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Rh The names of the Babylonian kings furnished by Nabathæan writings cause at first the greatest astonishment. Here are the seventeen names of kings which I have gathered from Dr. Chwolson: Abéd-Fergílá, Bédiná, Salbamá, Harmáti, Hináfa, Kamash, Marináta, Númrúda, Kerúsáni, Kijámá, Riccána, Sahá, Shámajá, Shémúta, Súsikyá, Thibátána, Zahmuna. Only one of these names positively corresponds with those known to us elsewhere, and that is Númrúda, which, as we have seen, carries us back to a fabulous antiquity. Another name, that of Kerúsáni, may possibly, I think, correspond with pre-historical traditions. A hero, common to the literature of the Vedas, and in the Zend-Avesta, and who therefore may be carried back to ancient Arian mythology, is Kerúsaní, who, like Nimrod,

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