sinhas

Updated: May 1, 2025

Primo, the Sphinx is a lion; so am I, as indicates the word Sing in my name; but the Sphinx is winged, and I am not. Secondo, the Sphinx is a woman as well as a winged lion, but the Rajput Sinhas never had anything effeminate in their characters.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan