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

THE NIGHT OF THE GODS. 79
idea traditionally inherited by all the branches of the Aryan
race, and, as it is distinctly Polar in character, it is alone
enough to establish the existence of an Arctic home. But
fortunately for us our edifice need not be erected on this
solitary pillar, as there is ample evidence in the Vedic liter-
ature which supports the Arctic theory by satisfying almost
all the Polar and Circum-Polar tests laid down in the last
chapter. The long revolving dawn is another peculiar
characteristic of the North Pole, and we shall see in the next
chapter that the Ṛig-Vedic account of the dawn is intelligible
only if we take it as referring to the Polar dawn.