Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 - 731 pages |
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Quintin Craufurd. RESEARCHES ON Ancient and Modern India . CHAPTER I. ON ANCIENT INDIA . ANCIENT India appears to have compre- hended not only the countries lying to the east of the Indus , but also those to the west of that river ...
Quintin Craufurd. RESEARCHES ON Ancient and Modern India . CHAPTER I. ON ANCIENT INDIA . ANCIENT India appears to have compre- hended not only the countries lying to the east of the Indus , but also those to the west of that river ...
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... India intra Gan- gem and India extra Gangem ; the former meaning the countries lying between the Indus and the Ganges , from west to east , and from the mountains of Emodus on the north , down to the sea at Cape Comorin , and including ...
... India intra Gan- gem and India extra Gangem ; the former meaning the countries lying between the Indus and the Ganges , from west to east , and from the mountains of Emodus on the north , down to the sea at Cape Comorin , and including ...
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... , are The betel or arrék nut , with the leaf of an aroma- tic plant , named generally Pahn , is almost universally chewed by the natives of India . now twelve miles from it ; but such devia- tions 10 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
... , are The betel or arrék nut , with the leaf of an aroma- tic plant , named generally Pahn , is almost universally chewed by the natives of India . now twelve miles from it ; but such devia- tions 10 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
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... India ; and though , from what has been transmitted to us of his doctrines , it is evi- dent that many of them must have been borrowed from the Hindus , yet the Greeks ... Indian provinces to the west of the Indus ; but 14 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
... India ; and though , from what has been transmitted to us of his doctrines , it is evi- dent that many of them must have been borrowed from the Hindus , yet the Greeks ... Indian provinces to the west of the Indus ; but 14 ON ANCIENT INDIA .
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... Indian Antiquities , announces the opinion that Darius and Zoroaster had both visited India , secretly . We shall in substance quote the pas- sage : " The principal fire temple and usual place of residence of Zoroaster , and of his ...
... Indian Antiquities , announces the opinion that Darius and Zoroaster had both visited India , secretly . We shall in substance quote the pas- sage : " The principal fire temple and usual place of residence of Zoroaster , and of his ...
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