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

GENERAL INDEX. 489

his dark and hidden watery abode, 247; simultaneous release of light and water by the killing of Vṛitra, 248, 250; utterly in- explicable on the Storm theory, 251, 255; explained by the theory of the cosmic circulation of aerial waters 255, 259, 275; and by the Arctic theory, 278, 279; the date of Indra's fight with, 279, 288; See Âpaḥ, Indra, Ṣhambara, Seven rivers, Vala. Vṛitrahan, the killer of Vṛitra, an ancient Arctic deity, 295, 296. Vṛitra-tûrya, fight with Vṛitra, 245. Vyâsa, his view about the eternity of the Vedas, 448, 451. WALLACE, supports Lyell's theory of the Glacial period, 26. Wallis, Mr., his erroneous view that the nether world was unknown to the Vedic bards, 257, 261. Warren, Dr., on the original home of the human race at the North Pole, 6; on the existence of a Polar continent in primitive times, 40; his description of the Polar dawn with its revolving splendours 49, 50; on Greek traditions of six-monthly day, 78; on the cosmic circulation of aerial waters, 275; on the conception of anti-podal under-world as an inverted tub, 307; on the cradle of the human race, 412. Waters, captivated by Vṛitra, 245, 246; divided into terres- trial and celestial, 256; nature of the celestial, id.; movement of the celestial or aerial in the Avesta, 256, 257; moving up- wards, 259; cessation of the movements of, in winter, 272; cosmic circulation of, in other my- thologies, 275, 276; See Âpaḥ. Weber, Prof., on the Iliad and the Râmâyaṇa, 349. West, Dr., on the meaning of Dâitik in the Vendidad, 362. Wheel, of the sun, stolen by Indra 319; See sun. Wieland, the German smith, 204. Winter, at perihelion and aphelion, difference between, 29; succession of these after 21,000 years, 29; short and warm in the inter-gla- cial, and long and cold in the gla- cial times, 31; longer or shorter than summer by 33 days, 31; death in, regarded as inauspicious, 74; cessation of the flow of waters in, 271, 272; of ten months in the Airyana Vaêjo, 366; one hundred winters, 389. —Calends, the night of, in Celtic mythology, 396. —Nights, the Norse feast of, 398. Woden, the disappearance of the gold ring of, 407. Word, the final source of every thing, 450; compared to Logos, 450, 458. YÂSKA, his method of interpreting difficult Vedic passages, 6, 68, 81, 86, 416, 451; on the use of dawns in the plural number, 95-97, 102; on the seven rays of the sun, 152; on the etymology of Navagvas 165; silent on Ati-râtra, 212; on the schools. of Vedic interpreta- tion, 237; on Vṛitra, 239; on the cup with the mouth downwards 308; on the Pada text, 326; on Vishṇu's three steps, 326; on