Volume 1

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].

  • Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1824.
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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    which Mr Richardson, in his Dissertation oh the Languages, Literature, and Manners, of/ Eastern Nations, seems to think he treated with too much Oontempt, he might have de* rived a surprising support to his assertions from many of their astronomical productions. For instance, in Dr Hyde’s translation of Uluo Beg’s tables of the fixed stars, the sign A^Qq is simply called Stella Navis, that is, the cofisiellation of the ship; and there is reason to suppose, that, in naming the stars, the royal astronomer of Persia followed some very an- tient astronomical tables, known in his own country ; since, had he copied those of Pto* lemy, he would have denominated it, after that writer, the asterism of Argo. Mr Bryant has slightly mentioned, from this author, that, by Orion, the Persians u- sually understood Nimrod, and that an altar formed part of the antient sphere; but he might have gone farther than this, and, in the signs of the Zodiac, and the constellations ot the Southern hemisphere in particular, have discovered many other striking circumstances relative to the early post-diluvian ages. The ample notes, which Dr Hyde has added to this W’ork of L^lug Beg, upon every one of ' the