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

THE VEDIC DAWNS. 89
has done in the Pada text ; for jāre+iva makes the simile more
appropriate than if we were to compare uṣhas with jāraḥ. Liter-
ally rendered the verse, therefore, means, "Verily, many were
those days, which were aforetime at the uprising of the sun,
and about which, O Dawn ! thou wast seen moving on, as
towards a lover, and not like one (woman) who forsakes." I
take pari with yataḥ, meaning that the dawn goes after the
days. Yataḥ pari, thus construed, means 'after which,' or
'about which.' Sâyaṇa takes pari with dadṛikshe, and Griffith
renders yataḥ by 'since.' But these constructions do not materi-
ally alter the meaning of the second half of the verse, though
taking pari with yataḥ enables us to take the second line as an
adjectival clause, rendering the meaning more plain. In IV,
52, 1, the Dawn is said to shine after her sister (svasuḥ pari),
and pari, with an ablative, does not necessarily denote 'from'
in every case, but is used in various senses, as, for instance, in
III, 5, 10, where the phrase Bhṛigubhyaḥ pari occurs, and is
rendered by Grassmann as equivalent to 'for the sake of Bhṛi-
gus,' while Sâyaṇa paraphrases pari by paritaḥ 'round about.'
In the verse under consideration we can, therefore, take pari
with yataḥ, and understand the expression as meaning 'after,
about or around which (days).' It must also be borne in mind
that there must be an expression to correspond with jāre in the
simile, and this we get only if we construe yataḥ pari in the
way proposed above. If we now analyse the verse it will be
found to be made up of three clauses, one principal and two
adjectival. The principal statement asserts that those days
were many. The demonstrative 'those' (tāni) is then fol-
lowed by two relative clauses, yā prāchīnam &c., and yataḥ
pari &c. The first of these states that the days referred to
in the principal clause were those that 'preceded the rising
of the sun.' But if the days preceded the rising of the sun,