The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.157

c17.157

Sânkhyas, their view about the eternity of the Vedas, 451. Saporta, M. de, on the Arctic origin of the human race, 409. Sapta-vadhri, the seven-eunuch, a protege of the Ashvins, 302; praying for safe delivery after ten months' gestation, meaning explained, 313 f. Saramâ, 241. Saraṇyu, 241. Sarasvatî, a celestial river in the Veda, 266; described as slaying Vṛitra, 267; compared to the Avestic Ardvi Sûra Anâhita, 268. Sato-karahe, of hundred deeds, an adjective of Verethraghna in the Avesta, 225. Sattras, annual, in imitation of the yearly course of the sun, 150; Gavâm-ayanam, the type of the annual, 193; sacrificial sessions, division of, 206. Satyavrata, Pandit Sâmashramî, 134. Savitṛi, the sun, traversing the universe, 332; his third heaven in Yama's regions, 332. Sâyaṇa, his method of explaining difficult Vedic passages, 6, 93, 102, 144, 416; referred to, 65, 74, 81, 88, 89, 90, 91; on the use of dawns in the plural number, 95, 97; his explanation of thirty dawns, 101, 102, 116; on the thirty yojanas traversed by the dawn, 104; on the fears about endless nights, 129-130; on the meaning of virûpe, 133; on much with vi, 141-144; on the seven rays of the sun, 152; on the existence of the different suns in different quarters, 154; on the meaning of Navagvas and Da-