[90] Muhammed used to say: “I like of your world but women and perfumes, and God has placed the refreshment of my eyes in prayers.”――(Baron Hammer.) [91] This word, not in the Dictionary, means perhaps “assembly of the nobles.” [92] Yudisht’hira, according to the Vichnu-purena (Wilson’s transl., pp. 437-459), was the son of _Kuntí_, also called _Prithá_, and of the deities Dharma, Vayu, and Indra. He was the half-brother of Karna, whom his mother conceived by _Aditya_, “the sun.” [93] In the History of Herodotus, if this be meant above, the name of Esculapius does not occur. The denomination of _Rumí_ may be applied to Asia Minor, Turkey, the whole ancient and modern empire of the Greeks and Romans; in so vast a space there was certainly more than one town with a temple and an oracular statue of Esculapius. One circumstance is singularly true in the above account of _Apu_, to wit: that Esculapius was formerly called _Apius_, Αρωγὸν αὐδήσουσιν Ἠπίου γόνον: adjutorem invocabunt Æsculapii filium――(see _Lycophron_, v. 1054); and that he was often confounded with the sun, as son of Apollo, who also was the sun, and of the nymph Coronnis, who was the daughter of _Phlegyas_, that is, “the heat of the sun.” [94] _Saklapes_ probably stands for _Serapis_. It is known that Serapis and Bacchus were the sun of autumn and the sun of spring. Serapis bore sometimes the character of the Egyptian Chmún, surnamed Esculapius. To predict and to resuscitate were powers attributed to _Apollo-Esculapius_. As the latter, so had Serapis a serpent. He was also _Osiris_. _Helios-Serapis_ and _Jupiter-Serapis_ are read upon bronzes. Temples of Serapis were numerous in Asia, Thracia, Greece, and Italy. I shall only mention that of Antium, and that at Rome, on an island of the Tiber, beyond the pons Palatinus. [95] Jangís khan, originally called Tamujin, was, according to Chinese and Moghul authorities (see _Geschichte der Ost-mongolen von Isaak Jacob Schmidt_, _Seite_ 376), born in the year of the Hejira 558 (A. D. 1162), in _Dilun Jalún_. It was in the year 1206 of our era that he received, in a general assembly of submissive Tartars, the name of _Jangis-khan_, “Great Khan:” his own tribe, which was that of _Moghuls_, before him called _Bida_, he raised to pre-eminence over all the Tartars.