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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: Lassen interprets ophir as Abh[=idras, at the mouth of the Indus. The biblical koph is Sanskrit kapi, ape. Other doubtful equivalents are discussed by Weber, Indische Skizzen, p. 74.]
[Footnote 2: The legend of the Flood and the fancy of the Four Ages has been attributed to Babylon by some writers. Ecstein claims Chaldean influence in Indic atomic philosophy, Indische Studien, ii. 369, which is doubtful; but the Indic alphabet probably derived thence, possibly from Greece. The conquests of Semiramis (Serimamis in the original) may have included a part of India, but only Brunnhofer finds trace of this in Vedic literature, and the character of his work we have already described.]
[Footnote 3: Senart attributes to the Achaemenides certain Indic formulae of administration. IA. xx. 256.]
[Footnote 4: Certain Hindu names, like those to which we called attention in the epic, containing Mihira, i.e., Mithra; the Magas; i.e., Magi; and recommendations of sun-worship in the Pur[=a]nas are the facts on which Weber bases a theory of great influence of Persia at this later period. Weber claims, in fact, that the native sun-worship was quite replaced by this importation (Indische Skizzen, p. 104). This we do not believe. Even the great number of Persians who, driven out by Arabians, settled in Gujar[=a]t (the name of Bombay is the same with Pumbadita, a Jewish settlement in Mesopotamia) had no other effect on the Brahmanic world that absorbed them (ib. p. 109) than to intensify the fervor of a native cult.]
