aryamṇaḥpanthā

Aryamṇaḥ Panthā, ‘Aryaman's Way,’ an expression which

occurs in the Brāhmaṇas,¹ denotes, according to Weber,² ‘the

milky way,’ but, according to Hillebrandt,³ ‘the ecliptic.’ [Footnote] 1) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 7, 6, 6;

Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xxv. 12, 3;

Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, v. 3, 1, 2. [Footnote] 2) Über den Rājasūya, 48, 2. [Footnote] 3) Vedische Mythologie, 3, 79, 80.