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406 SAMAGRA TILAK- 2 • THE ARCTIC HOME
Shushna : Indra's fight with, on Striae : stripped scratches~
th~ ·completion of ten, 263- glacial, 19.
266. Sudas : a patron of Vasi~htha
Siberia : freshness of fossil de- helped by Jndra, engaged in
fight with the ten non-
posits in 12; primeval Aryan
sacrificing kings, 282.
horne to the north of, 343.
Summer : long and cool in in-
Siddhanta-Shiromap.i : quoted
ter-Glacial time, 27, 31.
about, perpertual day and
Sun, : SU.rya, shining and dis-
night at the North Pole, 46.
appearing for six months at
Sita ·: the wife of Rama, 284; re-
the Pole, 39; rising in the
presented as his sister and south, 39; a matutinal Vedic
wife in Buddhistic Jatakas, deity, 61; southern course of,
285; probable explanation of, in Polar regions, 43, 44;
285. described in the Veda as
Soma : seven-wheeled and ten- unyoking his car and halting
rayed, 279. in the midst of heaven, 114;
Soma-sacrifices : their classifica- described as standing still
tion and nature, 167, 168. in the Bible, 115; rocking like
South : the sun rising in, 38. a gold swing in the heaven,
Spho~a : the doctrine of, 369. 116; different suns for differ-
Spiegel ( Prof. ) A vestic ent seasons, 125-127; dwelling
research scholar, 59, 60, 183, in darkness, 133, 134, 262;
184 f 292, 293, 299, 310, his eye covered with aerial
311, 312; his identification of vapour, 149; falling beyond
Airyana Vaejo questioned, the heaven, 157; conceived as
279.
the son of Dyu and Earth,
Spring : perpetual, 31.
255; described as moving in
Spitzbergen : warm climate in,
the mother's womb, while
before the glacial period, 18 ; above the horizon, 256; his
remnant of an old Polar exit from the womb after ten
continent, 33. months explained, 256; a
Stars: spinning round and round
paradox arising therefrom~.
at the Pole, 38, 39; motion of,
256, 257; his wheel or orb,
in circum-polar region, 42-44.
262; his chariot a mono-
Stone-age : See Ages.
cycle, 262; stolen by Indra,
Storm-theory inapplicable
265; on the completion of
supplement to the Dawn-
ten, meaning of, 263, 264.
theory, , 196-200; its inade-
Sunshine : of less than twelve
quacy to explain the legend months' duration at the Pole,
of Indra and Vritra, 203-207~ 123, 124.