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

380 THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS.
Darmesteter. Spiegel.
aredvî deep on the 'high- in great abundance,
est tops of mountains. 51. On the summits of the
mountains, on the breadth of
the heights.
23. And all the three sorts 52. From three (places), O
of beasts shall perish, those Yima, let the cattle depart,
that live in the wilderness, 53. If they are in the most
and those that live on the fearful places,
tops of the mountains, and 54. If they are on the tops of
those that live in the bosom the mountains,
of the dale, under the shelter 55. If they are in the depths
of stables. of the valleys,
56. To secure dwelling places.
24. Before that winter, those 57. Before this winter the
fields would bear plenty of country produced pasture;
grass for cattle: now with 58. Before flow waters, behind
floods that stream, with snows is the melting of the snow.
that melt, it will seem a hap- 59. Clouds, O Yima, will come
py land in the world, the land over the inhabitated regions,
wherein footprints even of 60. Which now behold the
sheep may still be seen. feet of the greater and smaller
cattle:
25. Therefore make thee a 61. Therefore make thou a
Vara, long as a riding-ground, circle of the length of a race-
on every side of the square, ground to all four corners.
and thither bring the seeds 62. Thither bring thou the
of sheep and oxen, of men, seed of the cattle, of the beasts
of dogs, of birds, and of red of burden, and of men, of dogs,
blazing fires. of birds, and of the red burn-
ing fires.
Can anything, we ask, be more clear and distinct than
the above description of the advent of the Glacial epoch in the
happy land over which Yima ruled, and where a year was