INDO-SCYTHI and Indo-Scythian are terms employed to designate races who became early occupants of N.1V. India. The Yuchi, established in Bactria and along the Jihun eventually bore the name of Jeta or Yetan, that is to say, Gates. Their empire subsisted a long time in this part of Asia, and extended even into India. These are the people whom the Greeks knew under the name of Indo-Scythi. The period allowed by all authorities for the migration of these Scythic hordes into Europe, is also that for their entry into India.' The sixth century is that calculated for the Takshak from Sehesnagdes ; and it is on this event and reign that the Puranas declare that from this period no prince of pure blood would be found, but that the Sudra, the Turshka, and the Yavan would prevail. All the Lido Scythic invaders held the religion of Buddha, and hence the conformity of manners and mythology between the Scandinavian or German tribes and the Rajputs increased by comparing their martial poetry. The Indo-Scythi of Arrian were a Scythic tribe who had settled along the Indus. They attempted to penetrate eastward by way of Kandesh and Malwa, but were opposed by Vik ramaditya. The Indo-Scythia of the Greeks was
therefore the valley of the Indus, Northern Indo Scythia being the Panjab proper, and occupied by the Med race, and Southern Indo-Scythia being Sind, occupied by the Jat, a tribe of the Abar hordes. Pliny calls the western region of the Caucasus, Scythia Sendica ; and about this were congregated the Maidi, next to the Sindi and Kerketm ; a tribe of Arii or Arichi, who gave their name to an island of Aria, or Arietas, or river Arius ; a tribe of Maetes or Mmotai, with towns named Madia and Matium ; a tribe , of Matiani, with a town of Mateta ; a tribe of Kotom, with a country called Kutais, and cities called Kuta and Kutaia ; a tribe named Koichi, with a mountain and a district called Koli ; a tribe of Iberes, with a town called Iberia ; a tribe called Buonomai, a district of Minyas, a city of Male ; and a tribe of Baternm, with a river called Bathys, and a port named Bata ;—these names re minding the investigator of the Med, Kathi, Kol, Abhir, Mina, Mallina, and Bhatti of the valley of the Indus. See India.