[37]. Royal pastors [?]
[38]. [iv. 59.] The sun was their ‘great deity,’ though they had in Xamolxis a lord of terror, with affinity to Yama, or the Hindu Pluto. “The chief divinity of the Fenns, a Scythic race, was Yammalu” (Pinkerton’s Hist. of the Goths, vol. ii. p. 215).
[39]. iv. 45 [Asia probably means ‘land of the rising sun.’]
[40]. Āsa, ‘hope.’
[41]. Sakambhari: from sakham, the plural of sakha, ‘branch or race,’ and ambhar, ‘covering, protecting.’ [The word means ‘herb nourishing.’]
[42]. Mata, ‘mother.’
[43]. Aswa and haya are synonymous Sanskrit terms for ‘horse’; asp in Persian; and as applied by the prophet Ezekiel [xxxviii. 6] to the Getic invasion of Scythia, A.C. 600: “the sons of Togarmah riding on horses”; described by Diodorus, the period the same as the Takshak invasion of India.
[44]. [Hystaspes is from old Persian, Vishtāspa, ‘possessor of horses.’ The author derives it from a modern Hindi word hīnsna, ‘to neigh,’ possibly from recollection of the story in Herodotus iii. 85.]
[45]. [He possibly refers to the statement (Germania, v.), that their coins bore the impress of a two-horse chariot.]
[46]. Asirgarh, ‘fortress of the Asi’ [IGI, vi. 12].