Page 627 - Lokmanya Tilak Samagra (khand 2)

408 SAMAGRA TILAK - 2 • THE ARCTIC HOME
Twilight : duration of, at the rifically as supposed by Yaska,
Pole, 52; of the gods in the 88; nor owing to the number
Norse mythology, 64. of presiding deities, 80; nor
Two :night and day, creating by reference to the consecutive
the five, 155. daily dawns, 81; the plural re-
presents one long continuous
Uchathya : the father of dawn divided into many day-
Dirghatamas, 138. long portions, 81 ; thirty
Uchchd-budhna : with the dawns or dawn-sisters in the
bottom up, applied to the Taittirtya Samhita, 81, 91-
nether world, 250. 100; in the ~ig-Veda, 84; a
Ukko : the descending stream continuous team of thirty
of, in the Finnish Mythology, dawns in the Taittiriya Brah-
225. ma11a, 85-86; aU moving round
Ukthya : a Soma-sacrifice, a and round in the same plane,
modification of Agni~htoma 84; their circular motion in
168.
the ~ig-Veda, 85; the charac-
Upsala : an ancient Aryan site,
teristics of Vedic dawns
probably in Scandinavia, 336.
summed up, 86-87; variation
Ursa Major: the constellation of
in the duration of, illustrated
the Great Bear, high altitude
by the story oflndra's shatter-
of, in ~ig-Veda, 55; above the
ing its car, 89; aU prove its
path of the sun, 119.
Polar character, 90.
Urvashi : a dawn 197.
Utathya : the father of Dirgha-
U shas : the Vedic goddess of
tamas in the Mahabharata,
'morn, the most beautiful of
the same as ~ig Vedic
Vedic deities, its physical
Uchathya, 138.
character unobscured, 67;
Utsargir:11im ayanam : a sacrifi-
lasted long enough to allow
cial session lasting for a
the recitation of tbc whole
lunar year, 170.
~ig-Veda, or to admit of a
Uttara : the north, why so
five-fold or three-fold divi-
called, 119.
sion, 69, 70; said to shine
perpetually in old times, 70; Uttarayapa : originally equi-
difference between it and vi- noctial, misunderstood by
u~hU, 70; three Vedic texts Bhaskaracharya, 56.
proving that it lasted conti- Uttarkurus : a mountain, a
nuously for several days, 70, land and a city mentioned
323; addressed in plural as well by Ptolemy and Megasthenes,
as singular, 78, 80; not hono- 319.