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

THE VEDIC DAWNS. 89 has done in the Pada text ; for jāre+iva makes the simile more appropriate than if we were to compare uṣhas with jāraḥ. Liter- ally rendered the verse, therefore, means, "Verily, many were those days, which were aforetime at the uprising of the sun, and about which, O Dawn ! thou wast seen moving on, as towards a lover, and not like one (woman) who forsakes." I take pari with yataḥ, meaning that the dawn goes after the days. Yataḥ pari, thus construed, means 'after which,' or 'about which.' Sâyaṇa takes pari with dadṛikshe, and Griffith renders yataḥ by 'since.' But these constructions do not materi- ally alter the meaning of the second half of the verse, though taking pari with yataḥ enables us to take the second line as an adjectival clause, rendering the meaning more plain. In IV, 52, 1, the Dawn is said to shine after her sister (svasuḥ pari), and pari, with an ablative, does not necessarily denote 'from' in every case, but is used in various senses, as, for instance, in III, 5, 10, where the phrase Bhṛigubhyaḥ pari occurs, and is rendered by Grassmann as equivalent to 'for the sake of Bhṛi- gus,' while Sâyaṇa paraphrases pari by paritaḥ 'round about.' In the verse under consideration we can, therefore, take pari with yataḥ, and understand the expression as meaning 'after, about or around which (days).' It must also be borne in mind that there must be an expression to correspond with jāre in the simile, and this we get only if we construe yataḥ pari in the way proposed above. If we now analyse the verse it will be found to be made up of three clauses, one principal and two adjectival. The principal statement asserts that those days were many. The demonstrative 'those' (tāni) is then fol- lowed by two relative clauses, yā prāchīnam &c., and yataḥ pari &c. The first of these states that the days referred to in the principal clause were those that 'preceded the rising of the sun.' But if the days preceded the rising of the sun,