Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s4.63

v1.c17.s4.63

¹ [There is no evidence, beyond resemblance of name, to connect the Jats with the Getae.] ² Royal pastors [?]. ³ [iv. 59.] The sun was their ‘ great deity,’ though they had in Xamolxis a lord of terror, with affinity to Yama, or the Hindu Pluto. “ The chief divinity of the Fenns, a Scythic race, was Yammalu ” (Pinkerton’s Hist. of the Goths, vol. ii. p. 215). ⁴ iv. 45 [Asia probably means ‘ land of the rising sun.’] ⁵ Āsa, ‘ hope.’ ⁶ Sakambhari : from sakham, the plural of sakha, ‘ branch or race,’ and ambhar, ‘ covering, protecting.’ [The word means ‘ herb nourishing.’] ⁷ Mata, ‘ mother.’ ⁸ Aswa and haya are synonymous Sanskrit terms for ‘ horse ’; asp in Persian; and as applied by the prophet Ezekiel [xxxviii. 6] to the Getic invasion of Scythia, A.C. 600 : “ the sons of Togarmah riding on horses ”; described by Diodorus, the period the same as the Takshak invasion of India.