The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps
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“Catt,” “ Keity,” “GAD” AND ‘ Cassi” TITLES IN OLD ETHNIC AND PLACE-NAMES EVIDENCING PHGNICIAN PENETRATION OF BRITAIN AND ITs ISLES
Confirming Hitto-Phenician Origin of the “ Caiti’”’ and “ Cassi’ Coins of Pre-Roman Britain
“His [the Khattiya’st] sources of subsistence are Arms and the Protection of the Earth. The Guardianship of the Earth is his special province. .. . By intimidating the bad and cherishing the good, the (Khattiya) ruler who maintains the discipline of the different tribes secures whatever region he desires.’—Vishnu Purana Epic.
Tue Pheenician Barats’ rule and civilization of Britain and its Isles in the pre-Roman period is also attested, I find, by the widespread prevalence of the Phcenician Barats’ tribal title of Khatti, Catti, Gad and Kassi, in the old place and river names from south to north—from Cudder Point of Penz-ance with its old Phoenician tin and copper mines, a name now seen to preserve the Punic or Panch title of the Phoeenic-ians, to Caith-ness and Shef-land or Land of the Caiths, Khats or Catti, Xats, Shets, Ceti or Scots. The essentially ruling character of the Catti (or Khattiya) race is evidenced by the citation from the Indian epic in the heading, and explains the “ Catti”’ title of the ruling Britons in the pre-Roman period on their coins, as well as the title of their ruling race in their home province, in the south of
England, as the ‘‘ Caty-euchlani” of Ptolemy.
1See p. 8 for the old Indian Pali form of this tribal name as Khattiyo, which is spelt Kshatyiya in the later Sanskrit. 2V.P., 3, 8; and 3, 87. 200