Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... astronomy , and the pure rites of sacrifice . That part of India which Hystaspes visited was , doubtless , Cashmire , where , in all probability , the genuine religion of Brahma flourished longest without adulteration . ” — Indian Antiq ...
... astronomy , and the pure rites of sacrifice . That part of India which Hystaspes visited was , doubtless , Cashmire , where , in all probability , the genuine religion of Brahma flourished longest without adulteration . ” — Indian Antiq ...
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... astronomy , than Europeans had before obtained ; a subject which was afterwards more fully illustrated in the Histoire de 66 vol . xxxi . Three Memoirs of M. de Guignes , in the same work , vol . xl ; and various other works that ...
... astronomy , than Europeans had before obtained ; a subject which was afterwards more fully illustrated in the Histoire de 66 vol . xxxi . Three Memoirs of M. de Guignes , in the same work , vol . xl ; and various other works that ...
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... astronomical , and cannot but imagine that the Greek name Cassiopeia , has a relation to it . " ‡ 66 " " * Each of the Adityas has a particular name . + Jones . + Idem . + The sun is often styled king of the stars and 124 ON THE ...
... astronomical , and cannot but imagine that the Greek name Cassiopeia , has a relation to it . " ‡ 66 " " * Each of the Adityas has a particular name . + Jones . + Idem . + The sun is often styled king of the stars and 124 ON THE ...
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... day of Brahma , fifty of which days have elapsed , according to the Hindūs , from the time of the creation . That all this puerility , as it seems at first view , may be only an astronomical riddle , and OF THE HINDŪS . 173.
... day of Brahma , fifty of which days have elapsed , according to the Hindūs , from the time of the creation . That all this puerility , as it seems at first view , may be only an astronomical riddle , and OF THE HINDŪS . 173.
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... astronomical revolutions , particularly the procession of the equinoxes ; and that the Brahmins gave that immense space of time to their Yugs , and employed the mystic jargon in which they express themselves , to confound and excite the ...
... astronomical revolutions , particularly the procession of the equinoxes ; and that the Brahmins gave that immense space of time to their Yugs , and employed the mystic jargon in which they express themselves , to confound and excite the ...
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