The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.183

c17.183

UCHATHYA, the father of Dîrghatamas in the Rig-Veda, 170. Uchchâ-budhna, with the bottom up, applied to the nether world, 307. Ukko, the descending stream of, in the Finnish Mythology, 276. Ukthya, a Soma-sacrifice, 206. Upsala, an ancient Aryan site, 409. Ursâ Major, the constellation of the Great Bear, high altitude of, in Rig-Veda, 56; above the path of the sun, 147. Urvashî, 241. Uṣhas, the Vedic goddess of morn the most beautiful of Vedic deities, 81; its physical character unobscured, id.; lasted long enough to allow the recitation of the whole Rig-Veda, 23; or to admit of a five-fold or three-fold division, 84; said to shine perpetually in old times, 85; difference between it and vi-uṣhṭi, id.; three Vedic texts proving that it lasted continuously for several days, 86, 293; addressed in plural as well as singular, 95; not honorifically as supposed by Yâska, 96; nor owing to the number of presiding deities, 97; nor by reference to the consecutive daily dawns, 97; the plural represents one long continuous dawn divided into many day-long portions, 98; thirty dawns or dawn-sisters in the Taittirîya Saṁhitâ, 98, 113-122; in the Rig-Veda, 103; a continuous team of thirty dawns in the Taittirîya Brâhmaṇa, 105; all moving round and round in the same plane, 103; their circular motion in the Rig-Veda, 105; the characteristics of Vedic dawns summed up, 108, 109; variation in the duration of, illustrated by the story of Indra's shattering its car, 110; all prove its Polar character, 112. Utathya, the father of Dîrghatamas in the Mahâbhârata, 170. Utsargiṇâm ayanam, a sacrificial session lasting for a lunar year, 209. Uttara, the north, why so called, 147. Uttarâyaṇa, originally equinoctial, misunderstood by Bhâskara, 57. Uttarakurus, 389.