According to Herodotus, the Scythic _sakae_ enumerated eight races with the epithet of royal, and Strabo mentions one of the tribes of the Thyssagetae as boasting the title of Basilii. [Herodotus (iv. 22) speaks of the Thyssagetae, possibly meaning ‘lesser,’ Getae, as contrasted with the Massagetae or ‘greater’ Getae, but he does not call them ‘royal’; and, in any case, they have no connexion with the Rājputs (see Rawlinson, _Herodotus_, 3rd ed. iii. 209).] The Rajputs assert that in ancient times they only enumerated eight royal sakham or branches, namely, Surya, Soma, Haya or Aswa (_qu._ Asi?) Nima, and the four tribes of Agnivansa, namely, Pramara, Parihara, Solanki, and Chauhan. Abulghazi states that the Tatars or Scythians were divided into six grand families. The Rajputs have maintained these ideas, originally brought from the Oxus. Footnote 10.1.4: [The ancient Māhishmati (_IGI_, xvii. 8 ff.). Sahasra or Sahasra Vāhu Arjuna, ‘the thousand-armed,’ of the Haihaya tribe, is the reputed ancestor of the Kalachuris of Chedi (_BG_, i. Part ii. 293, 410; Smith, _EHI_, 394).] Footnote 10.1.5: Or, as the bard says, Daityas, Asuras, and Danavas, or demons and infidels, as they style the Indo-Scythic tribes from the north-west, who paid no respect to the Brahmans. Footnote 10.1.6: Āyudh-guru. [In the previous version (Vol. I. p. 113) the priest is Vasishtha.] Footnote 10.1.7: My last pilgrimage was to Abu. Footnote 10.1.8: [There is no local tradition corroborating the connexion of the Chauhāns with Garha-Mandla, and it is merely a fiction of the Chauhān bards (C. Grant, _Gazetteer Central Provinces_, Introd. i.).] Footnote 10.1.9: [Another title of the Parihār tribal goddess is Chāwanda Māta, whose temple is in the Jodhpur fort (_Census Report, Mārwār_, 1891, ii. 31). In Gujarāt the Jādejas worship Āsāpūrna; the Jhālas Ādya; the Gohils Khodiyār Māta; the Jethvas Vindhyavāsini; the Pramārs Mandavri; the Chāvadas and Vāghelas Chāmunda (_BG_, ix. Part i. 136).] Footnote 10.1.10: It is by no means uncommon for this arrogant priesthood to lay claim to powers co-equal with those of the Divinity, nay, often superior to them. Witness the scene in the Ramayana, where they make the deity a mediator, to entreat the Brahman Vashishta to hearken to King Vishwamitra’s desire for his friendship. Can anything exceed this? Parallel it, perhaps, we may, in that memorable instance of Christian idolatry, where the Almighty is called on to intercede with St. Januarius to perform the annual miracle of liquefying the congealed blood. Footnote 10.1.11: [This is a fiction of the bards, and the S. Indian burial-mounds have no connexion with the Chauhāns (see _IGI_, ii. 94).] Footnote 10.1.12: [This S. Indian Chauhān empire is a fiction, the object being to provide a princely genealogy for the S. Indian royal families (see _BG_, ix. Part i. 484).] Footnote 10.1.13: