fJj'l PRIMITIVE HISTORY OP THE lONIAJiS. 



^^ his son is Eichica or Acharchel. From this Richica came, after 

 two descents, Parasurama,^^^ who swept the Kshettriyas from the 

 earth, and he is the Greek Perseus on the one hand and the Egyptian 

 Rameses on the other, who, at Joppa, where Perseus meb the Ceto, 

 Cheta or Hittites, and elsewhere in their Palestinian home, warred 

 against the descendants of Achashtari, the son of Ashchur.-^^^ When 

 the way is made clear by the recovery of the earlier history of the 

 world in Egypt and neighbouring lands, I hope to enter upon the 

 story of the later period to which Parasurama belongs. The wife of 

 Chyavana was Arushi, and in her I recognize Marica, the wife of 

 Faunus. She must have belonged to the family of Mareshah, being 

 probably his daughter and the sister of Hebron. ■^^° The Indian form 

 of her name is similar to that which appears in the Arish and 

 -^rodach, as compared with the Marsyas and Merodach. The story 

 of Alpheus and Arethusa may present the same fact. It is worthy 

 of note that Indra is called Upendra or Abn-i-a and Maghavan, a 

 Word like Machbenah, a place in Palestine, which was- named in 

 all probability after Achban. Rama also is called TJpendra and 

 Mahendra, the latter name indicating his descent from Indra, or 

 Onam.^^^ 



Turning to the second son of Onam, I cannot doubt, from the 

 etymology of the word, that the Vedas took their name from him. 

 He may be Jatavedas or Agni, and thus the early Egyptian Ptah 

 or Ptah-hotep, a copy of whose book, written in the time of Assa- 

 Tankera, or his grandson Zaza, Avas obtained for the Imperial library 

 of France.^^' I do not assert that Ptah-hotep's book of morals and 



183 Yi^e Muir's Sanscrit Tests, Vol. i. Ch. iv. Section xviii. 



189 This legend is one of the most famous in Indian story, and was among the first that led 

 me to associate the myths of the Hindoos with the early period to which my researches have 

 been confined. The connection is hinted at in my paper, " The Pharoah of the Exodus identified 

 in the myth of Adonis," an essay enth'ely wrong in most of its conclusions, yet presenting the 

 germs of developments more consistent with fact. In the paper on "The Coptic Element in 

 the Indo-European Languages," I have worked out the common origin of Parasu and Lahrad, 

 denoting the axe. The Irish Lahradh or Maoin with the horse's ears, recalling the story 

 of Midas, is really Meonothai or Seti-Menephthah, the father of Rameses, and the ears are 

 those of the ass which appear on his monuments. Jupiter Labradeus has the same origin. 



iso-The Arish, named from Mareshah, and taking the form Larissa, Is the Sanscrit Rasa 

 connected with the Indian story of "tlie cows." 



191 Rama, I think, must be the same person as Urva, who as Har-em-heb is made the same as 

 Armais and Rameses in certain lists. As the son of Achban, Upendra is a name that he 

 might easily bear. 



192 Lenormant and Chevalier, i. 209. I have already suggested that Ptah is the Indian Agni, 

 although I cannot account for the etymological difference. He may represent Jadag, to whose 

 name his bears a resemblance that the Coptic article makes complete. 



