Jainism, Or, the Early Faith of Asoka : With Illus. of the Ancient Religions of the East, From the Pantheon of the Indo-Scythians ; to Which is Prefixed a Notice On Bactrian Coins And Indian Dates
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p. 131. 5 As ia note 1, Mr. Muir also considers that some passages in the Rig -Veda symbolize the Sun under the foi-m of a horse.— Texts, vol. v. p. 158. Prof. Goldstucker has further traced the derivation of the name of the Aswins from " aswa, meaning literally the pervader, then the quick ; then the horse, which becomes the symbol of the sun " — J.R.A.S. Vol. it. n.s. p. 14 ; Mrs. Manning, Ancient India, vol. i. p. 9. I am fully aware that a coin is extant bearing the letters APOOAcnO (A^floo...o-iro P), but the use of the aspa " horse " in this case is not necessarily conclusive against the interpretation of the independent transcript above suggested. THE EAELY FAITH OF ASOKA. 77 The *APo or *appo is equally obvious in its intention and in the pictured outline given to the central figure. The name, of course, is derived from the Latin fero, as embodied in Lucifer and Diana. Lucif era. The early Greeks only knew the designation as that of a light-house, without being able to supply a root for the word, or, indeed, to interpret it otherwise than as "an island in the bay of Alexandria." The term is constant in ancient Persian combinations, as Ataphernes, etc., — which eventually settled into the Atiirparn or Fire Priest of the Sassanian period.^ III.
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