The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.9

c17.9

Darkness, of the Polar night, nature of, 47; ghastly and sunless, as Vritra's stronghold, in the Rig-Veda, 125, 247; long, too long, the end of, 125; Agni living long in, 127, 317; Indra driving the Asuras from, 213; Arctic, synchronous with winter, 273-279; daily and annual struggle between it and light, 242, 296, 406; proteges of the Ashvins condemned to, 304, 305; the sun dwelling in, 321, 322.