--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2080830/Duke-Duchess-mark-New-Year-reindeer-herders-tent.html > > I think Lakota Indians call those teepee, in Finnish Lappland > it's called 'kota', perhaps related to Sanskrit 'koTa' (~kaw-ta). > (In Finnish, 'koti'[~kot-ty] means 'home'). Note that in the > meaning 'shed, hut', 'koTa' is encountered only in lexicons (L.)?! > > > 1 koTa m. (g. %{azmA7di}) a fort , stronghold (cf. %{koTTa}) Va1stuv. > xi , 28 ; a shed , hut L. (cf. %{kuTI}) ; curvature (fr. %{kuT}) W. ; a beard > L. ; a kind of diagram (?) ; (%{A}) f. Pa1n2. 3-1 , 17 Pat. ; cf. %{a-} , > %{amara-} , %{devI-}. > > That might be an "additional proof", that Bal Gangadhar Tilak > was right when he conjectured that the Vedic culture as described > in the Rgveda (especially hymns to uSas [dawn]) originates > from quite far North... LoL! > > "The Arctic Home in the Vedas is a seminal work on the origin of Aryans > presented by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a mathematician turned astronomer, > historian, journalist, philosopher and political leader of India during 1880 > to 1920. It propounded the theory that North Pole was the original home of > Aryans during pre-glacial period which they had to leave due to the ice > deluge around 8000 B.C. and had to migrate to the Northern parts of Europe > and Asia in search of lands for new settlements. In support to his theory > Tilak has presented certain Vedic hymns, Avestic passages, Vedic chronology > and Vedic calendars with interpretations of the contents in detail. The book > was written at the end of 1898 but was first published in March 1903 in Pune. >
Contents of chapter V in Tilak's book: CHAPTER V THE VEDIC DAWNS Dawn-hymns the most beautiful in the Ṛig-Veda The Deity fully described, unobscured by personification First hints about the long duration of dawn Recitation of a thousand verses, or even the whole Ṛig-Veda, while the dawn lasts Three or five-fold division of the dawn Both imply a long dawn The same inferred from the two words Uṣhas and Vyuṣhṭî Three Ṛig-Vedic passages about long dawns, hitherto misunderstood, discussed Long interval of several days between the first appearance of light and sunrise Expressly mentioned in the Ṛig-Veda, VII, 76, 3 Sâyaṇa's explanation artificial and unsatisfactory Existence of many dawns before sunrise Reason why dawn is addressed in the plural in the Ṛig-Veda The plural address not honorific Nor denotes dawns of consecutive days Proves a team of continuous dawns The last view confirmed by the Taittirîya Saṁhitâ, IV, 3, 11 Dawns as 30 sisters Direct authority from the Taittirîya Brâhmaṇa for holding that they were continuous or unseparated Sâyaṇa's explanation of 30 dawns examined Thirty dawns described as thirty steps of a single dawn Rotatory motion of the dawn, like a wheel, directly mentioned in the Ṛig-Veda Their reaching the same appointed place day by day All indicate a team of thirty closely-gathered dawns Results summed up Establish the Polar character of the Vedic dawns Possible variation in the duration of the Vedic dawn The legend of Indra shattering the Dawn's car explained Direct passages showing that the dawns so described were the events of a former age The Vedic Dawns Polar in character. http://www.oration.com/~mm9n/articles/tilak.htm
