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

112 THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS.
that the Mantras they used to lay down the dawn-bricks were
inapplicable to the dawn as they saw it, and the Taittirîya
Saṁhitâ (V, 3, 4, 7), which explains the Mantras, clearly states
that this story or the description of the dawns is a tradition of old
times when the Gods perceived the thirty dawns. It is not,
therefore, correct to say that there are no references in the Vedic
hymns to the time when these long dawns were visible. We
shall revert to the point later on, when further evidence on the
subject will be noticed and discussed. The object of the present
chapter was to examine the duration of the Vedic dawn, the
Goddess of the morning, the subject of so many beautiful hymns
in the Rig-Veda, and to show that the deity is invested
with Polar characteristics. The evidence in support of this
view has been fully discussed; and we shall, therefore,
now take up the other Polar and Circum-Polar tests previously
mentioned, and see whether we can find out further evidence
from the Ṛig-Veda to strengthen our conclusions.