वेदों की प्राचीनता एवं काल-निर्णय / ओरायन (लोकमान्य बाल गंगाधर तिलक - खगोलीय वैदिक शोध)

86 THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS. in those early days, would have cared to use a phrase, which, for all ordinary purposes, was superfluously cumbrous. But these facts, howsoever suggestive, may not be regarded as conclusive, and we shall, therefore, now turn to the more ex- plicit passages in the hymns regarding the duration of the Vedic dawn. The first verse I would quote in this connection is Ṛig-Veda I, 113, 10:— Kiyâti â yat samayâ bhavâti yâ vyûṣhur yâsh cha nûnaṁ vyuchhân । Anu pûrvâḥ kṛipate vâvashânâ pradîdhyânâ joṣham anyâbhir eti ॥ The first quarter of the verse is rather difficult. The words are kiyâti â yat samayâ bhavâti, and Sâyaṇa, whom Wilson follows, understands samayâ to mean 'near'. Prof. Max Muller translates samayâ (Gr. Omos, Lat. Simul,) by 'together', 'at once'; while Roth, Grassmann and Aufrecht take samayâ bhavâti as one ex- pression meaning 'that which intervenes between the two.'† This has given rise to three different translations of the verse:— WILSON, (following Sâyaṇa):--For how long a period is it that the dawns have arisen? For how long a period will they rise? Still desirous to bring us light, Uṣhas pursues the functions of those that have gone before, and, shining brightly, proceeds with the others (that are to follow). GRIFFITH, (following Max Muller):--How long a time, and they shall be together,—Dawns that have shone and Dawns to shine hereafter? She yearns for former Dawns with eager longing, and goes forth gladly shining with the others.

• Ṛig. I, 113, 10—कियात्या यत्समया भवाति या व्यूषुर्याश्च नूनं व्युच्छान् । अनु पूर्वाः कृपते वावशाना प्रदीध्याना जोषमन्याभिरेति ॥ † See Petersberg Lexicon, and Grassmann's Worterbuch, s. v. Samayâ; and Muir's O. S. Texts, Vol. V., p. 189.