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
_Analysis of Ancient Mythology_, p. 312.
Footnote 4.21.47:
[_Germania_, ix.]
Footnote 4.21.48:
Hesus is probably derived from Iswara, or Isa, _the_ god. Toth was the
Egyptian, and Teutates the Scandinavian, Mercury. I have elsewhere
attempted to trace the origin of the Suevi, Su, or Yeuts of Yeutland
(Jutland), to Yute, Getae, or Jat, of Central Asia, who carried thence
the religion of Buddha into India as well as to the Baltic. There is
little doubt that the races called Jotner, Jaeter, Jotuns, Jacts, and
Yeuts, who followed the Asi into Scandinavia, migrated from the
Jaxartes, the land of the great Getae (Massagetae); the leader was
supposed to be endued with supernatural powers, like the Buddhist,
called Vidiavan, or magician, whose haunts adjoined Aria, the cradle
of the Magi. They are designated Aripunta [?], under the sign of a
serpent, the type of Budha; or Ahriman, ‘the foe of man.’ [Much of
this crude speculation is taken from Wilford (_Asiatic Researches_,
iii. 133).]
Footnote 4.21.49:
The German Ertha, to show her kindred to the Ila of the Rajputs, had
her car drawn by a cow, under which form the Hindus typify the earth
(_prithivi_).
Footnote 4.21.50:
Let it be borne in mind that Indu, Chandra, Soma, are all epithets for
‘the moon,’ or as _he_ is classically styled (in an inscription of the
famous Kumarpal, which I discovered in Chitor), Nisanath, the ruler of
darkness (Nisa).
Footnote 4.21.51:
[Kedārnāth has, of course, no connexion with the _cedar_ tree. The
origin of the name ‘Lord of Kedār’ is unknown; probably Kedār was an
old cult title of Siva.]
Footnote 4.21.52:
I have before remarked that a Sanskrit etymology might be given to
this word in Ila and Isa, _i.e._ ‘the goddess of the earth’ [?] [p.
636, note].
Footnote 4.21.53:
I was informed at Naples that four thousand of these were dug out of
one spot, and I obtained while at Paestum many fragments and heads of
this goddess.
Footnote 4.21.54:
Prichard’s _Researches into the Physical History of Man_, p. 369. [For
a full discussion of ὠμοφαγία see Miss J. E. Harrison, _Prolegomena to
the Study of Greek Religion_, 483 ff.]
Footnote 4.21.55:
The Buddhists of Tartary make no scruple of eating flesh.
Footnote 4.21.56:
_Durga_, ‘a fort’; as Suvarnadurg, ‘the golden castle,’ etc., etc.
Footnote 4.21.57:
Literally _Tripoli_, ‘the three cities,’ _pura_, _polis_.
Footnote 4.21.58:
[The double jasmin (_Michelia champaka_).]
Footnote 4.21.59:
Cupid’s bow is formed of a garland of flowers.
Footnote 4.21.60:
Madana, he who intoxicates with desire (_kama_), both epithets of the
god of love. The festivals on the 13th and 14th are called Madana
trayodasi (the tenth) and Chaturdasi (fourteenth).
Footnote 4.21.61:
_Asiatic Researches_, vol. iii. p. 278.
Footnote 4.21.62:
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