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WALLACE, supports Lyell’s theory of
the Glacial period, 24.
Wallis, Mr., his erroneous view that the
nether world was unknown to the Vedic
bards, 239, 242.
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, 37; his description of
the Polar dawn with its revolving
splendors 46, 47; on Greek traditions
of six-monthly day, 72; on the cosmic
circulation of aerial waters, 255; on the
conception of anti-podal underworld as
an inverted tub, 285; on the cradle of
the human race, 383-384.
Waters, captivated by Vṛitra, 227, 228;
divided into terrestrial and celestial,
237, 238; nature of the celestial, id.;
movement of the celestial or aerial in
the Avesta, 247, 248; moving upwards,
249; cessation of the movements of, in
winter, 253, cosmic circulation of, in
other mythologies, 255, 256; See
Apah.
Weber, Prof., on the Iliad and the
Râmâyana, 325.
West, Dr., on the meaning of Dâîtîk in
the Vendidad, 337.
Wheel, of the sun, stolen by Indra, 297;
See sun.
Wieland, the German smith, 188.
Winter, at perihelion and aphelion
difference between, 27; succession of
these after 21,000 years, 27; short and
warm in the interglacial, and long and
cold in the glacial times, 28, 29; longer
or
456
shorter than summer by 33 days, 29;
death in, regarded as inauspicious, 70;
cessation of the flow of waters in, 252;
of ten months id., the Airyana Vaêjo,
341; one hundred winters, 366.
— Calends, the night of, in Celtic
mythology, 368.
— Nights, the Norse feast of, 371.
Woden, the disappearance of the gold
ring of, 379.
Word, the final source of every thing,
418; compared to Logos, 418-426.
YASKA, his method of interpreting
difficult Vedic passages, 6, 63, 75, 79,
319, 387; on the use of dawns in the
plural number, 88, 90, 93, on the seven
rays of the sun, 140; on the etymology
of Navagvas, 152; silent on Ati-râtra,
196; on the schools of Vedic
interpretation, 219; on Vṛitra, 221; on
the cup with the mouth downwards
282, on the Pada text, 303; on Vishnu’s
three steps, 303; on shipivishta, 307;
on the seven rays of the sun, 316.
Yama, the agents of, 148.
Year, Polar, distribution of light and
darkness during, 45; circumpolar
described, 51; ancient Vedic of 360
days and 6 seasons, 58-59; old
Egyptian, traces of, how preserved,
137; sacrificial, how preserved and
revived, 175, ancient Roman, of ten
months, 183, compared to annual
sacrificial sattra of ten months 183;
ancient Celtic, closed with the last day
of October, 369; old Norse, 371; divine,
or of the gods, the theory of 393; how