156 Lieut.-Colonel Ton’s Comparison of the Hindu and Theban Hercules. 
The annals of the Yadu-Bhattis of Jesselmér who are descended from 
Heri, take up the history of his sons immediately following his death. 
Nasa, his grandson, who returned to Mathura on that event, carrying with 
him all the insignia of rule, did not remain there, but followed his relative 
out of India proper; they say that his descendants ruled in Zabulist’han,* 
established Gujni, and were the progenitors of the Chagitais, and that their 
A. A.C. 1078, according to the best chronologists, and the Great War about 1100. There are 
besides other curious affinities :— 
The Grecian Heraclide claim Atreus as pro- The Indo-Scythic Herictila claim from Atri, 
genitor. father of Soma or Indu. 
Euristhenes was the first king of the Hera- Yudishtra, king of the Hericila, led the co- 
clidae. lony out of India. Etymologists would find 
sufficient similitude in the names of the leaders ; 
the initial syllable is the same in both; 7 and 
d are permutable letters, and the euphonous 
Greek termination for the harsher Indian is 
common. 
The Ionians or Greeks have their name from The Hericilas and Pandus have also an ances- 
Javan, the seventh from Japhet, son of Noah. tor in Javan, or Yavan, the 13th from Yaydt, the 
third son of their primeval patriarch, Nahus. 
This Yavan is the progenitor of the Indo-Scythic 
Yavanas, constantly alluded to in Menu and the 
Poorans. 
Eight hundred years after this memorable event, Alexander, of Yavan descent, invaded the 
haunts of the Hericdla, and found abundant sources of analogy in the theogonies of India and 
his own country to amuse his veterans. If he built a fleet in the Punjab, navigated the Indus, 
and coasted to Babylon, what physical impossibility existed to the Indo-Scythic Hericulas wan- 
dering westward to Thrace and Ionia—a line of route abundantly tracked in subsequent ages, 
by Huns, Getes, and Tatars, all from the same haunts of Central Asia ? 
That sublime, though apocryphal epic, the Iliad, is asserted to have been written by Lycurgus, 
during his residence amongst the Indo-Getic races of Parva-Scythia, whence Greece and Italy 
were colonized and civilized. This region, Thrace, was the very cradle of divine poesy, and from 
it they bring Orpheus, who is vested with all the attributes and qualifications of the Naréda of the 
Hindus. If Yudishtra, Baldeva, and the Hericulas, journied thus far, carrying their letters and 
their bards in their train, then, indeed, the events of the Ma&habharata, the divine strains of 
Vyasa and Sookdéva, might have afforded abundant hints to Lycurgus for the composition of the 
Iliad; and hence the similarity of the characters ascribed to the Pandus, with those of the 
Celto-Etruscan, would at once be accounted for. 
* This is the original country of Rustam, the Persian Hercules, who is supposed by Sir W. 
Jones to have been a cotemporary of Cyrus the Great. Sir W. Ouseley has given us a very 
interesting sketch of the Persian Hero in the 2d vol. of his Travels in Persia. 
