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The Twin Gods Aśvinau

By V. H. Vader

Vol. 8 · No. 2June - 1932pp. 272–278English

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  • “Though thev (Advinau) hold a distinct position among the deities of light and their appellation is Indian, their connection with any definite phenomena of light is so obscure that their original nature is a puzzle to the Vedie interpreters from the earliest times.”
  • “The Zodiacal Light “ક a soft hazy wedge of light stretching up from the horizon along the ૦0111146 just as the twilight 18 ending (in the evening) or as the dawn is begioning ¢at night departure).”
  • “The Gegerschein “is ઘ very faint patch of light on the ecliptic precisely oppusite 10 the Sun: It appears like an enlargement of the Zodiacal band at this peint.”

Works cited in this article

  1. Macdonnell, Vedic Mythology, p. 49
  2. Cox, Shamashastry and other scholars
  3. Tilak—Arctic Home in the Vedas, pp. 332-3%4
  4. A. C. Das, Bg Vedic Cultnure, p. 454
  5. Vide Tilak’s Orion or the Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas, p. 135

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Vol. 8 · No. 2
241–246Mahaparinibbāna-sutta and CullavaggaLouis Finot247–252Tāranātha's History of Buddhism253–256Interpolations in the Bhāgavata PurānaAmar Nath Roy257–266Kuntaka's Conception of GuṇasHaradatta Sharma267–271Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra Roy272–278The Twin Gods AśvinauV. H. VaderCurrent article279–293The Nature of the Mughal ConquestH. N. Sinha294–301The Rise of VijayanagaraBhaskar Anand Saletore302–304The Earliest Extant Account of Sher ShahDasharatha Sharma305–315New Plates of King Bhoja in the Indore Museum [Vikrama] Samvat 1079R. G. Ojha316–331CatustavaPrabhubhai Patel332–341Some Images and Traces of Mahāyāna Buddhism in ChittagongNarendra Nath Law342–350The Buddhist Manuscripts at GilgitNalinaksha Dutt352The Successor of Kumara Gupta 1Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri353–357Samudra in the RigvedaAmiya Kumar Chakravorty357–358The Rasa-pradipa and the Hrdaya-darpanaSushil Kumar De359–364Bangiya Sahitya ParisadChintaharan Chakravarti364–366A Note on Iron in the Rigvedic AgeManindra Nath Banerji367–370Note on GopalaA. C. Banerjee371–373Nalanda Stone Inscription of YasovarmadevaRamesh Chandra Majumdar373–375The Natyasastra and Bharata-muniMano Mohan Ghosh375MahanatakaT. K. Joseph376Lataka and LatyaT. K. Joseph377–379Notes on Asoka RescriptsSailendra Nath Mitra380Indra and PaniniB. N. Krishnamurti Sharma381–382A Note on CandraprajapatiHiralal B. Kapadia383–412ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Nalinaksha Dutt, U. N. Ghoshal, Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly, D. Bhattacharya, Niharranjan Roy, Surendra Nath Sen, R. N . Seal, Basanta Ranjan Roy413–421Select Contents of Oriental Journals422–424Bibliographical Notes

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