SACRED ISLES IN THE WEST, &C. 281. 



As-hurh, or As-gard, was in the East. Besides 

 mount M6ru is another Suralayam^ As-burh^ As- 

 gard, and is in the East. 



The Jews and the Arabians, to tliis day, call the 

 South Yaman, Yamin, and Jamin, which inijjly the 

 right. The Hindus call the South also Yanii/a ox 

 Jdmya, and Yamasya; because Yama (Pluto), 

 called also Yaman, is the guardian ot" that quarter; 

 and when Pliny* says, that the Hindus called 

 the South Dramasa, it should be Diamasa, t'rom 

 Jamasya, as Dianmua for Jamunci^ the I'w ax J wnnd. 

 We have seen that dciion in Greek, and dcxttr, 

 dext^rum in Latin, are derived from the Sanscrit 

 dacshin'a, dacsha-tir, and dacslia-tiram : and it is 

 not improbable, but that sinister, sinistrum, sinis- 

 terium, or the left in Latin, and aristeros, arisieron 

 in Greek, are equally derived from the Sanscrit 

 ^Setiis-tir, or 'Senis-tiram, and Arasyu-tiram, or 

 A'ras-tiram ; that is to say, Saturn's quarter, in 

 the same manner that the Hindus say, Yama's 

 quarter, for the South; for Senih, or A'rah, re- 

 sided in the North: Jupiter gave him that quar- 

 ter for his residence, and made him guardian of 

 it. Saturn, according to Cicero and Plutarch, 

 was peculiarly worshipped by the nations in the 

 Western parts oi Europe, and in the North ; though 

 the latter says, that, in process of time, his wor- 

 ship began gradually to decline there. He was 

 born in the left, and perished on the right. The 

 Greeks and lioinans considered the South as on the 

 right, and the North on the left. Among them, 

 as well as the Hindus, the right was considered as 

 more honourable, and, of course, in worshipping 

 and performing processions, they turned tow.ros 

 the right, keeping the object of their worship on 



• * Lib. 6\ c. XIX. 



