Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 - 378 pages |
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... Origin of Casts in India ; toge- ther with an account of the different Classes of Brahmins , and their re- spective Pursuits 327 336 C. Historical Sketch of the Mahrattas . . 339 D. Additional Remarks on the Astronomy · of the Hindus ...
... Origin of Casts in India ; toge- ther with an account of the different Classes of Brahmins , and their re- spective Pursuits 327 336 C. Historical Sketch of the Mahrattas . . 339 D. Additional Remarks on the Astronomy · of the Hindus ...
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... origin . He says : " The coincidence appears to me too exact , in most instances , to be the effect of chance : in others , the differences are only such , as to authorize the remark , that the nation , which borrowed from the other ...
... origin . He says : " The coincidence appears to me too exact , in most instances , to be the effect of chance : in others , the differences are only such , as to authorize the remark , that the nation , which borrowed from the other ...
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... origin of it , they have not implicitly received the arrange- ment suggested to them , but have recon- ciled and adapted it to their own ancient distribution of the ecliptic into twenty- seven parts . " “ In like manner , they may have ...
... origin of it , they have not implicitly received the arrange- ment suggested to them , but have recon- ciled and adapted it to their own ancient distribution of the ecliptic into twenty- seven parts . " “ In like manner , they may have ...
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... all of such magni- tude as to suit exactly the same hypothesis concerning their origin , is hardly to be conceived . Yet there is no other alterna- tive , but to admit this very improbable supposition , 36 ON THE ASTRONOMY , & c .
... all of such magni- tude as to suit exactly the same hypothesis concerning their origin , is hardly to be conceived . Yet there is no other alterna- tive , but to admit this very improbable supposition , 36 ON THE ASTRONOMY , & c .
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... origin of this astronomy 1000 or 1200 years earlier ; that is 4300 years before the Christian æra : * and the * That they point to a period more reinote than the beginning of the Kaly - Yug , we believe , cannot be de- time necessary to ...
... origin of this astronomy 1000 or 1200 years earlier ; that is 4300 years before the Christian æra : * and the * That they point to a period more reinote than the beginning of the Kaly - Yug , we believe , cannot be de- time necessary to ...
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