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Virupe : varying lengths and about the nature of, 194, 195;
two fold colour of the two, believed to imprison the
109. waters in the rain-cloud, 197;
Vi~hnapft : a protege of the four-fold character or effect
Ashvins, 246. of his fight with Indra, 200,
Vi~hpu: as a Vedic deity, nature 201; his dark and hidden
of his three strides, 266, 267; watery abode; 201; simultane-
helped Indra in the V]:itra ous release of light and water
fight, 268; his third step iden- by the killing of Vritra, 208,
tical with the long darkness of 209; utterly inexplicable on the
the winter night, 268; his Storm theory, 204, 208; ex-
sleep for four months on plained by the theory of the
his serpent-bed, 268; why cosmic circulation of aerial
called Shipivi~h~a, 269, waters 205, 224; and by the
270; indicates the long dis- Arctic theory, 227; the date
appearance of the sun below oflndra's fight with, 227-234.
the horizon in the Arctic Vritrahan: the killer ofVritra, an
region, 271. ancient Arctic deity, a proto-
Vi~huvan : the central day in the type of the Greek Orthros and
Soma-sacrifice, 169. ofVerethraghna ofthe Avesta,
Vishvaka : Vishnapu retrieved 240, 241.
to, by Ashvins, 246. Vritra-tftrya : fight with Vritra,
Vi~pala : Ashvins' protege, a 200.
legend of Ashvins' . surgical Vyasa : his view about the
skill, 199, 246, eternity of the Vedas, 368.
· Vivasvat : with the lapse of the
ten ( Vivasvat ), 155, 156; Wallace supports Lyell's
the father of Manu, 318. theory of the Glacial period,
Vouru-Kasha : the gathering 22.
place of aerial waters in the Wallis : his erroneous view
Avesta, 182, 216; the scene of that the nether world was un-
Tishtrya's fight with Apaosha, knowiJ. to the Vedic bards,
182. 210, 212.
Vri~Mkapayt : the legend of Warren (Dr.) : on the original
the swallowed oxen, 196. home of the human race at
Vri~hakapi :the probable Vedic the North Pole, 5; on the ex-
ancestor of Hanftman, 284. istence of a Polar continent
V~itra :the traditional enemy of in primitive times; 33; his
l{ldra, engulfed · in long description of the Polar dawn
- · · ·darkness, 102; Yaska's view with its revolving splendours