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The Arctic Home in the Vedas Being also a new key to the interpretation of many Vedic Texts and Legends

1925

But the most important event of the latter half of the last century so far as it concerns our subject was the discovery of the eviden'e proving the existence of the Glacial period at the close of Quaternary era and the high antiquity of man who v as shown to have lived not only throughout the Quatenary but also in the Tertiary era; when the climatic conditions of the globe were quite diffe [...] But such a supposition is directly contradicted by -geological-evidence The inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic or what is technically called the obliqUitv of the ecliptic is not the sole cause of climatic variations on the surface of the globe. [...] If the axis of the earth had no motion of its own the seasons will always occur at the same points in the orbit of the earth as for instance the winter in the northern hemisphere at P and the summer at A. But this axis describes a small circle tound the pole of the ecliptic in a cycle of 25 868 years giving rise to what is called the prcession of the equinoxes and consequently the inclina [...] Nov the ellipticity of the orbit is measured by the difference between the mean and the greatest distance of the earth from the sun and is called in astronomy the eccentricity of the earth's orbit. [...] The duration of summer and winter in a hemisphere therefore varies as the value of the eccentricity of the earth's orbit at that time; and it has been stated above that the difference between the duration of summer and winter also depends on the position of the equinoctial line or of the points in the earth's orbit at which the winter and the summer in a hemisphere oCcur.
philosophy religion
Pages
530
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145696
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Frontmatter
i-xxiv Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter I.Prehistoric Times
1-19 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter II.The Glacial Period
20-38 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter III.The Arctic Regions
39-60 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter IV.The Night of the Gods
61-79 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter V.The Vedic Dawns
80-122 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter VI.Long Day And Long Night
123-147 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter VII.Months and Seasons
148-187 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter VIII.The Cows’ Walk
188-232 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter IX.Vedic Myths—the Captive Waters
233-ii Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter X.Vedic Myths—The Matutinal Deities
297-352 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter XI.The Avestic Evidence
353-390 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter XII.Comparative Mythology
391-413 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Chapter XIII.The Bearing of our Results on the History of Primitive Aryan Culture and Religion
414-466 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Index
467-501 Bal Gangadhar Tilak view
Scheme of Trans-Literation
i-i Bal Gangadhar Tilak view

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