Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographic Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology ... 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, Volume 2 |
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Page 11
The Moon , or CHANDRA , a male deity in Hindostan - - that very singular
circumstance adduced in proof that India has not borrowed her mythology from
Egypt , where the moon was a female divinity , adored under the name of Isis ,
and ...
The Moon , or CHANDRA , a male deity in Hindostan - - that very singular
circumstance adduced in proof that India has not borrowed her mythology from
Egypt , where the moon was a female divinity , adored under the name of Isis ,
and ...
Page 78
... her fast falls on the last day of the moon in September , and that she is
worshipped all the night of that day universally , but more particularly at Callee
Ghat above - mentioned ; that different parts of this Gentoo goddess are adored
in different ...
... her fast falls on the last day of the moon in September , and that she is
worshipped all the night of that day universally , but more particularly at Callee
Ghat above - mentioned ; that different parts of this Gentoo goddess are adored
in different ...
Page 85
... to offer these cakes to the ghosts of their ancestors as far back as the third
generation ; that this greater cere . . mony of the Stradha is performed on the day
of the new moon in every month , but that they are commanded by those books
daily ...
... to offer these cakes to the ghosts of their ancestors as far back as the third
generation ; that this greater cere . . mony of the Stradha is performed on the day
of the new moon in every month , but that they are commanded by those books
daily ...
Page 87
... and displays the Analogy subsisting between the antient Religion of INDIA and
PERSIA , particularly in their universal nud enthusiastic Veneration of the Solar
Orb and Elementary Fire - The Indians sacrifice to the Moon under the Character
...
... and displays the Analogy subsisting between the antient Religion of INDIA and
PERSIA , particularly in their universal nud enthusiastic Veneration of the Solar
Orb and Elementary Fire - The Indians sacrifice to the Moon under the Character
...
Page 99
The Ayeen Akbery farther informs us , that some of the Hindoo philosophers
consider the fixed stars and planets as beings , and as borrowing their light from
the sun ; others assert that they derive their light from the moon , and believe
each to ...
The Ayeen Akbery farther informs us , that some of the Hindoo philosophers
consider the fixed stars and planets as beings , and as borrowing their light from
the sun ; others assert that they derive their light from the moon , and believe
each to ...
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Page 114 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 347 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 215 - And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Page 284 - I am Alpha and. Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 100 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two ; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Page 366 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians ofChaldea, the land of their nativity...
Page 215 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 283 - It is not a thing of which a man may say, it hath been, it is about to be, or is to be hereafter: for it is a thing without birth; it is ancient, constant, and eternal, and is not to be destroyed in this its mortal frame.
Page 255 - ... that which is called invisible. The universe, even, having existed, is again dissolved; and now again, on the approach of day, by divine necessity, it is reproduced. That which, upon the dissolution of all things else, is not destroyed, is superior and of another nature from that visibility: it is invisible and eternal. He who is thus called invisible and incorruptible is even he who is called the Supreme Abode ; which men having once obtained, they never more return to earth : that is my mansion.
Page 234 - Thy tears, my child, ill suit the occasion ; we shall all meet again ; be firm ; see the direct road before thee, and follow it. When the big tear lurks beneath thy beautiful eyelashes, let thy resolution check its first efforts to disengage itself. In thy passage over this earth, where the paths are now high, now low, and the true path seldom distinguished, the traces of thy feet must needs be unequal ; but virtue will press thee right onward a.
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| Title | Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographic Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology ... of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to the ..., Volume 2 Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographic Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology ... 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 |
| Author | Thomas Maurice |
| Publisher | T. Maurice, 1806 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Aug 2007 |
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