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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    ( 4. 3 ■ objects, an imdertaklng generally allowed to be, at this moment, a desideratum in litera- ture, it riiight naturally have been expected^ that not only the Court of Directors them- selves, who; in fact, manifested by their re- solution so early and so flattering an atten- tion to the address of the author, but that all those gentlemen in their service, or other- wise, who from situation or connection could not be indifferent to Indian concerns, would have extended their powerful support and patronage. It was not unreasonable to suppose that the man of business would be interested by the faithful detail professed to be given of commercial transactions during so many re- volving centuries, and that the man of let- ters would be induced decidedly to support a production recommended by a circum- stance equally novel and gratifying; that tfi one work, of small expense, was to be combined the substance of all the most esteemed Persian and Arabian historians upon the subject, of whose productions correct and elegant versions have been yet presented to the public; pro- ductions mouldering upon the shelves of pub- lic libraries, or deposited in the inaccessible museums of learned individuals; productions equally