The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c13.2

c13.2

I have already stated in brief my reasons for provisionally identifying Sk. *Agrayana* with Gk. *Orion*, and here I wish to examine the point more fully, not because my case rests upon it, bnt simply with a view to indicate the real nature of the objections that may be urged against the proposed identification. If philologists are still inclined to hold that the identification is not even probable, we shall have to look for some other Aryan derivation, as the similarity of the Eastern and Western traditions of Orion is, in my opinion, too strong to be accidental.