The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.4

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Cacus, a Greek monster like the Vedic Vala, 200. Calendar, Vedic, in the Taittirîya Saṃhitâ, of twelve months and six seasons, 62; ancient sacrificial, of ten months, 229, 231, 232; ancient Roman, of ten months, 199, 230, 395; ancient Celtic and Norse, 398, 399; ancient Greek, 399; primitive Aryan, Arctic, 436, 437. Calends, of May and of Winter, 396, 397. Caspian, sea, wrongly identified with Rangha, 363. Celts, the yearly feasts of, 396; their gods and heroes, 406 f. Chaillu, Paul Du, on the long night at Nordkyn, 56; his Land of the long night referred to, 214, 215. Chalceia, an ancient Greek yearly feast, 399. Chaturvimsha, a sacrificial day, 208, 209. Chatvârimshyâm sharadi, on the fortieth in autumn, the meaning of, (in Ṛig. II. 12, 11,) 281. Chavee, on the original type of the Aryan race, 16. Chronology, Purâṇic, of Kalpas, Manvantaras, and Mahâ-yugas, 421; length of a Kalpa, and a Yuga in, 422; Rangâchârya's and Aiyer's views thereon, 423-426. —in Manu and Mahâbhârata, 426-428. —Vedic, 420, 453-454. Chyavâna, the falling ( sun ), a protege of the Ashvins who restored him to youth, 170, 244, 301-303. Circum-polar, regions, distinguished from the Polar, 43; characteristics of, described and summed up, 55, 59. Civilization, Palæolithic and Neolithic, 16, 17; primitive, as deduced from comparative philology, 431; original Vedic or Aryan, interglacial, 439-444. Climate, geological, equable and uniform over the whole earth till the end of the Pliocene period, 21; sudden change in, during the Pleistocene, 22; cold, in the glacial, and mild, in the inter-glacial period, 23, 24. Coins, bronze, in use amongst undivided Aryans, 442. Comparative, Mythology and Philology, q. v. Couvade, the Irish custom of, 329, 405, 407. Corpses, the custom of not disposing of, during winter, 73-77, 271-275. Cows, the three-fold meaning of, in the Vedas, 201, 202; the sacrificial session of, lasting for ten months, 194-198; its nature explained, 200 f. Cow-stable, seven-fold and ten-fold, 343. Cow's Walk, See Gavâm ayanam. Croll, Dr., his theory about the cause of the Glacial period, 27-31; his three periods of the maximum eccentricity of the earth's orbit, 32; his estimate of the duration and commencement of the Glacial period, 33; questioned by Ball and Newcomb, 33; by Geikie and Hudlestone, 35.