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
The resemblance between the Kushite Ramesa of Ayodhya and the Rameses
of Egypt is strong. Each was attended by his army of satyrs, Anubis
and Cynocephalus, which last is a Greek misnomer, for the animal
bearing this title is of the Simian family, as his images (in the
Turin museum) disclose, and the brother of the faithful Hanuman. The
comparison between the deities within the Indus (called _Nilab_, ‘blue
waters’) and those of the Nile in Egypt, is a point well worth
discussion. [These speculations are untenable.]
Footnote 2.7.36:
A name in compliment, probably, to the elder branch of their race,
Lava.
Footnote 2.7.37:
[See a list in _Census Report, Rajputana, 1911_, i. 255.]
Footnote 2.7.38:
There is a captivating elegance thrown around the theogonies of Greece
and Rome, which we fail to impart to the Hindu; though that elegant
scholar, Sir William Jones, could make even Sanskrit literature
fascinating; and that it merits the attempt intrinsically, we may
infer from the charm it possesses to the learned chieftain of
Rajasthan. That it is perfectly analogous to the Greek and Roman, we
have but to translate the names to show. For instance:—
Solar. Lunar.
Maricha (Lux) Atri.
Kasyapa (Uranus) Samudra (Oceanus).
Vaivaswata or Surya (Sol) Soma, or Ind (Luna; _qu._
Lunus?).
Vaivaswa Manu (Filius Solis) Brihaspati (Jupiter).
Ila (Terra) Budha (Mercurius).
Footnote 2.3.39:
[Hoernle (_JRAS_, 1905, p. 20) believes that the Parihāras were the
only sept which claimed fire-origin before Chand (_flor._ A.D. 1191).
But a legend of the kind was current in South India in the second
century A.D. (_IA_, xxxiv. 263).]
Footnote 2.3.40:
Figuratively, ‘the serpent.’
Footnote 2.3.41:
To me it appears that there were four distinguished Buddhas or wise
men, teachers of monotheism in India, which they brought from Central
Asia, with their science and its written character, the arrow or
nail-headed, which I have discovered wherever they have been,—in the
deserts of Jaisalmer, in the heart of Rajasthan, and the shores of
Saurashtra; which were their nurseries.
The first Budha is the parent of the Lunar race, A.C. 2250.
The second (twenty-second of the Jains), Nemnath, A.C. 1120.
The third (twenty-third do. ), Parsawanath, A.C. 650.
The fourth (twenty-fourth do. ), Mahivira, A.C. 533.
[The author confuses Budha, Mercury, with Buddha, the Teacher, and
mixes up Buddhists with Jains.]
Footnote 2.7.42:
_Achal_, ‘immovable,’ _eswara_, ‘lord.’
Footnote 2.7.43:
It extended from the Indus almost to the Jumna, occupying all the
sandy regions, Naukot, Arbuda or Abu, Dhat, Mandodri, Kheralu, Parkar,
Lodorva, and Pugal.
Footnote 2.7.44:
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