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

GENERAL INDEX. 487
Twilight, duration of, at the Pole,
37; of the gods in the Norse
mythology, 78.
Two, creating the five, 191.
UCHATHYA, the father of Dîrgha-
tamas in the Ṛig-Veda, 170.
Uchchâ-budhna, with the bottom
up, applied to the nether world,
307.
Ukko, the descending stream of, in
the Finnish Mythology, 276.
Ukthya, a Soma-sacrifice, 206.
Upsala, an ancient Aryan site, 409.
Uṛsâ Major, the constellation of the
Great Bear, high altitude of, in
Ṛig-Veda, 56; above the path of
the sun, 147.
Urvashî, 241.
Uṣhas, the Vedic goddess of morn,
the most beautiful of Vedic dei-
ties, 81; its physical character un-
obscured, id.; lasted long enough
to allow the recitation of the
whole Ṛig-Veda, 23; or to admit
of a five-fold or three-fold divi-
sion, 84; said to shine perpetual-
ly in old times, 85; difference be-
tween it and vi-uṣhṭi, id., three
Vedic texts proving that it
lasted continuously for several
days, 86, 293; addressed in plural
as well as singular, 95; not hono-
rifically as supposed by Yâska,
96; nor owing to the number of
presiding deities, 97; nor by re-
ference to the consecutive daily
dawns, 97; the plural represents
one long continuous dawn divid-
ed into many day-long portions,
98; thirty dawns or dawn-sisters
in the Taittirîya Saṁhitâ, 98,
13-122, in the Ṛig-Veda, 103; a
continuous team of thirty dawns
in the Taittirîya Brâhmaṇa, 105;
all moving round and round in
the same plane, 103; their circu-
lar motion in the Ṛig-Veda, 105;
the characteristics of Vedic
dawns summed up, 108, 109;
variation in the duration of, illus-
trated by the story of Indra's
shattering its car, 110; all prove
its Polar character, 112.
Utathya, the father of Dîrghatamas
in the Mahâbhârata, 170.
Utsarjiṇâm ayanam, a sacrificial
session lasting for a lunar year,
209.
Uttara, the north, why so called,
147.
Uttarâyaṇa, originally equinoctial,
misunderstood by Bhâskara, 57.
Uttarakurus, 389.
VACH, the speech, eternity of, 447.
Vadhrimati, a protege of the
Ashvins, 303, 311.
Vâjapeya, a Soma-sacrifice, 206.
Vala, Indra's enemy, vanquished
with the assistance of Navagvas
at the end of the year, 162, 163,
164, 169, 215, 248, 249, 279,
281; his cave split by the word of
Bṛihaspati, 201, 347.
Vâlmîki, drew probably from the
same mythological source as
Homer, 349.
Vâmana, the fifth incarnation of
Viṣhṇu, 327.
Vandana, rescued by the Ashvins,
164, 244, 302, 303, 304.
Vanguhi, a river in the Airyâna
Vaêjo but not mentioned in the
Vendîdâd, 362.
Vanna-issa, the old father in the
Finnish Mythology, 404.