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Indian antiquities: or, dissertations relative to the antient geographical divisions, the pure system of primeval theology, the grand code of civil laws, the original form of government, the widely-extended commerce, and the various profound literature of Hindostan: compared, throughout, with the religion, laws, government, and literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece. The whole intended as introductory to the history of Hindostan. Upon a comprehensive scale / [Thomas Maurice].

Thomas Maurice

Date:: 1800-12 [vol. I, 1806]

Credit: Indian antiquities: or, dissertations relative to the antient geographical divisions, the pure system of primeval theology, the grand code of civil laws, the original form of government, the widely-extended commerce, and the various profound literature of Hindostan: compared, throughout, with the religion, laws, government, and literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece. The whole intended as introductory to the history of Hindostan. Upon a comprehensive scale / [Thomas Maurice]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ ’54 ] thov’s own words. “ The fourth river of the Panjab is the Beah, or Biah ; and the filth Is the Setlege, or Suttuluz. The two rivers unite about mid-way between their springs and their junction with the Indus, and tlieir mlxt waters properly bear the name of Setlege. The Set- lege, thus formed by the joint waters of the two rivers, is the Hyphasis of Alexander, and is a very considerable river, being navigable two hundred miles above its conflux with the Indus. It passes from the south of, and not far from the city of, Moultan; and, about eighty miles below it, falls into the Indus.’' From the circumstance of the desert’s being between Alexander and the Ganges, which is really the case between the lower parts of the Setledge and that river, (whereas the space be- tween it and the Beah is fertile and well inha- bited,) Mr R. supposes the Macedonian en- campment to have been between Adjodin, the antient Ardone, and Debalpour, marked in the map of Ptolemy Daedalla, There he erected those enormous altars, threw up those stupen- dous mounds, and fabricated those gigantic pieces of armour, by which, says Diodorus, he meant at once to amuse and to deceive posterity. Had

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