Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... temple and usual place of residence of Zoroaster , and of his royal protector Darius Hystaspes , was at Balkh , the capital of Bactria . Stationed so near the country of the Brachmans , this bold and judicious reformer would hardly fail ...
... temple and usual place of residence of Zoroaster , and of his royal protector Darius Hystaspes , was at Balkh , the capital of Bactria . Stationed so near the country of the Brachmans , this bold and judicious reformer would hardly fail ...
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... temples , and putting numbers of the inhabitants of the country to the sword , for the sole offence of refusing to preserve life at the price of abjuring their religion . The accounts given by eastern historians of the wealth found by ...
... temples , and putting numbers of the inhabitants of the country to the sword , for the sole offence of refusing to preserve life at the price of abjuring their religion . The accounts given by eastern historians of the wealth found by ...
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... temples , and in the palaces of the princes and nobles . In the former were numerous images of massive gold and silver , and many of them enriched with the most precious gems of the east . Almost every individual had his household gods ...
... temples , and in the palaces of the princes and nobles . In the former were numerous images of massive gold and silver , and many of them enriched with the most precious gems of the east . Almost every individual had his household gods ...
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... temple of Minerva at Corinth , a statue of Jupiter in wood , with two eyes , as men have them naturally , and a third in the middle of the forehead . " I was assured , ( says he ) , that it is the Jupiter Patrius , that was in the ...
... temple of Minerva at Corinth , a statue of Jupiter in wood , with two eyes , as men have them naturally , and a third in the middle of the forehead . " I was assured , ( says he ) , that it is the Jupiter Patrius , that was in the ...
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... temples and drawings in Bengal , " and it may be added in every part of India . " To destroy according to the Vedantiis of India , the Susis of Persia , and many philosophers of European schools , is only to generate and reproduce in ...
... temples and drawings in Bengal , " and it may be added in every part of India . " To destroy according to the Vedantiis of India , the Susis of Persia , and many philosophers of European schools , is only to generate and reproduce in ...
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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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