The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.77

c17.77

ICE, of the glacial period, its action, 23; invading Airyana Vaêjo, 379, 380; its connection with the deluge in Indian mythology, 387. Iliad, the, nature of day in, 78; mythical element in, traceable to primitive Aryan times, 349; mentions bronze coins, 442. Incarnations, ten, of Indra in the Avesta and of Vishnu in the Purânas, 341, 350. Indra, the principal Vedic deity, revolving the heavens as on a pole, 65; breaking the car of the dawn, 110; fights with his enemies in darkness, 125, 213; retaliates Dâsa's mischief by producing the long Arctic day, 140-144; assisted by Navagvas and Dasha-gvas, 162 f; his war with Vala at the end of the year, 163, 169, 226; the only deity worshipped in the Atirâtra sacrifice, 213; master of a hundred sacrifices, 217-221; his conquest over Vritra and release of captive waters, the sun and the dawn, 245-279; as Vritra-han, 245, 296; finds Shambara on the fortieth of Sharad, 279-282; stealing the solar orb on the completion of ten (months), 320-326; assisted by Viṣṇu in his fight with Vritra, 328; tenfold or ten incarnations of, 341; seven-killer, and possibly ten-killer, 346; lover of Ahalyâ, 347; exploits of, said to be ancient or interglacial, 460, 111; See Âpas, Dashagvas, Vala, Vritra.