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It is not , indeed , impossible that all the three places , Gour , Canoge , and Palibothra , may have been occasionally , or at different periods , used as capitals of the Prasii , as we have known both Agra and Dehly to have been of ...
It is not , indeed , impossible that all the three places , Gour , Canoge , and Palibothra , may have been occasionally , or at different periods , used as capitals of the Prasii , as we have known both Agra and Dehly to have been of ...
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Though circumstances are found to induce the belief , that the Hindūs at a most remote period employed money or current coins for purchase and hire , yet I have never heard of any Hindu coins of sufficient antiquity to support such ...
Though circumstances are found to induce the belief , that the Hindūs at a most remote period employed money or current coins for purchase and hire , yet I have never heard of any Hindu coins of sufficient antiquity to support such ...
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But , after thus stating some of the arguments which may be adduced to support the belief that money , or regular current coin , was in use in India at that very remote period of its history , there are others which oppose it ...
But , after thus stating some of the arguments which may be adduced to support the belief that money , or regular current coin , was in use in India at that very remote period of its history , there are others which oppose it ...
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The period , when money first began to be in use with the Greeks , cannot , I believe , be positively ascertained . Had we not proofs to the contrary , it might have been presumed to have been introduced among them in the early part of ...
The period , when money first began to be in use with the Greeks , cannot , I believe , be positively ascertained . Had we not proofs to the contrary , it might have been presumed to have been introduced among them in the early part of ...
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Les premiers as devoient peser une livre Romaine , ou douze onces . " ' * * Letter from the Chevalier Visconti to the Author , dated 17th August , 1814 . 66 Without being able to determine the period when the INSTITUTES OF MENU . 61.
Les premiers as devoient peser une livre Romaine , ou douze onces . " ' * * Letter from the Chevalier Visconti to the Author , dated 17th August , 1814 . 66 Without being able to determine the period when the INSTITUTES OF MENU . 61.
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| Title | Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India |
| Author | Quintin Craufurd |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2016 |
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