Soraya for setting sun, is identic with surya of the Hindus: whence came Syria the west, and even our word sorrow; while Sol comes from Sheol.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque
And when morning broke surya, rising red above the eastern hills, watched the hungry waves cast up beside her fourteen white corpses, the remnants of her crew-silent suppliants for the last great rites which open to man the passage into the next world.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
The coincidence of ideas between those two nations, in this respect, may be drawn from that beautiful Hindu hymn, addressed to surya or the sun, and translated by Sir William Jones- "Lord of the Lotos, father, friend and king, O Sun!
"Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton"
John Barrow