Crossword-Solution: ASWAS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The nation had many kings, from whom the Sacans (_Sakae_), the Massagetae (_Getae_ or _Jats_), the Ari-aspians (_Aswas_ of Aria), and many other races.

The calculated period of the invasion of the Takshaks, or Nagvansa, under Sheshnag, is about six or seven centuries before the Christian era, at which very [105] period the Scythic invasion of Egypt and Syria, “by the sons of Togarmah riding on horses” (the Aswas, or Asi), is alike recorded by the prophet Ezekiel and Diodorus.

Its name, as well as this epithet of the bard, induces a belief that it is a branch of the Aswas, with the prefix of _sar_, denoting ‘essence,’ or priority.

Hari accompanied Rama to Lanka, as did the Egyptian Apollo, Rameses-Sesostris, on his expedition to India: both were attended in their expedition by an army of Satyrs, or tribes bearing the names of different animals: and as we have the Aswas, the Takshaks, and the Sasas of the Yadu tribes, typified under the horse, the serpent, and the hare, so the races of Surya, of which Rama was the head, may have been designated Riksh and Hanuman, or bears and monkeys.

The Barahas are the hogs; the Numris, the foxes; Takshaks, the snakes; Aswas or Asi, the horses, etc.