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

472 GENERAL INDEX. of the Glacial period, 27-31; his three periods of the maximum ec- centricity of the earth's orbit, 32; his estimate of the duration and commencement of the Glacial period, 33; questioned by Ball and Newcomb, 33; by Geikie and Hudlestone, 35. Cuchulainn, the Celtic Sun-hero, making love to a number of Dawns, 393, 394; his encounters with the Fomori or the Fir Bolg, 405; unaffected by couvade, 406; fighting without rest for several days, 406, 407. Culture, primitive, See Civilization. Currents, oceanic and aerial, effects of, on climate, 21. DAITYA, the meaning of, in the Vendidad 1, 3-4, 362; a river in the Bundahish, otherwise called Dâitik, 362, 363. Darkness, of the Polar night, nature of, 47; ghastly and sunless, as Vṛitra's stronghold, in the Ṛig- Veda, 125, 247; long, too long, the end of, 125; Agni living long in, 127, 317; Indra driving the Asuras from, 213; Arctic, synchronous with winter, 273- 279; daily and annual struggle between it and light, 242, 296, 406; proteges of the Ashvins condemned to, 304, 305; the sun dwelling in 321, 322. Dakshiṇâ, the mother of the sun, 145. Dakshiṇâyana, or Pitṛiyâna, night of gods, 67; death during, in- auspicious, 75; Bâdarâyaṇa's view of, 76; parallel tradition in the Avesta, 77. Darmesteter, Prof., the translator of Vendidad and Yasht, his rendering of the Vendidad I and II, 72; on the nature of the legend of Tish- trya, 223; does not explain why the appointed time of Tishtrya varies from one to a hundred nights, 224; his rendering of Tîr Yasht, para 36, 226; his view of the same single source of waters and light, 266; on the cessation of the flow of waters in winter, 271; on the transference of the name Hapta hindu to a new settlement, 289; on the meaning of Dâitya in Vend. I, 362; his identification of the Airyana Vaêjo examined and rejected, 360-365. Dâsa, Vṛitra, 140, 143. Dashadyu, a protege of Indra, 341, 346. Dashagvas, a species of the Aṅgi- rases, 342-344; See Navagvas. Dashamâya, an enemy of Indra, 342, 346. Dashame yage, meaning of (in Ṛig. I, 158, 6), 177. Dasha prapitve, meaning of (in Ṛig. VI., 31, 3), 322-326. Dâsharâjña, Indra's fight with ten kings, 345 f. Dasharatha, 347. Dashashipra, an enemy of Indra, 342, Dashoṇi, an enemy of Indra, 341- 346. Dawn, two months' duration of, at the pole, 47, 48; revolving splend- ours of, 49, 50; why styled Dak- shiṇâ, 145; the first, commenc- ing the mânushâ yugâ, 176; why addressed in the plural number in the Vedas, 95 f; in the Lettish; Greek and Celtic mythologies, 393; the dying torch of, in the Finnish mythology, 404; as a Vedic Deity, See Uṣhas.