Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographic Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology ... of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole I
Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographic Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology ... of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole I
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ... anciently Elephantina, is an oval building, supported by pillars, forming a cloister or aisle. Similar to this is that in the ancient island of Philae, In most of these, are pillars fluted or clustered, like the Indian ones; and the rocks ■on both sides of the Nile are hollowed into grottoes, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ... anciently Elephantina, is an oval building, supported by pillars, forming a cloister or aisle. Similar to this is that in the ancient island of Philae, In most of these, are pillars fluted or clustered, like the Indian ones; and the rocks ■on both sides of the Nile are hollowed into grottoes, not unlike the buildings which are raised on the surface of the desert plains. The similar structures, which Mr. Norden describes in Nubia, are on the same plan; and, if we may judge from the few representations we have yet seen of the famous pagoda of Chillambrum, on the Coromandel coast, the resemblance approaches near to the Nubian and Egyptian temples."?* A French Traveller of merit, however, whom I have frequently had occasion to cite, having more recently journied over the same ground, I prefer the presenting of bis description of the ruins of temples of the Thebais to the reader; and he will himself, perhaps, be more gratified by an actual spectator's account of that grand sepulchre of ancient arts and sciences, Egypt. I shall begin the few quotations I shall make from M. Savary, by stating a very singular circumstance; a circumstance by no means the * See a comparative view of the ancient monuments of India, published by Mr. Nichols in 1785, p. 15. least remarkable among those with which he has made us acquainted: that the two branches of the Nile, which form the tract called the Delta, divide at the head of that Delta at a place called Batn El Bakari, or, the Cozv's Belly; and the reader, by referring back to the preceding geographical treatise, will observe that the Ganges enters the region of Hindostan throughthe rock of Gangotri, or, the Cow-bead Hock.* Without hazarding any decision, or even venturing at present to give an...
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