Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... Hindu Account of the Deluge • CHAPTER IV . On the Mythology , & c . of the Hindus , and its Affinity with that of the Greeks and Romans • Of the Sikhs CHAPTER V. On the Philosophy and Theology of the Hindus CHAPTER VI . The ...
... Hindu Account of the Deluge • CHAPTER IV . On the Mythology , & c . of the Hindus , and its Affinity with that of the Greeks and Romans • Of the Sikhs CHAPTER V. On the Philosophy and Theology of the Hindus CHAPTER VI . The ...
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... Hindus , or Sin of the Arabian geographers ; not to mention the whole western peninsula , with the celebrated island of Sinhala , or Lion - likemen , * at its southern extremity . By India , in short , we mean that whole extent of ...
... Hindus , or Sin of the Arabian geographers ; not to mention the whole western peninsula , with the celebrated island of Sinhala , or Lion - likemen , * at its southern extremity . By India , in short , we mean that whole extent of ...
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Quintin Craufurd. guages of the Hindus prevail at this day , with more or less of their ancient purity , and in which ... Hindu and stan , meaning the country of black people . This mode of derivation is very common with the Persians , as ...
Quintin Craufurd. guages of the Hindus prevail at this day , with more or less of their ancient purity , and in which ... Hindu and stan , meaning the country of black people . This mode of derivation is very common with the Persians , as ...
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... was anciently named by the Hindus Patelpoother , but according to Sir William Jones , Pataliputra . But Canoge , supposed to be the Ca* See note A , in Appendix . linapaxa , or Calinipaxa of Pliny , —which is situated ON ANCIENT INDIA . 9.
... was anciently named by the Hindus Patelpoother , but according to Sir William Jones , Pataliputra . But Canoge , supposed to be the Ca* See note A , in Appendix . linapaxa , or Calinipaxa of Pliny , —which is situated ON ANCIENT INDIA . 9.
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... Hindūs were a polished and refined people , while the inhabitants of Greece were in a state of barbarism , that is , long ... Hindus and Prasii were the same . * See five Memoirs by the Abbé Mignot , in the Mémoires de l'Académie des ...
... Hindūs were a polished and refined people , while the inhabitants of Greece were in a state of barbarism , that is , long ... Hindus and Prasii were the same . * See five Memoirs by the Abbé Mignot , in the Mémoires de l'Académie des ...
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