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the respected mi ionary ‘and Dravidian scholar, has described (Indian Antiq., Dec. 1894), a ‘Picus Giru whose friendship he valued, finding him “a model of accurate, painstaking, self-denying, and conscientious adherence to the letter of his religion... a man of saintly and enlightened devotion, full of repose, and gladly awaiting his call home.” He believed the soul to come from, and return to, Siva after many incarnations. The Giru who has attained to this reunion is worshiped as the image of God on earth. m2 Gushtasp. Kustaspi. The Hystaspes of the Greeks, ancestor of the first kings of Persia, and father of Darius I, who acceded 521 Bc. He is a leading figure in the later legends of the Shahnameh, Gut. Gud. Akkadian: “mighty one,” “bull”: Turkish Kit “mighty”; perhaps connected with the Indian Khuda, and Teutonic Gott ‘‘God”; as also with the name of the Goths. 203