Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.554
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.554
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B.C. c. 486.—“*Adam Dáryavush Khsháyathiya vazarka* . . . . . *Pársa, Pár-sahiyá putra, Ariya, Ariya chitra*.” i.e. “I (am) Darius, the Great King, the King of Kings, the King of all inhabited countries, the King of this great Earth far and near, the son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian, a Persian, an Arian, of Arian descent.”—In *Rawlinson’s Herodotus*, 3rd ed., iv, 250.