The Arctic Home in the Vedas c8.25

c8.25

The following verse is, however, still more explicit, and decisive on the point. The seventh Maṇḍala of the Rig-Veda contains a number of dawn-hymns. In one of these (VII, 76), the poet, after stating in the first two verses that the Dawns have raised their banner on the horizon with their usual splendour, expressly tells us, (verse 3), that a period of several days elapsed between the first appearance of the dawn on the horizon and the actual rising of the sun that followed it. As the verse¹ is very important for our purpose, I give below the Pada text with an interlineal word for word translation:—