Note 14 — CHAPTER 21
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Turner, when discussing the history of the Sakai, or Sakaseni, of the Caspian, whom he justly supposes to be the Saxons of the Baltic, takes occasion to introduce some words of Scythic origin (preserved by ancient writers), to almost every one of which, without straining etymology, we may give a Sanskrit origin. [There is no ground for ascribing a Scythic origin to the proper names in the text.]
Scythic. Sanskrit or Bhakha.
Exampaios sacred ways Agham is the sacred book; pai and pada, a foot; pantha, a path.
Arimu one Ad is the first; whence Adima, or man.
Spou an eye.
Oior a man.
Pata to kill Badh, to kill.
Tahiti the chief deity is Vesta Tap is heat or flame; the type of Vesta.
Papaios ” ” Jupiter Baba, or Bapa, the universal father. The Hindu Jiva-pitri, or Father of Life [?].
Oitosuros ” ” Apollo Aitiswara, or Sun-God, applicable to Vishnu, who has every attribute of Apollo; from ait, contraction of aditya, the sun.
Artimpasa, or Aripasa ” ” Venus Apsaras because born from the froth or essence, ‘sara,’ of the waters, ‘ap’ [‘going in the water’].
Thamimasadus ” ” Neptune Thoenatha; or God of the Waters.
Apia wife of Papaios, or Earth Amba, Ama, Uma, is the universal mother; wife of ‘Baba Adam,’ as they term the universal father.
See Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons, vol. i. p. 35. [Many of the identifications are obsolete.]