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... belongs , owe some remarkable characteristics on which I am desirous of dwelling . It is not at the same time to be supposed that the combination is peculiar to the Hindus . There is no system of recorded law , literally from China to ...
... belongs , owe some remarkable characteristics on which I am desirous of dwelling . It is not at the same time to be supposed that the combination is peculiar to the Hindus . There is no system of recorded law , literally from China to ...
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... belongs to the Hindu Apocrypha . Nor is it believed that we have the book in its original form . Dr. Jolly ( preface to Vishnu ) speaks of the abundant evidence ' for its having undergone modifications and entire trans- formations in ...
... belongs to the Hindu Apocrypha . Nor is it believed that we have the book in its original form . Dr. Jolly ( preface to Vishnu ) speaks of the abundant evidence ' for its having undergone modifications and entire trans- formations in ...
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... belong to the same body of doctrine . Heaven and Hell and the Transmigration of Souls are , however , all referred to in the oldest of the law treatises , though briefly and slightly . In the more recent writings ( some of them ...
... belong to the same body of doctrine . Heaven and Hell and the Transmigration of Souls are , however , all referred to in the oldest of the law treatises , though briefly and slightly . In the more recent writings ( some of them ...
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... belong to widely separated grades of the conception of punishment . Such places of retribution as the twenty - first of these Purgatories , where souls wander in sword - leaved forests ; the nineteenth , where they stray over rough and ...
... belong to widely separated grades of the conception of punishment . Such places of retribution as the twenty - first of these Purgatories , where souls wander in sword - leaved forests ; the nineteenth , where they stray over rough and ...
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... belong to the same system of religious thought . But in these Hindu law - books they are blended together ; and the sinful spirit , released from purgatorial pains , has still to pass through a succession of animal or vege- table forms ...
... belong to the same system of religious thought . But in these Hindu law - books they are blended together ; and the sinful spirit , released from purgatorial pains , has still to pass through a succession of animal or vege- table forms ...
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