Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... political motives , or modified by the disposition of particular chiefs , but it was never renounc* Published at Paris , in 1787 . ed ; and notwithstanding instances of toleration that may be C 2 ON ANCIENT INDIA . 19.
... political motives , or modified by the disposition of particular chiefs , but it was never renounc* Published at Paris , in 1787 . ed ; and notwithstanding instances of toleration that may be C 2 ON ANCIENT INDIA . 19.
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... professed to explain , with a perspicuity which delights and instructs , and in a style which never ceases to please . ** Memoirs of his life , vol . ii . p . 266 . CHAPTER II . OF THE CREATION - THE LAWS , 26 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
... professed to explain , with a perspicuity which delights and instructs , and in a style which never ceases to please . ** Memoirs of his life , vol . ii . p . 266 . CHAPTER II . OF THE CREATION - THE LAWS , 26 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
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... never existed in India . In Greece , says he , " a parent was allowed to expose every child ; in China he may dispose of every female and every third male . This is a system that seems never to have entered into the conception of Indian ...
... never existed in India . In Greece , says he , " a parent was allowed to expose every child ; in China he may dispose of every female and every third male . This is a system that seems never to have entered into the conception of Indian ...
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... money or current coins for purchase and hire , yet I have never heard of any Hindu coins of sufficient antiquity to support such belief . In the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society , we have fac - 36 CREATION . - LAWS , AND.
... money or current coins for purchase and hire , yet I have never heard of any Hindu coins of sufficient antiquity to support such belief . In the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society , we have fac - 36 CREATION . - LAWS , AND.
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... never established themselves , ancient coins are met with , bearing Sanscrit inscriptions on them . And in the description given of the ruins of the city of Oujein , that was buried under ground about 1800 years ago by an earthquake ...
... never established themselves , ancient coins are met with , bearing Sanscrit inscriptions on them . And in the description given of the ruins of the city of Oujein , that was buried under ground about 1800 years ago by an earthquake ...
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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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