Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... persons have suggested the idea that the Hindu and Cretan lawgivers were perhaps the same person , and that Minos is a Greek corruption of Menu ; hence they fix the existence of the latter only about 1500 years before our æra ; but ...
... persons have suggested the idea that the Hindu and Cretan lawgivers were perhaps the same person , and that Minos is a Greek corruption of Menu ; hence they fix the existence of the latter only about 1500 years before our æra ; but ...
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... person . If a Cretan had knowledge of the laws of Menu , he may have borrowed from them ; he may also have borrowed his name , though we confess not to discover any strong analogy between them ; nothing shews that they lived about the ...
... person . If a Cretan had knowledge of the laws of Menu , he may have borrowed from them ; he may also have borrowed his name , though we confess not to discover any strong analogy between them ; nothing shews that they lived about the ...
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... persons in India have done from the remotest ages . In the orgies of Bacchus , the egg was consecrated and held in veneration as a symbol of the world , and of him who contains every thing within himself . " Consule initiatos Liberi ...
... persons in India have done from the remotest ages . In the orgies of Bacchus , the egg was consecrated and held in veneration as a symbol of the world , and of him who contains every thing within himself . " Consule initiatos Liberi ...
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... person of the sovereign is also declared sacred . It is confessed on all hands that Hindū policy , both civil and religious , favours population , agriculture , and commerce . " * 66 It may be objected , that a tribe of mi- litary forms ...
... person of the sovereign is also declared sacred . It is confessed on all hands that Hindū policy , both civil and religious , favours population , agriculture , and commerce . " * 66 It may be objected , that a tribe of mi- litary forms ...
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... persons fit be employed by the sovereign in dif- rent capacities , after describing those orthy of his confidence , and proper to consulted , it is added : " He must likewise appoint other of- ers , men of integrity , well informed ...
... persons fit be employed by the sovereign in dif- rent capacities , after describing those orthy of his confidence , and proper to consulted , it is added : " He must likewise appoint other of- ers , men of integrity , well informed ...
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