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Summaries of Papers Submitted to the 15th Session of the All India Oriental Conference in Bombay 1949 (5th 6th and 7th November)

1949

The qUestion of the real nature of the twin divinities of the Rigveda the Agvinau has puzzled the brains of the students of Vedic lore from the remotest times to the present day. [...] Tas or Suryä of the itigveda)SUMMARY OF PAPERS 13 which commenced near about the asterism of Pusya ( to9°) and which after careering round and round the horizon for 24 days ended near the asterism of Magh a (129°). The new year's day or the day of the first appeaance of the sun after the Long Night and Dawn thus coincided with the sun's entry in the constellation of Maghä in Simha rdshi (Le0). [...] The former definitely suggests that the upastha or the birth-place of the universe lies in Shimha" or the Lion while the latter which relates to the so-called wedding of SiayS the Dawn-goddess states that gavah or kine are hanyante or slaughtered ist the Agheis and that the bridal procesion comes to an end and the bride goes into the house of the bridegroom in the Arjunas. [...] The frequent association of the lion with the Sun-gods of the spring season like Indra Mithra and Marduk and Dawn-goddesses like Usis Strya Isis and Ishtar in ancient mythologies and the exaltation of the lion symbol in the ancient religious architectures of oriental and occidental peoples go to support the view that the real reason for such association and exaltation of the lion and its symbo [...] The earliest age that can be assigned"14 SUMMARY OF PAPERS to the coincidence of the vernal equinox with the constellation of the Lion would be about ic 000 B. C. But a scrutiny of the Rigvedic hymns referred to above discloses the fact that their full and correct import would not be possible to be grasped except in the light of the theory of the Arctic Home propounded by the late Lokamanya B. G.
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Section I : Vedic
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Section II : Iranian
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Section III : Classical Sanskrit
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Section IV : Islamic Culture
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Section V : Arabic and Persian
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Section VI : Pali and Buddhism
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Section VII : Prakrit and Jainism
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Section VIII : History
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Section IX : Archaeology
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Section X : Indian Linguistics
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Section XI : Dravidian Culture
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Section XII : Religion and Philosophy
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Section XIII : Technical Sciences and Fine Arts
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Section XIV : Gujarati
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Section XV : Hindi
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Section XVI : Kannada
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Section XVII : Marathi
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Supplement
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Supplement II
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Section XVIII : Urdu
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