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

480 GENERAL INDEX.

Mortillet, M. De., on the type of the primitive Aryans, 16. Moytura, the battle of, in the Celtic mythology, fought on the eve of November, 398. Much, with vi, meaning of, when applied to horses, 141. Muir, Dr., on the yuga system, 68; on the nature of dawn-hymns, 81; on Aditi's legend, 156, 173; on the meaning of parastât, 264; his summary of Fargard I of the Vendidad, 357, 358; on the de- luge, 385-387; on the northern Aryan home, 389, 390; on the eternity of the Vedas, 446, 448; 449, 459, 462. Myths, Vedic, necessity of re-exa- mining the explanations of, 42; various theories about the ex- planations of, 240 f.; disclose an arctic origin, 351, 352. Mythology, science of, effect of re- cent geological discovery on, 3, 4; Vedic, current interpretation of, 53; theories for the explana- tion of, 240; comparative, supports the theory of the Arctic home, 411, 412. NADERSHAHA, Mr. E. J. D., on the method of counting time by sea- sons in the Avesta, 286. Nâgoji Bhatta, on Patañjali's view on the eternity of the Vedas, 452. Nairukta, a school of Vedic inter- preters, 238, 239. Naiyyâyikas, their views about the eternity of Vedas, 451. Navagvas, a species of the Angi- rases, generally associated with the Dashagvas, 162; their sacri- ficial session of ten months, 162; commenced with the dawn, id., helped Indra in the rescue of the cows from Vala, 163; the root- meaning of, 165; Yâska's, Sayâ- na's and Prof. Lignana's view thereon, 166, 167; primarily de- note sacrificers for nine or ten months, 167; compared to Roman Novemsides, Celtic Maid of nine Forms, and the nine steps of Thor in the Norse mythology, 401, 402; See Angirases, Dashag- vas. Nâva-prabhramshana, the gliding of the ship on the Himalayas, 386. Navarâtra, a nine days' sacrifice, 207. Nau-bandhana, a peak of the Hima- layas, 386. Nebulous matter, in the universe des- cribed as watery vapour in the Vedas, 257. Neco, Pharoah, king of Egypt, 146. Neolithic, the new Stone age, dis- tinguished from the Palæolithic age, 10; its probable commence- ment from 5000 B. C., 12. —Aryan races in Europe, dolicho- cephalic and brachy-cephalic, ancestors of the present European races, 15; their culture compared with Indo-Germanic culture, 17; not autochthonous in Europe, 17. Nether, regions, or regions below the earth, known to Vedic bards, 259, 260; conceived as dark, bottomless, or like an inverted tub in the Vedas, 306-308. Newcomb, Prof. on the extravagance of Croll's calculations, 33, 34. Night, Polar, light and darkness in, 47; shorter than six months, but longer than twenty-four hours, 55; of the gods in the Vedas and the