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Asiatick Researches or Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal for Inquiring into the History and Antiquities of Arts Sciences and Literature of Asia

1807

V. Discourse the Sixth: on the Persians On the Descent of the ifj: rhan.s from the Je.:is On the Island of On the Indian Grossbeak On the Chronology of the Hindus On the Cure of the LW/antis On the indian game of Chess Inscriptions from the l'indliya Mountains A Description of.4s-►n On the 'Mountaineers of Tripura On the Book of Chincv: Odes On the Introduction of Araltic into Prr:ian On the Astr [...] Krim extend it along the foot of Caucasus by the rivers Cur and.bras to the Caspian Lake; from the opposite shore of which follow the course of the Jaihun and the chain of Caucasean hills as far as those of /inaus ;t whence continue the line beyond the Chinese Wall to the White Mountain and the country of Veto; :.!irtnig the boders of Persia India China Corea but including part of Rus [...] the groves of E/ysium if not of Eden the heaven of Indra the Peristan or fairy-land of the Pesianpoets with its city of diamonds and its lopntry of Sliadeam so named from Pleasure and Love not in any one climate which the common set ;* of mankind -considers as the seat of dlights but buvond the mouth of the Oby in the Frozen Sea in a region equalled only by that where the wild imvg [...] tome to the Delta of the Sindhu or Indus; whetice.-as.cendin4 to the mountains of Castkar vve discover -its fountains and those of the.=;lm down which we are conduced to the Caspian which formerly perhaps it entered though it loses itself now in the sands and lakes o' EA.:co-cm We next are led from the Sea of Khozar by the banks of the Cur or Cyrus and along the eaucasean rh:i'cs to the [...] Such in part (for I omit the minuter and more subtil metaphysics of the Sufis which are mentioned in the Dabistan) is the wild and enthusiastic religion of the modern Pesian poets especially of the sweet Haliz and the great Maulavi: such s the system of the Vedanti philsophers and best lyric pacts of India; and as it was a system of the highest antiquity in both nations it may be added t
history
Pages
509
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120107
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
I. The Fourth Anniversary Discourse
1-18 William Jones view
II. The Fifth Anniversary Discourse
19-42 William Jones view
III. The Sixth Anniversary Discourse
43-66 unknown view
IV. A Letter from the Late Henry Vansittart Esq. to The President
67-76 unknown view
V. Remarks on the Island of Hinzuan or Johana 19
77-108 William Jones view
VI. On the Baya Or Indian Gross-Beak
109-110 Aktar Khan view
VII. On the Choronology of the Hindus
111-148 William Jones view
VIII. On the Cure of The Elephantiasis
149-158 Aktar Khan view
IX. On the Indian Game of Chess
159-166 William Jones view
X. Two Inscriptions
167-170 unknown view
XI. A Description of Asam
171-186 Gazim view
XII. On the Manners Religion and Laws of The Cucis or Mountaineers of Tipra
187-194 unknown view
XIII. On the Second Classical Book of the Chinese
195-224 William Jones view
XV. On the Astronodiical Computations of The Hindus
225-288 Samual Davis view
XVI. On the Antiquity of the Indian Zodiac
289-306 William Jones view
XVII. Account of the Kindom of Nepal
307-322 Giuseppe view
XVIII. On the Cure of Persons Bitten by Snakes
323-330 John Williams view
XIX. On Some Roman Coins Found at Nelore
331-332 unknown view
XX. On Two Hindu Festivals and the Indian Sphinx
333-336 Pearse view
XXI. A Short Description of Carnicobar
337-344 J. Hamilton view
XXII. The Design of a Treatise on the Plants of India
345-352 William Jones view
XXIII. On the Dissection of the Pangolin
353-360 unknown view
XXIV. On the Lacsha or Lacinsect
361-364 William Boxburgh view
XXV. The Seventh Anniversary Discourse
365-382 William Jones view
XXVI. The Translation of an Inscription in the Maga Language
383-388 unknown view
XXVII. A Supplement to the Essay on Indian Chronology
389-404 William Jones view
XXVIII. On the Spikenard of The Antients
405-418 William Jones view
Appendix
419-498 unknown view
Backmatter
i-iv unknown view

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