Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... death , he published a translation of the Ordinances of Menu , comprising the Indian system of duties , religious and civil . * See Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir William Jones , vol . ii . p . 307 . Menu is considered by the ...
... death , he published a translation of the Ordinances of Menu , comprising the Indian system of duties , religious and civil . * See Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir William Jones , vol . ii . p . 307 . Menu is considered by the ...
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... death in any other manner , is a crime which cannot be expiated . The person of the sovereign is also declared sacred . " It is confessed on all hands that Hindu policy , both civil and religious , favours population , agriculture , and ...
... death in any other manner , is a crime which cannot be expiated . The person of the sovereign is also declared sacred . " It is confessed on all hands that Hindu policy , both civil and religious , favours population , agriculture , and ...
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... death of Polydorus , king of Lacedæmon , ( that is about 720 years before our æra , and above 800 after the arrival in Greece of Cadmus , Danaus , and Cecrops ) adds , that even in his own time , that is about the year 180 of our æra ...
... death of Polydorus , king of Lacedæmon , ( that is about 720 years before our æra , and above 800 after the arrival in Greece of Cadmus , Danaus , and Cecrops ) adds , that even in his own time , that is about the year 180 of our æra ...
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... death of that Alexander , was so elated at having gained the prize of the chariot race at the Olympic games , that he caused coins to be struck , with a chariot upon them . * It has been pretended that his son and successor Alexander ...
... death of that Alexander , was so elated at having gained the prize of the chariot race at the Olympic games , that he caused coins to be struck , with a chariot upon them . * It has been pretended that his son and successor Alexander ...
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... death of Pericles ; -a circumstance that seems extraordinary , when we consider the abundance of gold and silver coins at Athens at that epoch , and the connexion which had so long existed between the Italians and Greeks . Placing the ...
... death of Pericles ; -a circumstance that seems extraordinary , when we consider the abundance of gold and silver coins at Athens at that epoch , and the connexion which had so long existed between the Italians and Greeks . Placing the ...
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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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