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APPENDIX

I have alreadv •;!·"··rt in brief my reasons for provisionally
identifying Sk . . Jg";-' ,, . 1, :, Gk. Orion~ and here I wish to
exami'ne' the poi r.t ·~· r . r lJ · :-;; t b('''"' "~ my case rests upon it,
but simply with a ¥it · '''ate the rea{ nature of the objections
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that may be urged ''"' i· j ;;·-proposed identification. If philo-
logists are still inclined t'' L"~d that the id~ntification is not even
probable, we shall !::we to look for some other Aryim derivation,
as the similarity of the Eastern ani! Western traditions of Orion
is, in my opinion. too strong td be accidental.
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Agraya~ is evidently derived from agra'and· ayana. Of these
ayana, which ~s derived fromJ, to go, may be represented by ion
in Greek : cf. Sk. avus; Gk. aion Sk. comparative termination
(nom. sin.) £yan Gl<. £6n; Sk. termination ayana, as in Gargyayana,
Gk. ion, as in J.;.; ,;niun, • the descendant of K'ronos '. The initial
a iu Sk. Ag;:~yana nlay also become 6 in Greek; as in Sk. dshayana,
·Gk. okeanos; Sk. u_;hu,~Gk. ukus. San~k.rit Ag~ayOT)ll may therefore
be represented by Or:'41 1 in Greek, and we h~ve now to see if g
may be dropped before 1_ and Orgiun can be. ~hanged into Orion.
It is a general phonetic r.ule in Teutonic languages that a gutteral
may disappear 1,._;u;e a liquid, whether initially or medially; cf.
Ger. nagel. ln~ . :wt!· hagel and hail: regen and rain; Sk. kravis,
0. H. G . ,.,; p. ,! \tax Mtill~r has extended the application of
this rule to Lat:1: ;,,\ Grt:cl..., and Latin and French in his Lectures
on the ScienCL: l.anguage, Vol. JJ, p. 309. He compares Latin
paganus with ! "1, J'<lien, Gk. lfichnr with Lat. lana; and points
out that on r , , ... i: t~ principle lumen stands for lucmen, examen
for cYagmen, tlamma for fiagma. K. Brugmann (Com. Gr. I,§
5!.3 ) \\OUid J,:r -.: 0. Jr. t'ir, Cymr. aer from agro on the same
principle. This shows that Sk. agra may be easily represented by
ar in Teutonic languages. We may account for the change in two
ways. We may either suppose that the final gutteral of a root is
sometimes dropped before terminations beginning with a liquid
and thus put luc·men ""lu-men, jiilg-men =ful-men, flag-men=
ffa-men, ag--men =a-men, ag-ra = a-ra (with compeJ.lsation vowel
lengthening; Bopp derives Sk. roman, a hair from ruh-man growing,