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
Yeutland was the name given to the whole Cimbric Chersonese, or
Jutland (Pinkerton, _On the Goths_).
Footnote 2.6.49:
Turk, Turushka, Takshak, or ‘Taunak, fils de Turc’ (Abulghazi,
_History of the Tatars_).
Footnote 2.6.50:
_Histoire des Huns_, vol. i. p. 42.
Footnote 2.6.51:
Though Tacitus calls the German tribes indigenous, it is evident he
knew their claim to Asiatic origin, when he asks, “Who would leave the
softer abodes of Asia for Germany, where Nature yields nothing but
deformity?”
Footnote 2.6.52:
In an inscription of the Geta or Jat Prince of Salindrapur (Salpur) of
the fifth century, he is styled “of the race of Tusta” (_qu._
Tuisto?). It is in that ancient nail-headed character used by the
ancient Buddhists of India, and still the sacred character of the
Tatar Lamas: in short, the Pali. All the ancient inscriptions I
possess of the branches of the Agnikulas, as the Chauhan, Pramara,
Solanki, and Parihara, are in this character. That of the Jat prince
styles him “Jat Kathida” (_qu._ of (da) Cathay?). From Tuisto and
Woden we have our Tuesday and Wednesday. In India, Wednesday is
Budhwar (Dies Mercurii), and Tuesday Mangalwar (Dies Martis), the
Mardi of the French.
Footnote 2.6.53:
Tacitus, _Germania_, xxxviii.
Footnote 2.6.54:
The gau, or cow, symbolic of Prithivi, the earth. On this see note, p.
33.
Footnote 2.6.55:
[_Germania_, ix.]
Footnote 2.6.56:
Krishna is the preserving deity of the Hindu triad. Krishna is of the
Indu line of Budha, whom he worshipped prior to his own deification.
Footnote 2.6.57:
‘Mahurat ka shikar.’
Footnote 2.6.58:
The Siebi of Tacitus.
Footnote 2.6.59:
Sammes’s _Saxon Antiquities_.
Footnote 2.6.60:
Hara is the Thor of Scandinavia; Hari is Budha, Hermes, or Mercury.
Footnote 2.6.61:
Mallet derives it from _kempfer_, ‘to fight.’ [The name is said to
mean ‘comrades’ (Rhys, _Celtic Britain_, 116). Irmansūl means ‘a
colossus,’ and has no connexion with Skr. _sūla_ (Grimm, _Teutonic
Mythology_, i. 115).]
Footnote 2.6.62:
_Ku_ is a mere prefix, meaning ‘evil’; ‘the evil striker (_Mar_).’
Hence, probably, the Mars of Rome. The birth of Kumar, the general of
the army of the gods, with the Hindus, is exactly that of the
Grecians, born of the goddess Jahnavi (Juno) without sexual
intercourse. Kumāra is always accompanied by the peacock, the bird of
Juno. [Kumāra probably means ‘easily dying’; there is no connexion
with Mars, originally a deity of vegetation.]
Footnote 2.6.63:
For a drawing of the Scandinavian god of battle see Sammes.
Footnote 2.6.64:
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