Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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Page 101
... European schools , is only to generate and reproduce in an- other form . Hence the god of destruc- tion is supposed in India to preside over ge- neration , as a symbol of which he rides on a white bull . Can we doubt that the loves and ...
... European schools , is only to generate and reproduce in an- other form . Hence the god of destruc- tion is supposed in India to preside over ge- neration , as a symbol of which he rides on a white bull . Can we doubt that the loves and ...
Page 117
... European Bacchus , not as the god presiding over the vintage , but in his character of hero and conqueror , as Dionysus , the son of Semele * Jones . M 4 and Jupiter ; whom the Greeks also named Bromios and OF THE HINDUS . 117.
... European Bacchus , not as the god presiding over the vintage , but in his character of hero and conqueror , as Dionysus , the son of Semele * Jones . M 4 and Jupiter ; whom the Greeks also named Bromios and OF THE HINDUS . 117.
Page 119
... European god and Ayodhya , whom the Hindus believe to have been an appearance on earth of the preserving power ; to have been a conqueror of the highest renown , and the deliverer of na- tions from tyrants , as well as of his consort ...
... European god and Ayodhya , whom the Hindus believe to have been an appearance on earth of the preserving power ; to have been a conqueror of the highest renown , and the deliverer of na- tions from tyrants , as well as of his consort ...
Page 125
... European fancy , and very naturally created by the invention of Bucolic and Georgick poets : yet since the moon is a form of Iswara , the god of nature , according to the verse of the Hindu poet , Calidasa , and since Isani has been ...
... European fancy , and very naturally created by the invention of Bucolic and Georgick poets : yet since the moon is a form of Iswara , the god of nature , according to the verse of the Hindu poet , Calidasa , and since Isani has been ...
Page 129
... European system as the daughter of Ceres ? Perhaps both ques- tions may be answered by the proposition of natural philosophers , that the apparent de- struction of a substance , is the production of it in a different form . The wild ...
... European system as the daughter of Ceres ? Perhaps both ques- tions may be answered by the proposition of natural philosophers , that the apparent de- struction of a substance , is the production of it in a different form . The wild ...
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