uds of the evening. These men were the true
ancestors of our race, and the Veda is the oldest book we have in
which to study the first beginnings of our language, and of all that
is embodied in language. We are by nature Aryan, Indo-European, not
Semitic: our spiritual kith and kin are to be found in India,
Persia, Greece, Italy, Germany: not in Mesopotamia, Egypt, or
Palestine."

_Chips from a German Workshop_, Vol. I. pp. 8. 4.

19 As with the ancient Persians and Scythians, Indian princes were
carefully instructed in archery which stands for military science in
general, of which, among Hindu heroes, it was the most important
branch.

20 Chief of the three queens of Dasaratha and mother of Rama.

21 From _hima_ snow, (Greek {~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}-{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, Latin hiems) and _alaya_ abode,
the Mansion of snow.

22 The moon (_Soma_, _Indu_, _Chandra_ _etc._) is masculine with the
Indians as with the Germans.

23 Kuvera, the Indian Plutus, or God of Wealth.

24 The events here briefly mentioned will be related fully in the
course of the poem. The first four cantos are introductory, and are
evidently the work of a later hand than Valmiki's.

25 "Chandra, or the Moon, is fabled to have been married to the
twenty-seven daughters of the patriarch Daksha, or Asvini and the
rest, who are in fact personifications of the Lunar Asterisms. His
favourite amongst them was Rohini to whom he so wholly devoted
himself as to neglect the rest. They complained to their father, and
Daksha repeatedly interposed, till, finding his remonstrances vain,
he denounced a curse upon his son-in-law, in consequence of which he
remained childless and became affected by consumption. The wives of
Chandra having interceded in his behalf with their father, Daksha
modified an imprecation which he could not recall, and pronounced
that the decay should be periodical only, not permanent, and that it
should alternate with periods of recovery. Hence the successive wane
and increase of the Moon. _Padma_, _Purana_, _Swarga-Khanda,_ Sec.
II. _Rohini_ in Astronomy is the fourth lunar mansion, containing
five stars, the principal of whic