242 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT; 



the elder Gautama or Etam, who is Adima, and whom the Greek 

 legends, under the names of Cadmus and Athamas, frequently con- 

 found with Achuzam. To Cashmere belong the Kshetriyas, who are 

 unmistakably the descendants of Achashtari, no other etymology for 

 the name of the son of Ashchur being possible than that of the ancient 

 Aryan word "Kshattra." The smiting of the Kshetriyas by Para- 

 surama is the same story as that of the fig-ht of Perseus with Ceto of 

 Joppa, and both of these legends are but echoes of the historical facts 

 which the monuments of Egypt afford, that Rameses, whose surcharge 

 is the axe (Parasu), chastised the Shethites or Hittites of the line of 

 Achashtari in their Philistine home. The Kshetriyas, like the 

 Persian Temendonus and the Greek Aegaeon or Briareus, belonged 

 to the Centimani. Achashtari's abbreviated name Sheth survives in- 

 the Indian genealogy of Typlion, in which Setu appropriately follows 

 Babbhru. He must also be Yoodistheer, coming after Asoka, who is 

 the great enemy of Duryodhana, the head of the Kooroos, in whom 

 we have no difficulty in recognizing Dardanus or Zereth of Zarthan, 

 the head of the Cherethites. The Satya yug and loka take their 

 name from him, as the Dvapara from his brother Hepher. 



I have already identified Zereth with Duryodhana, the h.ead of the 

 Kooroos. His name, like that of Dhrita in the line of the Indian 

 Typhon, and Dhritarashtra, designates a family rather than an indi- 

 vidual. Koorookshetra, on which the rival sons of Naarah and 

 Helah or their descendants fought, combines the names of the com- 

 batants. The Krita and Treta yugs ai^e, I think, the same, although 

 it is possible that the latter refers to Jered^ the father of Gedor, who 

 may have descended from Zereth, for I am as yet ignorant of his- 

 family. The Krita and Satya ages are, however, made identical, 

 showing the contemporaneousness of Zereth and Acliashtari. Many 

 connections have presented themselves for Z'ohar and Ethnan ; but as 

 I know nothing definitely coxicerning them, I prefer for the present 

 to leave them in abeyance. 



A very important branch of the Ashchurite family, which finds • 

 abundant mention in the ancient Indian writings, is that of Ezra. 

 Mered and Jered, who belong to this line, are the eponyms or 

 ancestors of the Sanskrit Maruts and Eudras, Aditi being in all 

 probability the Jehudijah of Chronicles, and the Ghandaras of the 

 same stock, the families of Gedor; while the Sakyas or Scyths came 

 ;from the Sucathites or people of Socho, of whom Heber was tke 



