The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.3

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BĀDARĀYANA, on the inauspiciousness of dying in the Dakṣiṇāyana, 76; on the eternity of the Vedas, 450. Balder, or Baldur, the Norse summer god, his dwelling place in the heavens, 403; killed by Hodur, the winter-god, 405. Bali, the rescuer of Dīrghatamas, 170; Purāṇic enemy of Vāmana, 327. Ball, Sir Robert, supports Croll's theory, 27; but refrains from adopting Croll's calculations, 33. Beech age, 12; See Ages. Bhāṇḍārkar, Dr., on the date of Māḍhariputta and Puḷumāvi, 285. Bhartṛihari, 340. Bhāskara, Bhaṭṭa, 191, 220. Bhāskarāchārya, on perpetual day and night, 56; his erroneous view about Uttarāyaṇa, 67. Bhīṣhma, a Mahābhārata warrior, waiting to die in the Uttarāyaṇa, 75. Bhṛigu, an ancient sacrificer, 160, 161. Bhujyu, a protege of the Ashvins, who rescued him from bottomless darkness, 302, 303, 305, 306-9. Bloomfield, Prof., 115, 287. Bodas, Rājārāma Shāstri, and M.R. 446. Brahma-chārin, the sun in the Atharva-Veda, 315. Brahma-jāyā, the Brāhmin's lost wife, restoration of, 347. Brāhmaṇas, the Vedic works, the Vedas partially unintelligible at the time of their composition, 5; classification of the contents of, 129; their probable aim and nature, 230; on the eternity of the Vedas, 448. Bṛihaspati, the son of Aṅgiras, said to be seven-mouthed, 169; his conquest of cows, 201; helps Indra in the rescue of cows from Vala, 249; saviour of Trita from distress, 335; seven-mouthed, and ten-headed, 342; connected with the story of Saramâ and Panis, 347; restoration of his lost wife, 347. Bronze, art of making, probably introduced into Europe from outside, 9; known before the Aryan separation, 442. Bronze, age, See Ages. Bundahish, referred to or quoted, 224, 266, 269, 361-363, 374. Bunsen, 356, 365, 367. Burma, Indian names of cities in, 293.