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

208 THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS. Parts. Days.

1. The introductory Atirâtra............................................ 1
2. The Chaturviṁsha day, otherwise called the Ârambha- nîya (Ait. Br. IV. 12), or the Prâyaṇîya (Tâṇḍ. Br. IV, 2), the real beginning of the Sattra............... 1
3. Four Abhiplava, followed by one Pṛiṣhṭhya shaḷaha each month; continued in this way for five months... 150
4. Three Abhiplava and one Pṛiṣhṭhya shaḷaha............... 24
5. The Abhijit day...................................................... 1
6. The Three Svara-Sâman days.................................... 3
7. The Viṣhuvân or the Central day, which stands by itself, i.e., not counted in the total of the Sattra days.
8. The three Svara-Sâman days.................................... 3
9. The Vishvajit day................................................... 1
10. One Pṛiṣhṭhya and three Abhiplava shaḷahas......... 24
11. One Pṛiṣhṭhya and four Abhiplava shaḷahas each month; continued in this way for four months.................. 120
12. Three Abhiplava shaḷahas, one Go-ṣhṭoma, one Âyu- ṣhṭoma, and one Dasharâtra (the ten days of Dvâda- shâha), making up one month.............................. 30
13. The Mahâvrata day, corresponding to the Chaturviṁsha day at the beginning............................................ 1
14. The concluding Atirâtra............................................ 1 Total days.........360. It will be seen from the above scheme that there are really a few sacrificial rites which are absolutely fixed and unchange- able in the yearly Sattra. The two Atirâtras, the introductory and the concluding, the Chaturviṁsha and the Mahâvrata day, the Abhijit and the Vishvajit, the three Svara-Sâman days on either side of Viṣhuvân, the Viṣhuvân itself, and the ten days of Dvâdashâha, making up 22 days in all, ex- clusive of Viṣhuvân, are the only parts that have any special- ity about them. The rest of the days are all made up by Abhiplava and Pṛiṣhṭhya shaḷahas, which, therefore, consti- tute what may. be called the elastic or the variable part of the yearly Sattra. Thus if we want a Gavâm-ayanam of ten months, we have only to strike off five shaḷahas from the