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77; or to admit of a five-fold or threefold
division, 78; said to shine
perpetually in old times, 78; difference
between it and vi-ushti, id.; three Vedic
texts proving that it lasted continuously
for several days, 79, 366; addressed in
plural as well as singular 88; not
honorifically as supposed by Yâska,
88; nor owing to the number of
presiding deities, 89; nor by reference
to the consecutive daily dawns, go; the
plural represents one long continuous
dawn divided into many day-long
portions, go; thirty dawns or dawnsisters
in the Taittirîya Samhitâ, 90,
103-112; in the يig-Veda, 94; a
continuous team of thirty dawns in the
Taittirîya Brâhmana, 97-98; all moving
round and round in the same plane, 95;
their circular motion in the يig-Veda,
97; the characteristics of Vedic dawns
summed up, 99-100; variation in the
duration of, illustrated by the story of
Indra’s shattering its car, 101; all prove
its Polar character, 102.
Utathya, the father of Dirghatamas in
the Mahâbhârata, 156.
Utsarginam avajsam, a sacrificial
session lasting for a lunar year, 193.
Uttara, the north, why so called, 134.
Uttarâyana, originally equinoctial,
misunderstood by Bhâskara, 52-53.
Uttarakuras, 362.
VACH, the speech, eternity of, 415.
Vadhrimati, a protégé of the Ashvins,
282, 289.
454
Vâjapeya, a Some-sacrifice, 190.
Vala, Indra’s enemy, vanquished with
the assistance of Navagvas at the end
of the year, 149, 150, 151, 155, 199,
231, 259, 260; his cave split by the
word of Bṛihaspati, 186.
Vâlmîki, drew probably from the same
mythological source as Homer, 324.
Vâmana, the fifth incarnation of
Vishnu, 304.
Vandana, rescued by the Ashvins,
150, 226, 280, 282.
Vunguhi, a river in the Airyana Vaêjo
but not mentioned in the Vendidad,
337.
Vanna-issa, the old father in the
Finnish Mythology, 376
Vara, of Yima, the annual sunrise and
year-long day in, 67, 350
Vartikâ, rescued by the Ashvins,
Yâska’s view about, 221.
Varuna, ruler of the waters, 163, 238;
his tree and region turned upside
down, 286; representative of long
Arctic darkness, and hence described
as embracing the nights, 326.
Vedas, still imperfectly understood, 5,
39; new key to their interpretation
supplied by the latest geological
researches, 6; strata of, not necessarily
in chronological order, 42; how
preserved, 398, 399; eternity of,
discussed, 414, 430; Manu’s and
Vyâsa’s view on the eternity of, 416;
Jaimini’s view, 417; grammarians’,
Badârâyana’s, Naiyyâyikas’ view, 418,
Sânkhyas’