Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... seems to have excited Tippoo Sultan to the projects which terminated so fatally for him , even more than his inveteracy to the English , or his desire of encreasing his dominions . In his correspondence with Zimman Shah , king of Cabul ...
... seems to have excited Tippoo Sultan to the projects which terminated so fatally for him , even more than his inveteracy to the English , or his desire of encreasing his dominions . In his correspondence with Zimman Shah , king of Cabul ...
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... seems not only to have been admitted , but ordained . " A Brahmin cannot retire to the woods , that is to say , become Hylobius , or Jogee , till he has given children to the community . " + In the Laws of Menu we find regulations ...
... seems not only to have been admitted , but ordained . " A Brahmin cannot retire to the woods , that is to say , become Hylobius , or Jogee , till he has given children to the community . " + In the Laws of Menu we find regulations ...
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... seems to be almost universally allowed , that the knowledge of arts and sciences originated in , or was brought from India into more western nations ; admitting this , we must allow time for their progress , and consequently conclude ...
... seems to be almost universally allowed , that the knowledge of arts and sciences originated in , or was brought from India into more western nations ; admitting this , we must allow time for their progress , and consequently conclude ...
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... seems a wonderfully long space , even allowing for the time required to procure the commodities . This , with other circumstances , may have led to the conjecture , that the ships of Solomon visited India . Amongst the things brought ...
... seems a wonderfully long space , even allowing for the time required to procure the commodities . This , with other circumstances , may have led to the conjecture , that the ships of Solomon visited India . Amongst the things brought ...
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... seems to have been regulated ; and the learned Cheva* See Pausanias , lib . iii . c . 12 . + Ibid . — Iliad , lib . ii . v . 449 , and lib . vi . v . 236.Genesis , c . xxxiii . v . 19 . -- lier Visconti supposes this to be the origin of ...
... seems to have been regulated ; and the learned Cheva* See Pausanias , lib . iii . c . 12 . + Ibid . — Iliad , lib . ii . v . 449 , and lib . vi . v . 236.Genesis , c . xxxiii . v . 19 . -- lier Visconti supposes this to be the origin of ...
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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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