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

GENERAL INDEX. 487 Twilight, duration of, at the Pole, 37; of the gods in the Norse mythology, 78. Two, creating the five, 191. UCHATHYA, the father of Dîrgha- tamas in the Ṛig-Veda, 170. Uchchâ-budhna, with the bottom up, applied to the nether world, 307. Ukko, the descending stream of, in the Finnish Mythology, 276. Ukthya, a Soma-sacrifice, 206. Upsala, an ancient Aryan site, 409. Uṛsâ Major, the constellation of the Great Bear, high altitude of, in Ṛig-Veda, 56; above the path of the sun, 147. Urvashî, 241. Uṣhas, the Vedic goddess of morn, the most beautiful of Vedic dei- ties, 81; its physical character un- obscured, id.; lasted long enough to allow the recitation of the whole Ṛig-Veda, 23; or to admit of a five-fold or three-fold divi- sion, 84; said to shine perpetual- ly in old times, 85; difference be- tween it and vi-uṣhṭi, id., three Vedic texts proving that it lasted continuously for several days, 86, 293; addressed in plural as well as singular, 95; not hono- rifically as supposed by Yâska, 96; nor owing to the number of presiding deities, 97; nor by re- ference to the consecutive daily dawns, 97; the plural represents one long continuous dawn divid- ed into many day-long portions, 98; thirty dawns or dawn-sisters in the Taittirîya Saṁhitâ, 98, 13-122, in the Ṛig-Veda, 103; a continuous team of thirty dawns in the Taittirîya Brâhmaṇa, 105; all moving round and round in the same plane, 103; their circu- lar motion in the Ṛig-Veda, 105; the characteristics of Vedic dawns summed up, 108, 109; variation in the duration of, illus- trated by the story of Indra's shattering its car, 110; all prove its Polar character, 112. Utathya, the father of Dîrghatamas in the Mahâbhârata, 170. Utsarjiṇâm ayanam, a sacrificial session lasting for a lunar year, 209. Uttara, the north, why so called, 147. Uttarâyaṇa, originally equinoctial, misunderstood by Bhâskara, 57. Uttarakurus, 389. VACH, the speech, eternity of, 447. Vadhrimati, a protege of the Ashvins, 303, 311. Vâjapeya, a Soma-sacrifice, 206. Vala, Indra's enemy, vanquished with the assistance of Navagvas at the end of the year, 162, 163, 164, 169, 215, 248, 249, 279, 281; his cave split by the word of Bṛihaspati, 201, 347. Vâlmîki, drew probably from the same mythological source as Homer, 349. Vâmana, the fifth incarnation of Viṣhṇu, 327. Vandana, rescued by the Ashvins, 164, 244, 302, 303, 304. Vanguhi, a river in the Airyâna Vaêjo but not mentioned in the Vendîdâd, 362. Vanna-issa, the old father in the Finnish Mythology, 404.