Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... sent as ambassador by Seleucus Nicator , to Sandrocotus , * was the capital of the Prasii . This city , said to have been eighty stadia , or ten miles in length , and fifteen stadia , or about two miles in breadth , is supposed by Major ...
... sent as ambassador by Seleucus Nicator , to Sandrocotus , * was the capital of the Prasii . This city , said to have been eighty stadia , or ten miles in length , and fifteen stadia , or about two miles in breadth , is supposed by Major ...
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... sent Scylax , of Caryanda , to explore the Indus and the countries contiguous to it , as Alexander afterwards sent Nearchus . + * The fifth sovereign of the Kyanian Dynasty of Persia . + Mr. Maurice , in his Indian Antiquities ...
... sent Scylax , of Caryanda , to explore the Indus and the countries contiguous to it , as Alexander afterwards sent Nearchus . + * The fifth sovereign of the Kyanian Dynasty of Persia . + Mr. Maurice , in his Indian Antiquities ...
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... sent by the French government to Pondicherry , to observe the transit of Venus over the disk of the sun , and a subsequent voyage by Monsieur Sonnerat , + afforded more certain grounds of information in regard to the Indian astronomy ...
... sent by the French government to Pondicherry , to observe the transit of Venus over the disk of the sun , and a subsequent voyage by Monsieur Sonnerat , + afforded more certain grounds of information in regard to the Indian astronomy ...
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... duly considered whence they come , if imported ; and if exported , whither they must be sent ; how long they have been * Sir Wm . Jones's Works , vol . vii . p . 312 . kept ; what may be gained by them ; and INSTITUTES OF MENU . 41.
... duly considered whence they come , if imported ; and if exported , whither they must be sent ; how long they have been * Sir Wm . Jones's Works , vol . vii . p . 312 . kept ; what may be gained by them ; and INSTITUTES OF MENU . 41.
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... sent ships to Ophir , § which * Genesis , c . xxxiii . v . 19 . + Idem . c . xxxvii . And on the money , or silver given in payment by the Jews , see Otho Sperlingius , from c . vi . to c . xviii . inclusively . See Exodus , c . xxxviii ...
... sent ships to Ophir , § which * Genesis , c . xxxiii . v . 19 . + Idem . c . xxxvii . And on the money , or silver given in payment by the Jews , see Otho Sperlingius , from c . vi . to c . xviii . inclusively . See Exodus , c . xxxviii ...
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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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