The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.158

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shagvas, 166; on mânuṣhâ yugâ, 172; on kṣhapaḥ, 181; on the meaning of padena, 197; on the duration of Gavâm-ayanam, 197; on night-sacrifices, 212; on the meaning of shata-kratu, 218; on Ati-râtra, 220; on chatvârim-shyâm sharadi, 280; on the meaning of vadhri, 311, 312; on prapitve, 323, 326; on the ten-fold division, 341. Scandinavia, supposed to be the ancient Aryan home, 409. Schrader, Dr., his work on prehistoric antiquities, 3; on neolithic, and palæolithic culture, 16, 17; on the ancient division of the year, 399; on primitive Aryan culture and civilization, 431, 432; on primitive Aryan religion, 437; on the use of metals in primitive times, 442. Seasons, of the year, five in older times, 182; reason of, 183; denotes an Arctic year of ten months, 186; method of counting time by, in Paleography, 285; in the Avesta, 286. Separation, Aryan, caused by the glacial epoch, and not by overcrowding or irresistible impulse, 382. Seven, milking the one, 191. Seven, rivers, or Sapta-sindhavaḥ, flowing upwards, 288; cannot be the rivers of the Panjaub, 289; three-fold, celestial, terrestrial and infernal, 290; associated with the seven rays or seven suns, 291; released by Indra, cannot but be celestial, 292. Sevenfold, 159, 291; and tenfold, division of things in Vedas, explained on the Arctic theory, 340, 345. Shabara, a commentator on Jaimini, 211, 283. Ṣaḷaha, a group of six days, a sacrificial unit of time, 207. Shambara, killed by Indra on the fortieth day of autumn, 280.

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Shaṅkarâchârya, 76, 182; on the eternity of Vedas, 450. Sharad, autumn, the last season of sunshine in the ancient home, 279-282; explained etymologically, 283. Shatakratu, an epithet of Indra, 217; means the lord of a hundred sacrifices and not of hundred powers, 219, 220; Purâṇic tradition based on, 217. Shatapatha-Brâhmaṇa, an account of deluge in, 385. Shatarâtra, a hundred nights' sacrifice, denotes the long Arctic night, 216. Shâtyâyanins, on the legend of Trita, 335. Shayu, a protege of the Ashvins, 302, 304. Shikshâ, by Pâṇini, quoted, 102. Shipi-vishṭa, an opprobrious name of Vishṇu, explained by the Arctic theory, 330, 332. Ṣoḍashî, a Soma-sacrifice, 206. Shulka, a primitive Aryan coin, 442. Shushṇa, Indra's fight with, on the completion of ten, 322-326. Siberia, freshness of fossil deposits in, 14; primitive Aryan home to the north of, 418. Siddhânta-Shiromaṇi, perpetual day and night in, 56. Sîtâ, the wife of Râma, 348; represented as his sister and wife in Buddhistic Jâtakas, 349; probable explanation of, 350. Soma, seven-wheeled and ten-rayed, 342. Soma-sacrifices, their classification and nature, 206 f.; See Gavâm-ayanam, and Râtri-sattras. South, the sun rising in, 46. Sphota, the doctrine of, 450. Spiegel, Prof., 72, 224, 226, 356, 359, 379, 381; his identification of Airyana Vaêjo questioned, 361. Spring, perpetual, 38, 41. Spitzbergen, warm climate in, before the glacial period, 21; remnant of an old Polar continent, 40.

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Stars, spinning round and round at the Pole, 45, 46; motion of, in circum-polar region, 51, 52. Stone-age, See Ages, Neolithic, Palæolithic. Storm-theory, 3, 242-244; its inadequacy to explain the legend of Indra and Vṛitra, 250-254. Striæ, scratches, glacial, 23. Sudâs, engaged in fight with the ten non-sacrificing kings, 345. Summer, long and cool in inter-glacial time, 32, 38. Sun, or Sûrya, shining and disappearing for six months at the Pole, 46; rising in the south, 46; a matutinal Vedic deity, 74; southern course of, in Polar regions, 53; described in the Veda as unyoking his car and halting in the midst of heaven, 140; standing still in the Bible, 141; rocking like a gold swing in the heaven, 142; different suns for different seasons, 154, 155; dwelling in darkness, 163, 164, 321; his eye covered with aerial vapour, 184; falling beyond the heaven, 192; conceived as the son of Dyu and Earth, 314; described as moving in the mother's womb, while above the horizon, 314; his exit from the womb after ten months explained, 314, 315; a paradox arising therefrom, 316, 317; his wheel or orb, 319 f. his chariot a mono-cycle, 321; stolen by Indra, 322; on the completion of ten, meaning of, 323-326; See, Horses, Prapitva, Rays.