Indian Antiquities or Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government and the Various and Profound Literature of Hindostan Compared
Indian Antiquities or Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government and the Various and Profound Literature of Hindostan Compared
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 Excerpt: ...less than seven hundred places, where carved figures of snakes were worshipped. Indeed almost all the deities in Salsette and, Elephanta either grasp serpents in their hands or are environed with them, which can only be intended as a mark of their divinity. They are also sculptured on the cornices surrounding the roofs ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 Excerpt: ...less than seven hundred places, where carved figures of snakes were worshipped. Indeed almost all the deities in Salsette and, Elephanta either grasp serpents in their hands or are environed with them, which can only be intended as a mark of their divinity. They are also sculptured on the cornices surrounding the roofs of those caverns and the more modern pagodas-5 a circumstance which reminds me of another use to which serpents were applied in the symbols of Egypt; for, their wreathed bodies, in its hieroglyphic sculpture, represented the oblique course of the stars, while the same bodies, formed into a circle, were an emblem of ieternity; and it will-be remembered, that the serpent was one of x ' I 197 mote aera. Theujesuit Le Compte, givinga description of a partial eclipse of the sun, which he observed in China about the end of April, i1688, informs us, that, during the wholeof the eclipse, the Chinese were under the greatest alarms, imaginingithey were going to be suddenly enveloped in thick darkness, and made every where the most hideous yelling and horrid noises to obliged tbe dragon to depart. " For, to this animal," he adds, " they attribute all the disappearances-of the stars which take place, because the celeslial dragon, being hunger-bitten, at that time holds the-Sun or Moon fast bettween his teeth, .with intent to devour them.'"9F-The whole of this curious relation exhibits to' us, not only decisive evidencelof the early proficiency of the Hindoos and Chinese in the science of astronomy, but a glaring proof how deeply, and at what remote periods, their astronomical and theological speculations were blended together and, as it were, interwoven.--To explain the allufion, -it is necesfarythat the reader, not conversant with astro...
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