Artic Home of the Aryans by Lokamanya Bal ... - Mandhata Global

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for many.’ Here again the cows are the dawns kept by Pani in the
dark stable or cave of the night, discovered by Saramâ and delivered
every morning by the gods of light.”
“We read in R.V. I, 62, 3, that Bṛihaspati split the rock and
found the cows.”
“Of Indra it is said, II, 19, 3, that he produced the sun and found
the cows; of Bṛihaspati, II, 24, 3, that he drove out the cows, that he
split the cave by his word, that he hid the darkness, and lighted up
the sky. What can be clearer? The Maruts also, II, 34, 1, are said to
uncover the cows and Agni. V, 14, 4, is praised for killing the friends,
for having overcome darkness by light, and having found the cows,
water and the sun.”
“In all these passages we find no iva or na, which would
indicate that the word cow was used metaphorically. The dawns or
days as they proceed from the dark stable, or are rescued from evil
spirits, are spoken of directly as the cows. If they, are spoken of in the
plural, we find the same in the case of the Dawn (ushas) who is often
conceived as many, as in II, 28, 2, upâyane ushasâm gomatînâm, ‘at
the approach of the dawns with their cows.’ From that it required but
a small step to speak of the one Dawn as the mother of the cows, IV,
52, 2, mâtâ gavâm.”
“Kuhn thought that these cows should be understood as the red
clouds of the morning. But clouds are not always present at sunrise,
nor can it well be said that they are carried off and kept in prison
during the night by the powers of darkness.”
“But what is important and settles the point is the fact that these
cows or oxen of the dawn or of the rising sun occur in other
mythologies also and are there clearly meant for days. They are
numbered as 12 × 30, that is, the thirty days of the 12 lunar months. If
Helios has 350 oxen and 350 sheep, that can only refer to the days
and to the nights of the year, and would prove the knowledge of a
year of 350 days before the Aryan separation.”
Thus the cows in mythology are the days and nights, or