Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s4.103

v1.c17.s4.103

¹ ‘ Mahurat ka shikar.’ ² The Siebi of Tacitus. ³ Sammes’s Saxon Antiquities. ⁴ Hara is the Thor of Scandinavia ; Hari is Budha, Hermes, or Mercury. ⁵ Mallet derives it from kempfer, ‘ to fight.’ [The name is said to mean ‘ comrades’ (Rhys, Celtic Britain, 116). Irmansūl means ‘ a colossus,’ and has no connexion with Skr. sūla (Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, i. 115).] ⁶ Ku is a mere prefix, meaning ‘ evil’; ‘ the evil striker (Mar).’ Hence, probably, the Mars of Rome. The birth of Kumar, the general of the army of the gods, with the Hindus, is exactly that of the Grecians, born of the goddess Jahnavi (Juno) without sexual intercourse. Kumāra is always accompanied by the peacock, the bird of Juno. [Kumāra probably means ‘ easily dying’; there is no connexion with Mars, originally a deity of vegetation.] ⁷ For a drawing of the Scandinavian god of battle see Sammes.