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
Chagatai, or Sakatai, the Sakadwipa of the Puranas (corrupted by the
Greeks to Scythia), “whose inhabitants worship the sun and whence is
the river Arvarma.” [For the Chagatai Mongols see Elias-Ross, _History
of the Moghuls of Central Asia_, Introd. 28 ff.]
Footnote 2.6.33:
Utrar, probably the Uttarakuru of ancient geography: the uttara
(northern) kuru (race); a branch of Indu stock.
Footnote 2.6.34:
Jadu ka dang, the Joudes of Rennell’s map; the Yadu hills high up in
the Panjab, where a colony of the Yadu race dwelt when expelled
Saurashtra. [The Salt Range in the Jhelum, Shāhpur, and Miānwāli
districts of the Panjāb, was known to ancient historians as Koh-i-Jūd,
or ‘the hills of Jūd,’ the name being applied by the Muhammadans to
this range on account of its resemblance to Mount Al-Jūdi, or Ararat.
The author constantly refers to it, and suggests that the name was
connected with the Indian Yadu, or Yādava tribe (_IGI_, xxi. 412;
Abu-l Fazl, _Akbarnāma_, i. 237; Elliot-Dowson, ii. 235, v. 561;
_Āīn_, ii. 405; _ASR_, ii. 17; Hughes, _Dict. of Islām_, 23).]
Footnote 2.6.35:
The Numri, or Lumri (foxes) of Baluchistan, are Jats [?]. These are
the Nomardies of Rennell. [They are believed to be aborigines (_IGI_,
xvi. 146; _Census Report, Baluchistan, 1911_, i. 17).]
Footnote 2.6.36:
[There is no evidence, beyond resemblance of name, to connect the Jats
with the Getae.]
Footnote 2.6.37:
Royal pastors [?]
Footnote 2.6.38:
[iv. 59.] The sun was their ‘great deity,’ though they had in Xamolxis
a lord of terror, with affinity to Yama, or the Hindu Pluto. “The
chief divinity of the Fenns, a Scythic race, was Yammalu” (Pinkerton’s
_Hist. of the Goths_, vol. ii. p. 215).
Footnote 2.6.39:
iv. 45 [Asia probably means ‘land of the rising sun.’]
Footnote 2.6.40:
Āsa, ‘hope.’
Footnote 2.6.41:
Sakambhari: from _sakham_, the plural of _sakha_, ‘branch or race,’
and _ambhar_, ‘covering, protecting.’ [The word means ‘herb
nourishing.’]
Footnote 2.6.42:
Mata, ‘mother.’
Footnote 2.6.43:
_Aswa_ and _haya_ are synonymous Sanskrit terms for ‘horse’; _asp_ in
Persian; and as applied by the prophet Ezekiel [xxxviii. 6] to the
Getic invasion of Scythia, A.C. 600: “the sons of Togarmah riding on
horses”; described by Diodorus, the period the same as the Takshak
invasion of India.
Footnote 2.6.44:
[Hystaspes is from old Persian, Vishtāspa, ‘possessor of horses.’ The
author derives it from a modern Hindi word _hīnsna_, ‘to neigh,’
possibly from recollection of the story in Herodotus iii. 85.]
Footnote 2.6.45:
[He possibly refers to the statement (_Germania_, v.), that their
coins bore the impress of a two-horse chariot.]
Footnote 2.6.46:
Asirgarh, ‘fortress of the Asi’ [_IGI_, vi. 12].
Footnote 2.6.47:
The great (_maha_) warrior (_vir_). [Buddha lived 567-487 B.C.:
Mahāvīra, founder of Jainism, died about 527 B.C.]
Footnote 2.6.48:
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