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

490 GENERAL INDEX.
shipivishta, 330; on the seven
rays of the sun, 341.
Yama, the agents of, 161.
Year, Polar, distribution of light
and darkness during, 48; circum-
polar described, 55; ancient Ve-
dic of 360 days and 6 season, 62;
old Egyptian, traces of, how pre-
served, 149; sacrificial, how pre-
served and revived, 190; ancient
Roman, of ten months, 198,
199; compared to annual sacrifici-
al sattra of ten months, 199; an-
cient Celtic, closed with the last
day of October, 397; old Norse,
398; divine, or of the gods, the
theory of, 423; how originated,
425; Arctic, before Aryan sepa-
ration in inter-glacial times, 436.
Year-god, five-footed and resting
on watery vapours, 182.
Yima, the Avestic Yama, his Vara
or enclosure, 72, 376; annual
sunrise therein, 376; proves its
Polar position, 378; prophecy of
its destruction, 379.
Yuga, meaning of, in the Ṛig-Veda,
172; of two kinds, divine and hu-
man, 173; both denote a period of
time and not a generation of men,
173, 175; denote a period of the
year, 176; singly it denoted one
month, 177; Raṅgâchârya's view,
thereon, 179.
—Pûrvyam yugam, the former age,
meaning time before the present
Kalpa, 157, 158.
—Purâṇic, cycle of four, equal to
10,000 years, duration and chara-
cter of 422, 428ff.; Raṅgâchâr-
ya's and Aiyer's view on the dura-
tion of, 423f.; See Ages, Dashame
yuge, Kali, Ṭrita, &c.
ZEUS, born, bred and buried accord-
ing to Cretan tradition, 410; re-
duced to a sinewless mass by
Typho, 407.
Zimmer, Prof., his view that the
nether regions were known to the
Vedic bards supported, 258-260.