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

1807

IN the Differtation on the Religious Ceremonies of the flindiis p. 361 of the prefent Volume the author cites a paffage which appears to have reference to the creation of the univerfe and which feems 'upon the whole to bear fome rfemblance to the account given by Mofes in the Pentateuch. [...] " Thole who are entitled to wear the Zunaar 4‘ or Breihmenical thread are fuperior to and more nble than all the clans of the Infidels of Malabar; " and This is moue of the reasons assigned to me by a Rajah of the Zantori► family for the number of Mapilla Mussulmans being now greater-in the Caficat districts than the Hindus and Nayrs; namely the nicety of their observances and facility o [...] The arrival of the fleets of the Portuguefe 3 the fira under Val-co de Gama in the go4th year of the.Higeree (correfponding with the year of our Lord 14980 and of that conduced by Cabral a few years thereafter with the negociations jealoufies and wars that enfued thereon are next related by our author in a manner eafily enough reconcileable to the accounts of the fame tranfaclions alrea [...] Upon the decline of the Po-tug-n(1e power the Dutch eitablifhing thLinfelves on the Malabar waft took from the former the fortrelks of Cannanore and Cochin and about the fame period or as early as 1664 the Ergiifit Eaji India Company appear by the records at Tel licherrv to have begun to traffick in the Zamorin's dominiow in the toucher!) diltriCis of Ma labar as well as to have obtained [...] I have this fubmitted to the Society the heft account which from the materials in my poffefion I have been able to draw up of the Hiltory and Manners of the Inhabitants in the new acquifition of the fall India Company excepting as far as regards the Neflorians and other Chriflians and the Jews ; the major part of both of whom living to the fouthward of what are properly the Brit limits I
history
Pages
443
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120107
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Frontmatter
i-xii unknown view
Historical Remarks on the Coast of Malabar
1-i unknown view
An Account of Two Fakeers
37-52 Jonathan Duncan view
Enumeration of Indian Classes
53-70 H. T. Colebrooke view
An Account of the Inhabipants of Poggy Islamds
71-90 John Crisp view
On Indian Weights and Meajrures
91-110 H. T. Colebrooke view
Of the City of Pegue Temple of Shoemadoo Praw
111-122 Michael Symes view
Dejrcriptzon of the Tree called Burmas Launzan
123-126 Francis Buchanan view
Specimen of the Language of the People Inhabiting the Hills in the Vicinity of Bhagulpoor
127-130 R. E. Roberts view
An Account of the Difcovery of Two Urns in the Vicinity of Benares
131-134 R. E. Roberts view
Account of from Ancient Infcriptions
135-142 unknown view
Observations on the Alphabetical System
143-156 unknown view
Some Account of the Elafic Gum Vine of Prince of Wales’s Ifland
157-166 James Howison view
A Botanical Description of Urceola Elastca or Caout-Chouc Vine of Sumatra and Pullo-Pinang
167-176 William Roxburch view
Some Account of the Astronomical Labours
177-212 William Hunter view
Description of a Species of Meloe
213-296 Hardwicke view
Remarks on the Names of the Cabirian Deities
297-302 Francis Wilford view
Account of the Pagoda at Perwuttum
303-314 Kirkpatrick view
Remarks on the Principal Aeras and Dates- of the Ancient Hindus
315-344 Kirkpatrick view
on the Regygious Cereivionies of the Hindus and of the Brahmens Especially
345-370 H. T. Colebrooke view
The Rudhiradhyaya
371-392 W. C. Blaquiere view
In Account of the Pearl Fishery in the Gulph of Manar
393-424 J. Le Beck view
Backmatter
425-428 unknown view

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