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

GENERAL INDEX, 481 Avesta, 166, 173; long, safely reaching the other end of, 128; apprehensions regarding its end, 129; continuous, 181. Night-sacrifices, See Râtri-sattras and Atirâtra. Nine, Forms, Maid of, 401. Nine-fold, earth, ocean and sky, 343; See, Sevenfold. Ninety-nine, forts of Vritra, 221, 247; rivers crossed by Indra, 221. Nir-riti, the region below the earth, 262. Nivids, about Indra, quoted, 246. Non-Aryan, races, may be Arctic in origin, 409, 430. Nordkyn, or the North Cape in Eu- rope, sixty-seven days' continuous night at, 50. North Pole, Dr. Warren's book on the origin of the human race at, 6, 412, 429. Novaia Zemlia, remnant of an old Polar continent, 40. November, the eve of, commence- ment of the ancient Celtic year 396, 398. Novemsides, new or nine Roman- gods, 400. Numa, his addition of two months to the ancient Roman year of ten months, 198, 395. Nu-t, the Egyptian goddess of the sky, 278. OAK-AGE, 12; See Archæology, Ages. Odin, the reign of, 78. Odyssey, the, nature of day in, 18 Odysseus, consuming the oxen of Hêlios, 204. Okeanos, the world-surrounding ocean in the Greek mythology, 31 276; phonetically identical with Âshayâna, 339. Oldenburg, Prof., on continuous nights, 108; on the meaning of div-ishti, 246; his view regard- ing Indra's producing waters from the mountains, 253, 322. Orion, the constellation of, the period of vernal equinox being in, 420, 454. Ottoro-corra, the Uttara-Kurus, as mentioned by Ptolemy, 390. Oxus, the river, Aryan settlements on, 354, 361, 377, 390; See Jaxartes. PADA-TEXT, of the Rig-veda, amend- ments in, suggested, 97, 322, 324, 325. Palæolithic or the old Stone-age, distinguished from the Neolithic, 10; generally inter-glacial, 12. —Man, interglacial, 13; his cul- ture, 16; proof of his existence in the interglacial period, 24. Panama, the isthmus of, its sub- mergence in the Pleistocene pe- riod improbable, 25. Pañcha janâh, the five races of men, probably interglacial, 430. Pandit, the late Mr. S. P., on the seven-fold division of Solar rays, 340. Panjaub, the land of five rivers and not of seven, 289; rivers in, not denoted by Sapta-Sindhavah, 290; See, Seven rivers. Parâvat, the nether region, 263. Parvata, a mountain, misinterpret- ed into a cloud in the Vedas, 249, 253. Parâvrij, a protege of the Ashvins, 302, 303.