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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... Sanscrit , is Sindhou , though it be vulgarly pronounced Sind , and Sindhy . One of the names of this coun- try also , is Bharat , from an ancient so- vereign whose dominions were so extensive , as , in the hyperbolical language of the ...
... Sanscrit , is Sindhou , though it be vulgarly pronounced Sind , and Sindhy . One of the names of this coun- try also , is Bharat , from an ancient so- vereign whose dominions were so extensive , as , in the hyperbolical language of the ...
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... Sanscrit , with numerous other circumstances , obstructed inquiry ; happily those obstacles have since been removed . The conquests of the Mohammedans were not merely suggested by ambition , but excited by the wish of propagating their ...
... Sanscrit , with numerous other circumstances , obstructed inquiry ; happily those obstacles have since been removed . The conquests of the Mohammedans were not merely suggested by ambition , but excited by the wish of propagating their ...
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... Sanscrit lan- guage , by Mr. ( now Dr. ) C. Wilkins , were all executed and published under his patron- age . * The work thus begun by Mr. Hast- ings , was successfully prosecuted under the auspices of the late Sir William Jones , who ...
... Sanscrit lan- guage , by Mr. ( now Dr. ) C. Wilkins , were all executed and published under his patron- age . * The work thus begun by Mr. Hast- ings , was successfully prosecuted under the auspices of the late Sir William Jones , who ...
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... Sanscrit , and from his extraordinary facility in learn- ing languages , he in an astonishingly short space of time , attained a complete know- * See Asiatic Researches , or Transactions of the So- ciety at Calcutta . ledge of it ...
... Sanscrit , and from his extraordinary facility in learn- ing languages , he in an astonishingly short space of time , attained a complete know- * See Asiatic Researches , or Transactions of the So- ciety at Calcutta . ledge of it ...
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... Sanscrit . " Eight studied less perfectly , but all intelligible with a dictionary . " Twelve least perfectly , but all attainable ; " and amongst these we find the Tibetian , Pâli , Phalavi , Deri , Syriac , Ethiopic , Coptic , and ...
... Sanscrit . " Eight studied less perfectly , but all intelligible with a dictionary . " Twelve least perfectly , but all attainable ; " and amongst these we find the Tibetian , Pâli , Phalavi , Deri , Syriac , Ethiopic , Coptic , and ...
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