The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.151

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Patañjali, his view about the eternity of the Vedas, 451. Pathyâ-Svasti, the goddess of speech in the northern region, 390. Peat-mosses, of Denmark, beds of beach, oak and fir therein, 12. Perpetual, spring, 41; day and night, 56. Persephone, daughter of Zeus, carried by Pluto for six months, 398. Penka, 4; his view on the type of the primitive Aryans in Europe, 16. Philology, comparative, on the division of the year, 399; conclusions regarding the primitive Aryan culture, deduced therefrom 431, 432; necessity of modifying the same, 433-435. Phœnician, mariners rounding Africa, 146. Pictel, Dr., 356. Pim, Capt., his description of the Polar year, 48. Pipru, an enemy of Indra, 140. Pischel, Dr., on the nature of Vṛiṣhâkapi, 348. Pitriyâna, See Devayâna. Pleiades, See Kṛittikâs. Pleistocene, or the Glacial period 11; changes of climate in, 22, 23. Plutarch, on the ancient Roman year, of ten months, 198, 395; on the sleep of the Phrygian god, 329, 407; on the imprisonment of the Paphlagonian gods, 348, 407. Pole, north, temperate climate at, in interglacial times, 22, 41; existence of a continent at, in interglacial times, 40; regions round, distinguished from circumpolar or Arctic regions, 43; star, change in the position of, 44; special features of the calendar at, 46; characteristics or differentiæ of Polar regions summed up, 58. Polygeny, theory of, 445. Posche, 4; his view regarding the type of the primitive Aryans in Egypt, 16. Post-glacial, period, its commencement about 50 or 60 thousand years ago according to English geologists, and 7 or 8 thousand according to American geologists, 13; See Glacial period. Prajâpati, the creator of the Vedas, 448. Pralaya, the deluge, destruction of the Vedas in, 448. Prâleya, ice, an indication of the glacial nature of the deluge, 387. Prapitva, advancing time, the meaning of, in the Veda, 323, 324. Pravargya, a sacrificial ceremony, represents the revival of the sun, 190. Prehistoric times, effect of the discovery of comparative philology on the study of, 2; See Archæology, Geology. Pre-Orion, period, its commencement, 420; consistent with geological evidence, 421. Pṛiṣhthya, a kind of Ṣhaḷaha, 207-209. Ptolemy, 390. Pûṣhan, the sun, the golden boat of, 277; seven-wheeled and ten-rayed, 342. Purâ, the former or the inter-glacial age, 111. Puraḥ, meaning of, 221. Purâ-kalpa, ancient rites and traditions, 130, 462. Purûravas, 241.