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

490 GENERAL INDEX. shipivishta, 330; on the seven rays of the sun, 341. Yama, the agents of, 161. Year, Polar, distribution of light and darkness during, 48; circum- polar described, 55; ancient Ve- dic of 360 days and 6 season, 62; old Egyptian, traces of, how pre- served, 149; sacrificial, how pre- served and revived, 190; ancient Roman, of ten months, 198, 199; compared to annual sacrifici- al sattra of ten months, 199; an- cient Celtic, closed with the last day of October, 397; old Norse, 398; divine, or of the gods, the theory of, 423; how originated, 425; Arctic, before Aryan sepa- ration in inter-glacial times, 436. Year-god, five-footed and resting on watery vapours, 182. Yima, the Avestic Yama, his Vara or enclosure, 72, 376; annual sunrise therein, 376; proves its Polar position, 378; prophecy of its destruction, 379. Yuga, meaning of, in the Ṛig-Veda, 172; of two kinds, divine and hu- man, 173; both denote a period of time and not a generation of men, 173, 175; denote a period of the year, 176; singly it denoted one month, 177; Raṅgâchârya's view, thereon, 179. —Pûrvyam yugam, the former age, meaning time before the present Kalpa, 157, 158. —Purâṇic, cycle of four, equal to 10,000 years, duration and chara- cter of 422, 428ff.; Raṅgâchâr- ya's and Aiyer's view on the dura- tion of, 423f.; See Ages, Dashame yuge, Kali, Ṭrita, &c. ZEUS, born, bred and buried accord- ing to Cretan tradition, 410; re- duced to a sinewless mass by Typho, 407. Zimmer, Prof., his view that the nether regions were known to the Vedic bards supported, 258-260.