284 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



descendant, Talimouras.'*^ Mirkhond speaks of tlie latter as the father 

 of Fars, so that he is thus made to connect with a son of Gilead, for 

 nothing is plainer than that Peresh was the namer of Fars or 

 PersiS.^^ But the line of which Kaiomers was the first, was called 

 the Pischdadian, and a son or gi-andson of that primitive king was 

 Houcheng or Pischdad. The name Pischdad is sufficiently near, with 

 the prefix of the Coptic article, to that of Ishod to make the connec- 

 tion of Kaiomers and Pischdad significant- The statement of MiT?k- 

 hond, that Houcheng or Pischdad was by some writers supposed 

 to be the same as Mahaleel, may point to an early tradition which 

 united his name with that of his brother Mahalah.^^ It is somewhat 

 remarkable that Pliny should mention among the inventors of magic 

 the Median Apusorus and Zaratus.^^ The name Apusorus is so un-. 

 common that it is pardonable to associate it with Abiezer, and to 

 suggest the possibility that Zaratus may represent his nephew, I>arda. 

 The ancient geography of India contained names that fitly set forth 

 the whole family of Zimran. Such are the Kamarupas, Kimpurushas,. 

 Tumburas, Mlechhas, Nishadas, Apsarasas, Mekhalas, Yamunas, 

 Kulakas and Daradas.^*^ Already we have found Amares in Bactria 

 on the Indian borders; and farther north on the Jaxartes were 

 Comari. The Moguls and Tartars may have claimed kindred with 

 them, as the descendants of Machalah and Darda. During the 

 classical period, the north-western part of India about the Indus 

 was peopled by the descendants of Zimran. Such were the Astaceni 

 and Malli ; and such, in the time of Darius Hystaspes, the Abissares 

 and the Dardse.^" Near them dwelt the Glaucse, while fai^ther south 

 the Jomanes or Jum.na commemorated Heman, and Agra, situated 

 upon it, was another record of Ezer. In the basin of the Indus we 

 also find Nagara, representing Ezer, and the Soastus with Suatene 

 as traces of Ishod. To the east, in the region of Patna, lay Miyulu 

 or Mithila, the modern name of which, Tirhut, exhibits a replace- 

 ment of Mahalah by his youngest but most distinguished son. One 

 of the mouths of the Ganges was called Camboricum, and near at. 

 hand was Cocala. Above the lower range of the Himalayas, in a 



21 Vide Shah Nameh. It is. worthy of note that Tahmouras is made the founder of Madain in 

 Irak Arabi : Geographical worlcs of Sadik Isfahani, Or. Trans. V., 46. 



22 Mirkhond''s History of the Early Kings of Persia, translated by David Shea, 134. 

 8S Mirkhond, 66. 



** H. N. XIX. 2. 



s* Muir's Sanscrit Texts. 



S6 LeEormant & Chevalier's Manual of the Ancient History of the East^ iL 141., 



