Darius Hystaspes : Darius I or Darius the Great (522-486 BC), also called Dariavaush & Darius Hystāspes (after his father Hystāspes or Vishtāspa whom he succeeded in 550), was the 3rd emperor of the Achaemenian dynasty in Persia. He consolidated the Persian Empire in the East, & is noted for his administrative genius & for his building projects. The mention of people of Gāndhāra as his subjects in his inscription at Behistun or Bahistun is the earliest epigraphic record of Indo-Persian relations, Indian subject-peoples are also mentioned in his inscriptions are Hamādān, Persepolis, & Naqshi-i-Rūstum. According to Herodotus, Gāndhāra was included in the 7th satrapy & the valley of the Sindhu formed the 20th satrapy of Darius’ empire. He derived large revenue from his Indian dominions which were also required to supply recruits to his army. With the result that as the countries grew closer & many Persian words (e.g. darogā for police official, a term which in British India was officially used for the head of their thānās, district police stations – equivalent of sub-inspector in England) & ideas entered into the political phraseology of India & to some extent also influenced her art. [S. Bhattacharya: 286-87]
... reasonably be conjectured, and the conjecture draws extraordinary strength from the fact that the father of this king is known to have been Hystaspes and this king is familiar to the Greeks as Darius Hystaspes. The Greek form "Hystaspes" is the precise equivalent of the Avestan "Vistaspa". Impressed by these facts as well as several other features of the whole case, including a tradition in Persia... mostly disposed to agree in general with Herodotus and Aristotle and other Greek writers before Christ, who place the Persian prophet several thousands of years before their own time. AH leave Darius Hystaspes centuries behind. We also need to make no bones about disregarding the apparent multiple correspondence on our hands and the "weighty opinions" in its favour. We are not forced to accept... traditions of the Achaemenid chancelleries are maintained here. These traditions may have formed themselves on an antecedent practice such as we find in our inscription. We know that Xerxes and Darius Hystaspes and perhaps even Cyrus were masters of Arachosia and other regions west of the Indus: even some parts about the Indus were under Persian control and this control continued up to 330 B. C. when ...
... therefore that if the Hindus took the word Yavana from, it must have been through the Persians and not direct from the Greek language. But the connection of the Persians with India was as old as Darius Hystaspes who had certainly reason to know the Greeks. It is therefore impossible to say that the Indians had not heard about the Greeks as long ago as 500 B.C. Even if they had not, the mention of Yavanas ...
... (Pensif) Son of Shyam Sundar The Mother [ST] Dara A name borne in ancient times (Given to Ibrahim) To Dara There were two Emperors of Persia named Darius (Dara). The first was Darius Hystaspes, the greatest of his dynasty, and the other Darius Codomanus, the last of the line who was conquered by Alexander. It is the first whose name you bear. Sri Aurobindo [ST] Datta (The ...
... Moghul dynasty whom Aurangzeb imprisoned and killed. Dara Shukoh was a scholar. He translated the Gita and the Vedas into Persian. Dara Shukoh was, in a much earlier birth, in the 5th century B.C., Darius Hystaspes of Persia. He was the greatest of his dynasty. Tazdar Begum remained Tazdar, Mehdi Begum became Chinmayee and Zahara Begum was changed to Sudhira. The brothers Ishaque and Yaqoob were named Prashanto ...
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