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184 SAMAGRA TILAK - 2 • ORION
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Vaishvadeya a household Vedic ~i~his,seeAncient ~i!Jhis.
sacrifice worshipped before Vedic solar year : a sidereal
taking nrreals, its connection year and not tropical 15.
with Yanrra's dogs 86 f. Vedic works : give evidence
Vaivasvata : king of the Pitri- regarding the changes in the
yana region, Yanrra not of seasons and the traces of the
that terrible character des- internrrediate stages 161 to
cribed in later literature 81. 167.
"Vajasaneyi Sarphita :intercalary Vendidad : the Parsi Vedas,
nrronth nrrentioned 12. legend of dogs in 85, 87.
Varahanrrihira his Panch Vikranrra : a Hindu ruler, his
SiddhAntika quoted in support era 4.
of Tilak's theory 27, 27 f, 28. Vi,hftvan : the equator, the
Vasant : spring, the first season equinoctial day dividing the
17; started together with the year, the central day alias
satras, the year and the the Abhijit day cutting the
Uttarayana 20. satra into two halves 9, 16,
Veda : the oldest book, tool for 154; the day when the day
the study of the Aryan hunrra- and the night were equal in
nity, takes us so near the length 16; if this was the
absolute beginning of things, central day originally the year
tool for fixing the chronology nrrust have conrrnrrenced with
of the history of civilization the equinoxes 16.
1 ; containing allusions to as- Vri~bakapi : his legend 129
trononrrical facts throwing to 149; sukta contains a
light on the age of the record of the beginning or
earliest Vedic relics 3. the year 157; hynrrns narrating
Vedanga Jyoti,ha : the only his legend conrrposed in the
early Vedic calendar, a work Orion period 160.
on Astrononrry in Sanskrit 4, w
29, .29 f; a chapter in S. B. Warren : his Kala Sankalita
Dik,hit's work ' History of explains the systenrr of nrrea-
Hindu Astrononrry ' in suring the year, nrronth and
Marathi 7 f; conlnlencenrrent days in Southern India 8.
of the year from winter Weber (Prof.) : his essay colle-
solstice 15; states the positions cting astrononrrical allusions
of solstices and eq~noxes 29. and references in the Vedic
Vedic Aryas :see Ancient Aryas. literature 5; author of ' His-
Vedic calendar : commencement tory of Indian Literature ' 6.
of the year 4. Western scholars : depreciating