The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.1

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ABHIPLAVA, a kind of *ṣalaha*, 207, 209. Adhyâtmikas, their school of Vedic interpretation, 238. Aditi, and her Âditya sons, the legend of, 152-158; said to have occurred in a former *yuga*, 158, 460. Âdityas, seven with an eighth still-born brother, represent the seven monthly sun-gods in the Arctic region, 156-158; 216; 282. *Âdityânâm-ayanam*, an yearly sacrificial session, 193, 209. Adri, a mountain, meaning of in the Rig-Veda, 249, 253. Æsir, gods, the reign of, 78. Ages, archæological, of Stone, Bronze and Iron, 4; distinction between Neolithic and Palæolithic, 10; their co-relation with the geological, 11; of Beech, Oak and Fir, 12. --Geological and their subdivisions, 11; climate and distribution of land and water in, 20-24. --Human and divine in the Rig-Veda, 173 *f*. --Purâṇic, Krita, Tretâ, Dvâpara, and Kali; their real duration, 421-427; their characteristics, 455. Aggilos, phonetic equivalent of Aṅgiras, 160. Agni, fire, a Vedic matutinal deity, 74; living in long darkness, 127; his hidden home in waters and darkness, 317; as child of waters, 317; traversing the universe, 333; his secret third station, 333; seven rays or tongues, and ten secret dwellings of, 342. Agniṣṭoma, a Soma-sacrifice, 206. Ahalyâ, the legend of, 347. *Ahanî*, Day and Night, distinguished from *Uṣâsâ-naktâ*, 135; right and left side of the Year-god, 138-139. Ahîna, a Soma-sacrifice of less than thirteen days, 206. Ahura Mazda, warning Yima about the coming winter in Airyana Vaêjo, 72, 376.

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Airyana Vaêjo, the original Paradise of the Iranians or the Aryan race, Yima's Vara in, 72; description of, in the Vendidad, 357-359; wrongly identified with countries to the east of Iran, 361-363; change in the climate of, caused by Angra Mainyu, 366; proves its invasion by ice during the last Glacial epoch, 368; ten winter months therein, 366-368; also seven summer months, 370 *f*; annual rise of sun, moon and stars, and a year-long day at the place, 71, 72, 376; possible only if it be located in the Arctic regions, and not to the east of Iran, 378; description of the glaciation of, 380. Aitihâsikas, their school of Vedic interpretation, 239. Aiyangâr, Mr., Nârâyaṇa, on the interpretation of Vedic myths on the Astral theory, 63, 245; on the nature of Kumâra, Kârttikeya, 318; on the nature of Sîtâ, 348. Aiyer, Mr. on the yuga-system in the Purâṇas, 422-424. Âjânadevatâs, 237. Aiburz, a mountain, separating the upper from the lower world in the Avesta, 266; apertures in, for the sun to pass through, 269, 318. Alps, low in early geological ages, 21. Altitude, high, its effect on climate, 21. Amma, the ascending stream of, in the Finnish mythology, 276. Ammarik, the gloaming, in the Finnish mythology, 404. Anaximenes, on the overhead rotation of the sky, 78. Aṅgirasâm ayanam, the yearly sacrificial session of Aṅgirases, 162, 193, 209. Aṅgirases, ancient sacrificers of the Aryan race, 160; probably Indo-European in origin, 171;

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different species of, the Navagvas and the Dashagvas, 162; ten months' sacrificial session of the latter, 163; helping Indra in the rescue of the cows at the end of each year, 163; found the sun dwelling in darkness, 163; described as Virûpas, that is, of various forms, 168. Angra Mainyu, the evil spirit in the Avesta, destroys Airyana Vaêjo by introducing severe winter therein, 359; explained as a glacial invasion, 368 f. Anquetil, discovery of the Avesta by, 356. Âpaḥ, waters, distinguished as terrestrial and celestial in the Rig-Veda, 256; celestial or aerial ridden for ten months by the sun, 177, 184; ruled over by Varuṇa, 178; coeval with the world, 257; captivated by Vṛitra and released to flow upwards by Indra, cannot but be celestial, 274, 275, 294, 295; in the seven rivers must be celestial, 288-293; cosmic circulation of the aerial, in the Avesta, 270, 271; cessation of their flow in winter, 271-274; cosmic circulation of, in other mythologies, 275-278; their nature and characteristics as a Vedic deity summed up, 338, 339; the same compared with the Purâṇic legends, 340. Apaosha, the demon conquered by Tishtrya, an Avestic proto-type of Shuṣhṇa in the Ṛig-Veda, 222, 223; fight with, lasting for a hundred nights, 224. Apaturia, ancient Greek feast, 399. Apollon, oxen of, stolen by Hermes, 204; derived from Sanskrit apavaryan, 255. Apsu-jit, conqueror in waters, an epithet of Indra, 245, 247. Âptoryâma, a Soma-sacrifice, 206.

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Ap-tûrya, the fight for waters by Indra, 245. Âptya, See Trita. Arag, See Rangha. Archæology, prehistoric, ages of Iron, Bronze and Stone in, 4, 8; characterised by instruments of metals and stone discovered in the recent strata of the earth, 8; ages not synchronous in different countries, 9; transition from one into another gradual and not sudden, 9; distinction between New and Old stone age, 10; ages of Beech, Oak and Fir, 12; the date of the commencement of the Neolithic age in, 12, 13;