Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s3.9

v2.c27.s3.9

¹ [Such analogies of custom do not prove ethnical identity.] ² [The theory breaks down, because the name of the sword of Argantýr was Tyrfing, or better Tyrfingr, the derivation of which word, as Mr. H. M. Chadwick kindly informs me, according to Vigfússon’s Icelandic Dictionary, is from *tyrfi*, a resinous fir-tree used for kindling a fire, because the sword flamed like resinous wood.] ³ See Turner’s *History of Anglo-Saxons* for Indo-Scythic words. ⁴ There were no less than four distinguished leaders of this name amongst the vassals of the last Rajput emperor of Delhi; and one of them, who turned traitor to his sovereign and joined Shihabu-d-din, was actually a Scythian, and of the Gakkhar race, which maintained their ancient habits of polyandry even in Babur’s time. The Haoli Rao Hamira was lord of Kangra and the Gakkhars of Pamir. ⁵ Turner, when discussing the history of the Sakai, or Sakaseni, of the Caspian, whom he justly supposes to be the Saxons of the Baltic, takes occasion to introduce some words of Scythic origin (preserved by ancient writers), to almost every one of which, without straining etymology, we may give a Sanskrit origin. [There is no ground for ascribing a Scythic origin to the proper names in the text.]