banks of the Ganges , in a few days they would have arrived at another confiderable river of India Propria , called by Pliny the Jomanes , and in modern lan- guage the Jumna , upon which ...
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... army of twenty thoufand horfe , two hundred thoufand foot , two thousand chariots of war , and four thousand fighting elephants . Curtius calls the king of the Gangarides and Pharrafis , by which he muft mean the Prafians of other ...
... army of twenty thoufand horfe , two hundred thoufand foot , two thousand chariots of war , and four thousand fighting elephants . Curtius calls the king of the Gangarides and Pharrafis , by which he muft mean the Prafians of other ...
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... army of fix hundred thoufand men ; and bought the friendship of Seleucus , the fucceffor of Alexander , with a prefent of five hundred ele- phants . Sandrocottus told the ambaffadors of Seleucus , that the prince at that time reigning ...
... army of fix hundred thoufand men ; and bought the friendship of Seleucus , the fucceffor of Alexander , with a prefent of five hundred ele- phants . Sandrocottus told the ambaffadors of Seleucus , that the prince at that time reigning ...
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... army , whose magni- tude greatly exceeds , in the number of foot and horfe , the forces enumerated by Plutarch ; and in that of elephants , it is remarkable , exactly , equals the amount ftated by Diodorus Siculus . Sinkol brought into ...
... army , whose magni- tude greatly exceeds , in the number of foot and horfe , the forces enumerated by Plutarch ; and in that of elephants , it is remarkable , exactly , equals the amount ftated by Diodorus Siculus . Sinkol brought into ...
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