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Oriental Translation Fund. of Apper , Sundarer , Sammander , Mánicyavásarer ... my observation of the work called Sacaládhicára , “ the universal authority ... Professor Wilson conjectures , on the authority of the traditional records ...
Oriental Translation Fund. of Apper , Sundarer , Sammander , Mánicyavásarer ... my observation of the work called Sacaládhicára , “ the universal authority ... Professor Wilson conjectures , on the authority of the traditional records ...
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Oriental Translation Fund. ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ... Translated from the abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies preserved in the ... Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge , & c . & c . In Demy ...
Oriental Translation Fund. ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ... Translated from the abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies preserved in the ... Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge , & c . & c . In Demy ...
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... Translated from the Persian of Neamet Allah . Part I. By BERNHARD DORN , Ph ... Professor of German in the Naval and Military Academy , Edinburgh . In Demy ... translated into English By MAJOR CHARLES STEWART , late Professor of Oriental ...
... Translated from the Persian of Neamet Allah . Part I. By BERNHARD DORN , Ph ... Professor of German in the Naval and Military Academy , Edinburgh . In Demy ... translated into English By MAJOR CHARLES STEWART , late Professor of Oriental ...
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Oriental Translation Fund. 3 LIST OF WORKS IN THE PRESS . LIST OF TRANSLATIONS ... Translated from the Turkish , by CHARLES FRASER . Vol . 1. Quarto ; £ 1 ... Professor Kosegarten . This is a collection of ancient Arabic Poems similar ...
Oriental Translation Fund. 3 LIST OF WORKS IN THE PRESS . LIST OF TRANSLATIONS ... Translated from the Turkish , by CHARLES FRASER . Vol . 1. Quarto ; £ 1 ... Professor Kosegarten . This is a collection of ancient Arabic Poems similar ...
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Oriental Translation Fund. LIST OF TRANSLATIONS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION . Royal ... translated by M. Stanislas Julien . This ancient Chinese work , which is ... Professor Wilson . This is one of the Puránas of the Vaishnava order . It is ...
Oriental Translation Fund. LIST OF TRANSLATIONS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION . Royal ... translated by M. Stanislas Julien . This ancient Chinese work , which is ... Professor Wilson . This is one of the Puránas of the Vaishnava order . It is ...
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Page 21 - ... proportions of symmetry." (p. 15.) The third chapter treats of the nature and quality of ground on which buildings are to be erected ; it is very copious and very curious. Minute directions are given for constructing a plough, and for ploughing the ground on which the house is to be built. This being done, " let sesamum seeds, pulse, and kidneybeans be sown, with incantations pronounced over them; and let due reverence be paid to the spiritual teacher ; and let the oxen, and the plough to which...
Page 17 - Wo to them who dwell in a house not built according to the proportions of symmetry. in building an edifice, therefore, let all its parts, from the basement to the roof, be duly considered.
Page 18 - The ground to be avoided is described in a special manner as follows : " That which has the form of a circle, a semicircle, containing three, five, or six angles, resembling a trident or a winnow, shaped like the hinder part of a fish, or the back of an elephant, or a turtle, or the face of a cow, and the like ; situated opposite to any of the intermediate quarters northwest, and the like ; abounding with human sculls, stones, worms, ant-hills, ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS.