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

GENERAL INDEX. 489

his dark and hidden watery
abode, 247; simultaneous release
of light and water by the killing
of Vṛitra, 248, 250; utterly in-
explicable on the Storm theory,
251, 255; explained by the
theory of the cosmic circulation
of aerial waters 255, 259, 275;
and by the Arctic theory, 278,
279; the date of Indra's fight
with, 279, 288; See Âpaḥ,
Indra, Ṣhambara, Seven rivers,
Vala.
Vṛitrahan, the killer of Vṛitra, an
ancient Arctic deity, 295, 296.
Vṛitra-tûrya, fight with Vṛitra, 245.
Vyâsa, his view about the eternity
of the Vedas, 448, 451.
WALLACE, supports Lyell's theory
of the Glacial period, 26.
Wallis, Mr., his erroneous view that
the nether world was unknown
to the Vedic bards, 257, 261.
Warren, Dr., on the original home
of the human race at the North
Pole, 6; on the existence of a
Polar continent in primitive times,
40; his description of the Polar
dawn with its revolving splendours
49, 50; on Greek traditions of
six-monthly day, 78; on the
cosmic circulation of aerial
waters, 275; on the conception
of anti-podal under-world as an
inverted tub, 307; on the cradle
of the human race, 412.
Waters, captivated by Vṛitra,
245, 246; divided into terres-
trial and celestial, 256; nature
of the celestial, id.; movement
of the celestial or aerial in the
Avesta, 256, 257; moving up-
wards, 259; cessation of the
movements of, in winter, 272;
cosmic circulation of, in other my-
thologies, 275, 276; See Âpaḥ.
Weber, Prof., on the Iliad and the
Râmâyaṇa, 349.
West, Dr., on the meaning of
Dâitik in the Vendidad, 362.
Wheel, of the sun, stolen by Indra
319; See sun.
Wieland, the German smith, 204.
Winter, at perihelion and aphelion,
difference between, 29; succession
of these after 21,000 years, 29;
short and warm in the inter-gla-
cial, and long and cold in the gla-
cial times, 31; longer or shorter
than summer by 33 days, 31;
death in, regarded as inauspicious,
74; cessation of the flow of waters
in, 271, 272; of ten months in the
Airyana Vaêjo, 366; one hundred
winters, 389.
—Calends, the night of, in Celtic
mythology, 396.
—Nights, the Norse feast of, 398.
Woden, the disappearance of the
gold ring of, 407.
Word, the final source of every
thing, 450; compared to Logos,
450, 458.
YÂSKA, his method of interpreting
difficult Vedic passages, 6, 68, 81,
86, 416, 451; on the use of dawns
in the plural number, 95-97, 102;
on the seven rays of the sun, 152;
on the etymology of Navagvas
165; silent on Ati-râtra, 212; on
the schools. of Vedic interpreta-
tion, 237; on Vṛitra, 239; on the
cup with the mouth downwards
308; on the Pada text, 326; on
Vishṇu's three steps, 326; on