Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
Arimu one _Ad_ is _the first_;
whence _Adima_, or man.
Spou an eye.
Oior a man.
Pata to kill _Badh_, to kill.
Tahiti the chief deity is Vesta Tap is heat or flame; the
type of Vesta.
Papaios ” ” Jupiter Baba, or Bapa,
the universal father.
The Hindu Jiva-pitri, or
_Father_ of Life [?].
Oitosuros ” ” Apollo Aitiswara, or Sun-God,
applicable to Vishnu,
who has every attribute
of Apollo; from _ait_,
contraction of _aditya_,
the sun.
Artimpasa, ” ” Venus Apsaras because born from
or Aripasa the froth or essence,
‘_sara_,’ of the waters,
‘_ap_’ [‘going in the
water’].
Thamimasadus ” ” Neptune Thoenatha; or _God of the
Waters_.
Apia wife of Papaios, or Earth Amba, Ama, Uma, is the
_universal mother_; wife
of ‘Baba Adam,’ as they
term the universal
father.
See Turner’s _History of the Anglo-Saxons_, vol. i. p. 35. [Many of
the identifications are obsolete.]
Footnote 4.21.15:
Sir W. Jones, “On the Lunar Year of the Hindus,” _Asiatic Researches_,
vol. iii. p. 257.
Footnote 4.21.16:
Bhaskara saptami, in honour of the sun, as a form of Vishnu (Varaha
Purana) Makari, from the sun entering the constellation _Makara_
(Pisces), the first of the solar Magha (see _Asiatic Researches_, vol.
iii. p. 273).
Footnote 4.21.17:
See Vol. I. p. 91.
Footnote 4.21.18:
This word appears to have the same import as Thor, the sun-god and war
divinity of the Scandinavians. [? _Thāwar_, Saturday; Skt. _sthāvara_,
‘stationary.’]
Footnote 4.21.19:
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