The Arctic Home in the Vedas
Vedic and Avestan passages on long dawns, long nights, the year of ten months and cows of light, used to argue for a polar homeland.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Extent
- 1,215 passages, 172,351 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Poona: Kesari, 1903; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini 3.8 Flash · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Bal Gangadhar Tilak †1920); published before 1931:…
Contents
- c1 The Arctic Home in the Vedas — 13 parts
- c2 Preface — 29 parts
- c3 Contents — 5 parts
- c4 Chapter I. Prehistoric Times — 28 parts
- c5 Chapter II. The Glacial Period — 38 parts
- c6 Chapter III. The Arctic Regions — 30 parts
- c7 Chapter IV. The Night of the Gods — 35 parts
- c8 Chapter V. The Vedic Dawns — 61 parts
- c9 Chapter VI. Long Day and Long Night — 37 parts
- c10 Chapter VII. Months and Seasons — 49 parts
- c11 Chapter VIII. The Cows' Walk — 62 parts
- c12 Chapter IX. Vedic Myths—The Captive Waters — 66 parts
- c13 Chapter X. Vedic Myths—The Matutinal Deities — 33 parts
- c14 Chapter XI. The Avestic Evidence — 30 parts
- c15 Chapter XII. Comparative Ergology — 37 parts
- c16 Chapter XIII. The Bearing of Our Results on the History of Primitive Aryan Culture and Religion — 48 parts
- c17 General Index — 211 parts
- c18 Index of Vedic Passages — 13 parts
- c19 Index of the Avestic Passages — 4 parts
- c20 Scheme of Trans-literation — 1 part
- c21 Errata — 3 parts