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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt:...Avestnund the lligvedajiowover, differ in colour. Principle, of Sociology, Vol. 1., cl.ap.'x'»iv., p. 300, l8t EdT T cor Ucrauu hdt, indicating time, ace the next chapter. In Vcd. viii. 16 the dogs aro said to be zairilom or Dparlem xairi-gaonhcm, yellow or whito with yellow ears; while the dogs of Yama aro said to be »hibalau, spotted or variegated. But the difference is neither very material, uor such as caunot be accounted for. In the Uigveda wo can traco the yollow colour of the Avesta dogs. The antelopo of the sun in Rig. x. 86. 3 is said to be hariln or yellow, the zai'rolcm of the Avestn, and if wo suppose this ntelopc to be no other than that represented by Orion, as the sun commonced the year at that point, wo need not be surprised if the dopn in the Avesta aro doscribed as yellow, especially when in the Athnrva Voda viii. 1. 9. wo find the two niesscngor dogs of Yama nnmod as Shydma and Shabala, thus noting probably a difference in colour. The Atharva Veda iv. 20. 7 mentions a four-eyed bitch, whilo in the Shatapatha Bruhmanaxiii. 1.2,9 the adjective is applied to a dog; and the samo animal is evidently intended in beth places. Iu the Parsi scriptures the dogs at the Chinvut Bridge are sometimes spoken of in singular (Ved. viii. 1G) and sometimes, as in Rig. x. 14. 11, in dual (Vod. xiii. 0). This shews that wo might disregard gender and number in the description of theso dogs; and wo aro thus lod to supposo that SaramAin the Rigveda is again to be idontifiod with the dogs that wateh the gates of hcarou. Whether SarauuV in primitive days was or was not counected with the dawn, I do not undcrtako to say. But there is an incident in her story which confirms the identification I have proposod. The Pnnis tried to ceax SnramA by offering her...