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probable,^^" Abishur, however, appears again under the not so easily 

 recognized form of Vicram Maharajah, Yicramaditya or Yacradanta. 

 As Vacradanta, he is king of Carusha, and prince of the Yavanas or 

 lonians.^^^ As Yicramaditya, he follows Yoodis'theer or Achashtari 

 in the list of early Indian monarchs.^^^ His father is Gandharba- 

 Sena, but his grandfather is Indra.^^^ Gandharba-Sena is certainly 

 not like Soma, but his association with the Pitris and Apsaras favours 

 the Abishur connection of his son, and in one place, at least, he and 

 Soma are made husbands of the same wife.^^* Gandharba-Sena must, 

 therefore, rejjresent Soma in this legend. Kapila, who is Abihail, 

 was the daughter of Daksha, and the mother of "Ambrosia, Brahmans, 

 Kine, Gandhai'vas and Apsarasas ;" but Indu Soma is made the 

 husband of Daksha's daughter. ^^° A better connection for Abihail, 

 however, is found in the story of Yicram Maharajah, for there she is 

 his wife Buccoulee, who is no doubt the same as Muchielal.^^^ Fol- 

 lowing out the line of Abishur, Ahban appears in Chyavana, called 

 the son of Manu, inasmuch as Ammon adopted him, when, after the 

 death of Abishur, he married his widow Abihail. But Chyavana is 

 also said to descend from the Pitris,^^' who, like the Paters, Pateras 

 and Petras, have been already connected with Abishur or Dyauspitar. 

 The son of Chyavana is Urva, a later Horus, Har-em-heb or Harum, 



180 Hardy's Manual of Buddliism, chap. vi. 



131 Pocooke's India in Greece, 297. It is remarkalsle to find in the list of peoples connected 

 ■with tlie Yavanas of Vacradanta, as nnder the dominion of Jarashanda, King of Magadha, 

 Chedi, under Sisupula (very like Seplul, King of Chetas, on Egyptian monuments) Surasena.s, 

 Mucutas and Pulindas (representing, perhaps, Syrians, Maachathites and Pelethites), while 

 Magadha, Mathoura and Dwaraca (answering to Megiddo, Hamatli-Dor, with Its springs, and 

 TarichEca), are places belonging to the story in which they occur. It is also to be remembered 

 that this story is one of Pandoo (Pandionidae) warfare. 



182 Yudistheer, as following Asoka, seems to be Achashtari. As the father-in-law of Jonathan 

 he connects with the Pandoo line. 

 . 183 Cox's Aryan Mythology, i. 273, note. 



184 Muir's Sanscrit Texts, i. 267, note. 



186 Id. 133, note, 124. Kine, in its form Gav, may not be foreign to Giv, Givan, Achban, and 

 the Taurus of Abisliur, his father. Brahmans the Onites were by descent from Jerachmeei. 

 Apsarasas are water nymphs, connecting with Daphne, Vanadis, Undine, &c. Tlie Indian 

 Abissares of Arrian may have been their progeny. With the cows, Soma and the stones (Petra 

 of Abishur) are connected in the Rig-Veda. As for Indu-Soma, I would naturally be disposed 

 to refer Indu to Onam, the father of Shammai, were it not for the meaning of the root Indu> 

 drop, sap, which etymologically connects with the root nataph, to drop, with wliich the name 

 Nadab is associated. From iiadav the Sanscrit indu may easily be derived. 



180 Cox's Aryan Mythology, ii. 352. 



187 He is also called a son of Bhrigu, and this, I am convinced, is a form of Jerach, with tlie 

 Coptic article. It connects with the lunar race of Pruyag. It was to avenge the Bhrigus 

 or ancient Phrygian stock, that Parasurama swept the Kshettriyas from the earth. With the 

 hymn-singing Bhrigus the Germanic god of song Bragi must be united. I shall yet unite the 

 •Jerachmeelites with the Muses. 



