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

366 THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS.
Darmesteter. Spiegel. Haug and Bunsen.
the river and winter, and Winter, which the
a work of the Daêvas. Daêvas have created.
4. There are ten win- '9. Ten winter months 4. Ten months of
ter months there, two are there, two summer winter are there, two
summer months ;* and months, months of summer.
those are cold for the 10. And these are [Seven months of sum-
waters, cold for the cold as to the water, mer are there ; five
earth,cold for the trees. cold as to the earth, months of winter there
Winter falls there, with cold as to the trees. were ; * the latter are
the worst of its plagues. 11. After this to the cold as to water, cold
middle of the earth, as to earth, cold as
*N.B.—Darmesteter then to the heart of the to trees; there (is)—
states in a note that af- earth, midwinter, the heart of
ter summer months the 12. Comes the win- winter; there all around
Vendîdâd Sâdah adds, ter ; then comes the falls deep snow ; there is
“ It is known that [in most evil. the direst of plagues.]†
the ordinary course of
nature] there are seven † N. B.—According
months of summer and to Haug the whole of
five of winter.” the passage within brac-
kets is a later addition.
It will be seen from the above translations that they all
agree in the main points, viz., (1) that the Airyana Vaêjo was
the first good land created by Ahura Mazda, (2) that severe
winter and snow were first introduced into it by Angra Mainyu,
and (3) that after the invasion of Angra Mainyu there were
ten winter months and two summer months in that land.
The only difference between the three versions is that while
Darmesteter and Spiegel regard the last sentence “ And these
are cold for the waters, etc,” as a part of the original text
Haug regards it as a subsequent addition. All the translators
again agree in holding that the statement “ Seven months of
summer are there and five months of winter ” is a later inser-
tion. But we shall take up this question afterwards. For the
present we are concerned with the statement that “ Ten
months of winter are there, two months of summer,” and it
will be seen that there is no difference on this point in the