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... table of contents , or an accurate summary , than to a regular systematical tract ; but all its obscurity has been cleared by the labour of the very judicious and most learned Sancara , whose commentary on the Vedanta , which I read pr ...
... table of contents , or an accurate summary , than to a regular systematical tract ; but all its obscurity has been cleared by the labour of the very judicious and most learned Sancara , whose commentary on the Vedanta , which I read pr ...
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... have obtained for them the high reputation they enjoy in the learned world . The late Monsieur Bailly , in his Traité de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale , menVOL . II . B tions four sets of tables , brought to Europe at.
... have obtained for them the high reputation they enjoy in the learned world . The late Monsieur Bailly , in his Traité de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale , menVOL . II . B tions four sets of tables , brought to Europe at.
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... tables and precepts of astronomy , procured , as has been observed , at different times , and distinct places , some of them extremely distant from the others , M. Bailly says , all , evidently , came from the same original ; * Joseph ...
... tables and precepts of astronomy , procured , as has been observed , at different times , and distinct places , some of them extremely distant from the others , M. Bailly says , all , evidently , came from the same original ; * Joseph ...
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... tables brought year ; * Yet the first meridian of the ancient Hindu astronomers , it is said , was that of Oujein , then called Ujjaini , and sometimes Avanti , in N. L. 23 ° 11 ′ 13 ′′ , and E. Long . from Greenwich , 75 ° 51 ' .- The ...
... tables brought year ; * Yet the first meridian of the ancient Hindu astronomers , it is said , was that of Oujein , then called Ujjaini , and sometimes Avanti , in N. L. 23 ° 11 ′ 13 ′′ , and E. Long . from Greenwich , 75 ° 51 ' .- The ...
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... tables had been adjusted . The beginning of the Kaly - Yug , or present age of Hindu chronology , adjusted to our computation of time , is reckoned at two hours , twenty - seven minutes , and thirty seconds of the morning of the 16th of ...
... tables had been adjusted . The beginning of the Kaly - Yug , or present age of Hindu chronology , adjusted to our computation of time , is reckoned at two hours , twenty - seven minutes , and thirty seconds of the morning of the 16th 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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