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

380 THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS. Darmesteter. Spiegel. aredvî deep on the 'high- in great abundance, est tops of mountains. 51. On the summits of the mountains, on the breadth of the heights. 23. And all the three sorts 52. From three (places), O of beasts shall perish, those Yima, let the cattle depart, that live in the wilderness, 53. If they are in the most and those that live on the fearful places, tops of the mountains, and 54. If they are on the tops of those that live in the bosom the mountains, of the dale, under the shelter 55. If they are in the depths of stables. of the valleys, 56. To secure dwelling places. 24. Before that winter, those 57. Before this winter the fields would bear plenty of country produced pasture; grass for cattle: now with 58. Before flow waters, behind floods that stream, with snows is the melting of the snow. that melt, it will seem a hap- 59. Clouds, O Yima, will come py land in the world, the land over the inhabitated regions, wherein footprints even of 60. Which now behold the sheep may still be seen. feet of the greater and smaller cattle: 25. Therefore make thee a 61. Therefore make thou a Vara, long as a riding-ground, circle of the length of a race- on every side of the square, ground to all four corners. and thither bring the seeds 62. Thither bring thou the of sheep and oxen, of men, seed of the cattle, of the beasts of dogs, of birds, and of red of burden, and of men, of dogs, blazing fires. of birds, and of the red burn- ing fires. Can anything, we ask, be more clear and distinct than the above description of the advent of the Glacial epoch in the happy land over which Yima ruled, and where a year was