Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India |
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ANCIENT India appears to have comprehended not only the countries lying to the east of the Indus , but also those to the west of that river , which are bounded by the Hindu - Khow * and other mountains , as far south as the parallel of ...
ANCIENT India appears to have comprehended not only the countries lying to the east of the Indus , but also those to the west of that river , which are bounded by the Hindu - Khow * and other mountains , as far south as the parallel of ...
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To the east of the Indus , the countries are distinguished by Strabo , Pliny , and Ptolemy , by the names of India intra Gangem and India extra Gangem ; the former meaning the countries lying between the Indus and the Ganges , from west ...
To the east of the Indus , the countries are distinguished by Strabo , Pliny , and Ptolemy , by the names of India intra Gangem and India extra Gangem ; the former meaning the countries lying between the Indus and the Ganges , from west ...
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The Indian histories are full of accounts of the grandeur of this city , and even in the sixth century of our æra , when it had greatly declined from its former populousness , wealth , and magnificence , it was said to contain 30,000 ...
The Indian histories are full of accounts of the grandeur of this city , and even in the sixth century of our æra , when it had greatly declined from its former populousness , wealth , and magnificence , it was said to contain 30,000 ...
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Though Pythagoras , it is said , had visited India ; and though , from what has been transmitted to us of his doctrines , it is evident that many of them must have been borrowed from the Hindus , yet the Greeks , before the expedition ...
Though Pythagoras , it is said , had visited India ; and though , from what has been transmitted to us of his doctrines , it is evident that many of them must have been borrowed from the Hindus , yet the Greeks , before the expedition ...
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Indian provinces to the west of the Indus ; but had also obliged some of the princes , whose territories lay along the eastern side of that river , to pay them tribute . The Indian conquered provinces on the west of the Indus , and the ...
Indian provinces to the west of the Indus ; but had also obliged some of the princes , whose territories lay along the eastern side of that river , to pay them tribute . The Indian conquered provinces on the west of the Indus , and the ...
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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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