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The Orion and The Arctic Home in the Vedas by Lokmanya Tilak

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पृष्ठ 91, कुल 548 में से

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पृष्ठ 91
  1. THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS.
    will be seen revolving, without setting, round the observer, as
    at the Pole, but in oblique and not horizontal circles, and during
    the long night he will be entirely below the horizon; while during
    the rest of the year he will rise and set, remaining above the
    horizon for a part of 24 hours, varying according to the position
    of the sun in the ecliptic.
    Here we have two distinct sets of differentiæ, or special
    characteristics, of the Polar and Circum-Polar regions,—charac-
    teristics which are not found anywhere else on the surface of the
    globe. Again as the Poles of the earth are the same to-day as they
    were millions of years ago, the above astronomical character-
    istics will hold good for all times, though the Polar climate may
    have undergone violent changes in the Pleistocene period. In
    short, we can take these differentiæ as our unerring guides in the
    examination of the Vedic evidence bearing on the point at issue.
    If a Vedic description or tradition discloses any of the character-
    istics mentioned above, we may safely infer that the tradition is
    Polar or Circum-Polar in origin, and the phenomenon, if not
    actually witnessed by the poet, was at least known to him by
    tradition faithfully handed down from generation to generation.
    Fortunately there are many such passages or references in the
    Vedic literature, and, for convenience, these may be divided into
    two parts: the first comprising those passages which directly
    describe or refer to the long night, or the long dawn; and the
    second consisting of myths and legends which corroborate and
    indirectly support the first. The evidence in the first part
    being direct, is, of course, more convincing; and we shall,
    therefore, begin with it in the next chapter, reserving the con-
    sideration of the Vedic myths and legends to the latter part of
    the book.