Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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Quintin Craufurd. RESEARCHES ON Ancient and Modern India . CHAPTER I. ON ANCIENT INDIA . ANCIENT India appears to have comprehended not only the countries lying to the east of the Indus , but also those to the west of that river , which ...
Quintin Craufurd. RESEARCHES ON Ancient and Modern India . CHAPTER I. ON ANCIENT INDIA . ANCIENT India appears to have comprehended not only the countries lying to the east of the Indus , but also those to the west of that river , which ...
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... India intra Gangem and India extra Gangem ; the former meaning the countries lying between the Indus and the Ganges , from west to east , and from the mountains of Emodus on the north , down to the sea at Cape Comorin , and including ...
... India intra Gangem and India extra Gangem ; the former meaning the countries lying between the Indus and the Ganges , from west to east , and from the mountains of Emodus on the north , down to the sea at Cape Comorin , and including ...
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... river , are * The betel or arrék nut , with the leaf of an aromatic plant , named generally Pahn , is almost universally chewed by the natives of India . now twelve miles from it ; but such deviations of 10 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
... river , are * The betel or arrék nut , with the leaf of an aromatic plant , named generally Pahn , is almost universally chewed by the natives of India . now twelve miles from it ; but such deviations of 10 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
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... India ; and though , from what has been transmitted to us of his doctrines , it is evident that many of them must have been borrowed from the Hindus , yet the Greeks ... Indian provinces to the west of the Indus ; but 14 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
... India ; and though , from what has been transmitted to us of his doctrines , it is evident that many of them must have been borrowed from the Hindus , yet the Greeks ... Indian provinces to the west of the Indus ; but 14 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
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... Indian Antiquities , announces the opinion that Darius and Zoroaster had both visited India , secretly . We shall in substance quote the pas sage : " The principal fire temple and usual place of residence of Zoroaster , and of his royal ...
... Indian Antiquities , announces the opinion that Darius and Zoroaster had both visited India , secretly . We shall in substance quote the pas sage : " The principal fire temple and usual place of residence of Zoroaster , and of his royal ...
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| Title | Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India |
| Author | Quintin Craufurd |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2016 |
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