The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 - 13 pages |
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... nature and the common sense of mankind . The aggregate of their four ages they call a divine age , and believe that , in every thousand fuch ages , or in every day of BRAHMA ' , fourteen MENU's are fucceffively invefted by him with the ...
... nature and the common sense of mankind . The aggregate of their four ages they call a divine age , and believe that , in every thousand fuch ages , or in every day of BRAHMA ' , fourteen MENU's are fucceffively invefted by him with the ...
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... nature and to human reason , that it must be rejected as wholly fabulous , and taken as a proof that the Indians know nothing of their Sun - born MENU , but his name and the principal event of his life ; I mean the univerfal deluge , of ...
... nature and to human reason , that it must be rejected as wholly fabulous , and taken as a proof that the Indians know nothing of their Sun - born MENU , but his name and the principal event of his life ; I mean the univerfal deluge , of ...
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... nature , extend the Second age of the Hindus beyond fixteen bundred and fifty folar years : if we suppose them not to have been eldest fons , and even to have lived longer than modern princes in a diffolute age , we shall find only a ...
... nature , extend the Second age of the Hindus beyond fixteen bundred and fifty folar years : if we suppose them not to have been eldest fons , and even to have lived longer than modern princes in a diffolute age , we shall find only a ...
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... , they could not have reigned more than seven hundred years , I am fully perfuaded by the courfe of nature and the concurrent opinion of mankind . • KINGS OF MAGADHA . Sahadéva , Suchi , Márjári D 2 OF THE HINDUS . 85 years ...
... , they could not have reigned more than seven hundred years , I am fully perfuaded by the courfe of nature and the concurrent opinion of mankind . • KINGS OF MAGADHA . Sahadéva , Suchi , Márjári D 2 OF THE HINDUS . 85 years ...
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... nature , and beyond the aver- age refulting from the accounts of the Brahmans themselves ; for they affign to an hundred and forty - two modern reigns a period of three thou- fand one hundred and fifty - three years , or about twenty ...
... nature , and beyond the aver- age refulting from the accounts of the Brahmans themselves ; for they affign to an hundred and forty - two modern reigns a period of three thou- fand one hundred and fifty - three years , or about twenty ...
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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