The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.2

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latest researches in, effect of, on primitive history, 4; on Vedic interpretation, 7; summary of the latest researches in, 37, 38. Arctic regions, characterised by mild climate suitable for human habitation in inter-glacial times, 24, 38, 419; a wide continent before the glacial epoch, 41; appearance of the heavens in, 51, 52; duration of day and night in, 55, 56; dawn in, 56, 57; distinguishing characteristics of, summed up, 59. Ardhau, the two celestial hemispheres in the Rig-Veda, 262. Ardvi Sûra Anâhita, Avestic celestial river, like the Vedic Sarasvatî, 265, 363; grants a boon to Thraêtaona, 266, 402. Aristotle, mentions an aerial river, 276; his belief in the reality of the deluge, 388. Ârya, Indra, dealing measure for measure to Dâsa or Vritra, 140, 143. Âryabhaṭṭa, 422. Aryan, race and people, their unity in primitive times, 2; controversy regarding the original type of, 16; Vedic, settled in central Asia in the Orion period, 420; primitive, interglacial and not post-glacial in origin, 433; European Neolithic, not progressive but retrogressive savages, 444; origin of and differentiation from other human races, lost in geological antiquity, 445. —Home, primitive, cannot be located in Central Asia, 18; nor in North Germany or Scandinavia, 408; must be located in the Arctic regions, 232, 296, 390, 409, 417-418; destroyed during the last Glacial epoch, 381, 82; migration therefrom at the beginning of the post-glacial period, 429. —Culture and religion, primitive, Schrader's view of, 3; in their Arctic Home, 435-438; higher than the Neolithic European, 439-445. —Languages, unity of, 2; not developed from the Finnic, 18; not of Neolithic origin, 438; origin of, lost in geological antiquity, 444. Âshvina-shastra, a prize in the race of matutinal deities, 82, 83, 299. Ashvins, a dual matutinal deity in the Veda, their path, 74; time of singing the hymn or prayer of, 82; rescuers of Dîrghatamas, 169, 170; physicians of gods, explained by Max Muller as restorers of the winter sun, 244, 299; their double equipment, boat and golden chariot, 277; help Indra in his fight with Vritra, 298, 299; their exploits and character, 301-304; save their proteges from bottomless darkness, 304, 305; inexplicable by the vernal theory, 305-311; safely deliver Saptavadhri from ten months' confinement in the womb of his mother, 312-316; satisfactorily explained by the Arctic theory, 319; their three stations, the third hidden, explained, 333; their achievements said to be ancient, that is, interglacial, 460. Asia, Northern, the glaciation of, and milder climate in, 14; Central, the theory of the original Aryan home in, challenged by Poshe and Penka, 4; Taylor's view, 5; Rhys' view, 408; Indo-Iranian settlements in, not primitive, 390, 420. Astral, theory, to explain Vedic myths, 245. Astronomers, Hindu, locate Meru at the North Pole, 67; chronology of, 422. Atharvan, an ancient sacrificer, 160-161. Ati-agniṣṭoma, a Soma-sacrifice, 206. Ati-rātra, a Soma-sacrifice, 206; introduces and concludes a sattra, 208, 228; one of the night-sacrifices, 213, 215; extraction and purification of Soma juice therein at night, 213, 214; an Avestic parallel, 214; meaning of ati in, 227; production of a cycle of day and night therefrom, 227; position of, in the annual round of sacrifices in ancient times, 229, 230. Atri, an ancient sacrificer, 160, 161. Atri Saptavadhri, See Ashvins, and Saptavadhri. Aufrecht, Prof., 87, 88, 462. Aurora Borealis, 47, 70. Aupamanyava, a Nairukta, correctness of his interpretation of shipiviṣṭa, 330, 331. Aurṇavābha, 326. Autumnal, hundred forts of Vṛitra, meaning of, 221, 248, 252, 287. Autumns, a hundred, 389. Avesta, passages in, See Index of Avestic passages. Traditions about the Polar home in, 19, 354-390; method of counting by seasons in, 285; See Airyana Vaējo. Āyus, a Soma-sacrifice, 207. Azi-Dahāk, 267, 308, 309.