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, Том 3T. Maurice, 1806 |
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... stones , of which they are composed , are of a magnitude hardly credible . The height , for instance , of the pyramidal gateway , leading to the magni- ficent pagoda of CHILLAMBRUM , on the coast of Coromandel , exceeds 120 feet ; the ...
... stones , of which they are composed , are of a magnitude hardly credible . The height , for instance , of the pyramidal gateway , leading to the magni- ficent pagoda of CHILLAMBRUM , on the coast of Coromandel , exceeds 120 feet ; the ...
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... stones , often thirty or forty feet in length , that formed the roofs of the stupendous structures of the Thebais . That similitude , likewise , irresistibly struck the be- holder in the very form of those columns , of which the lofty ...
... stones , often thirty or forty feet in length , that formed the roofs of the stupendous structures of the Thebais . That similitude , likewise , irresistibly struck the be- holder in the very form of those columns , of which the lofty ...
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... stone steps ; sometimes , as in the instance of Tripetti , to the number of more than a See Mr. Crauford's Sketches , vol . i . p . 106 . ✦ See Voyage des Indes , tom . iii . p . 360. Edit . Rouen , 1713 . hundred . Under this portico ...
... stone steps ; sometimes , as in the instance of Tripetti , to the number of more than a See Mr. Crauford's Sketches , vol . i . p . 106 . ✦ See Voyage des Indes , tom . iii . p . 360. Edit . Rouen , 1713 . hundred . Under this portico ...
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... stone ballustrade to keep off the populace . * The reader for the present must check his cu- riosity in regard to all the complicated modes of worship , and all the various ceremonial rites observed by the devotees in the Indian temples ...
... stone ballustrade to keep off the populace . * The reader for the present must check his cu- riosity in regard to all the complicated modes of worship , and all the various ceremonial rites observed by the devotees in the Indian temples ...
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... stone upon another to a vast height . They are without any light whatever within , except what comes through a small door scarce- ly five feet high . In the CENTRE of the build- ing is a dark chamber , lighted by one solitary lamp ...
... stone upon another to a vast height . They are without any light whatever within , except what comes through a small door scarce- ly five feet high . In the CENTRE of the build- ing is a dark chamber , lighted by one solitary lamp ...
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according adored adorned Ægyptus æra ancient animal antiquity architecture assertion astonished astronomical Aurengzeb beautiful Brahmins building called capitals caverns celebrated centre circumference Cneph colossal colours columns consecrated considered curious dæmons decorated deity described Diodorus Siculus dome Doric order edifice Egyp Egypt Egyptian Elephanta engraved erected fabricated feet former gate Gazna gold grand granite Grecian Greeks groves height hereafter Herodotus hieroglyphics Hindoo Hindostan honour idol Indian Isis Jaggernaut Jupiter lofty lotos magnificent majestic manner marble massy Medinet-Habu Mithra Mohammedan mythology Nile Norden observed Oriental original Osiris pagoda Persian pillars plant plate Plutarch Pococke portal portico priests pyramids reader recesses religion remarkable resemblance rites roof ruins sacred Savary sculptured Scythians Seeva sepulchral serpent shrine solar deity statue stones stupendous Sumnaut superb superstition symbol Tavernier temple Thebais Thebes theology tion traveller trees Typhon Upper Egypt vast veneration Vitruvius walls whole worship zodiac
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Страница 202 - Elephantine they worshipped the figure of a man in a sitting posture, painted blue, having the head of a ram, and the horns of a goat which encompassed a disk ; all which represented the sun and moon's conjunction at the sign of the ram; the blue color denoting the power of the moon, at the period of junction, to raise water into the clouds.
Страница 49 - It is composed of seven square enclosures, one within the other, the walls of which are twenty-five feet high, and four thick. These enclosures are three hundred and fifty feet distant from one another, and each has four large gates, with a high tower ; which are placed one in the middle of each side of the enclosure, and opposite to the four cardinal points. The outward wall is near four miles in circumference...
Страница 227 - ... other signs of the zodiac, Mr. MAURICE adds, " The Libra of the zodiac is perpetually seen upon all the hieroglyphics of Egypt, which is at once an argument of the great antiquity of that asterism, and of the probability of its having been originally fabricated by the astronomical sons of Misraim. By the balance they are supposed by some to have denoted the equality of days and nights, at the period of the sun's arriving at this sign. And by others it is asserted, that this asterism, at first...
Страница 52 - Pilgrims from all parts of the peninsula come here to obtain absolution, and none come without an offering of money ; and a large part of the revenue of the island is allotted for the maintenance of the Brahmins who inhabit the pagoda; and these, with their families, formerly composed a multitude of not less than forty thousand souls, maintained, without labour, by the liberality of superstition.
Страница 207 - It was in these gloomy caverns that the grand and mystic arcana of this goddess were unfolded to the adoring aspirant, while the solemn hymns- of initiation resounded through the long extent of these stony recesses.