Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.90

v2.c27.s2.90

The Greeks and Celts worshipped Apollo under the title of Carneios,² which “selon le scholiaste de Théocrite” is derived from Carnos, “qui ne prophétisoit que des malheurs aux Héraclides lors de leur incursion dans le Péloponnèse. Un d’eux appelé Hippotés, le tua d’un coup de flèche.” Now one of the titles of the Hindu Apollo is Karna, ‘the radiant’; from *karna*, ‘a ray’; and when he led the remains of the Harikulas in company with Baldeva (the god of strength), and Yudhishthira, after the great international war, into the Peloponnesus of Saurashtra, they were attacked by the aboriginal Bhils, one of whom slew the divine Karna with an arrow. The Bhils claim to be of Hayavansa, or the race of Haya, whose chief seat was at Maheswar on the Nerbudda : the assassin of Karna would consequently be Hayaputra, or descendant of Haya¹ [547].