The name Tanwar is not improbably simply a corruption of Kawar, and they are also altering their sept names to make them resemble those of eponymous Brahmanical gotras.
Kashyap was a Rishi or saint, but he may probably have developed into an eponymous hero from Kachhap, a tortoise.
For the tribes bordering on the Gulf of Mexico no signs have been preserved of an organization based on the relation between clans and eponymous animals, plants, and other objects.
To trace the origin of the clan to the totem is only to do what is done abundantly among uncivilized and civilized peoples (Hebrews, Greeks, and others); the eponymous ancestor is constructed out of the current name of the clan.
In the Caddo tribe clansmen refrained from killing the eponymous animal; but all members of the tribe refrained from killing eagles and panthers.
Such introduction of supernatural beings involves a deviation from the conception of the eponymous animal as independent creator of a clan.
All these and their forefathers, up to the eponymous Iar, head of the Ivernian stock, figure one after another in the artificial history of the first Scottish dynasty beyond the sea.
When Irish traditions began to be written, the Ogham alphabet was thought to be of remote antiquity, its invention being ascribed to the eponymous god Ogma.
Besides this the Rajputs have gotras, named after eponymous saints exactly like the Brahman gotras, and probably adopted in imitation of the Brahmans.
It is also recorded that the Rajpasis, the highest division of the caste, claim descent from Tilokchand, the eponymous hero of the Bais Rajputs.
Besides the bainks or septs by which marriage is regulated, they have adopted the Brahmanical eponymous gotra-names as Kashyap, Garg, Sandilya, and so on.
Far from degenerating, the Australians show advance when they supersede their beast or other totem by an eponymous human hero.
Mr. Howitt mentions a case in which a group of kindred, ceasing to use their old totemistic surname, called themselves the children of a famous dead Birraark, who thus became aneponymous hero, like Ion among the Ionians.
The eponymous hero, however, changed with each generation, so that no one name was fixed as that of tribal father, later perhaps to become a tribal god.
For eponymous medicine-men see Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p.
Jutland was acquired by Dan, theeponymous ancestor of the Danes.
According to tradition this dates from the time of Skiöldr, the eponymous ancestor of the Danish royal family of Skiöldungar.
The visitor to the Arthurian scenes finds nothing but eponymous names and superstitions--indeed, the evidence present leads him to other conclusions than those he seeks.
The regular Brahman gotras are also few in number, possibly because they were limited by the paucity of eponymous saints of the first rank.
The sections called eponymous are named after Rishis or saints mentioned in the Vedas and other scriptures and are found among the Brahmans and a few of the higher castes, such as Vasishta, Garga, Bharadwaj, Vishvamitra, Kashyap and so on.
They also have eponymous gotras, as Vasishtha, Batsa and others of the Brahmanical type, but these do not influence exogamy.
From Cawnpore, which was founded by their eponymous hero Kanh.
Like other Rajputs the Daraihans have an elaborate system of septs and subsepts, the former having the names of Rajput clans, while the latter are taken from the eponymous gotras of the Brahmans.
Lot has been sometimes connected of late with the people called on the Egyptian monuments Rotanu, or Lotanu, whom we shall have occasion to mention frequently further on: he is supposed to have been their eponymous hero.
A man only shared in house, tribe and state, so far as he was descended from particular ancestors and eponymous heroes, and due cult of these illustrious dead was the condition of his enjoying any rights or inheriting any property.
We learn nothing from Homer about "tribes" or clans with a sacred eponymous hero, or with any "hero" in the sense of the word as used in the Greece of history.
Medea is taken here and there, to Corinth, to Athens, mixed with the Theseus set of Maerchen, made the eponymous heroine of the Medes.
He seldom mentions an eponymous founder of a city, or ancestor of a people.
This is proved by the eponymous system of the Assyrians, a system much to be preferred to the Egyptian habit of dating their monuments with the year of the current reign only.
What we can assert to have been the original feature of Scyld is this--that he was the eponymous hero king of the Danes.
Of this we may be fairly certain: the Scyldingas did not get their name because they were really descended from Scyld, but Scyld was created in order to provide an eponymous father to the Scyldingas[162].
XVII 207 we have a reference to eponymousheroes of places, Ithacos and Neritos.
Teutonic heroic poetry we occasionally meet with the mythical eponymous ancestors of families, though such persons are referred to the past and not introduced into the main action of the stories.
Is it inconceivable that a name identical with that of a city should be borne by anyone except the eponymous hero of the city?
In particular we have the eponymous ancestors of families and even nations.
Cadmos is probably to be regarded as an eponymous national hero, like Dardanos.
In Scyld-Skiöldr we have the case of an eponymous ancestor appearing in the introduction to a poem which deals largely with the fortunes of his descendants.
It was in Phthia that much earlier tradition located the eponymous Hellen; and from the same district came Archandros and Architeles, the legendary progenitors of the Peloponnesian Achaeans, several generations before the Trojan War.
Are we to suppose that these persons are the eponymous heroes of the Welsh or Cymry, the Saxons, Danes and Franks?
The hypothesis which we are now testing has no relation to such figures as these--for Agamemnon, Achilles and their companions are not eponymous heroes.
XVI 694) we have apparently the case of an already existing character being turned to account as an eponymous hero.
V 333 is probably to be regarded, in some sense or other, as the eponymous ancestor of the Cadmeioi, though he is not mentioned in connection with Thebes.
In historical times the ephors were five in number, the first of them giving his name to the year, like the eponymous archon at Athens.
We can determine the rank occupied, by the tartanu at court by the positions they occupy in the lists of eponymous limmu: they invariably come next after the king--a fact which was noticed many years ago.
For how could they have avoided answering him that their fairness was proved by the occurrence of no Eleian as victor eponymous for 170 years?
Buying an Inferno, Grumello, or Perla di Sassella wine, it would be absurd to suppose that one obtained it precisely from the eponymous estate.
In Egypt, as we have already seen, Antinous was worshipped by the neo-Hellenes of Antinoopolis as their Eponymous Hero; but he took the place of an elder native god, and was represented in art according to the traditions of Egyptian sculpture.
It is natural that Jacob at Bethel should give tithes of all that he possesses, unnatural that theeponymous hero should not in worship above all things have left a good example to his posterity.
In the progress of time Korah the prince of the tribe of Judah is replaced by the eponymous head of a post-exilic Levitical family, of the same name.
The earliest Roman historical records were in the form of annals, that is, brief notices of important events in connection with the names of the consuls or other eponymous officials for each year.
Rabban Hormizd, the original and eponymous hermit, established himself here in the eighth century; and the fame of his singular sanctity soon drew hundreds of other eremites to the neighbourhood of his lonely retreat.
From this spot there set out the five eponymousancestors of the five septs that make the tribe to-day; and hither every man of name and fame is borne for burial among the great ones of his house.
The Pandavas and Kauravas are cousins and the descendants of the eponymous King Bharata.
Another explanation is that the Kauravas, or Kuru brothers, were called after their eponymous ancestor, King Kuru.
The most elaborate story of Creation is found in the Laws of Manu, the eponymous ancestor of mankind and the first lawgiver.
It is, however, probably the name of a place transferred to an eponymous ancestor, and has been identified with Hadramawt, a district in the south of Arabia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eponymous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
