Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s4.10

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the Indu of the Puranas. In the latter, Ai, we have even the same name [Ayus] as in the Puranas for the lunar ancestor. The Tatars all claim from Ai, ‘the moon,’ the Indus of the Puranas. Hence with them, as with the German tribes, the moon was always a male deity. The Tatar Ai had a son, Yulduz. His son was Hyu, from whom¹ came the first race of the kings of China. The Puranic Ayus had a son, Yadu (pronounced Jadon); from whose third son, Haya, the Hindu genealogist deduces no line, and from whom the Chinese may claim their Indu¹ origin. Il Khan (ninth from Ai) had two sons: first, Kian; and secondly, Nagas; whose descendants peopled all Tatary. From Kian, Jenghiz Khan claimed descent.² Nagas was probably the founder of the Takshak, or Snake race³ of the Puranas and Tatar genealogists, the Tak-i-uk Moguls of De Guignes.