The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 - 13 pages |
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... reign of this Sun - born Monarch the Hindus believe the whole earth to have been drowned , and the whole human race destroyed by a flood , except the pious Prince himself , the seven Rishi's , and their several wives ; for they suppose ...
... reign of this Sun - born Monarch the Hindus believe the whole earth to have been drowned , and the whole human race destroyed by a flood , except the pious Prince himself , the seven Rishi's , and their several wives ; for they suppose ...
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... reign , which computation will place his birth in the 1366th year before that of our Saviour ; but , when the Chinese government admitted a new religion from India in the first century of our era , they made particular inquiries ...
... reign , which computation will place his birth in the 1366th year before that of our Saviour ; but , when the Chinese government admitted a new religion from India in the first century of our era , they made particular inquiries ...
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... reign of each Menu , yet thinking it incongruous to place a holy perfonage in times of impurity , they infift , that the Menu reigns only in every golden age , and disappears in the three human ages that follow it , continuing to dive ...
... reign of each Menu , yet thinking it incongruous to place a holy perfonage in times of impurity , they infift , that the Menu reigns only in every golden age , and disappears in the three human ages that follow it , continuing to dive ...
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... reign at the very beginning of that interval , ftill three thousand three hundred years of the Gods , or a million one hundred and eighty- eight thousand lunar years of mortals will remain in the filver age , during which the fifty ...
... reign at the very beginning of that interval , ftill three thousand three hundred years of the Gods , or a million one hundred and eighty- eight thousand lunar years of mortals will remain in the filver age , during which the fifty ...
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... reign- ed feven and twenty thousand years ; a fable of the same class with that of his wonderful birth , which is the subject of a beautiful Indian Drama : now , if we fuppofe his life to have lafted no longer than that of other mortals ...
... reign- ed feven and twenty thousand years ; a fable of the same class with that of his wonderful birth , which is the subject of a beautiful Indian Drama : now , if we fuppofe his life to have lafted no longer than that of other mortals ...
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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