India: What can it teach us? / A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge

by F. Max Müller

[230] L. c. VIII. 78, 5.

[231] I am very strongly inclined to regard these names as Kushite or Semitic; Hermes, from חרם, the sun; Dionysos, from dyan, the judge, and nisi, mankind; Orpheus, from Orfa, the Arabic name of Edessa; Prometheus, from pro and manthanô, to learn.—A. W.

[232] Muir, iv. p. 23.

[233] Ibid. p. 142. An excellent paper on Parganya was published by Bühler in 1862, "Orient und Occident," vol. i. p. 214.

[234] Rig-Veda VII. 101, 6.

[235] Rig-Veda V. 63, 3-6.

[236] L. c. I. 38, 9.

[237] L. c. I. 164, 51.

[238] L. c. X. 98, 1.

[239] Rig-Veda V. 83. See Bühler, "Orient und Occident," vol. i. p. 214; Zimmer, "Altindisches Leben," p. 43.