The Arctic Home in the Vedas c14.s2.2

c14.s2.2

| *Darmesteter.* | *Spiegel.* |
| *a r e d v î* deep on the highest tops of mountains. | in great abundance, 51. On the summits of the mountains, on the breadth of the heights. |
| 23. And all the three sorts of beasts shall perish, those that live in the wilderness, and those that live on the tops of the mountains, and those that live in the bosom of the dale, under the shelter of stables. | 52. From three (places), O Yima, let the cattle depart, 53. If they are in the most fearful places, 54. If they are on the tops of the mountains, 55. If they are in the depths of the valleys, 56. To secure dwelling places. |
| 24. Before that winter, those fields would bear plenty of grass for cattle : now with floods that stream, with snows that melt, it will seem a happy land in the world, the land wherein footprints even of sheep may still be seen. | 57. Before this winter the country produced pasture ; 58. Before flow waters, behind is the melting of the snow. 59. Clouds, O Yima, will come over the inhabited regions, 60. Which now behold the feet of the greater and smaller cattle : |
| 25. Therefore make thee a Vara, long as a riding-ground, on every side of the square, and thither bring the seeds of sheep and oxen, of men, of dogs, of birds, and of red blazing fires. | 61. Therefore make thou a circle of the length of a race-ground to all four corners. 62. Thither bring thou the seed of the cattle, of the beasts of burden, and of men, of dogs, of birds, and of the red burning fires. |