The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 - 13 pages |
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... first inhabitants of the earth : a well - collated copy of this interesting law - tract is now before me : and I begin my differtation with a few couplets from the first chapter of it : " The fun caufes the divifion of " day and night ...
... first inhabitants of the earth : a well - collated copy of this interesting law - tract is now before me : and I begin my differtation with a few couplets from the first chapter of it : " The fun caufes the divifion of " day and night ...
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... first place , that cyphers are added at pleasure to swell the periods ; and if we take ten cyphers from a Ru- dra , or divide by ten thousand millions , we shall have a period of 259200000 years , which , di- vided by 60 ( the ufual ...
... first place , that cyphers are added at pleasure to swell the periods ; and if we take ten cyphers from a Ru- dra , or divide by ten thousand millions , we shall have a period of 259200000 years , which , di- vided by 60 ( the ufual ...
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... ' ; twelve fuch months , one of his years ; and an hundred fuch years , his age ; of which age they affert , that fifty years have elapfed . We are now then , according to the Hindus , in the first day or Calpa of the 8 ON THE CHRONOLOGY.
... ' ; twelve fuch months , one of his years ; and an hundred fuch years , his age ; of which age they affert , that fifty years have elapfed . We are now then , according to the Hindus , in the first day or Calpa of the 8 ON THE CHRONOLOGY.
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William Jones. Hindus , in the first day or Calpa of the first month of the fifty - first year of BRAHMA's age , and in the twenty - eighth divine age of the fe- venth Manwantara , of which divine age the three first human ages have ...
William Jones. Hindus , in the first day or Calpa of the first month of the fifty - first year of BRAHMA's age , and in the twenty - eighth divine age of the fe- venth Manwantara , of which divine age the three first human ages have ...
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... first Purána , or Sacred Poem , which confifts of fourteen thousand Stan- zas ; and the story is concifely , but clearly and elegantly , told in the eighth book of the Bhága- wata , from which I have extracted the whole , and tranflated ...
... first Purána , or Sacred Poem , which confifts of fourteen thousand Stan- zas ; and the story is concifely , but clearly and elegantly , told in the eighth book of the Bhága- wata , from which I have extracted the whole , and tranflated ...
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afferted affuming affured aftronomers alfo alſo ancient anſwered Arabick beautiful becauſe beſt BHAIRAVA bloffoms bofom bower BRAHMA BUDDHA called cauſe Chaturanga Chineſe cloſe compofed confifts CRISHNA damfel defire deſcribed divine eſpecially expreffed eyes faid fame fays fecond feemed feven fhall fince firft firſt fleep flowers folar fome foul ftars fubject fuch fuppofed fyftem grant flowers heart HERI himſelf Hindus hiſtory houſe hundred India Indian INDRA iſland itſelf juſt king laſt leaſt lotos lunar Magadha manfion meaſure MENU modes moon moſt mufick muft muſician muſt night obfervation paffage paffed paffion Pandits Perfian perfon pleaſure praiſe preſent prince purpoſe RA'DHA raiſed reaſon reſemblance reſpect ſaid Sanferit ſeems ſeven ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould SO'MA ſome ſtars ſuch ſuppoſed ſyſtem thee themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion univerfal uſed vafe Véda's Védas verſes VISHNU weft whofe whoſe