--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_re...@...> wrote:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Gangadhar_Tilak
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> Books
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> In 1903, he wrote the book The Arctic Home in the Vedas. In it he argued that
> the Vedas could only have been composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards
> brought them south after the onset of the last Ice age. He proposed the
> radically new way to determine the exact time of Vedas. Up to that time,
> antiquity of Vedas was mostly decided by the form of the language used in
> it[citation needed]. He tried to calculate the time of Vedas by using the
> position of different Nakshatras. Positions of Nakshtras were described in
> different Vedas. Knowing the motion of Nakshtras and their positions (at the
> time of Vedas and current) we can calculate the time of Vedas. Sri Tilak
> found that the vedas were written around 4500 B.C. , when the Vernal equinox
> was in the constellation of Mṛiga or Orion during the period of the
> Vedic hymns, and that it had receded to the constellation of the
> Kṛittikâs, or the Pleiades (about 2500 B.C.) in the days of the
> Brâhmanas. This was his basic idea. This idea was criticized by some
> scholars,[Who?] praised by some others[Who?]. But originality and charm of
> this new way of looking towards this problem was largely accepted.
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> IMO, that book is well worth reading...
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Tilak:
The Airyana Vaejo is the first created happy land and
the name signifies that it was the birthland (Vaejo = seed,
Sans. bija) of the Aryans (Iranians), or the Paradise
of the Iranian race.
[...]
Vendidad, Fargard 1
3. The first of the good lands and countries, which
I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the Airyana Vaejo, by
the good river Daitya.
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and
he countercreated by his witchcraft the serpent in
the river and winter, a work of the Daevas.
4. There are ten winter months there, two summer
months; and those are cold for the waters, cold for
the earth, cold for the trees. Winter falls there,
with the worst of plagues.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendidad
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Some food for thought:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eire
Largely discredited etymologies
Other explanations for the etymology of Éire are:[citation needed]
* Derived from a root word Ara (also spelt Arya, Aire or Aera) meaning
noble, as in 'Aryan'. Among the very many poetic names for the island of
Ireland was Mág Ealga meaning plain of the nobles.
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Hmmm...when the Aryans left the "North Pole", some of them
obviously went by the sea down to Ireland, heh heh...
