Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
Herodotus (iv. 12) says: “The Cimmerians, expelled by the Massagetae,
migrated to the Crimea.” Here were the Thyssagetae, or western Getae
[the lesser Getae, Herodotus iv. 22]; and thence both the Getae and
Cimbri found their way to the Baltic. Rubruquis the Jesuit, describing
the monuments of the Comani in the Dasht-i Kipchak, whence these
tribes, says: “Their monuments and circles of stones are like our
Celtic or Druidical remains” (Bell’s _Collection_). The Khumān are a
branch of the Kāthi tribe of Saurashtra, whose paliyas, or funeral
monumental pillars, are seen in groups at every town and village. The
Chatti were one of the early German tribes. [Needless to say, the
German Chatti had no connexion with the Kāthi of Gujarāt.]
Footnote 2.6.25:
[The reference, again, is to the Saisunāga dynasty, p. 64 above.]
Footnote 2.6.26:
Asi was the term applied to the Getes, Yeuts, or Juts, when they
invaded Scandinavia and founded Yeutland or Jutland (see ‘_Edda_,’
Mallet’s Introduction).
Footnote 2.6.27:
Mercury and earth.
Footnote 2.6.28:
Pinkerton, _On the Goths_, vol. ii. p. 94. [All this is obsolete.]
Footnote 2.6.29:
Camari was one of the eight sons of Japhet, says Abulghazi: whence the
Camari, Cimmerii, or Cimbri. Kamari is one of the tribes of
Saurashtra. [Kymry = fellow-countrymen (Rhys, _Celtic Britain_, 116).]
Footnote 2.6.30:
The Suiones, Suevi, or Su. Now the Su, Yueh-chi, or Yuti, are Getes,
according to De Guignes. Marco Polo calls Cashgar, where he was in the
sixth century, the birthplace of the Swedes; and De la Croix adds,
that in 1691 Sparvenfeldt, the Swedish ambassador at Paris, told him
he had read in Swedish chronicles that Cashgar was their country. When
the Huns were chased from the north of China, the greater part retired
into the southern countries adjoining Europe. The rest passed directly
to the Oxus and Jaxartes; thence they spread to the Caspian and
Persian frontiers. In Mawaru-l-nahr (Transoxiana) they mixed with the
Su, the Yueh-chi, or Getes, who were particularly powerful, and
extended into Europe. One would be tempted to regard them as the
ancestors of those Getes who were known in Europe. Some bands of Su
might equally pass into the north of Europe, known as the Suevi. [The
meaning of Suevi is uncertain, but the word has no connexion with that
of any Central Asian tribe.]
Footnote 2.6.31:
Mr. Pinkerton’s research had discovered Sakatai, though he does not
give his authority (D’Anville) for the Sakadwipa of the Puranas!
“Sakitai, a region at the fountains of the Oxus and Jaxartes, styled
Sakita from the Sacae” (D’Anville, _Anc. Geog._). The Yadus of
Jaisalmer, who ruled Zabulistan and founded Ghazni, claim the
Chagatais as of their own Indu stock: a claim which, without deep
reflection, appeared inadmissible; but which I now deem worthy of
credit.
Footnote 2.6.32:
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