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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) December 1942

1942

The car-festival celebrated in all the Vishnu temples on the seventh day of the white half of the month of Magha in Makara by takipg the idol of 'Vishnu to a river or a lake near to the temple and eityting the liberation of-the elephant front the clutches of the crocodile.'preserves the memory of the occurrence of winter solstice in Capricorn at the time of the Vedangajyautisha about B. C. 900 or [...] The celebration of the Gauri and Ganapati festivals on the third and fourth of the month of Bhadrapada (August-September) preserves the memory of the occurence of the summer solstice in the asterism of Uttaraphalguni. [...] Thus while observance of Samkramanas now recalls the memory of the occurrence of the solstices in the months of Magha and Srävana as stated in the Jyautisha the Pravargya ceremony performed at the beginning of each and every Vedic sacrifice to replace the lost heads of Vishnu and Rudra in a symbolical way preserves the memory of the bygone occurrence of the solstices in the months of Bhädrapada [...] Similarly the lower half of the sphere also contains three paths the path of Dakshinayana from summer solstice to winter solstice and the path of the Fathers parallel it up to the seventh asterism from the point of Dakshinityana and the path of the Gods beginning at the middle of the Dakshinfiyana path. [...] Of Leaves ' he says : They have the silver bloom of the day The gold of the dawn The dewy tearful beauty of the night The sad music of the evening The tender shyness of a maid The fire of adolescent youth.
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Pages
117
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
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Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
The Rowlatt Bill in the Legislature
173-188 H.C. Mookerjee view
Solstices and Equinoxes in the Vedas
189-197 R. Shamasastry view
A Note on Modern Hindi Poetry
198-207 P.C. Gupta view
The Case of Sir Thomas Rumbold (1781-83)
208-217 C.S. Srinivasachaari view
Employee Selection and Occupational Analysis
218-228 Sarojendranath Roy view
On Quantitative Metre
229-234 C.L. Milford view
Czechoslovakia
235-249 Naresh Roy view
Whither India
250-259 Cyril Modak view
The November Revolution
260-264 Hirendra Mukerjee view
What About France?
265-267 unknown view
Round the World
268-276 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
277-284 S.N. Sinha view
Ourselves
285-287 unknown view

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