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98 SAMAGRI\ TILAK- 2 • THE ARCTIC HOME
12. The first dawn ( is ) the child of ~ita, one upholds the
greatness of Waters, one moves in the regions of Surya, one (in
those ) of Gharma ( fire ), and Savit!i rules one.
13. That, which dawned first, has become a cow in Yama's
realm. Rich in milk, may she milk for us each succeeding year.
14. The chief of the bright, the omniform, the brindled, the
fire-bannered has come, with light, in the sky. Working well to-
wards a common goal, bearing ( signs of ) old age, ( yet ) 0
unwasting ! 0 Dawn ! thou hast come.
15. The wife of the seasons, this first has come, the leader of
days, the mother of children. Though one, 0 Dawn ! thou
shinest manifoldly; though unwasting, thou causest all the rest
to grow old ( decay ).

Five-named Cow: the earth, according to Sayal).a, who says that Lhe
earth has five different names m the five seasons, e. g. puslzpa-vat£
l blossomy) in Vasanta (Spring), tapa-7Jali (heated) in Grl,hma
(Summer), virfhti·z•ati (showery) in Var,hii (Rains), jala-p,asada-v.?ti
(clear watered) in Sharad (Autumn), and shai.')'a·vaii (cold) in
Hemanta-Sh1shira (\'\Tinter). The seasons are taken as five by com-
bining Hemanta and Shishira into one.
The fifteen: The fifteen-fold Stoma, called paiich-d,zsha, (See Haug's
Trans. Ait. Br. p. 238 ).
13. EliCh sua:eeding ;·mr: This shows lhat the dawn here descnbed
is lhe first Dawn of the year. In ~1g. I. 33, IO, light (cows) is said
to be milked from darknes:;.
J4. vVorkillg <J.•e/1 [o<J.:,,rd.; IZ C0/111/Zongoal: compare ~ig. III, 6I, 3, where
the Dawn "wending to one and the same goal" is asked to " turn on,
like a wheel.''
Bc,lring( signs of) old age: I construe }a?';J.m btb!wati and yet aj,ue,
~aya!fa take:; sz,apa.<Ya-mau.'i (working well) as an independent ad-
jective; and connects biblt?'ati with artham, and jm·am with :;;;(i~. The
meaning would then ·be "\Vorking welt, ha\·ing a common end, 0
unwasting Dawn! thou hast reached old age." But it does not make
any appreciable change in the general sense of the Yerse.
15. Tlo:tg!z one .... slzin!st 11lll1tijoldly: shews that only one continuous
da11 n, though made up of many parts, is described in this hymn.
Le,der t~( d,,ys, mo'l~tr of childn:11-the epithets ah11;;111 tuhi and gm•,'im
m,'ii,'i are also found usect in Lhe ~ig Yecta. VII, //, 2.