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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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    jMacrobli Opera, edit. Gvonoviiy octavo, Liigd. 'Rat, 1670 Celsusapud Origen. contra Cels um, quarto, Cantab, l6o8 Totters Grecian Antiquities, 2 vol. octavo — 1757 ^V'arburton’s .Divine Legation, 5 vol. octavo, Rond. 1/65 Cudwortb’s Intellectual System, 2 vol. 174-3 Abul Fazil’s Treatises on the Brahmin Char Asiie- RUM, or Degrees of Probation, and the vaiious PoojAS and Purification of the ilin^loos, in the Ayeem Akbery, vol. 3. Mr Hohvell on the Fasts and Festivals and the Me- tempsychosis of the Hindoos, 2 vol. 8x’o, Rond. 1/66 Mountfaucon and Banier on the severe rites of Ini- tiation into the Mysteries of Mithras, in their respective works cited before. ]Mr Forster’s Sketches of the Mythology and Customs of the Flindoos, octavo — Rond. 1785 Mr Cranford’s Sketches on the same subject, octavo, Jirst edition — — Rond. Various Tracts of Buxtorf and Abarbanel, on the Jewish Purifications, — Basil, 1790 1662 TVlth an enumeration of other authors referred to in Christian Theology, I shall not trouble the lea- der— they are numerous, and in general accurately cited in the notes. Books illustrative of the Antiquities of Per- sia, India,Tartary, China, and Japan. Veterum Persarum Religionis Historia, Auctore Thomas Hyde, edit, secund. quarto, Oxon. 1760 Bhagvat-Geeta, quarto — Ro7id. 1785 Ayeen Akbery, 3 vol.—“ Calcutta, 1783 Halhcd’s Code or Gen too Laws, Rond. 1776 Sacontala, — — Rond. 1786 IIeetopades,
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