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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

1808

A - ofOtt-THE COURSE_ OF THE GANGES' of more than twenty-five feet* in the perpendicular height of the waters at this feafon while at the oulets of the rivers (excepting the effe& of the tides) they preferre nearly the fame level at all feafons fome idea may be formed of the increafed velocity with which the water will run off and of the havoc' which it will make on the banks. [...] AT Rajemahl the projeaing point on witiellibe ruins of the ancient palace and buildings are fees hal for many years refilled the force of the current; and the 'may piles of mafonry Come of which have fulfided into the channel have co-operated with the ntural firength of the bank in repelling the efforts of the flrearn. [...] In dropping down with the {lream which ran at the rate of near 6 miles in the hour I could very fenfibly feet the undulations which the huge portions of the falling bank produced in the water at the diaance of upwards of a hundred yards ; and the noife with which they were accompanied might be compared to the diaant rumbling of artillery or thunder. [...] But this is more commonly the cafe along the banks of the former where the country is not only lefs cultivated but where the more intrcate windings of that river afford greater shelter to wild beafis.* THE deepeft water in thefe rivers is ufually found under the high banks and at the angles between the feveral reaches; but in the ftraight reaches where the banks are floping and the river i [...] This book is written in the above dialed and may be had at the capital of Candia : at leaf' it is in the poll:411°n or the learned there: A pricy of the religion of BilOODDIIA whom I queition;.d concerniiv the Vetiai and Pooraans of the Hind60s and whether the book jult mentioned had anv relation to them replied The Vedas are books 2"AND THE DOCTRINES op.
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Pages
535
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120107
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
Desiderata
v-ix unknown view
I. On the Courfe of the Ganges Through Bengal
1-31 R.H. Colebrooke view
II. On Singhala or Ceylon and the Doetrines of Bhoodha; From the Books of the Singhalais
32-56 Mohony view
III. Narrative of a Route from Chunarghur to yertnagoodum in the Ellore Circar
57-169 J.T. Blunt view
IV. An Account of a New Species of Delphinus An Inhabitent of the Ganges
170-ii Ronburgh view
V. Translation of One of Inscription on the Pillor at Dehlee Called the Let of Feeroz Shah
175-viii Henry Colebrook view
VI.Account of the Kookies or Luncats
183-198 John Macrae view
VII. Sanscrit and Pracrit Languages
199-231 H.T. Colebrooke view
VIII. On the Religious Ceremonies of the Hindus and of the Bramens Especially
232-287 H.T. Colberooke view
IX. On the Religious Ceremonies of the Hindus and of the Bramens Especially
288-311 H.T. Colebrooke view
X. An Account of a Method for Extending a Geographical Survey Across the Penin-sula of India
312-335 Lambton view
XI. On the Origin and Peculiar Tenets of Certain Muhammedan Sects
336-342 H.T. Colebrooke view
XII. A Summary Account of the Life and Writings of Avyar a Tamul Female Philosopher
343-361 John view
XIII. Account of the St. Thome Christians on the Coast of Malabar
362-380 F. Wrede view
XIV. Account of an Hereditary Living Deity to Whom Devotion is Paid by the Bramins of Poona and its Neighbourhood
381-396 Edward Moor view
XV. On the Religion and Manners of the People of Ceylon
397-444 Joinville view
XVI. A Chronological Tble of the Moghal Emperous from Umeer Ttmoor is Alumgeer II. the father of the Present Emperor Shah Alum being from A.H. 736 to 1173 or A.D. 1335 to 1760
i-iii Lewis Smith view
XVII. Demonstration of the 12th Axiom of the first book of Euclid
445-450 Paul Limrick view
XIX. An Account of the Bezeegurs a Sect Commonly Demoninated Nuts
451-479 David Richardson view
XX. On the Burmha Game of Chess Compared with the Indian Chinese and Persian Game of the Same Denomination
480-504 Hiram Cox view
Members of the Asiatic Society
505-508 Hiram Cox view
Appendix
i-ii unknown view

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