The Arctic Home in the Vedas c8.s1.47

c8.s1.47

Their five courses: I construe tâsâm pañcha kratavaḥ prayaveṇa yanti. Sâyaṇa understands kratavaḥ to mean sacrificial rites performed on the appearance of the dawn; but compare Ṛig. I, 123, 8, which says "The blameless Dawns (plu.) go round thirty yojanas, each her own kratu (destined course)," (supra p. 103). Kratavaḥ in the present verse must be similarly interpreted.