Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s5.t2.117

v1.c17.s5.t2.117

Of its ancient history sufficient has been already said. We will merely add, that the kingdom of the great Getae, whose capital was on the Jaxartes, preserved its integrity and name from the period of Cyrus to the fourteenth century, when it was converted from idolatry to the faith of Islam. Herodotus [iv. 93-4] informs us that the Getae were theists and held the tenet of the soul’s immortality; and De Guignes,² from Chinese authorities, asserts that at a very early period they had embraced the religion of Fo or Buddha.