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

196 THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS. (grazes) pleased during the two rainy months. This is what the Sattra has achieved for her. Therefore, whatever is done in the house of one performing the yearly Sattra is successful- ly, timely and properly done." This account slightly differs from that given in the Aita- reya Brâhmaṇa. In the Saṁhitâ the cows, whose session last- ed for twelve months, are said to be still hornless; but instead of getting vigour (ûrjam), they are said to have obtained as a reward for their additional sitting, the pleasure of comfortable grazing in the two rainy months, during which, as the com- mentator observes, the horned cows find their horns an impe- diment to graze freely in the field, where new grass has grown up. But the statement regarding the duration of the Sattra, viz., that it lasted for ten or twelve months, is the same both in the Saṁhitâ and in the Brâhmaṇa. The Saṁhitâ again takes up the question in the next Anuvâka (VII, 5, 2, 1-2)*, and further describes the cows' session as follows:— "The cows held this sacrificial session, being hornless (and) desiring to obtain horns. Their session lasted (for) ten months; then when the horns grew (up), they said, 'We have gained, let us rise, we have obtained the desire for which we sat (commenced the session).' Half, or as many, of them as said, 'We shall certainly sit for the two twelfth (two last) months, and rise after completing the year,' (some) of them had horns in the twelfth month by trust, (while) by distrust those that (are seen) hornless (remained so). Both, that is, those who got horns, and those who obtained vigour (ûrjam), thus * Taitt. Sam. VII, 5, 2, 1-2.—गावो वा एतत् सत्रमासताशृं˙गाः सतीः शृंगाणि सिषासंतीस्तासां दश मासा निषण्णा आसन्नथ शृंगाण्यजायंत ता अ- ब्रुवन्नरात्स्मोत्तिष्ठामान्न तं काममरुत्स्महि येन कामेन न्यषदामेति तासामु त्वा अ- ब्रुवन्नर्धा वा यावतीर्वाऽस्सामहा एवेमौ द्वादशौ मासौ संवत्सरं संपाद्योत्तिष्ठामेति तासां द्वादशे मासि शृंगाणि प्रावर्तन्त श्रद्धया वाऽश्रद्धया वा ता इमा वास्तूपरा उभय्यो वाव ता आर्ध्नुवन् याश्च शृंगान्यसुन्वन् • याश्चोर्जमवावृंधतर्ध्नोति दशसु मासूत्तिष्ठन्नृध्नोति द्वादशसु य एवं वेद पदेन खलु वा एते यंति विन्दति खलु वै पदेन यन्तङ्गा एतदृद्धमयनं तस्मादेतत्तद्रोत्सनि ।