Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c5.69

v2.c5.69

Yuga.—Tilak¹ has pressed this word into his theory of the reminiscence in the Vedas of an arctic home. He finds in it the sense of ‘month,’ interpreting the legend of Dīrghatamas (= the sun) as an allusion to the arctic summer of ten months, followed by a night of two, traces of which he thinks exist in the notices of the seasons. This theory is, however, most improbable, as is his explanation² of the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa³ reference by the theory that it portrays the various stages of the life of the Āryans.