The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c9.43

c9.43

∗ Prof. Bloomfield's theory leaves many of these facts unexplained. If the dogs represent the sun and the moon, how can the sun tell the Ribhus that the dog awakened them at the end of the year? I cannot also understand how the sun and the moon can be described as variegated in colour, or as engaged in making milk. Again how can the sun or the moon be said to be four-eyed, and why should they perpetually remain at the boundary of heaven and hell? In Rig. x. 86, 4, a dog is said to be let loose at the ear of the Mriga, and this as well as the dog in Rig. i. 161, 13, must be supposed to be different from Yama's dogs, if we accept Bloomfield's view.