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THE GREAT PAGODA OF TANJORE To William Hodges Esq. this Plate, engraved by his permission from

his Designs

in

India

mble Servant

Maurice, Thomas, 1154-1824

INDIAN ANTIQUITIES:

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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 AND PROFOUND LITERATURE,
OF HINDOSTAN.

COMPARED, THROUGHOUT, WITH THE

RELIGION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT, AND LITERATURE,

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PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE.

THE WHOLE

Intended as Introductory to, and Illuftrative of,

THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN,

UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE.

In which the SACRED EDIFICES and SYMBOLICAL RITES
of HINDOSTAN and EGYPT are compared.