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180 SAMAGRA TILAK 2 • ORION

groups of words Gauradt, of, at the beginnings of day
Prajnadi and Jyotsnadi 58. and night recorded by obser-
Parsi priests : their worshipping vation of the sky 26 f.
the sacred fire still in the Plutarch : Greek biographer,
manner of the Vedic ~iehis states that the legends of
according to the sacrificial Canis and Orion belong
calender 10. to the Greek i. e. Aryan
Pashuman : the legend of, origin and not to any foreign
a similar legend of Rudra 75. i. e. Egyptian or Chaldean
Periods of Aryan civilization : origin 78. ·
pre-Orion i. e. of Nivids bet- Prajapati : alias Yajna alias
ween 6000 B. C. and 4000 the year-all synonyms 15;
B. C. 157; Orion i. e. between his description as god of time
2500 B. C. and 1400 B. C. in the Vedanga Jyoti~ha 155.
158; old Sanskrit literature Pre-Orion period : 6000 B. C.
i. e. between 1400 B. C. and to 4000 B. C. when probably
and 500 B. C. Pre-Buddhistic only Nivids were in use 157.
158; Aditi i. e. which elapsed Priests : entrusted by their com-
before the Vedic Aryas fixed munity with performances of
their primitive calendar 158. sacrifices and with keeping
Pitripaka,ha : feasts to the of time, they blended these
manes i.e. pitries fixed during two 10, 10 f.
this period 69; the custom. of Pri•hthya sh;}.laha : a sacrifical
feasting the manes common unit of time 154.
amongst the Indians, the Ptolemy : Greek astronomer,
Parsis and the Greeks 70; picked up the astronomical
the custom confirms the calculations of Hipparchus
theory that after the feasts about the rate of the motion
the Mrigaehiras commenced of the precession of equinoxes
the new year in ancient times 162.
70. R
Pitriyana : black path for the Ramanath gives a quotation
souls of the dead, pitriloka about Agrahayan in his
17, 18, 119; Dak~hinayana Trikand Viveka 67.
20. Red Indians : their blind belief
Plato : referred by Lewis about in Columbus's powers in
the regulation of months, averting the calamity of ecli-
seasons, years and sacrifices pse by prayers 121.
and festivals 10 f. ~ibhus :the genii of seasons 12,
Pleiades : the rising and setting awakened by the dog 107;