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 3T. Maurice, 1806 - India |
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... worship , practised in the more ancient of these superior temples : temples constructed of such enormous dimensions , that the bigoted natives think them , equally with the caverns we have described , the work of in- visible agents ...
... worship , practised in the more ancient of these superior temples : temples constructed of such enormous dimensions , that the bigoted natives think them , equally with the caverns we have described , the work of in- visible agents ...
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... worship of fire , conspired to give the Asiatic temples at once their lofty cupolas , and that pyramidal termination which they alternately assume , and which are often seen blended VOL . III . B together in different parts of the same ...
... worship of fire , conspired to give the Asiatic temples at once their lofty cupolas , and that pyramidal termination which they alternately assume , and which are often seen blended VOL . III . B together in different parts of the same ...
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... worship , and all the various ceremonial rites observed by the devotees in the Indian temples , till the ensuing chapter , which will fully describe See Thevenot's Travels in India , p . 79. This author is asserted by some writers never ...
... worship , and all the various ceremonial rites observed by the devotees in the Indian temples , till the ensuing chapter , which will fully describe See Thevenot's Travels in India , p . 79. This author is asserted by some writers never ...
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... worship paid in these pagodas . It is sufficient , at present , to remark that the Indians worship the Deity by symbols ; while his power , extending through various nature , and his venerated attributes are repre- sented by animals ...
... worship paid in these pagodas . It is sufficient , at present , to remark that the Indians worship the Deity by symbols ; while his power , extending through various nature , and his venerated attributes are repre- sented by animals ...
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... worship- ped , is , doubtless , Veeshnu , under the form of Creeshna . It should not be forgotten , how- ever , that RAMA was the elder brother of Creeshna . The head of the idol , which appear- ed to be of black marble , was alone ...
... worship- ped , is , doubtless , Veeshnu , under the form of Creeshna . It should not be forgotten , how- ever , that RAMA was the elder brother of Creeshna . The head of the idol , which appear- ed to be of black marble , was alone ...
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Page 167 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 189 - ... when their new religion required covered edifices, they ingeniously projected to make them resemble groves, as nearly as the distance of architecture would permit...
Page 234 - grows in the water, and, amongst its broad leaves, puts forth a flower, in the centre of which is formed the...
Page 189 - For could the Arches be otherwise than pointed when the workman was to imitate that curve which branches of two opposite trees make by their intersection with one another ? Or could the Columns be otherwise than split into distinct shafts, when they were to represent the stems of a clump of trees...
Page 167 - ... six feet from the extremity of one wing to the other.— This tree not only affords shelter, but sustenance, to all its inhabitants, being covered...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.