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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

It is now clearly proved that the first Purana contains an account of the deluge ; btween which and the Mohammedan conquests the history of genuine Hindu L-ovcrnment must of course be comprehended : but we know from an arrangement of the seasons in the astronomi cal work of Parasard that the warof the Pandavas could not have happened earlier than the eloe of time twelfth century before ; awl S [...] N answer to some questions put to inc by the Prsident of the Asiatic Society respccting camphooil 1 have the pleasure of giving the solution cotained in the following short account :--Camphor-oil one of the essential oils is actually camphor before the operations of nature on it have reduced it to the concrete fbrm in which it is found in the tree. [...] The internal projections of the papilla) adhere to the particles of sand and stone on which the coral grows and are the only appearance of roots it exhibits. [...] 17 otr THE COPPER OF SUMATRA T HAVE the satisfaction of laying before the Asiatic Society a specimen of copper-ore the production of the island of Sumatra. [...] Here the oblong shape of the capsule and its two cells auree with the Lythrum ; the divisions of the calyx with the Ginora.
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Pages
483
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120107
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
Asiatic History Civil and Natural
xi-xxxv unknown view
Three Natural Productions of Sumatra
1-6 John Macdonald view
The Coral of Sumatra
7-16 unknown view
The Copper of Sumatra
17-20 unknown view
The Plant Morinda
21-i William Huntter view
Spikenard of the Ancients
97-108 The President view
Dhanesa or Indian Buceros
109-120 Charles White view
The Islands Nancowry and Comarty
121-126 R. H. Colebrooke view
On the Loris or Slow-Paced Lemur
127-132 The President view
Astronomical Observations
133-150 William Hunter view
One the Astronomy of the Hindus
151-156 John Playfair view
Philosophy of the Asiatics
157-174 The President view
A Meeting of the Aslatic Society
175-ii John Shore view
Treatise on the Barometer
189-i Francis Balfour view
On the Duties Of a Faithful Hindu Widow
205-216 Henry Colebrooke view
On the Traces of the Hindu Language and Literature
217-224 William Marsden view
A Catalogue of Indian Plants
225-230 The Late President view
Botanical Observations on Select Indian Plants
231-304 The Late President view
A Description of the Cuttub Minar
305-310 James T. Blunt view
Astronomical Observations
311-328 R. H. Colebrooke view
The Hindus
329-348 The President view
Description of the Yak of Tartary Called Soora-Goy
349-352 Samuel Turner view
A Description of the Jonesia
353-360 Roxburgh view
A Dissertion on Semiramis
361-384 Francis Wilford view
On the Andaman Islands
385-i R. H. Colebrooke view
On Barren Island and its Volcano
395-402 R. H. Colebrooke view
Prosopis Aculeata
403-404 Roxburgh view
To the Right Hon. Sir John Shore Bart
405-i unknown view
Some Account of the Cave in the Island of Elephanta
407-416 J. Goldingham view
An Account of the Present State of Delhi
417-432 W. Franklin view
Botanical Observations on the Spikenard of the Ancients
433-436 William Roxburgh view

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