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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... peculiar to the Hin- dūs INDEX . · 353 357 * In reading the Names of Persons and Places , the Vowels are understood to be pronounced as in the Italian Language . RESEARCHES ON Ancient and Modern India . CHAPTER VIII . APPENDIX.
... peculiar to the Hin- dūs INDEX . · 353 357 * In reading the Names of Persons and Places , the Vowels are understood to be pronounced as in the Italian Language . RESEARCHES ON Ancient and Modern India . CHAPTER VIII . APPENDIX.
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... persons : one from Siam , by M. de la Loubiere , who was sent thither as ambassador , by Louis the 14th ; two that were found by M. Bailly in the Depôt de la Marine , at Paris , which had been placed there by M. de Lisle , * who had ...
... persons : one from Siam , by M. de la Loubiere , who was sent thither as ambassador , by Louis the 14th ; two that were found by M. Bailly in the Depôt de la Marine , at Paris , which had been placed there by M. de Lisle , * who had ...
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... person represented as suspended between them . On a spot considerably elevated over this excavated temple , is a smaller one , wrought out of a single block of granite , and similar to one already described . With- in it , is a slab of ...
... person represented as suspended between them . On a spot considerably elevated over this excavated temple , is a smaller one , wrought out of a single block of granite , and similar to one already described . With- in it , is a slab of ...
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... persons can give no account . It is held in great venera- tion . The ancients certainly were possessed of some medical preparations , with which , if they anointed dead bodies , and after- wards buried them in a dry soil , they suf ...
... persons can give no account . It is held in great venera- tion . The ancients certainly were possessed of some medical preparations , with which , if they anointed dead bodies , and after- wards buried them in a dry soil , they suf ...
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... persons of an elevated mind , when exposed to the insolence of one of inferior extraction , to whom fortune has been ... person and family were -universally respected . The family of Vi- In a country where water is so much required for ...
... persons of an elevated mind , when exposed to the insolence of one of inferior extraction , to whom fortune has been ... person and family were -universally respected . The family of Vi- In a country where water is so much required for ...
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