EEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}. {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}. The name Yavans seems to be used
rather indefinitely for nations situated beyond Persia to the west.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
After the time of Alexander the Great the Indians as well as the
Persians called the Greeks also Yavans." SCHLEGEL.

Lassen thinks that the Pahlavas were the same people as the {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}
of Herodotus, and that this non-Indian people dwelt on the
north-west confines of India.

227 See page 13, note 6.

228 Barbarians, non-Sanskrit-speaking tribes.

229 A comprehensive term for foreign or outcast races of different faith
and language from the Hindus.

230 The Kiratas and Haritas are savage aborigines of India who occupy
hills and jungles and are altogether different in race and character
from the Hindus. Dr. Muir remarks in his Sanskrit Texts, Vol. I. p.
488 (second edition) that it does not appear that it is the object
of this legend to represent this miraculous creation as the origin
of these tribes, and that nothing more may have been intended than
that the cow called into existence large armies, of the same stock
with particular tribes previously existing.

231 The Great God, Siva.

232 Nandi, the snow-white bull, the attendant and favourite vehicle of
Siva.

233 "The names of many of these weapons which are mythical and partly
allegorical have occurred in Canto XXIX. The general signification
of th