Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.1106

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¹⁹ i. 1, 28; Weber, Indian Literature, 151, n. 166; Windisch, Buddha und Māra, 151. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 367-371; Weber, Indische Streifen, 1, 91. A quite different theory of the Yugas is given by Shamasastry, Gavām Ayana, 141 et seq., but his whole theory is quite impossible. Weber once (Indian Literature, 113, n. 127) found the mention of the quinquennial Yuga in Rv. iii. 55, 18, but that passage refers to the five or six seasons (see Griffith, Hymns of the Rigveda, 1, 382, n.), while i. 25, 8, merely alludes to the intercalary month. Weber also (op. cit., 70, 247) considers that the Yugas are derived from the phases of the moon, but this idea was long since disposed of by Roth, Die Lehre von den vier Weltaltern (Tübingen, 1860).