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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]
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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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    nation^ Fortunately^ in the second vplume of Kirchcr’s Q]^dipus iEgyptlacus, there is preserved that invaluable relic of antiquity, the antient sphere of the philosophic proge- ny of Mizraim, in many of tlie fabulous characters and hieroglyphic delineations en- graved upon it, totally different from that of the Chaldajans, but still bearing each to the other such a general feature of similitude, as to demonstrate their originating in the fer- tile invention of the same race, and their cor- respondence to the early events of one com- mon country. In ray observations upon this sphere, I have remarked, that, though Kh- cher might be, in some instances, what War- burton represents him, a learned visionary, yet, as he was indefatigable in procuring, from every quarter, the hieroglyphic symbols of Egyptian knowledge, their genuineness may- be depended on when his conjectures po^ibly may not. I shall not, however, prolong these pages by dwelling at present on any parti- cular instances that might be brought to illus- trate the foregoing assertion, but shall pass- on to the cursory consideration of one or two re- markable circumstances that struck nay eye in reviewing the solar and lunar zodiacs of India : in the former of w’hlch there is, in my opinion, C 2 ^ a
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