The Arctic Home in the Vedas c8.43.6

c8.43.6

but if we take these expressions to refer to the Polar dawn they become not only intelligible, but peculiarly appropriate, as such a dawn in its daily circuits must come to the point from which it started every twenty-four hours. All these passages taken together, therefore, point out only to one conclusion, and that is that both the Rig-Veda and the aittirîya Saṃhitâ describe a long and continuous dawn divided into thirty dawn-days, or periods of twenty-four hours each, a characteristic found only in the Polar dawn.