The Satapatha Brahmana - INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V. (KÂNDAS V---XIV.) -1

The Satapatha Brahmana

 

THE SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA

ACCORDING TO THE TEXT OF THE MÂDHYANDINA SCHOOL

Translated by

Julius Eggeling

 

INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V.

(KÂNDAS V---XIV.)

abhigit, Soma-day, Part IV, page 321 n.
abhiplava-shadaha, III, introd. xxi; V, 148; is the established (regular) shadaha, 249; used by Âdityas when contending with Aṅgiras, 152; etymology, 252, 162.
abhisheka, III, 68; the 'Vasor dhârâ' and Vâgaprasavîya oblations performed on completed fire-altar are a consecration-ceremony superior to the ordinary one, IV, 213 seq.; and including the consecration of both Râgasûya and Vâgapeya, 225.
abhishekanîya, III, introd. xxvi; 68 seq.; stotras of, 69.
abhîvarta-sâman, III, 16.
abhri (spade), lies on left side of Âhavanîya, III, 299; made of bamboo, 199.
adâbhya-graha, is speech, up-breathing, ear, V, 205; etymology, 205-7.
âdâra, plants, how produced, V, 451; = pûtika, 451; they are fragrant and blaze up in fire, 452.
adhrigu, litany, V, 385-6.
adhvan, ghee-offering to, in the house of the courier, III, 64.
Adhvaryu, seated towards east, III, 108; his fee at Dasapeya a golden mirror, 119; their fee a sterile cow for pañkabila oblation to Mitra-Varuna, 122; spreads the sacrifice, 142; his fee at Sautrâmanî three garments; the Asvins the Adhvaryus of the gods, IV, 23; sings the Sâmans over the completed altar, 181; in drawing the Soma-cup he takes Pragâpati's vital fluid, 282; must pronounce his Yagus indistinctly, 340; is summer whence he is as if scorched, V, 45; how he is to step past the vedi when calling or having called for the sraushat, 578; initiated by Pratiprasthâtri for sattra, as the mind, 136; they drink the Âsvina cup of Sautrâmanî, the Asvins being the Adhvaryus of the gods, 245; is scorched, as it were, 503.
Aditi, by sixteen syllables gains the shodasa-stoma, III, 40; karu to, 60; is this earth, 60; 378; V, 6, 281, 293; the wife of the gods, III, 60; urusarmâ (of wide shelter), 90; Aditi and Diti, 93; prayugâm havis (pap), 125; reddish-white cow pregnant with calf her victim at oblation of teams, 125; is speech, 237; offers fire-pan to her sons, the gods, 238; gives (dad) everything here, 378; back of Aditi (the earth), IV, 27; Aditi and Pûshan, connected with trinava-stoma, 69; ruler of the Fathers, 74;--(additional) pap at New moon, V, 5, 6; paps at Sautrâmanî, 213 n., 268.
Âditya (the sun), even rising burns up plants, III, 78; how created, 248; his union with sky, 249; with him the Âdityas placed in sky, 150; is the Agni on the altar, 252, 194; with Parameshthin connected with sky,
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[paragraph continues] 189; is space-filler, 189; regent of sky, 204, (286); a thunderbolt, 208; Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya all the light, 210; none other than the width of the sky can contain him, 216, 364; placed upwards from here in the east, 223, 275; is the truth, 265; the twenty-first, or twenty-one-fold, 265, 308; IV, 62, 163; V, 37, 291; was Agni's protector against the Rakshas, III, 266; is the hook (âsañgana) to which the worlds are fastened by means of the quarters, 269; encompassed by the two worlds, 271; is the fire on Âhavanîya, (fire-altar), 309; is the vigour that went from Pragâpati, 312; white horse his representative, 359; kisses all creatures by his rays, 359; strings these worlds to himself on a thread (the wind), 360; IV, 141; is settled on earth by his rays, III, 365; is the Brahman, firstborn in front (east), 366; man (purusha) in his disk (mandala), 367; looks downward and gives warmth by his rays, 367; like a drop leaping to the sky and the earth, 368; moves round these worlds from left to right, 400; the brilliant face (front) of the gods, 408; he is (sûrya) the soul of everything that moves and stands, 408; is the all-embracer (? all-expander, all-opener) and becomes the eye, IV, 8; is the upper region, 27; is placed within the southern region, 27; the sustainer of air and regions, and ruler of beings, 28; when he sets everything holds its peace, 62; is the sixteenfold wielder of the (fifteenfold) thunderbolt, 85; is the extent (vyakas), 88; is a bright razor (kshura bhrâga), 89; (unclimbable, 89); Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya move hither-wards and thitherwards, 90; is Indra, 92; all hymns are in praise of him, 92; has the earth as his foundation, 95; the all-embracer, connected with the west, 106; burns only on this side of the sky. 130; the luminous Âditya is on the back of the sky, 131; shines for all the three worlds, 132; passes by these worlds and revolves incessantly round them from left to right, 134, 136; is the vital power (âyus), 142; animates all this universe, which is in his shadow, 142; Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya are the hearts of the gods, 162; is the heart of Agni-Pragâpati, the altar and universe, 1-80; Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya are the Pravargya (vessels), 187; in the air, half-way between the two worlds, 196; keeps measuring in the middle of the sky, and even in rising fills the three worlds, 196; is a showering ocean, and a ruddy bird, 197; traversing guards the ends of these worlds, 197; connected with the Trishtubh, 197; Âditya the man (nara) of the sky as (part of) the All (visva), 208; is the eye, 208; is the highest of all the universe, 240; is the Dhâtri (orderer), 264; is the year and the one hundred and one-fold Agni (fire-altar), 313; his rays are a hundredfold, 313, 322; is established in the seven worlds of the gods, 314; is Agni (Pragâpati), ascended to heaven, 349; is the Arka, 349; Agni considered as Âditya, 363, triad--Agni, Âditya, Prâna--are the eater, the Arka, the Uktha, the Purusha, 398, 399; Âditya one of the six doors to the Brahman, V, 66, 67; to Âditya offering is made in Agni at Agnihotra, 112 seq.; slaughtered by Pragâpati as sacrificial animal, and consequently endowed with certain powers, 128 seq.; Agni, Âditya, Vâyu are light, might, glory (fame), 173; the Sacrificer is Âditya, 248; Âditya is the divine Kshatra, the glory (slit, the supreme lordship, the summit of the fallow one, the realm of light, 291;--cf. Varuna Âditya.
âditya-nâmâni (pârthâni), III., 83.
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Âdityas, by fifteen syllables gain pañkadasa-stoma, III, 40; animal offering to (instead of to Aditi), 126; twelve, born from Vâk, 149; placed with Âditya in the sky, 150; fashioned the sky by means of Gagatî, 234; pap at dîkshâ of Agnikayana, 247;--produced, IV, 33; Âdityas and Maruts, connected with embryos and the pañkavimsa-stoma, 68; Vasus, Rudras, and Âdityas separated and were the lords when heaven and earth separated, 75; lords of the western region, 101; connected with Varuna, saptadasa-stoma, &c., 101; Vasus, Rudras, Âdityas, Maruts, Visve Devâh build on different sides of altar (E. S. W. N. Upper), 118;--the twelve Âdityas enumerated, V, 116; Âdityas and Aṅgiras con tending for getting first to heaven, 152; arise by performance of third pressing, 173; the sacrificial horse to go the way of the Âdityas, 288; consecrate king by the Gagatî, 313; obtain the part of Vishnu, the sacrifice, corresponding to the evening-pressing, 443; Indra, with Vasus, Rudras, and Âdityas, receives offering of gharma, 479-80,
Âgâtasatrava. See Bhadrasena,
Agâtasatru, king of Kâsî, III, 141.
age-grades (vayâmsi), oblations relating thereto, forming part of Vasor dhârâ, IV, 218.
âghâra (libation of ghee), III, 172.
Âgîgarta, father of Sunahsepha, III, 95.
Agni, by one syllable gains the breath, III, 40; is all deities, 44; the lower end, 44; the sacrifice, 45; gold his seed, and the fee for his oblations, 45, 59; is fiery spirit or brightness (tegas), 46, 82; with Indra smites the Rakshas, 51; is Varuna and Rudra, 51; the giver, 54; Vaisvânara, twelve-kapâla cake to, 57; Anîkavat, eight-kapâla cake to, 58; Agni Grihapati, eight-kapâla cake of quick-grown rice, 69, 89; pârtha-oblation to, 82; to him belong shoulder-pieces of yoke, 101; rathavimokanîya-oblation to, 101; Agni Dharmanaspati, 112; assists Varuna, 113; at upasad eight-kapâla cake to 118; pañkabila ditto on east part of vedi, 120, 121; fee is gold, 121; prayugâm havis, eight-kapâla cake, 125; Pragâpati-Agni, the Purusha, 144; the Brahman (triple science) in Agni's mouth, 146; etymology (agri), 146; is trivrit, the altar consisting of nine substances, 147; gâyatra, 148, 161; union with earth, 148; with Agni the Vasus placed on earth, 150; restores Pragâpati, hence Pragâpati called Agni, 151, 152; Agni Kitya. 151 seq.; is the sun (as an Âditya), 152; Pragâpati's son and father, 154; is speech, 154; becomes a bird to bear sacrifice to sky, 157; his eight or nine forms (Rudra, Sarva, Pasupati, Ugra, Asani, Bhava, Mahân devah, Îsâna, Kumâra), 159, 160; is all bright (kitra) things, 161, 369; his forms coveted by Pragâpati, 161; he-goat slain for him, 162; home prepared for him by slaying animals (and preparing food), 165; five Agnis (layers), 165; is this earth, 169; is the (ten) regions, 183; is Savitri, 191; Virâg, 196; Agni the cattle, went away from the gods, and is searched for, 196 seq.; is cattle (animals), 197; is threefold, 197; enters seed, 198; regent of earth, 204, 286; Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya are all the light, 210; (the fire) belongs to Indra and Agni, 212, 253; is Âditya, 216; the child of the two worlds, 224; the sea-born child of the waters, 226; a conqueror, overpowering in battle, 259; burns up the evil (enemies) of the gods, 259; is the brahman and kshatra, 260; born from Dyaus, 272; nourished by day (dawn) and night, 273; shining moves between heaven and earth, 273; is sap and substance in this world, 278;
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golden-handed (?), 283; distributed in many ways, 284; overthrows Peru, the Asura, in battle, 292; his splendour in the heavens is Âditya, 304; that on earth this fire, 304; that in the air the wind, 304; Agni Purîshya, the son of the earth, 311; Agni the mouth of the gods, 312; his glory (sravas) and vigour is the smoke which announces him in yonder world, 349; son of heaven and earth, 350; leading forward of Agni, 356 seq.; went away from the gods and entered the water, 360; Agni found by a white horse (Pragâpati) on a lotus-leaf, 360; Agni scorches him, 360; Agni the repeller of all evil, 360; taken up by Agnikit into his own self, 362; is the rakshas-killing light, 372; takes away Pragâpati's fiery spirit (tegas) to the south, 374; becomes Pragâpati's right arm, 374; Agni Vaisvânara, Âditya, creeps as a tortoise over the three worlds, 392; Agni yavishtha, 413;--is Pragâpati, IV, introd. xvii seq.; the divine Sacrificer, and priest of the sacrifice, xix; the child of the universe, xx; Agni, Âditya, and Vâyu his three forms, xx; Agni the altar, a bird carrying the sacrifice to heaven, xxi; is attended to in front (of the altar), 3; is the existent (bhuva), 4; through Agni everything exists, 4; becomes the breath, 4; from fire breath fashioned, 4; Agni Vaisvânara is the year, 33; connected with priesthood and trivrit-stoma, 67; is Virâg, regions and vital airs, 70; is the Brahman (deity), 85; Agni, Vâyu, .and Âditya move hitherwards and thitherwards, 90; connected with Vasus, trivrit, âgya-sastra, rathantara, 100; protector of the east, 101, (105); his rays like those of the sun, 105; has distinction (srî) bestowed upon him by the gods, 113; lord of the good, 123; his paths lead to the gods, 123; his path becomes black, when fanned by the wind, 141, 142; in his immortal form is Rudra, 156; Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya are the hearts of the gods, 162; nothing greater than Agni, the fire-altar, 163; the Rudras invoked in the Satarudriya are Agnis, 167; the fire-altar is speech, 173; is the head of Agni-Pragâpati, the altar and universe, 178, 179; is offspring and the lord of offspring, 181; injures by his heat, fire, and flame (haras, sokis, arkis), 182; in men, water, plants, trees, 183, 184; Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya are the Pravargya (vessels), 187; leading forward of Agni, 188 seq.; regaling him with food (sixteen ladlings of ghee), 189; Agni is Visvakarman, 189, 190; is the eye of gods and men, 200; created as the hundred-headed Rudra, 201; is thousand eyed, 201; is a well-winged bird, 201; seated on the back of the earth he fills the air with his shine, props the sky with his light, and upholds the quarters by his lustre, 202; the fire-altar his seat, 202; oblation to (Agni) Visvakarman, 204; taken by Pragâpati to his bosom as his own son, 206; Agni, the fire-altar, is the Purusha, made up of seven purushas, the fire being his head, 206, 207; Agni the man (nara) of the earth as (part of) the All (visva), 208; is speech, 208; Agni's universal sovereignty, 228; Agni as Gandharva, with the plants as Apsaras his mates, 231; lord of the world and lord of creatures whose dwellings are on high and here below, and who is both brahman and kshatra, 234, 235; Agni, when completed and consecrated, becomes a deity, Varuna, 238; Agni, the fire-altar, is a heavenly bird, 250; one potent drop (indu), the faithful eagle, the golden-winged bird, 251; Agni Vaisvakarmana, 268; name to be given to the fire on the altar, 269; the
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chiefest of the fires of the five races of men, 269; Agni Vaisvânara, verses to, 276; Agni the gods’ prâna, 295; is all objects of desire, 313; the nature of Agni as the vital airs, 331-3; Agni and Indra created as brahman and kshatra, 342; they joined each other as the gold man and the gold plate, 342; they are the light and immortal life, 343; they are the fire-altar, Agni what is baked by fire (bricks) and Indra the purîsha, 343; Agni and Indra are the Visve Devâh, and the three are brahman, kshatra, and vis, 344; is Pragâpati, 345; Agni (-Pragâpati), on ascending, is Âditya, 349; the vital breath, 349; Agni considered as Vâyu or as Âditya, or as the year, 363; as speech, 364; as Death, 365; the direction in which Agni (the fire-altar) is to look, 390 seq.; (Agni) Vaisvânara, views regarding his nature, 393 seq.; is the Purusha, 398; triad--Agni, Âditya. Prâna--are the eater, the Arka, the Uktha, the Purusha, 398, 399;--Agni Dâtri, eight-kapâla cake at New moon, V, 8; Agni Pathikrit, expiatory eight-kapâla cake at New moon, 10; ditto at Agnihotra, 191; at Asvamedha, 350; Agni Vaisvânara, ditto twelve-kapâla one, 11; Agni created out of Pragâpati with a life of a thousand years, 15; Agni and Soma become eater and food, 16; Agni created by the Brahman and placed on earth, 27; takes Srî's food and receives (mitravindâ) oblation (eight-kapâla cake), 62-65; Agni (fire) one of the six doors to the Brahman, 66; Agni the teacher of the brahmakârin, 86; evolved from the earth, and from him the Rig-veda, 102; to Agni offering is made in Âditya at Agnihotra, 112 seq.; Agni's breath taken by the sun, whence fire has to be fanned, 130; triad--Agni, Arkya, Mahad uktham, 172; Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya are light, might, glory (fame), 173; Agni Viviki, expiatory eight-kapâla cake at Agnihotra, 192; Agni Samvarga, ditto cake, 193; Agni Apsumat, ditto, 193; Agni Suki ditto, 194; the first of the ten deities ('all the gods') receiving oblations of drops, 280; Agni the dark-necked, 316; Agni sacrificed as animal victim, 319; Agni as the chamberlain of king Marutta, 397; oblation to Agni Âyushmat, 439; is the good abode, 457; is the self of all the gods (and regent of the earth), 505.
Agnîdh, ox his fee at Dasapeya, III, 119; gold for pañkabila oblation, 121; bullock for Sautrâmanî, 142;--sprinkles fire-altar with water to appease it, IV, 169; is Agni, 169; follows the fire with the single sword (-line), 192.
Âgnîdhra (= Agnîdh), same as Agni, III, 122; is the spring season, V, 44; is under the Brahman, 137.
Âgnîdhra, n. (fire-shed), is the air, IV, 196; associated with Trishtubh, V, 495; between it and kâtvâla is the gate of sacrifice, 497.
Âgnîdhrîya, III, 97; taken out of Gârhapatya, 265; is the wind in the air, 315, 317; the through-breathing, 317; prepared first of dhishnya hearths, IV, 242; at Agnikayana built of eight bricks, 243.
Agnihotra, both oblations offered with the same formula, IV, 297; the offerer of the Agnihotra, in the other world, eats food in the morning and evening, 299, 325; to be offered by the Sacrificer himself on new and full moon, V, 21; the four oblations are what, in the Asvamedha, are those to the horse's feet, 34, 35; esoteric theories on Agnihotra, 46 seq.; how performed when staying abroad, 47; six couples in Agnihotra, 48; disputation about Agnihotra, 79 seq., 112 seq.; speculations on the effect
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of the two oblations, 114; expiations of mishaps, 178 seq.; Agnihotra a long sattra terminating with death or old age, 178; Agnihotra cow and calf are speech and mind, 46; the sky and wind, 182; Agnihotra cow is Aditi, the earth, 181; Agnihotra is conducive to heaven, 190; directions in case of Agnihotrin dying whilst from home, 197 seq.; is the mouth of sacrifices, 502.
Agnikayana, III, introd. xxvi, xxvii, 143 seq.; is a uniform (comprehensive) ceremony, 343: IV, introd. xiii seq.; includes all sacrificial rites, IV, 266; shown in detail, 296 seq.; not to be performed for another, 279.
Agnikit, is born in the other world as one made of gold, IV, 295; must not eat of the flesh of any bird (saysome), 296; he becomes of Agni's form and all food belongs to him, 296; he becomes the deity Agni, and hence immortal, 296; in the other world eats food every hundred years or not at all, 299.
Agnikityâ, a supernumerary (special) rite, III, 246.
agnikshetra, preparation of (ploughing, &c.), III, 325 seq.
âgnimâruta-sastra, connected with Brihaspati, the Visve Devâh, the upper region, &c., IV, 103; on second day of Asvamedha, V, 382.
âgnimâruta-stotra (= yagñâyagñîya), IV, 252 n.
Agni-nâmâni (pârthâni), III, 82.
Agninetrâh (devâh), seated in east, III, 148.
Agni-Pûshan, eleven-kapâla cake to, III 55.
Agnirahasya, IV, 281 seq.
Agnisava, IV, 298.
Agnîshomîya, animal offering, IV, 245; is without Samishtayagus, 260; twenty-one at Asvamedha, 372, 375; eleven at Purushamedha, 404.
Agnishtoma, III, introd. xii seq.; victim of, 11; the stomas used, 127; three different modes of its performance, IV, 287; V, 140; the stotras and sastras of Gyotishtoma Agnishtoma form a bird, hence equal to Mahâvrata-sâman and Mahad uktham, IV, 287, 289; a hundred and six or a hundred and twelve in the year's session, V, 147.
Agnishtoma-sâman, III, introd. xiii seq.; 12; IV, 252; on first day of Asvamedha, V, 376.
Agnishtut Agnishtoma, V, 418.
Agni-Soma, eleven-kapâla cake to, III, 45, 56, 69; animal offering to, 68; cake at Full moon, V, 6.
Agni-Vishnu, eleven-kapâla cake to, III, 44, 54; ditto at dîkshâ of Agnikayana, 247.
agniyogana (yoking of fire-altar), IV, 249 seq.
Agnyâdhâna, not to be performed under special nakshatras; but at new moon (of Vaisâkha or other), V, 1, 2.
âgrayana-graha, III, 6; produced from nidhanavat-sâman, and from it the trinava and trayastrimsa, IV, 11.
âgrayaneshti, offering of first-fruits, instituted by the gods, III, 46.
âgur, formulas, V, 32, 157.
âgûrtin, V, 32; 33 n.
âgyabhâga, at animal sacrifice, V, 124.
âgya-sastra, connected with Agni, the Vasus, the east, trivrit, and rathantara, IV, 100.
Âhavanîya; (sâlâdvârya) set up on cart, III, 104; head of sacrifice, 233; (in ukhâ) sacrificer's divine body, 262; if it goes out, is again taken out of Gârhapatya, 265; is the sun (or heavenly Agni), 309; its hearth is the sky, its fire the sun and moon, 315; is the world of the gods, 344; the sky, IV, 196; V, 178; or fire-altar, is the Sacrificer's divine body, IV, 226; place for, 307; atonement for Âhavanîya going out, lest the eldest son die, V, 82; ditto for Agnihotra fire going out, 187 seq.; is the (immortal) womb of the gods, 271.
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ahîna, III, introd. xix, xx.
âhuti, oblation, etymology, V, 27.
Aibhâvata. See Pratîdarsa.
aida-sâman, produced from the anushtubh, and from it the manthin (graha), IV, 10; how chanted, ib. Aikshvâka. See Purukutsa.
Aindravâyava-graha, III, 6.
air (antariksha), its union with Vâyu, III, 148; connected with Indrâgni, Visvakarman, and Vâyu, 188; heals what is injured and torn in the earth, 221; air-world fashioned by Rudras by means of trishtubh, 234; the home of the waters, 416; supported by the sun, IV, 28; is of trishtubh nature, 57; is the expanse (varivas), 88; is the lower abode, 203; three oblations of air (or wind, vâta) on chariot, thereby yoking it, 235; air, space, invisible, V, 17; steadied by birds and sun-motes (? sunbeams), 126; connected with Sarasvatî, 241; is a place of abode for all the gods, 505.
airs, vital. See prâna.
Aishâvîra, a family of priests, V, 45.
Akkhâvâka, cart laden with barley and yoked with ox his fee at Dasapeya, III, 119; is under Hotri, V, 137.
akshara, III, 158; part of speech, 203; (the imperishable) is the one brick constituting Agni, the great Brahman into which all beings pass, IV, 343.
aksharapaṅkti metre, is the heavenly world, IV, 88.
akshâvâpa (keeper of dice) one of king's ratnâni, III, 63, 107.
akshâvapana, III, 64.
Aktâkshya, III, 153.
all-herb seed, sown on site of burial ground, V, 432.
alms, begging of, by Brahmakârin, V, 49, 50.
altar. See fire-altar.
amâvâsyâ, the night of the sun and moon's staying together; new moon, V, 9.
ambâ, ambikâ, ambâlikâ, V, 321.
amrita, the nectar of immortality. See immortality.
amritavâkâ, a certain bird, (keeps most apart of birds), produces the kshiprasyena (quick eagle), V, 370.
Amsa, pârtha-oblation to, III, 82.
amsu-graha, drawing of, III, 5; is Pragâpati, the body of the sacrifice, the mind, the out-breathing, the eye, V, 105, 106.
anaddhâ-purusha (sham-man), III, 197, 206; looked at, 227,
añgali, joining of hands, a sign of reverence, IV, 165.
Aṅgiras, is the breath, III, 254; Aṅgiras and Âdityas contending for getting first to heaven, V, 152; the Veda of the Apsaras, 366; with Yama and the Fathers receive offering of Gharma, 481.
anîka, III, 58.
anîkavat, III, 58.
animal, domestic, seven kinds of, possessed by Maruts, III, 40; five sacrificial, 162; delight near fire, 164; are Agni, 197; horse, ass, and he-goat, search for Agni, 198, 204-206; consists of body and vital air, 293; born with bones, though not introduced with bones into womb, 254; mounted on its middle body from left side, 361; having received the foetus standing, gives birth whilst lying down, 363; left side of well-filled animal more raised than right, 400; do not diminish, being established in the womb, 401; are the vital airs, 402; the kimpurusha, gaura âranya, gavaya, ushtra, sarabha unfit for sacrifice and not to be eaten by Brâhmana, 412; of animals the head born first,. IV, 40; biggest about the middle, 40, 50; the right side the stronger, 40; there are animals in the air, 46; are food, 46; four-footed (live) in the air, 50; four kinds of four-footed domestic animals, 56; four-footed, connected with Vasus and Rudras, freed from death through the katurvimsa-stoma, 68; tame, ruled over by Brihaspati, 74; one-hoofed, ruled over by Varuna, 75; small, ruled over by
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[paragraph continues] Pûshan, 75; wild, ruled over by Vâyu, 75; threefold (father, mother, child; or embryo, amnion, chorion), 110; seven domestic animals, 211, 277; seven wild ones, 277; five (sacrificial)--man, horse, bull, ram, he-goat, 299; by these Pragâpati could not attain heaven, 300; Pragâpati the one proper sacrificial animal, 304; sacrificial animal is Pragâpati, and represents all deities, 404; draught animal pulls with all four limbs, V, 78; walks on two feet at a time, 78; one-hoofed originates from Indra's ear, 215; are sixteenfold, 252; tame and wild ones bound at Asvamedha, 306; if so, gain earth and heaven respectively, 306; the wild ones set free, 307.
animal-brick (cattle-brick), III, 155, 166, 187.
animal sacrifice (pasubandha), III, introd. xii; to Vâyu and Pragâpati, 171 seq.; chief oblations of, 175; consists of omentum, animal cake and chief oblations, 180; a. s. of Soma-day (savanîya pasu), IV, 260; the performer of it eats food every six months in the other world, 299; esoteric remarks on, V, 118 seq.; is a ransoming of one's own self, 118; should be performed at least once a year, 119; either of the havirvagña, or the Soma-sacrifice order, 119; is a great Soma-sacrifice, not an ishti, 120; with or without Soma, 122, 123; Kâturmâsya animal sacrifice, 402.
animal victim, five, III, 156; their heads, 164; heads placed in fire-pan in first layer, 400; ropes of unequal length, 166; now only two slaughtered, 171; by male victims the Sacrificer ransoms himself, V, 119;--to whom does it belong? (Pragâpati, Sûrya, Indra-Agni), 127, 128.
anirukta, III, 110, 179; V, 506.
aṅkâṅka (metre), is water, IV, 89.
anna-homa, III, 37; V, 295, 377.
anointment, of Sacrificer, at Râgasûya (on tiger skin), III, 80; at Agnikayana (on black antelope skin), IV, 226; (on skin of he-goat), 227; by Soma and the nectar of immortality, 251; with fat gravy at Sautrâmanî: (on black antelope skin), V, 250 seq., 252.
ant (vamrî and upadîkâ), gnaw Vishnu's bowstring, obtain the taste of food, and find water where they dig, V, 442; are the firstborn of the world (?) 450; ant-hill, III, 206; is this earth, 207; used for the clay of Pravargya vessels, V, 450.
antariksha (air), etymology, III, 318; IV, 50.
Antarvat, a Gandharva, V, 30.
antaryâma-graha, III, 6; produced from svâra-sâman, and from it the pañkadasa-stoma, IV, 7.
antelope skin, black, sign of initiation, III, 186; is the sacrifice, 215, 266; IV, 226; V, 249, 447; its hair the metres, III, 255, 266; V 249, 448; is the earth, III, 216; the seat of the good work, 219; therein gold plate sewn, 266; anointing of Sacrificer on, IV, 226; used in burning dead body, V, 200, 203; for consecration at Sautrâmanî, 249.
anumantrana, V, 40, 42, 483, 484.
Anumati, eight-kapâla cake to, III, 42; is this earth, 44; a garment the fee, 44; pap to her, (the extreme end of) one of the four regions, IV, 264.
Anumlokantî, the Apsaras, is an intermediate quarter (? N. W.), or the night, IV, 107.
anupraisha, V, 244.
anusâsana, precepts (? the Vedâṅgas), to be studied, V, 98.
Anushtubh, connected with north, autumn, vairâga, ekavimsastoma, III, 91; produced from the autumn, and from it the aida-sâman, IV, 10; in the form of it four-year-old kine produced, 39; is the northern region, 45; is speech, 89, 144, 277; of thirty-two syllables, 206; is the voice (of Pragâpati), 327, 328; what takes place after the three savanas is of Anushtubh nature, V, 106; the horse is of,
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[paragraph continues] Anushtubh nature, 304; Anushtubh related to the north, 304.
anuvâkyâ, is in the Gâyatrî metre, V, 26.
anuyâga, eleven, III, 183; are thunderbolt, hail, and (heavenly) firebrand, V, 42, 43.
Anvâdhyas, the guardians of one of the four regions, V, 359.
anvâhârya, mess of rice, the dakshinâ at Darsapûrnamâsa, V, 7; etymology, 23.
Anvâhârya-pakana fire, atonement for its going out lest his cattle die, V, 83; is the air, 178; blood milked by Agnihotra cow to be boiled on enclosed Anvâhârya, 183.
anvâkhyâna, old tale, regarding battles between gods and Asuras, not true, V, 14.
anvârambhanîyeshti, III, 42 n.; of Agnyâdhâna at preceding full-moon, V, 2.
Anyatahplakshâ, a lake in Kurukshetra, visited by swan-maidens, V, 70.
âpah, etymology, III, 146.
apâmârga (achyranthes aspera), thereby the gods wiped away the Rakshas, III, 52; of a backward effect, 54; used for cleansing one's self after a burial, V, 437.
apâmârga-homa, III, 52.
apâna, downward air, becomes the upward air, IV, 16.
apâna-bhrit, the eye-sustainer, IV, 15
apasyâ bricks, III, 388; laying down of them in first layer, 413 seq.; are waters, 413; IV, 2; of second layer, 23, 34 seq.; are rain, 34.
apendra, III, 130.
apradakshinam (apasalavi), V, 323, 467.
apratiratha, is Indra, IV, 192; hymn muttered by Brahman, as the fire is led forward, 192.
âprî verses, twelve, III, 169, 173; for sautrâmanî, V, 244.
Apsaras,--from Pragâpati couples issue in the form of Gandharvas and Apsaras, IV, 229; Gandharvas and Apsaras made offering to in râshtrabhrit oblations, 230 seq.; Gandharvas and Apsaras affect sweet scent (gandha) and beauteous form (nipa = apsas), 230; and worship the divine Purusha under these forms, 373; changed into swans, V, 70; Soma Vaishnava their king, the Aṅgiras their Veda, 366.
âpti, (twelve) formulas and oblations, III, 29.
Âptoryâma, III, introd. xiii, xix-xxiii; V, 419; Atirâtra, 397.
Âpyas, the guardians of one of the four regions, V, 359.
arani, two, V, 74.
aranye^ऽnûkya, the odd cake to Maruts, IV, 210; (extended), V, 336; is speech, IV, 210; the seven rivers flowing westwards, 212; belongs to Pragâpati, 212.
Ârbhava-pavamâna, of Vâgapeya, III, 9.
Arbuda Kâdraveya, king of snakes, V, 367.
ardhendra oblations of ghee, to Indra coupled successively with one other deity (Agni and Indra, &c.), forming part of the Vasor dhârâ, IV, 216.
Arguna, mystic name of Indra, III, 99.
arikupa (metre) is the water, IV, 88.
Arishtanemi, the chieftain (grâmanî) of the sacrifice (or the north), is the second autumn month, IV, 107.
arka, flame, the four, IV, 334 seq.; is the fire on the fire-altar, 342; the fire-altar (Agni-Pragâpati), 346, 348; is Âditya; the vital air, 349; the Arka is Agni, Âditya, Prâna, the Purusha, 398, 399; the Arka-nature of the Arkya, 402; is the waters, 402; Arka and Asvamedha, become Death, 404.
arka (calotropis gigantea), is food, IV, 157; leaf used for offering to Rudra with, 157; thrown into the pit (kâtvâla), 166; the arka sprang from Rudra's place of rest, 158; is inauspicious and hence must not be trodden upon, 166; arka flowers, leaves, &c., 334 seq.
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arka (? hymns of praise), food for the gods, V, 232.
arkâsvamedhasamtati, oblations, IV, 239.
arkis,--haras, sokis, arkis (heat, fire, flame), of Agni, IV, 382.
ârkshyat, V, 155 n.
Arkya, is the fire (Agni-Pragâpati) and the food thereof, IV, 342 seq.; the Arka-nature of the Arkya, 402; triad-Agni, Arkya, Mahad uktham, V, 172.
arm, exerts strength, III, 200; stroking arms of king, 88; is fifteen-fold, IV, 79; food is eaten therewith, 306; arms and legs consist of twenty-five parts each, 325; parts of arm, V, 75, 77; the different parts, 162.
arm-pit, from it water springs, IV, 169.
arrow, three, III, 88; arrow's range = Pragâpati's width, 27; = Pragâpati's height, 25; arrow's width, 236; arrow is strength, 236.
ârsheyam (ancestry), III, 190.
ârtava (?seasonal period), the ruler of seasons, IV, 74.
Aruna Aupavesi, (Gautama), a teacher, IV, 393, 394.
Âruneya. See Svetaketu.
Âruni, betwitches Bhadrasena Âgâtasatrava, III, 140; his view on Darsapûrnamâsa, V, 37; on Agnihotra expiation, 182; cf. Uddâlaka.
arvan, horse, carries the Asuras, IV, 402.
Ârya, and Sûdra, ruled by day and night, IV, 74; Sûdra woman the Arya's mistress, V, 326.
Aryaman, his path above upper region, III, 59, 122; pârtha-oblation to, 83.
Asamaratha, Âditya's chieftain (grâmanî), is the second rainy month, IV, 106.
âsandî. See throne-seat.
Âsandîvat, a city, V, 396.
Asani, a form and name of Agni, is the lightning, III, 160.
asapatnâ, bricks, of fifth layer, IV; 83 seq.
ashâdhâ (ishtakâ), the, earth, III, 154, 387; IV, 95; conn. with Savitri, III, 190; made by Sacrificer's wife, 190; forming of, by the mahishî, 238; is speech, 239, 387; IV, 95; etymology, III, 387; is the vital airs, 388; laying down of, 388, 389; is the mahishî, 392; IV, 2.
ashes, the foul part (pâpman) of food eaten by Agni, III, 261; thrown out in the evening and morning, 261; taken to the water, 293; some of it brought back and put in the pan, 294, 295.
ashtâdasa-stoma, is speed, and the year, IV, 63.
ashtâkatvârimsa-stoma, the revolving sphere, the year, IV, 66; the last of the even stomas, 218.
ashtamî, eighth day after full moon, sacred to Pragâpati, III, 280; is a joint of the year, 280.
Asita Dhânva, king of the Asuras, V, 368.
Asitamrigas, a branch of the Kasyapa family of priests, win the Soma-drink from the Bhûtavîras, IV, 345 n.
asman, etymology, III, 248.
asrîvayas, a metre, is all food, IV, 52.
ass (râsabha) how created, III, 147; substitute for cow and sheep, 197; he-ass doubly impregnates, 197; searches for Agni, 204, 205; is addressed, 224; imbued with burning (pain), 225; represents Vaisya and Sûdra, 227.
Asuras, arrogance and defeat of, III, 1; repulsed by Indra and Brihaspati in the south, IV, 192; contend with the gods for the regions, 193; hold to untruth, and the gods to truth, 257; serve the divine Purusha as Mâyâ, 373; carried by horse Arvan, 402; created from the downward breathing of Pragâpati, V, 23; smitten with evil and darkness, 13, 14; the tales of their fights with the gods not true, 14; through arrogance offer into their own mouths and come to naught, 22; contend with the gods for Pragâpati, the sacrifice, 105; Asita Dhânva their king, magic art their Veda, 368; Asuravidyâ, 368 n.; driven from the regions, 423; from the
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earth, 429; people of Asura nature (the Easterns and others) make their burial-places round, 423; and line them with stone, 430.
âsuta and suta, V, 242 n.
Âsuri, on truth, V, 447.
asva, etymology, III, 146; V, 328.
Asvamedha, III, introd. xxvi; a supernumerary (special) rite, 246; is the sun, IV, 239, 404; how produced, 403; Arka and Asvamedha become Death, 404; the Darsapûrnamâsa the original (normal) Asvamedha, V, 33; Asvamedha the moon, 33, 34; performance, 274 seq.; is the bull among sacrifices, 276; wealth (? distinction), royal sway, departs from him who performs the Asvamedha, 285; means royal sway, 288; Asvamedha performed by Pragâpati, 289; from of old a hero was born to the performer of the Asvamedha, 295; where they perform it, Parganya rains whenever they list, and security of possession is assured to the people, 295; the Asvamedha Pragâpati reserves for himself, assigning the other sacrifices to the gods, 295; is the king of sacrifices, 298; the victims tied to the stakes, 298 seq.; is the royal office, 303; a disused sacrifice, 334; belongs to all the deities, 336; is a Kshatriya's sacrifice, hence commenced in summer, 347; but rather in spring, 347.
Asvapati Kaikeya, a king and theologian, IV, 393.
Asva Sâmudri, V, 302.
asvastomîyâ, oblations, V, 337, 342.
Âsvatarâsvi. See Budila.
asvattha (ficus religiosa), leaves used for salt-bags, III, 33; tree on which the Maruts stayed, 34, 84; branch broken off by itself used for making a bowl, 67; consecration vessel, for a Vaisya to sprinkle with, made thereof, 84; originates from Indra's skin, (and honour), V, 215; means honour, 220; not to stand near a grave, 427; is the abode (of plants?), 433.
âsvina-graha, III, 6.
âsvina-sastra, III, introd. xviii, xx.
Asvinau, by two syllables gain two-footed men, III, 40; two-kapâla cake to, 62; are twins, 62; reddish-white he-goat their victim at Sautrâmanî, 129; cure Indra from the effects of over-draught of Soma, 132; drink Soma with Namuki, 135; two-kapâla cake at Sautrâmanî for healing, 137; lay down the second layer of altar, as physicians and Brâhmanas, IV, 23, 30; are the Adhvaryus of the Agnikityâ and the gods, 23; took the part of Pragâpati below waist and above feet which is sacred to them, 28; became everything here, 30; (with the help of Sarasvatî) they heal Indra, when his vital energy is taken from him by Namuki, V, 216, 223; the he-goat their guerdon, 216; are the physicians of the gods, 217; he-goat immolated to them, 217; are the eyesight, and fiery spirit, 217, 218; she-goats sacred to them, 218; bring the Soma (plant) from Namuki which Sarasvatî then distils, 232; connected with the earth (and the morning-pressing), 241, 247; possess healing-power (bhaishagya), 243; are the Adhvaryus of the gods, 245; connected with spring and summer, 247; together with Sarasvatî they prepare the Sautrâmanî to heal Indra, 249; Asvinau, Sarasvatî, and Indra are everything here, 253; and have a share in the gharma, 475; two he-goats black (? white) on lower part of the body their victims at Asvamedha; 300; restore Dadhyañk Âtharvana's head after becoming his pupils, 444, 445 475.
âsvinî, regional bricks, IV, 23 seq.; what part of the body they represent, 28.
Atharvan, is the breath, III, 217;
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the Atharvans the Veda of the Gandharvas, V, 365.
Atharvâṅgiras, the study of their texts, V, 97.
âti, an aquatic bird, V, 70.
atigrâhya-grahâh, III, 6.
atikkhandas, comprises all metres, III, 104; V, 497; the covering (including) metre in form of which the lions were produced, IV, 38; beyond all metres, 110, 385.
Atirâtra, III, introd. xiii, xvii-xx, xxiii; confusion of its sâmans in session of a hundred Atirâtras, V, 92; two in the year's session, 147; Atirâtra with all the stomas, 330, 333, 395.
atirikta-stotra, III, introd. xx, xxii.
âtithya (guest-offering), ends with the Idâ, IV, 259; is the head of the (Soma-) sacrifice, V, 491.
Atnâra, Âtnâra. See Para.
Atyagnishtoma, III, introd. xiii; last day of Atirâtra, avivâkya, xvii.
Audanya (son of Udanya). See Mundibha.
Audbhari. See Khandika.
audgrabhana-oblations, III, 249; at Asvamedha, V, 289 seq.
Aupamanyava. See Mahâsâla.
Aupavesi. See Aruna.
Aupâvi Gânasruteya, descends to earth from upper region, III, 2, 3.
ausana-sâman, how chanted, IV, 7.
austerities. See tapas.
autumn, produced from the ear, and from it the anushtubh, IV, 10; consists of months Isha and Ûrga, 49; rainy season and autumn are the air-world and the middle of the year, 49; in autumn creatures are brahmanvat (? rich in growth), 45.
avabhritha, III, 185; at the animal sacrifice, V, 121; at Sautrâmanî, 264.
avakâ plants, placed below and above tortoise, III, 392; means water, 393; IV, 49; below and. above the lower ritavyâ bricks of third layer, IV, 48; drawn across the altar to appease it, 174; etymology, 175; afford least subsistence, 175; sepulchral mound covered therewith, V, 436.
avakâsa, formulas, V, 469; are the vital airs, 469, 492.
avatâna, 'unstringing' formulas and oblations, IV, 163.
avi (ewe), is this earth, III, 156; victim, 156; created from Pragâpati's ear, 402; sacred to Varuna, 411; is the skin of (supplies a covering for) the two-footed and four-footed, 411; fashioned first of forms by Tvashtri, 411.
âvid-formulas, III, 89.
Âvikshita. See Marutta.
âvis, III, 89.
âvitta, III, 89.
avivâkya, III, introd. xvii.
axle, demoniacal voice in, III, 291.
Ayasthûna, a performer of a sattra, V, 61.
Ayavas,--Yavas and Ayavas the former and latter fortnights, connected with creatures generally, and the katuskatvârimsa-stoma, IV, 69; the lords of creatures, 76.
Âyogava. See Marutta.
Âyus, is Agni, III, 323.
Âyushtoma, form of Agnishtoma, IV, 287.

Bahishpavamâna. of Vâgapeya, III, 8; of Abhishekanîya, 69; at Asvamedha, is heaven, V, 305, 306; when chanted 'outside,' 305.
bahvrika, theologians of the Rig-veda, V, 72.
Bâlâki, V, 165.
balance, the right edge of the vedi is a balance in which the Sacrificer is weighed, V, 45.
Balhika, Prâtipîya, a Kauravya king, V, 259.
balvaga, grass used for winding round-throne-seat, V, 461.
bamboo. See reed.
barefooted, consecrated king never stands barefooted on earth, III, I29.
Bârhaduktha, Âprî-verses, V, 302.
Bârhaspatya pap, III, 21, 28, 36.
barhis, is the sky, V, 248.
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barley-corn, V, 405.
barren, wife possessed with Nirriti, III, 65.
bath, purificatory, V, 438.
beasts, wild (svâpada, tiger, &c.), spring from Soma flowing from lower opening, III, 131.
bee, wounds the horse's thigh, V, 330.
Belief and Unbelief, as two women with a man (Wrath) between them, V, 111, 112.
belly, gets and eats the food, IV, 115; food of all kind meets together there, V, 37
Bhadrasena Âgâtasatrava, bewitched by Âruni, III, 141.
Bhaga, pârtha-oblations to, III, 82.
bhâgadugha, carver or tax-gatherer, III, 62; one of the ratninah, 63.
Bhâllaveya, V, 354, 393; cf. Indradyumna.
Bharadvâga, rishi, III, introd. xiv; is the mind, 107; etymology, 107.
Bhâradvâga, a teacher, IV, 352.
Bharata, is Pragâpati, III, 292;--Bharata Dauhshanti, son of Sakuntalâ, performed the Asvamedha, V, 399; seizes the sacrificial horse of the Satvats, 401.
Bharatas, the throne of, III, 105; Bharatas, V, 399, 401.
Bhauvana. See Visvakarman.
Bhava, a form and name of Agni, is the rain-cloud (parganya), III, 160.
Bheshaga, (medicine) a work of the Âtharvanikâh, V, 365 n.
Bhîmasena, performs Asvamedha, V, 396.
Bhrigu Vâruni, sent out by his father Varuna to gain knowledge, V, 108 seq.
Bhrigus, one is to sacrifice along with them, IV, 200; sacrifice was offered by them, 262.
bhrûnahatyâ, V, 341.
bhûh, bhuvah, svar,--sâman on, IV, 145; are the three worlds, 145; the first words spoken by Pragâpati, V, 12; the five syllables made by Pragâpati the five seasons, 13; luminous essences evolved from triple science, 103; expiatory oblations to be made therewith, 103, 104; are all-expiatory, 180; some perform the sprinkling of the Sacrificer with these at Sautrâmanî, 253.
bhûta, living being, existing thing (? spirit)--freed from death through trayastrimsa-stoma, connected with Ribhus and Visve Devâh, IV, 70; the bhûtânâm patih their lord, 73; Pragâpati Parameshthin their lord, 76, 350, 354; daily offerings to them, V, 95.
bhûtânâm patih (Pragâpati, the year), husband of Ushas, III, 158; IV, 73.
Bhûtavîra, a family of priests, IV, 345 n.
Bhûti, goddess of prosperity, homage paid to her, III, 324.
bhuvah. See bhûh.
bifurcate. See forking.
bilva (Aegle Marmelos), V, 374.
birds,--how created, III, 148; when born, body produced first, IV, 136, 139; flesh not to be eaten by Agnikit (say some), 296; contract and expand their wings and tail, 300 seq.; the little bird which bustles with 'ahalak,' V, 325; birds the people of Târkshya Vaipasyata, the Purâna their Veda, 369.
bird-like body, is the fire-altar, IV, 285; takes Pragâpati to heaven, 300.
black, is sickly, IV, 137.
blood, oblations of, V, 394.
boar, produced from ghee, III, 102; boar and cow friendly together, 103; shoes of boar's skin, 102; vicious boar (durvarâha) unclean, V, 178; earth torn up by boar, used for Pravargya vessels, 451.
body, founded on the mind, III, 270; linked to food by the (channels of the) vital airs, 270; is kindled by the sun, and hence warm, IV, 135; produced before wings and tail, 136; has thirty limbs, 167, 222; is twenty-five-fold, 168, 222; if immortal, is boneless, 178; the fire-altar, Mahâvrata, and Mahad uktham are the Sacrificer's
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divine, immortal body, 299; consists of couples, 284; consists of five mortal parts (hair, skin, flesh, bone, marrow) and five immortal parts (mind, voice, breath, eye, ear), 290; the immortal parts are the vital airs, 292; body (fifteenfold, 309; fivefold, 309); consists of 101 parts and has as many vital airs, 325, 326; parts constituting (Pragâpati's) body, 347; of thirty parts, 383, 387; body of dead man how to be treated, V, 201 seq.; body of man is of three parts, 261.
bone,--bricks are Agni's bones, IV, 20; bones run both lengthwise and crosswise in the body, 135; in wings and tail of birds no transverse bone, 135; is one of the mortal parts of the body, 178; bones are the 'srî' (? goodness, strength) of men, 326; are the enclosing-stones, hence 360 of them, 387; V, 169; bones of fat and lean persons are alike, V, 20; hones of dead man are collected, 117, 443 n.; brought home, arranged on black antelope skin and burnt, 200; buried, 433; arranged like bird's body, 435.
boon, choosing of, III, 105.
bow, strung; III, 87; is the Râganya's strength (vîrya), 89; with three arrows given as sacrificial fee, V, 11; Vishnu's bow and three arrows, 442.
brahmahatyâ, redeemed by Asvamedha, V, 328; atonement for it, 340, 341.
Brahmakârin, not delivered to Death, V, 48; cuts off a night from his life by not bringing firewood, 48, 49; his life a sacrificial session, 49; begging alms, 49, 50; brings firewood to teacher, 53, 54, 85; initiation of Brahmakârin, 86 seq.; teacher, by laying his right hand on him, becomes pregnant with him, and in the third night he is born as a Brâhmana with the Sâvitrî, 88; whether allowed to eat honey or not, 90; may initiate the Unnetri, 137.
brahmakarya, religious studentship, V, 86 seq.
Brahman (n.), is Brihaspati, III, 3, 21; IV, 192; (prayer), III, 21; (priesthood) connected with the east, Gâyatrî, Rathantara, Trivrit, spring-season, 91; the Brahman (trayî vidyâ) first created, 145, 146; is the foundation of everything, 145; is Agni's mouth, 146; Pragâpati is the whole Brahman, 353; constitutes the fourth layer of altar, IV, 59; (priesthood) delivered from death through the trivrit-stoma, 67; Brahmanaspati its lord, 73; is Agni, 85; Agni created as the Brahman, 342; the firstborn Brahman, the Rishis, 100; the Brahman, the Yagus, its power in the other world, 173; (holy writ) seven-syllables (rik, yagus, sâman, brahman), 314; (mystic science) the greatest, 338; established as the vis, V, 41;--is the highest of gods, IV, 59; upholds heaven and earth, 59; is the vital airs, 59; is Pragâpati, 59, 60; is the Gâyatrî, and the sun's disk, 94; is the universe, 315; the (imperishable) akshara, the one brick (of) Agni into which all beings pass, 343; the true Brahman is the Purusha, 400; the universe in the beginning was the Brahman who created the gods, V, 27; the Brahman, having placed the deities in the three worlds and in the higher worlds, went to the sphere beyond these, whence it descended again by means of its manifestations Form and Name, 27; only on being possessed of the Brahman the gods became immortal, 28; delivers creatures to Death, except the Brahmakârin, 48; six doors to the Brahman, 66 seq.; sacrifice to Brahman (study of the Veda), 95 seq.; is a light equal to the sun, 388; the ultimate thing of the universe, 409; Brahman Svayambhu, performs austerities, 417; offers himself up in the
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creatures, and the creatures in his own self, 418; is the firstborn, yonder sun, 459.
Brahman (m.), priest, mounts cartwheel, III, 22; beats the drum, 24; presented with gold honey-cup, 29; gets gold satamânas as fee for protecting sacrifice in south, 108; (V, 211); his fee at Dasapeya twelve heifers with first calf, III, 119; bull his fee for pañkabila-oblation to Indra, or brown ox for ditto to Soma, 122; white-backed bullock for Brihaspati's ditto pap, 122; neither performs, nor chants, nor recites; yet gets gold satamâna, 141; is, the entire sacrifice, 185; as representative of Brihaspati mutters Apratiratha hymn whilst Agni is led forward, IV, 192; is the autumn, V, 45; uses the whole trayî vidyâ, 104; initiated for sattra (as moon and plants), 135; if he does not know certain rites he may allow another to act for him, 211, 212; formerly they had to be of the Vasishtha family, 212; is the heart of the sacrifice, 245; one fettering the sacrificial horse without announcing it to Brahman is liable to incur injury, 277; the spotless Brahman, is the moon, 317, 318; (? Pragâpati), is the horse, 318; boon granted to him, 350; is the highest seat of speech, 391; the guardian of the sacrifice, 459; the best physician amongst priests, 483; is seated, 503.
Brâhmana (m.), not to be fed upon, having Soma for his king, III, 72, 95; IV, 249; sprinkling of king from palâsa vessel, III, 83; sprinkles him in front, 94; comes after king, 96; is stronger than king, 110; is followed by the three other castes, 227; Brâhmana and Kshatriya never go behind Vaisya and Sûdra, 227; into him, as the representative of the Brahman, all beings pass and are reproduced therefrom, V, 85; effect of the study of the Veda on him, 99 seq.; not to engage with Râganya in disputation, 114; as the scapegoat receives the Sacrificer's pain and evil, 181; the Brâhmana descended from Rishis, represents all deities, 195, 196; Brâhmana, if going away offended, is presented with a cow longing for a bull, 195; Brâhmana accepting earthen vessels of dead man, is a remover of corpses, 205; the Soma his drink, 217; not to drink raw spirituous liquor, 260; is a form of the priestly office, 286; king can oppress him, but fares the worse for it, 286; to the Brâhmana belongs the fulfilment of wishes, 287; was of old born endowed with spiritual lustre, 294; every Sacrificer becomes a Brâhmana, 348; Brâhmana knowing nothing- of the Asvamedha, may be despoiled, 360.
brâhmana (n.), mystic sense, or dogmatic explanation of an oblation, IV, 240.
Brâhmanâkkhamsin,--bull his dakshinâ at Dasapeya. III, 119; is under the Brahman priest, V, 136.
Brahmanaspati, lord of the priesthood, IV, 73; is the sun, V, 453.
brahmaudana, priests’ mess of rice, V, 274; is seed, 275, 348.
brahmodya, theological disputation, V, 79; between Brahman and Hotri, 314; all priests, 388-390.
breast-bone, IV, 114.
breath. See prâna.
brick. See ishtakâ.
Brihaduktha Vâmadevya, V, 302.
brihad vakas, III, introd. xv.
Brihaspati, gains Pragâpati and ascends to upper region, now his own, III, 2, 59, 122; is the Brahman (priesthood), 3, 21; IV, 192, 229; V, 258, 314; wild rice-pap on seventeen plates, III, 21, 28; afraid of the earth and vice versâ, 34i with Brihaspati's rulership the Sacrificer is consecrated at Vâgapeya, 39; by eight syllables gains Gâyatrî, 40;
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pap to Brihaspati, 99; is Purohita of gods, 59; V, 258; white-backed bullock his fee, III, 59; his the smaller and broken rice-grains, 67; (? is Varuna, 68); pap of wild rice to Brihaspati Vâk, 70; pârtha-oblation to Brihaspati, 82; IV, 228; assists Varuna, III, 113; samsrip-oblation (pap), 116; pañkabila (pap) on centre of Vedi, 120, 121; white-backed bullock fee to Brahman for Brihaspati's oblation, 122; prayûgâm havis (pap), 125; Savitri and Brihaspati connected with the regions and the katushtoma, IV, 69; ruler of tame animals, 74; protector of upper region, 103; connected with Visve Devâh, trinava and travastrimsastomas, &c., 102, 103; as Brahman assists Indra Apratiratha in fighting the Asuras, 192; takes Srî's holy lustre and receives (mitravindâ) pap, V, 62-65; the eighth of the ten deities ('all the gods’) receiving oblations of drops, 281; offering of barren cows, 402, 411; Brihaspati, with the Visve Devâh, receives offering of Gharma, 480; is the wind, 480.
Brihaspati-sava, III, introd. xxiv, xxv, 4; the same as Vâgapeya, 34.
Brihatî, metre,--the fire-altar becomes like it, III, 219; is the year, 220; consists of thirty-six syllables, 318; in the form of it oxen were produced, IV, 38; is the air, 53; a thousand brihatîs, 111; is the mind (of Pragâpati), 327, 328; 12,000 make up the whole Rik, 352; twenty-one brihatîs, as the measure of the universe, 384-387; the katurmâsya formulas amount to 362 brihatîs, and hence to the year and Mahâvrata, V, 78; by it the gods reached heaven, 156, 172; the Tâpaskita-sattra amounts thereto, 172; cattle related thereto, 221; the pressing-stones are of brihatî nature, 243.
brihat-sâman, III, introd. xv, xvi, xx-xxiii; connected with Indra, xv; with Kshatra, &c., 91; produced from pañkadasa-stoma, IV, 7; (brihak khandas) is heaven, 19; connected with Indra, the Rudras, the south, &c., 101; sung over completed fire-altar, is the sky, 179.
brihat-stotra, Vâgapeya-sâman, III, 11.
Budila Âsvatarâsvi Vaiyâghrapadya, a teacher, IV, 393.
bull, liberated as fee for Agni-Soma cake, III, 45; fee for Indrâgni cake, 46; dark-grey, fee for Pûshan's trishamyukta, 56; brown, for Soma's, 56; is the Pragâpati of cows, 58; belongs to Indra, 60; spotted, 61; fee for oblation to Maruts, 61; sacrificial animal, 162, 165 seq.; slaughtered for Indra, 162; eight-hoofed, 177; (ukshan) is vigour, produced in the form of the Kakubh, IV, 38; two-year-old (dityavâh) produced in the form of the Virâg, 39; other ages of other metres, 39; originates from Indra's mouth, V, 215; has an excrescence (hump), 276.
burial-place (smasâna), V, 421 seq.; four-cornered, 423; is made round by people of Asura nature, the Easterns and others, 423, 424; the site for it, 424 seq.; size, 428, 435; ploughing of site, 431.

calf, year and a half old, is vigour, produced in the form of the trishtubh, IV, 39; white calf of black cow, 200.
carpenter, his house is the resting-place of the sacrificial horse and its keepers, V, 360.
cart. See chariot.
castes, four, do not vomit Soma, III, 131.
cattle, belong to Pûshan, III, 55; (Rudra, 52); are purîsha, 201; represented by the khandasyâ (metre-) bricks, IV, 36; thrive when it rains, 36; become metres, 36; Pragâpati, in the shape of Gâyatrî, overtakes the
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cattle, 37; thrive exceedingly in the homestead of him who possesses many of them, V, 126; their eye taken by the sun, whence they only know things by smelling, 130; bovine cattle represent all animals, 332.
chamberlain. See kshattri.
chanting-place, of bahishpavamâna-stotra, V, 305.
chariot, -race, introd. xxiv, 17 seq.; taken down from stand and turned, III, 18, 98; with three horses, warrior and charioteer, 50, 102; gods driving on, 289; placed north of fire with pole to the east, 290; offering made on head of chariot, IV, 233; chariot shifted sunwise round the fire on the brick-altar, 234; is the sun, 235; by oblations of air the gods yoked the chariot for the obtainment of all their wishes, 236; two smashed chariots joined together, V, 198; made complete by means of cords, 318.
charioteer, not to get down from chariot along with king, III, 104.
child, born with head first, III, 233; in womb grows by warmth, 254; tries to speak and- stand up at the end of a year, V, 13; first speaks words of one or two syllables, 13; born after being fashioned for a year, 88.
circumambulation, (thrice) of altar (to atone for ordinary walking round), IV, 170; of sacrificial horse (by the king's wives), V, 322, 323.
clavicle. See collar-bone.
clay, produced from foam, III, 147, 157; lump of, is Agni, 206 seq.; ditto for Pravargya vessels, V, 449.
clod-bricks, are the regions, III, 345, 348; vital sap, 345; IV, 44; clod of earth deposited midway between a grave and the village, V, 440.
cloud, originates from smoke, III, 85; is the udder whence the 'shower of wealth' flows, IV, 221.
coin. See gold coin.
cold, is the body of him about to die, IV, 136.
collar-bone, classed with the ribs, V, 164.
colour (outward appearance), is everything, V, 354.
commander of army. See senânî.
conception,--one born a year after conception may perform Agnikayana without having carried the Ukhya Agni for a year, IV, 274.
consecration. See anointment. copper, piece of, put in mouth of eunuch, III, 90; melts, V, 493.
cord, is Varunic, III, 222, 236; cf. rope.
costal cartilages, IV, 114.
cotton tree, (salmalia malabarica), the highest tree, V, 317.
couch, no sleeping on during initiation, III, 185.
counter-charm, III, 53, 371.
couples, sustain the realm, IV, 230.
courier. See palâgala.
cow, dakshinâ for first-fruits, III, 46; her Varunic nature, 51; yoke-trained cow dakshinâ for Indraturîya, 51; belongs to Rudra, 52; dakshinâ for oblation to Aditi, 60; cow-raid, 98; cow and boar friendly together, 103; means these worlds, 156; has four nipples, 237; most fit to yield a livelihood, 237; when milked out is worn, 257; (or bull) created from Pragâpati's breath, 402; is (the supplier of) food, 406; not to be injured, 406; milch cow (dhenu) is vigour, produced in the shape of the gagatî metre, IV, 39; the bricks of altar made such, 172; milked by sitting person, 172; milk of black cow, with white calf, offered to Agni about to be laid on fire-altar, 200; black cow and white calf are night and sun, 200; cow of plenty, seen and milked by Kanva, 203; offering of barren cow (to Mitra-Varuna), 263-265; brings forth within a year, V, 12; cow suckling a strange calf, her milk used for offering in case of an
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[paragraph continues] Agnihotrin dying, 198; cow, wont to cast her calf, victim of Indra at Asvamedha, 300; barren cows immolated, 402, 411; tail of barren cow tied to the left arm of a dead man, 438 n.; of Pravargya, see gharmaduhâ.
cow-dung, smeared over fire-site, V, 191; used for burning dead body, 202.
creation, III, 145 seq.; nine primary substances, 147.
creator. See Dhâtri.
creatures (pragâ), produced from Pragâpati, the sacrifice, III, 40; in all quarters, IV, 31; Pragâpati their lord, 73; Yavas and Ayavas their lords, 76.
crosswise, offering made on Svayamâtrinnâ of completed altar, IV, 183.
crow, is untruth, V, 446.
cubit, means the (fore-)arm, V, 449.
curds and whey, sour curds. See dadhi.
cushions, wrought of gold threads, for the priests to sit on, V, 360, 361.

dadhi, sour curds, is life-sap, III, 374; belongs to Indra, 375; a form, or the life-sap, of the earth-world, 389, 390; mixed with honey and ghee, for sprinkling completed fire-altar, IV, 182 seq.; globule of sour curds put on Samidh, as a form of cattle, 203.
dadhigharma, V, 502.
Dadhikrâ, III, 27.
Dadhikrâvan, III, 27; V, 326.
Dadhyañk Âtharvana, is speech, III, 218; knew the pure sacrificial essence (the Madhu), 444; is decapitated by Indra, and restored by the Asvins, 443, 444.
Daivâpa. See Indrota.
Daiyâmpâti, instructed by Sândilyâyana, IV, 273.
Dâkshâyana, form of Full and New-moon sacrifice, to be performed for fifteen years, V, 5,
dakshinâ (sacrificial gift), (cows), the way along which they pass, III, 99, 101;--dakshinâ as Apsaras, the Gandharva Yagña's mates, IV, 232; the sacrifice is praised for them, 233; no bargaining for, as depriving the priests of their place in heaven, 280; wins food, 285; no oblation without dakshinâ, V, 7; stand south of altar, 17; time for bringing them up at animal sacrifice, 120; are healing medicine, 217; is the glory, 446; must not be given away by the priest, at least not on the same day, 446.
Dânava (Asuras), V, 95.
dandavadha, III, 108.
darbha-grass, bunch of, put on ploughed Agnikshetra, III, 332; contains food and drink, 332; grew up from waters loathing Vritra, 332; IV, 44; handful put on mixture of ghee (with gold chips), sour curds and honey for sprinkling therewith (with the tops) on completed fire-altar, 182; a means of purification, V, 195, 274; piece of gold tied thereto and taken westwards (as the sun), 195; ditto of silver, taken eastwards, (as the moon); 196; rope thereof for tying sacrificial horse, 274; sepulchral mound covered therewith, 436.
darkness, after the creation of the earth, III, 319.
Darsapûrnamâsa, the offerer thereof eats food every half-month in the other world, IV, 299; esoteric remarks on, V, 1 seq., 52 seq.; to be performed for thirty years (twice 360 full and new moons) thereby gaining the 360 days and nights of the year, 4, 5; first performed by Parameshthin Prâgâpatya, 15; after him Pragâpati, Indra, Agni, and Soma, 15, 16.
Dasapeya, III, introd. xxvi; requires special offering-place, 68, 113 seq.; etymology, 114; an Agnishtoma, 118.
Dasaratha, king of Ayodhyâ, III, 97.
Dasarâtra, V, 140; last day of, called avivâkya, III, introd. xvii; compared to the seat (or
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body) of a chariot, the two shadahas being the wheels, V, 149; 155 n., 159.
dative of purpose, III, 198,
Dauhshanti. See Bharata.
daurgaha, V, 397.
dawn, precedes the sun, III, 273.
day, a separator, IV, 89; originates from the light emitted by the gods when created, V, 14; the (one) day (after day) is the year, 155.
day and night, nourish Agni, III, (271), 273; encompass the universe, 287; days and nights are endless, 352; rulers of Arya and Sûdra, IV, 74, 75; are Pragâpati's joints, 281; are forms of Brahman and Kshatra, V, 286.
dead man, his bones arranged in bird-form, V, 435.
Death; seizes creatures whilst in Pragâpati's womb, IV, 67; created above (mortal) beings as their consumer, 290; searches for (the half-mortal) Pragâpati who has entered the earth, 290; is the year, 356 seq.; he is the ender, 356; has only the body for his share, 357; those who do not become immortal come to life again and become the food of Death time after time, 358; Agni as Death, 365; Death is immortal, and the man in the sun, 366; Death is both the man in the sun and that in the right eye, 371, 374; is both one and many, being the man in the sun, he is numerously distributed on earth among creatures; whence also both near and far away, 372; Death becomes the self of him who knows, and makes him immortal, 374; Death, hunger, being alone in the beginning, creates Mind, 402; Arka and Asvamedha become Death, 404; creatures delivered to him, except Brahmakârin, V, 48; deaths take place in any world, 339; oblations to Deaths, 340.
deity, only he is a deity to whom offering is made, IV, 238, 246, 266; different deities and metres identified with parts of the body, 330, 331; the ultimate deity not to be questioned beyond, V, 117.
Devaganavidyâ, the Veda of Rakshas, V, 368.
devasû (divine quickeners), offerings to, III, 69, 72; IV, 246.
dewy season, consists of the months Tapa and Tapasya, IV, 126; which are supreme, 126, 127; is the sky, 127; is the year's head, 127.
dhâmakhad, seat-hiding (?) verse, IV, 291.
Dhânva. See Asita.
Dharma Indra, king of the gods, V, 370.
Dhâtri (creator), connected with gods generally, and the Vis, IV, 68; lord of the seven Rishis, 73; is Pragâpati, 263; the sun, 264; offering of twelve-kapâla cake to, 264.
Dhîra Sâtaparneya, instructs Mahasâla Gâbâla on the nature of Agni, IV, 331.
dhîshanâ, III, 243.
dhishnya hearths, III, 317, 318; preparation of; IV, 241; are the clansmen to the fire-altar, as chief, 241; consist of a single layer, 242; only with lokamprinâ bricks, 242; enumeration of, 242 n.; eight, 360.
dhrishti, fire-tongs, V, 39 n., 500.
Dhritarâshtra, V, 401.
dhriti, four oblations offered every evening of preliminary year of Asvamedha, V, 285, 288, 364.
dhruva-graha, III, 11.
Dhvasan Dvaitavana, king of the Matsyas, performed the Asvamedha, V, 398.
dice, game at, III, 106, 112; V, 330.
dîkshâ, III, 68; at Agnikayana to last a year, 181; insignia of, 185; of Agnikayana, 246 seq.; is speech, IV, 67; springs from faith (sraddhâ), 138; is the body of the sacrifice, 240; of seven days at Asvamedha, V, 290 seq.; twelve, 371; is the vital airs, 291; twenty-three days at Purushamedha, 403.
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dîkshanîyeshti, III, 44; IV, 258; without samishtayagus, 258.
disâm aveshtayah, III, 120.
disyâ, regional bricks, in first layer, III, 188 seq.; in second layer (= âsvini), IV, 31 seq.; in third layer, 43 seq.; are the regions and the sun, 43, 44; are the metres, 45.
Diti (and Aditi), viewed by Mitra and Varuna, III, 93.
dog, the moon is the heavenly dog, watching the Sacrificer's cattle (to seize them) and coming down at new moon, V, 10; dog's clutch (svalukita), a burning pain, 10; dog driven away by bow or staff, 11, 12; an unclean animal, 178; four-eyed dog killed at Asvamedha and plunged under horse's feet, 279; dog is untruth, 446.
dribâ (drivâ), arrow, III, 88.
drops, oblation of. See stokîyâ.
drought, produces a lawless condition, V, 18.
drums, seventeen put up, III, 23; one beaten by Brahman priest, 24.
dûrvâ, grass (and brick), III, 187, 379; is cattle, 379; etymology, 380; is the kshatra, breath and vital sap, 380; grows up joint by joint, knot by knot, 381; spreads and branches out by a hundred shoots, 381; IV, 2.
Dushtarîtu Paumsâyana, a king, V, 269, 272.
Dvâdasâha, opening Atirâtra of, III, introd. xix.
Dvaitavana. See Dhvasan.
dvâpara, die, III, 107.
dvâvimsa-stoma, is vigour, the year, IV, 63.
dvipadâ, the ample metre in the form of which sheep were produced, IV, 38; of twenty syllables, 385; offering of, V, 342.
Dviyagus brick, is this earth, seen by Indrâgnî, III, 381; is the Sacrificer, 381; his human body, 382; laying down of, 383; is the hip of Agni, the sacrificial animal, 400; IV, 2.
Dyaus, gives birth to Agni, III, 272.

Eagle. See syena, suparna.
ear, one of the five vital airs (of the head), III, 402; as the regions, is the child of heaven, IV, 10; from it autumn is produced, 10; is Visvâmitra (all-friend), 10; introduced from the left (or upper) side, 11; is one only, 11; sustained by the upward vital air (udâna), 15; one of the five divisions of vital air in the head, 190; the ear evolved from the eye, and from it work, 378, 379; the two ears connected by channel, V, 36; what is thought by mind is spoken by speech, and heard by the ear, 263; Adhvaryu and Sacrificer whispering in the (right) ear of the horse, 287.
earth, three of them, III, 27; afraid of consecrated Brihaspati and vice versa, 34; ditto of Varuna, 103; union with Agni, 148; (bhûmi) a foundation, 147, 158; (prithivî) the broad, 148, 158; is the Gâyatrî, 148; connected with Pragâpati and Agni, 187; created as one consisting of eight syllables, 232; fashioned by Vasus by means of Gâyatrî, 233; navel of the earth, 258; a firm resting-place, 278; surrounded by ocean, 301; is circular, 309; the mother of Agni Purîshya, 311; is Pragâpati's Gârhapatya, 314; after its creation, darkness was everywhere, 319; Pragâpati its begetter, 346; spread on waters like a lotus leaf, 364; is Agni's womb, 364; is established on truth, 364; is the truth, the most certain of worlds, 364; sheds seed upwards in the form of smoke (steam) which becomes rain, 383; bears everything breathing, 387; is measured out, fashioned (mitâ); is the course (eva), IV, 88; on earth one thinks with the heart, and the mind, 95; is the most substantial (rasatama) of worlds, 179; is the right wing of Agni-Pragâpati, the altar and universe, 179; steadied by mountains and
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rivers, V, 126; is the Kshatriya's world, 133; connected with the Asvins, 241; is higher than the water, 267; he who hides himself, or goes elsewhere, is ultimately found on the earth, 284, 285; no creature, walking erect or horizontally, can go beyond it, 285; is the great vessel, 315; in the beginning of the size of a span, 451; raised up by boar Emûsha (Pragâpati, her husband), 451; is a good abode on which all creatures abide, 457; is white, as it were, 463; her over-lords (Agni, Indra &c.), 464 seq.; becomes a mare and carries Manu, her lord (Pragâpati), 466; is a place of abode for all the gods, 505.
east, connected with priesthood &c., III, 91; Agni's region, 206; IV, 199; is towards the gods, III, 215, 355; IV, 226; is the Gâyatrî, IV, 45; is a queen, 46, 100; the Vasus its lord, 100; protected by Agni, too; connected with trivrit-stoma, âgyasâstra, and rathantara-sâman, 100; is strength and the sky, V, 16, 17; the region of the gods, 485.
easterns. See prâkya.
eater, the, is Agni, Âditya, the breath, IV, 398.
egg. See golden egg.
eight, symbolical significance, IV, 190.
eighteenfold, is the year, IV, 66.
eighty (asîti), means food, IV, 92, 112, 161; of formulas (to the Rudras), 161, 223.
ekâdasinî, of sacrificial stakes, V, 301 n., 309; is heaven, 310; offspring and cattle, 310; a virâg, 335, 404, 405.
ekapadâ, the gapless metre in the form of which goats were produced, IV, 38; of ten syllables, 385.
ekatrimsa-stoma, is design, the year, IV, 64.
ekavimsa, the twenty-first or twenty-one-fold, is the sun, III, 265, 308; IV, 62; V, 331, 333, 334, 335, 378, 402; produced from manthi-graha, and from it the vairâga-sâman, IV, 10.
ekavimsa-stoma, connected with Anushtubh &c., III, 91; at morning-service of Kesavapanîya, 127; is the upholder (a foot-hold), the sun, IV, 62; through it, connected with Mitra Varuna, rain and wind freed from death, 68; the foundation (the feet), 78; connected with Soma, the Maruts, north &c., 102; second day of Asvamedha an ekavimsa-day, V, 378; the foundation of Stomas, 378.
ekoti, V, 150.
elevation (high-lying ground), people in danger take thereto, V, 300.
embryonic water of calving cow, III, 78.
embryos. freed from death through pañkavimsa-stoma, connected with Âdityas and Maruts, IV, 69; killer of embryo is despised, 272.
Emûsha, the boar (Pragâpati) raises the earth (his wife), V, 451.
enclosing-stones. See parisrit.
enemies (or enemies' sons), when meeting, get on well together on addressing one another by name, V, 288.
entrail (vrikalâ), if not cleansed of contents in dead body, a tiger springs therefrom when burnt, V, 203, (215).
Eshavîra, a family of priests, V, 45 n.
etarhi, one-fifteenth part of a kshipra, V, 169.
eunuch, long-haired, III, 90; malted rice bought from him, V, 219; is neither man nor woman, 219.
eva, at least, IV, 29 (u eva).
exorcism, IV, 171.
eye, food flowed from eye of fallen Pragâpati, III, 312; one of the five vital airs (of the head), 402; there is always water in it, 416; produced from the sun, and from it the rain, IV, 8; is the Rishi Gamadagni, 9; introduced from behind, 9; is one only, 9; sustained by the downward vital air (apâna), 15; one of the five divisions of vital air in the head, 190; the man in the
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[paragraph continues] (right) eye is the man in the sun and the gold man of the altar, 368; he is the same as Indra, and has a mate in the left eye, who is Indrânî, 369; the two persons descend to the cavity of the heart and enter into union, and at the end of their union the man sleeps, 370; from the union of these two divine persons all that exists originates, 371; the man in the right eye (and in the sun) is Death, his feet stick fast in the heart, and on his pulling them out and coming out, he dies, 371; that man in the eye is the vital air and leads forward all creatures, 371; whilst being one only he is numerously distributed among creatures, 372; the eye evolved from breath, and from it the ear, 377, 378; what were man without eyes, V, 124; white, black, and pupil, 165, 246, 354; white and black, 354; by means of it the body moves, 346.

faggots, three bundles of, lighted and offered upon whilst held at different heights, V, 494.
faith,--truth in faith, V, 46; the initiation sprung from faith, 138.
falcon. See syena.
fanning, of the sacrificial horse, by the king's wives, V, 323; of the (Pravargya) fire, by the Adhvaryu and his assistants, 467.
fast-milk, living on, is penance (tapas), IV, 256; milk of three, two, one teat during days of initiation, and of none on day of preparation, 256.
father, is gentle and kind to his son, IV, 25; when asked for anything by his sons, says 'So be it,' 60; takes his dear son to his bosom, 206; sons in early life subsist on father, the reverse in later life, V, 157; returning from abroad is received kindly by sons, 204; father and sons part in time of peace, 308.
Fathers, the hollow is sacred to them, III, 31; are the clansmen, with Yama for their chief, 299; Aditi their ruler, IV, 74; the south their region, 226; are the six seasons, 243; he who does not eat becomes consecrated to the Fathers (dies), V, 20, 21; daily offering of the svadhâ to them, 95, 96; sacrificial practices appropriate to offerings to Fathers, 198 seq.; the world of the Fathers is in the south, 225; the surâ-liquor of the Sautrâmanî falls to the share of the Fathers of him who drinks it, 233; those who perform on southern fire, go down to the world of the Fathers, 236; live in Yama's realm, 236, 237; the path of the Fathers and that of the gods by one of which all living beings have to pass, 237, 238; are asleep, 265; placed in the immortal womb, 272; are the subjects of Yama Vaivasvata, the Yagus their Veda, 365; the uneven number, and the single nakshatra belong to them, 423; the door to their world is in the south-east, 424; their world inclines towards the south, 424; to them belongs the (sod) filled with roots, 427; they are the world of plants, and hide among the roots of plants, 429; not seen together with the living. 440; three in number, 455; with Yama and the Aṅgiras, receive offering of Gharma, 481.
female, lies on left side of male, III, 199; injures no one, 202; after birth conceives again, 311.
fever, one suffering therefrom is consumed by his vital airs, IV, 348.
fifteen, IV, 74, 309.
fifteenfold, is the thunderbolt, III, 413; IV, 85; V, 384; the arm, IV, 79; the neck, V, 163.
fig-tree, Indian. See Nyagrodhas.
finale. See nidhana.
fingers (and toes), have a common connecting link (or limb), III, 417; consist of four parts each, IV, 325; the different
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fingers, V, 75; the different fingers and their joints, 161.
finger-breadth, the lowest measure, IV, 300; thereby fire-altar measured, 300.
fire, when it goes out it is wafted up in the wind, IV, 333; Fire evolved from Work, 380; is the womb of the sacrifice, V, 3; is one of the six doors to the Brahman, 66; sacrificial fires only desire flesh of victims and the Sacrificer, 119; four kinds of fires, (three worlds and the regions; Agni, Vâyu, Âditya, Kandramas), 127; there is a fire in every piece of wood, 187; circumambient fire shuts out the Asuras, 271; carried round victims, 307.
fire-altar (agni); the way in which it is mounted (like a horse), III, 361; building of, 362 seq.; a four-footed animal, IV, 19; contraction and expansion (of animal's body), 20 seq.; of eagle-build, 21; is the year and the three worlds, 29; constructed so as to extend (fly) eastwards, 115; Agni its head, the earth its right, the sky its left wing, Vâyu (the air, vital air) its body, the moon its tail, the sun its heart, 178-80; the Sacrificer's divine body, 226, 256; the body of all the gods, 256; substitutes for complete fire-altars at repeated Soma-sacrifices, 271; is an ocean of Yagus, 278; Fire-altar, Mahâvrata and Mahad uktham are the Sacrificer's divine, immortal body, 279; is a bird-like body, 285; is the earth, the mind, the trunk, the head, 286; is measured by finger-breadths, 300; the sevenfold, 306; for this a vedi of ninety steps, 308; different forms of, from sevenfold to one hundred and one-fold (the latter of which is to be fourteen times that of the former), 309 seq.; by building a smaller fire-altar, one curtails Pragâpati, and by one larger than the largest one exceeds the universe, 312; the hundred and onefold contains all objects of desire, is the year, and the. sun, 313; it is equal to the sevenfold one, 314; is built between the two performances of the upasads, 316; each layer of bricks and earth takes (or represents) a month to build, 318; the hundred and onefold the normal one (?), 321 seq.; it gains the immortal light, 323; it is a sevenfold one by its layers, 324; the fire (altar) is fivefold (by food, drink, excellence, light, and immortality), 326; is the food prepared for Pragâpati and becomes the body itself, 341; is the man in the sun, 366; is the earth, air, sky, the sun, the nakshatras, the metres, the year, the body, all beings and all gods, 381-390.
firebrand, belongs to Rudra, V, 201.
fire-pan. See ukhâ.
firmament (nâka), is the heavenly world above the Virâg (layer), IV, 93, 100; is the regions, 100; in the world of righteousness (sukrita) above the third luminous back of the sky, 122; the heavenly world, the back of the sky, 198; the heavenly world beyond the highest fire-altar, 250, 304.
first-fruits, offering of. See Âgrayaneshti.
fivefold, is the animal sacrifice, V,125; the Asvamedha becomes so, 308.
flax, forms amnion of Agni's womb, III, 252; foul smell of, 252.
flesh, not to be eaten during initiation, III, 185; of fat person fat, of lean lean, V, 20; is the best kind of food, 119.
foam, produced from water, III, 147, 157.
food, kinds of, given to Sacrificer, III, 36; one kind to be renounced by him, 37; satisfies if proportionate to body, 260, 330; IV, 189; to food the body is bound by the vital airs, III, 270; is taken in from the front (mouth) backward, 402; the resort of the waters, 416; the

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