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

484 GENERAL INDEX.

Sânkhyas, their view about the et- ernity of the Vedas, 451. Saporta, M. de, on the Arctic origin of the human race, 409. Sapta-vadhri, the seven-eunuch, a protege of the Ashvins, 302 ; praying for safe delivery after ten months' gestation, meaning explained, 313 f. Saramâ, 241. Saranyû, 241. Sarasvatî, a celestial river in the Veda, 266 ; described as slaying Vritra, 267 ; compared to the Avestic Ardvi Sûra Anâhita, 268. Sato-karahe, of hundred deeds, an adjective of Verethraghna in the Avesta, 255. Sattras, annual, in imitation of the yearly course of the sun, 150 ; Gavâm-ayanam, the type of the annual, 193 ; sacrificial sessions, division of, 206. Satyavrata, Pandit Sâmashrami, 134. Savitri, the sun, traversing the universe, 322 ; his third heaven in Yama's regions, 332. Sâyaṇa, his method of explain- ing difficult Vedic passages, 6, 93, 102, 144, 416 ; referred to, 65, 74, 81, 88, 89, 90, 91; on the use of dawns in the plural number, 95, 97 ; his ex- planation of thirty dawns, 101, 102, 116 ; on the thirty yoja- nas traversed by the dawn, 104 ; on the fears about endless nights 129-130 ; on mean- ing of virûpe, 133 ; on much with vi, 141-144 ; on the seven rays of the sun, 152; on the ex- istence of the different suns in different quarters, 154 ; on the meaning of Navagvas and Da- shagvas, 166 ; on mânushâ yugâ, 172 ; on kshapaḥ, 181 ; on the meaning of padena, 197 ; on the duration of Gavâm-aya- nam, 197 ; on night-sacrifices, 212 ; on the meaning of shata- kratu, 218 ; on Ati-râtra, 220 ; on chatvârimshyâm sharadi, 280 ; on the meaning of vadhri, 311, 312 ; on prapitve, 323, 326 ; on the ten-fold division, 341. Scandinavia, supposed to be the Ancient Aryan home, 409. Schrader, Dr., his work on pre- historic antiquities, 3 ; on neo- lithic, palæolithic culture, 16, 17 ; on the ancient division of the year, 399 ; on primitive Aryan culture and civilization, 431, 432 ; on primitive Aryan religion, 437 ; on the use of metals in primitive times, 442. Seasons, of the year, five in older times, 182 ; reason of, 183 ; de- notes an Arctic year of ten months, 186 ; method of count- ing time by, in Paleography, 285 ; in the Avesta, 286. Separation, Aryan, caused by the glacial epoch, and not by over- crowding or irresistible impluse, 382. Seven, milking the one, 191. Seven, rivers, or Sapta-sindhavaḥ, flowing upwards, 288 ; cannot be the rivers of the Panjaub, 289 ; three-fold, celestial, terrestrial and infernal, 290 ; associated with the seven rays or seven suns, 291 ; released by Indra, cannot but be celestial, 292. Sevenfold, 159, 291 ; and tenfold division of things in Vedas