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

270 . THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS.
said to rise above the mountain in the east and set below the
mountain in the west. The mountain on which Indra is said to
have found Shambara (II, 12, 11), and the rock of Vala wherein
the cows were said to have been imprisoned by the demon (IV,
3, 11 ; I, 71, 2) and which was burst open by Aṅgirases, also re-
present the same mountainous range, which separated the upper
from the lower celestial hemisphere, or the bright from the
dark ocean. This explanation of the Vṛitra legend may sound
strange to many scholars, but it should be borne in mind that
the co-relation between the flow of water and the rising of the
dawn and the sun, here described, is not speculative. If the
Vedic works do not express it in unambiguous terms, the defi-
ciency is fully made up by the Parsi scriptures. Thus in Khor-
shed Yasht (VI, 2 and 3,) we are told that "When the sun rises
up, then the earth becomes clean, the running waters become
clean. ... ... ...Should the sun not rise up, then the Daevas would
destroy all the things that are in the seven Karshvares." The
passages in the Farvardîn Yasht are still more explicit. This
Yasht is devoted to the praise of the Fravashis, which corres-
pond to the Pitṛis of the Ṛig-Veda. These ancient fathers are often
described, even in the Ṛig-Veda, as taking part, along with the
gods, in the production of the cosmical phenomena. Thus the
Pitṛis are said to have adorned the sky with stars, and placed
darkness in the night and light in the day (X, 68, 11), or to have
found the hidden light and generated the dawn (VII, 76, 4 ; X,
107, 1). The Fravashis in the Parsi scriptures are said to have
achieved the same or similar exploits. They are described (Yt.
XIII, 53 and 54) as having "shown the beautiful paths to the
waters, which had stood before for a long time in the same
place, without flowing"; and the waters are then said to have
commenced to flow "along the path made by Mazda, along the
way made by the gods, the watery way appointed to them."
Immediately after (Yt. XIII, 57), the Fravashis are said to