Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s4.68

v1.c17.s4.68

The Aswas were chiefly of the Indu race; yet a branch of the Suryas also bore this designation. It appears to indicate their celebrity as horsemen.⁸ All of them worshipped the horse, which they sacrificed to the sun. This grand rite, the Asvamedha, on the festival of the winter solstice, would alone go far to exemplify their common Scythic origin with the Getic Saka, authorising the inference of Pinkerton, “ that a grand Scythic nation extended from the Caspian to the Ganges.”