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.)
food-brick, III, 155, 166.
foot, is a support, IV, 137.
foot-print of the horse, offered upon, V, 363.
forest-fires, take place in spring, V, 45.
forking, (bifurcated) branches, of udumbara samidh, IV, 203; mean cattle, 203.
form,--hair and form, IV, 295; form and name, the two forces of the Brahman (the former being the stronger), V, 27, 28; oblation to Forms, see prakrama.
fortnight (paksha), the former and latter, called Yavas and Ayavas, IV, 69, 76.
forty-four-fold, is the trishtubh and thunderbolt, IV, 85.
frog, drawn across the altar, to appease it, IV, 174; arose from the water dripping off the altar, 174.
Full and New-moon sacrifice. See Darsapûrnamâsa.
fumigation, of pan, III, 240; of Pravargya vessels, V, 455, 456.
funeral ceremonies, V, 421 seq.
funeral pile, V, 201, 202, 203.
furrow, what it yields, III, 329; are the vital airs, their meeting-place speech (voice), 332.
Gâbâla. See Mahâsâla, Satyakâma.
gâgata, of Gagatî nature, cattle (animals), V, 252, 284, 313.
Gagatî, gained by Visve Devâh, III, 40; connected with Visve Devâh &c., 91; of twelve syllables, 169; of forty-eight, 183; is the earth, 169, 183; V, 245; all the metres, III, 169, 183; the triple science, 193; gains these worlds from above hitherwards, 281; produced from rainy season, and from it the riksama-sâman, IV, 8; in the shape of it milch cows were produced, 39; is the western region, 45; cattle, 52; V, 313; is the Brahman, and the sun's disk, IV, 94; is the downward breathing (of Pragâpati), 327-329; a Ribhu of the Gagat metre (the ârbhava-pavamâna) baring the Sacrificer to bliss, V, 173; thereby the Âdityas consecrate the king, 313.
Gâmadagna, âprî-verses, V, 302.
Gamadagni, rishi, is the eye, IV, 9; is Pragâpati, V, 302.
Ganaka, of Videha, questions Yâgñavalkya as to Agnihotra, V, 46; obtains Mitravindâ sacrifice from Yâgñavalkya, 66; questions Brâhmanas regarding Agnihotra, 112 seq.; teaches Yâgñavalkya, 114; becomes Brahman, 115; has a sacrifice performed with 1,000 cows as dakshinâ, 115.
Ganamegaya Pârikshita, IV, 345 n.; cups of fiery liquor poured out in his palace, V, 95; performs Asvamedha, 396.
Gana Sârkarâkshya (Sâyavasa), a teacher, IV, 393, 396.
Gânasruteya. See Aupâvi.
Gândhâra (Nagnagit), IV, 21.
Gandharva, the heavenly, thought-cleansing, III, 5; is yonder sun, Savitri, 195;--twenty-seven of them, 19; were the first to yoke the horse, 20; from Pragâpati
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couples issue in the form of Gandharva and Apsaras, IV, 229; Gandharva and Apsaras made offering to in râshtrabhrit oblations, 230 seq.; Gandharva and Apsaras affect sweet scent (gandha) and beauteous form (rûpa = apsas), 230; and worship the divine Purusha under those forms, 373; carried by horse Vâgin, 401; three Gandharvas (Yavamat, Uddâlamat, Antarvat) point out to the Rishis imperfections in their sacrifice, V, 29, 30; get the Apsaras Urvasî back from Purûravas, 69; produce a flash of lightning, 70; teach Purûravas how to produce a sacred fire, to become one of themselves, 73: the people of king Varuna Âditya, the Atharvans their Veda, 365.
garbha, of prishtha-sâman, III, introd. xx seq.
Gârhapatya, thence fire of ukhâ is taken, III, 263; if it goes out, is produced by churning, 264; building of, 298 seq.; outlines of hearth, 302; is Agni himself, 309; is the earth, 309; IV, 196; V, 178; the world of men, III, 344; ascended by the gods, 319; on the fifth layer of the fire-altar, IV, 99, 117 seq.; is food, 118; Gârhapatya hearth is a womb, 119; is the vedi, 121, 307; the original Âhavanîya (of the hall) is the womb in which the gods begat the Gârhapatya of Agnikayana, 308; from it the Âhavanîya is born, 308; atonement for Gârhapatya going out, lest master of the house die, V, 83; ditto for going opt at Agnihotra, 188 seq.
garment, made to float away, in avabhritha, V, 267; a hundred garments the priests’ fee, 353; garments man's outward appearance, 353.
Garutmat. See suparna.
Gâtavedas, etymology, IV, 274.
gâthâ, V, 101 326 seq.;--cf. Nârâsamsî-gâthâh.
gâtru, V, 163 n.
gaura, III, 410.
Gaurîviti Sâktya, V, 250.
Gautama. See Kusri, and Aruna.
Gavâm ayanam, a sattra, V, 139 seq.; deities of, 140 seq.; the three great rites of it (Katurvimsa, Vishavat, Mahâvrata), 144.
gavaya, V, 338.
gavedhukâ seed (coix barbata), is refuse, III, 51, 71; used for oblation to Rudra, 51, 63, 71, 158;--grass used for smoothing newly-made vessel, V, 455.
gâyatra, Agni, III, 148, 161; IV, 277, 300; (khandas) is Agni, IV, 178.
gâyatra-sâman, produced from Gâyatrî, and from it the upâmsugraha, IV, 4; when used in stotras, 4; sung over completed and appeased altar, is Agni, 178.
Gâyatrî, is Agni's metre, III, 31; Brihaspati's, 40; connected with the brahman, &c., 91; is the earth, 148; how produced, 158; of twenty-four syllables, 167; IV, 300; is the vital air, III, 167, 218, 253; produced from spring season, and from it the gâyatra-stoma, IV, 4; in the shape of it two and a half year old kine were produced, 39; is the eastern region, 45; the breath (of Pragâpati), 327; Gâyatrî tripadâ, 385; the golden, brilliant-winged Gâyatrî who bears the Sacrificer to heaven, V, 53; is the vedi, 56; Gâyatrî in bird's shape fetches Soma from heaven, 122; a falcon of the Gâyatrî metre (the bahishpavamâna) bearing the Sacrificer to bliss, 173; thereby the Vasus consecrate the king, 312; is fiery mettle, 312.
generation, threefold (father, mother, son), III, 240; only takes place above the earth, IV, 128; is stationary, on the other side of the sky and sun, 128; only on this side of the sky, 130.
generative power, is immortal, III, 354; is only on this side of the sky and sun, IV, 128.
gharma, hot draught of milk and ghee, V, 442; is the sun, 463, 481; revered as the lord of all
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worlds, and of thought and speech, 471, 489; is cow's milk (and ghee), 475.
gharmadughâ (samrâg-cow), is Idâ, Aditi, Sarasvatî, V, 474; is bound by its horns, 474; is given to Adhvaryu, 503.
ghee, in consecration water, III, 79; is seed, 211 &c.; the life-sap of the universe, of waters and plants, 333; a form, or the life-sap, of the air, 390; with gold chips in it offered on completed fire-altar, IV, 182; mixed with sour curds and honey for sprinkling on ditto, 182 seq.; belongs to Agni, 189; is fiery mettle, V, 274, 296, 312; is the gods’ favourite resource, 296, 410.
Ghora, a work of the Atharvans, V, 366 n.
ghosha (roar), pârtha-oblation to, III, 82.
ghritâki, the apsaras, is an intermediate region (? N.W.), or the offering-spoon, IV, 107.
girdle, sign of initiation, III, 185.
go, ox, III, 119.
goat, (he-), means Pragâpati; III, 35; brings forth thrice a year, 35; (aga) how created, 147, 173; he-goat sacrificial animal, 162, 165 seq.; slaughtered for Agni, 162; for Pragâpati, 171; searches for Agni, 204, 205; addressed, 225; represents Brâhmana, 227; is the form of all cattle, 230; sprung from Pragâpati's head, 245; from his voice, 402; eats all kinds of herbs, 245; produced in form of ekapadâ metre, IV, 38; the grey (smoke-coloured) animal originates from Indra's eyes, V, 214; hornless he-goat one of the three chief victims in Asvamedha, 298; produced from the heat in Makha's head, 452.
goat's hair, cut off, III, 229; mixed with clay, 230.
goat's milk III, 245; used for cooling Pravargya vessels, V, 452, 457, 477.
goat's skin, of he-goat, III, 35.
gods, offer to one another, III, 1; are thirty-three (or four), 9, 99; V, 258; slay Vritra, III, 48; smite the Rakshas and gain universal conquest, 49; sweep away the Rakshas, 52; obtained possession of man by trishamyukta, 54; love the mystic (mysterious), 144 seq.; created from (Pragâpati's) upper vital airs, 150; saw second layer of altar, 189, 190; were produced from out of these worlds, 239; are threefold, 239; wives of gods placed fire-pan in lap of the earth, 242; wives of gods are the plants, 242; gods make food of whoever hates them and give it to Agni, 259; Âhavanîya is the world of the gods, 344; their life is longer than man's, 344; one must do as the gods did, 357; become the truth, 363; have their birthplace in the east (the Âhavanîya), 389; order: Agni (and Dîkshâ), Indra and Vishnu, gods generally and creator, Mitra and Varuna, Vasus and Rudras, Âdityas and Maras, Aditi and Pûshan, Savitri and Brihaspati, Yavas and Ayavas, Ribhus and Visve Devâh, IV, 67-69; gods generally (man-viewers) connected with the creator (Dhâtri) and the Vis, 68; become complete through offspring (or subjects) and mates, seat themselves on the firmament, in heaven, 108; entered heaven from below, 109; draw together round Indra, 127; are just as many now as there were of old, 128; Agni, Vâyu, Âditya, the hearts of the gods, 162; gods holding to truth, and Asuras to untruth, 257; created from the breath (prâna), 289; seven worlds of the gods, 277; (the three worlds and four quarters), 314; are of joyful soul, 339; the true knowledge belongs to them alone, and he who knows it is not a man, but one of the gods, 339; were first mortal, and only after gaining the year,
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became immortal, V, 5; created from Pragâpati's breath of the mouth, 13; the tales of their fights with the Asuras not true, 14; created by the Brahman, and placed in the three worlds and those above them, 27; were mortal, and only on being possessed of the Brahman, became immortal, 28; daily offering to them with svâhâ, 96; contend with the Asuras for Pragâpati, the sacrifice, 105; number of gods (8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, 12 Âdityas, Indra, Pragâpati), 115 seq.; the one god, Prâna, 117; the world of the gods in the north, 225; the path of the Fathers, and that of the gods, by one of which all living creatures have to pass, 237, 238 all the gods enumerated as ten, 280, 281; are of three orders, 291; did not know the way to heaven, 320; Dharma Indra their king, the Sâman their Veda, 370; reside on earth, in the air, the heavens, the regions, the nakshatras, the waters, 505, 506; Agni, Vâyu, Sûrya, Kandra, Varuna are the Self of the gods, 505, 506.
gold, is immortal life, III, 35, 84, 93, 265; IV, 343; V, 239; gold threads woven in strainers, III, 84; its uses, 141; produced from ore, (147), 158; is immortal, 203; is light, 366; IV, 343; V, 203, 303; immortality, V, 147, 203; is Agni's seed, 187; a piece of it tied to darbha plant and taken westward (as the sun), 195; originates from Indra's seed, 215; a piece of it used for purifying the surâ at Sautrâmanî, 220, 235, 236; sacrificers and priests cleanse themselves by means piece of gold held over kâtvâla, 239; originates from seed of immolated horse (Pragâpati), 275; (satamâna) piece given as fee with brahmaudana at beginning of Asvamedha, 275; by means of the golden light Sacrificer goes to heaven, 303; is a form of the Kshatra, 303; is fire, light, immortality, 348; as dakshinâ, 356, 358; gold stools and cushions, 360, 361; slab of gold as seat, 361; repels the Rakshas (as Agni's seed), 467; dissolves (melts), 493; is lying (settled) glory, 503.
gold brick; III, 155, 166.
gold chips, thrust into (the organs of) the victims’ heads, III, 402-401; fire-altar bestrewed with 5 and 200, IV, 146 seq.; make Agni thousand-eyed, 201; some thrown into ghee for oblation on (svayamâtrinnâ of) completed altar, 182; these chips complete making Pragâpati's body immortal, 291, 294; seven inserted in the seven openings of vital airs of dead body before being burnt, V, 203.
gold coin (nishka) worn as prize, V, (51), 53.
golden egg, produced from the primordial waters, V, 12; floated about for a year, as the only resting-place, 12.
gold man (purusha), laid on gold plate in first layer, III, 366; is Pragâpati-Agni, 366; the Sacrificer, 368, 382; when laid down, one must not walk in front of him, 369; two offering-spoons his arms, 373; covered and viewed by Sacrificer whom he represents, 375, 376; is the Sacrificer's divine body, 382; his body co-extensive with altar. IV, 18, 146; gold man and gold plate are Agni and Indra, 342; is the man in the sun, and both are the man in the right eye, 368; is the foundation of the Yagus, as one of the only three bricks of which the altar consists, 374.
gold plate, III, 35; trodden upon by consecrated king, 92; with 100 holes, 93; (gold piece) on gaming-ground offered upon, 112; hung round Agnikit's neck, 265; is the truth and Âditya, 265; with twenty-one knobs, the sun's rays, 265; means vital
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energy and vigour, 266; sewn up in antelope skin, 266; worn over navel, 267; is Pragâpati's vigour which went out of him and became the sun, 212, 213; put down on lotus-leaf in centre of altar-site under first layer, 364; IV, 246; gold plate and gold man are Indra and Agni, 342; gold plate is the orb of the sun, and both are the white of the eye, 367, 368; is the foundation of the Rik, as lane of the only three bricks of which the altar consists, 374; gold and silver plates beneath feet of Sacrificer whilst consecrated at Sautrâmanî, V, 252; the two there represent lightning and hail, 251; placed on top of Pravargya pot, 467; given to Brahman priest, 503; cf. nishka.
gomriga, one of the three chief victims at Asvamedha, V, 298, 338.
Goshtoma, form of Agnishtoma, IV, 287.
Gotama Râhûgana, originator of Mitravindâ sacrifice, V, 66.
Gotama's Stoma (Katushtoma), V, 375.
go-vikartana, huntsman (?), one of the king's ratnâni, III, 63.
govinata, form of Asvamedha, V, 400, 401.
graha (cup of Soma), after their drawing chanting of stotra and recitation of sastra, IV, 13; is the draught of Pragâpati's vital fluid, 282.
graha oblations of ghee relating to Soma cups and implements, forming part of the Vasordhârâ, IV, 216.
grain, are a form of day and night, V, 296; parched grain, a form of the Nakshatras, 296.
Grâmanî (headman), one of the ratninah, III, 60; is a vaisya, 61; III.
Grâvastut priest, is made the Hotri, V, 137.
grave. See burial-place.
great region. See upper region.
Grihapati, III, 258; V, 131; initiated first (being the earth), 135.
grîvâh. See neck.
groats, parched, are a form of the gods, V, 296.
guda prâna, intestinal vital air, IV, 17.
guest-offering, III, 355.
guhû. See spoon.
Gumbaka (Varuna), V, 340, 343.
Gyotishtoma, form of Agnishtoma, IV, 287.
hail, a terrible form of rain, V, 251.
hair, of lion, wolf, tiger thrown on flesh-portions of Sautrâmanî, III, 132; ditto in cups of Surâ, V, 218; these are a form of Rudra, 229; purîsha formulas are Agni's hair, IV, 20; hair and form, 295; how the hair grows and gets grey, V, 52, 55; comes off when wetted, 313.
hair-pit,--from Pragâpati's hair-pits the stars originate, IV, 361; as many as there are twinklings of the eye, V, 169.
Hairanyanâbha. See Para.
Hâliṅgava, a teacher, his view of the nature of Agni, IV, 363.
hand, laid down, palm upwards, for protection, V, 465.
haras,--haras, sokis, arkis (heat, fire, flame) of Agni, IV, 182.
hare, in the moon, V, 10; leaps in bounds, 390.
haridru (deodar tree), not to stand near a grave, V, 427.
Hariskandra, father of Rohita, III, 95.
havirdhâna, associated with Gâyatrî, V, 494.
haviryagña, killed by mortar and pestle, V, 2; as distinguished from the Soma-sacrifice, 119.
haya, horse, carries the gods, IV, 401.
hazel-cock (kapiñgala), springs from Visvarûpa's head, III, 130.
head, of child born first, III, 233; IV, 287; ditto of animals, IV, 40, (287); human head is placed on ukhâ, III, 311; is the birth-place of the vital airs, 396; measures a span, if four-cornered, contracted in the middle, 396; is (the focus) of
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the ten vital airs, IV, 57; is threefold, and consists of two kapâlas, 78, 387; is of Gâyatrî nature, and threefold, 114; fivefold vital air of head (mind, speech, breath, eye, ear), 190; becomes 'sharpened,' 190; threefold (skin, bone, brain), V, 163, 499; three heads of the Asvamedha, 335; is a span high, contracted in the middle, 454.
headman. See King-makers.
heart, on earth one thinks with one's heart and mind, IV, 45; Agni, Vâyu, Âditya the hearts of the gods, 162; is round and smooth, 180; is near the right arm-pit, 180, 181; is secret, V, 36.
heaven, a counterfeit (pratimâ) of the earth, IV, 52; is single, V, 297; by means of the golden light the Sacrificer goes to heaven, 303.
heaven and earth, when they separated, the Vasus, Rudras, and Âdityas separated and became the lords, IV, 75; propitiatory cake on one kapâla, when sacrificial horse, or anything else, is lost, 347; with Sûrya and Vâyu, 347; between them everything is contained, V, 484; are the out- and up-breathing, 488.
heavenly world, above the Virâg, is the firmament, IV, 93; is the firmament, 100, 304; and the regions, 100; is the year,--100; is entered from below, 109; the heavenly world, the light, is entered from the sky, from the back of the firmament, 199; those going there do not look round, 199; heavenly world beyond the highest firmament, 250; the world where the sun shines, 304; is (the place of) safety, V, 238; Kshatriyas remain Kshatriyas in the other world, 250; is equal in extent to a thousand, 280; lies 'straight away,' 281, 297.
hemp, layer of it put in fire-pan, as the chorion, III, 252; hempen sling for gold plate worn round Agnikit's neck, 266.
herald. See King-makers.
him, makes Sâman complete, IV, 178; is the Sâman, V, 306.
hiranya; etymology, III, 367.
Hiranyagarbha, is Pragâpati and Agni, III, 172; came first into existence, 388;--IV, introd. xiv, 295 n.
hita, III, 151.
honey, used with consecration water as the essence (flavour) of water, III, 78; not to be eaten during initiation, 186; a form, or the life-sap, of the sky, 390; mixed with sour curds and ghee for sprinkling on completed fire-altar, IV, 182 seq.; the remainder (or essence) of the triple science and therefore may be eaten by Brahmakârin, V, 90; not, according to others, 90; a form of Soma, 243; means breath, 467.
honey-cup. See madhugraha.
hoof-cup, thirty-three of fat gravy offered at Sautrâmanî, V, 252.
horn, of black antelope, III, 96.
horse, asva, produced from the water, III, 19; V, 304, 318; stands lifting one foot on each side, III, 19; sprinkling of horses for race, 19; right horse yoked first, 19; horses smell Brihaspati's oblation, 22, 28; Varuna's sacrificial animal, 60; how created (etymology of asva), 146; sacrificial animal, 162, 165 seq.; slaughtered for Varuna, 162; is hornless and with mane, 177; its halter lies round the mouth, 198; is the sun, 199, 208, 359; searches for Agni, 204, 205; whilst running shakes itself, 207; steps on lump of clay, 207; is a thunderbolt, 209; the most highly-favoured of animals, 209; horse's footprint offered upon, 212; horse is addressed, 224; represents kshatra, 227; sacred to Pragâpati, 240; white horse led in front of the bricks of the first layer being carried forwards, 359; is made to step on altar-site from the north, 359; smells the first layer of bricks, 359, 361; IV, 141; white horse
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[paragraph continues] (Pragâpati) finds Agni on lotus-leaf, III, 360; the white horse scorched by Agni, whence its mouth is scorched, and it is apt to become weak-eyed, 360; whoever seeks Agni in the shape of a white horse finds him, 360; horse led round on prepared altar-site towards sunset, 361; created from Pragâpati's eye, 402; V, 328; is the speed of the wind, III, 405; the one-hoofed animal, 410; yoked (tied) below shaft, IV, 237; right horse first by gods, the left by men, 237; carries (draws) men, 401; the sea its birth-place, 401-403; sacrificial horse (Pragâpati, the Purusha), 401; prizewinning horses constantly sprinkled (?), V, 95; sacrificial horse sacred to Pragâpati, 277, 278; horse the most vigorous, powerful, famous, and the swiftest of animals, 278; is a thunderbolt, 279; sacrificial horse generated by sky and earth, 287; synonyms of horse, 287; when let loose returns to its chain, 288; born from of old as a runner, 294; is the kshatra, 303; of Anushtubh nature, 304; sacrificial horse put to chariot, 311; is the great bird, 315; is trimmed up with the reins, 318; is Brahman (m.), 318; knows the way to heaven, 320; lying down near sacrificial horse insures fertility, 322; is sacred to the All-gods, 332; horse stands on three feet; but scampers off on all four, 332; is the highest (noblest) of animals, 332; worth 1000 cows, 353; steps on chanting-place, 384.
horse-dung, seven balls of, used for fumigation, III, 240; V, 455.
horse-hoof, oblation on, V, 339.
hotrâ, the seven, are the regions, III, 368.
Hotri priest, seated towards the west, III, 108; gold plate his fee at Dasapeya, 119; piebald bullock his fee for pañkabila oblation to Visve Devâh, 122; Hotri means abundance, 142; his fee at Sautrâmanî three milch cows, 142; is Agni, 219; black antelope skin his own place, 219; the guardian of undisturbed rites, 219; follows behind the bricks of first layer carried forward, defending it from behind, 358; is winter, V, 45; the six hotels (priests generally), 121; initiated for sattra, as Agni and speech, 136; is the voice of the sacrifice, 245; is the sacrifice, 459, 460, 504.
Hotrîya hearth, of Agnikayana, of twenty-one bricks, and as many enclosing-stones, IV, 243.
householder (grihamedhin) unlearned in scriptures, V, 362.
hunger, death is hunger, IV, 402; Yûpa bent at top, and bent outwards in middle, is a type of hunger, V, 124.
hungry, hungry man is consumed by his vital airs, IV, 347, 348.
Idâ, mother of Purûravas, V, 68; Manu's daughter (is the Agnihotra cow), 81.
idâ, invocation of, III, 41, 113; IV, 248; is food, V, 19; the central air, 20; is faith, 42.
idam, III, 143;--(ida) one-fourteenth part of an etarhi, V, 169.
idâvatsara (third year of cycle), IV, 21.
idvatsara (fourth year of cycle), IV, 2I.
immortal, is the food that is baked, III, 164; immortal body is boneless, IV, 178; immortal bricks are the six Sâmans sung over the completed altar, 180; going to the heavenly light and becoming immortal and Pragâpati's children, 220; the immortal light is distributed amongst beings by Savitri, 322; the immortal light (and life) to be gained by the hundred and onefold altar or by a life of a hundred years, 323, 324; the body is not immortal, being the share of death, 357; after separating from the body one becomes immortal, be it by knowledge or holy work (the
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fire-altar); coming to life again, one attains immortal life, 357; the Amrita threefold, 365; by performing the animal sacrifice once a year--the year being life--one gains immortal life, V, 119.
immortality, is light (ruk), III, 383; IV, 238; man's highest form, IV, 147, 177; the highest thing in the universe, 148, 181; is the vital airs, 178; the nectar of immortality (Soma), the Agnikit consecrated therewith, 251, 252; the nectar of immortality, Soma, departs from the gods and is recovered by penance, 255, 256; the immortality bestowed on Agni and Sacrificer, 256; beyond the year lies the wish-granting world, the immortal (immortality) which is the light (arkis) that shines yonder, 322; it is to the other world what life is to this, 327.
impure speech, if used, the vital airs pass away, V, 326.
Indra, performed Vâgapeya and won everything, III, 3; is the kshatra, 3, 59; IV, 229; is the Sacrificer, III, 13, 54; by eleven syllables gains the Trishtubh, 40; slays Vritra by cake-offering, 45; is energy and vital power, 46, 82; generative power, 46; with Agni smites the Rakshas, 51; eleven-kapâla cake to, 59; bull his sacrificial animal, 60; Indra gyeshtha, pap of red rice to, 70; by anointing Indra, the gods guide him past his enemies, 74; by drinking Soma, Indra becomes a tiger, 81, 92; pârtha-oblation to, 82; calls on Maruts staying on Asvattha tree, 84; Indra Vriddhasravas, 89; kills Namuki, 92; mystically called Arguna, 99; rathavimokanîya oblation to, 102; Indra Visaugas, 109; assists Varuna, 113; samsrip-oblation (eleven-kapâla cake), 116; pañkabila oblation on south part of vedi, 120, 121; fee a bull, 122; slays Visvarûpa, Tvashtri's son, 130; Indra Sutrâman, 135; eleven-kapâla cake at Sautrâmanî, 136, 137; is the central vital air, 143; etymology (indh) 'the kindler,' 143; is breath, 154; bull slaughtered to him, 162; repels Vritra, 179; afraid of Vritra not being killed, enters the waters, 365; takes away Pragâpati's vigour (ogas) to the north, 374; becomes Pragâpati's left arm, 374; sour curds (dadhi) belong to him, 374; ruler of the kshatra, IV, 74; is Âditya, 92; Indra's heaven is the undiminished virâg, 94; ousted from this world by wrong sacrificial procedure, 94; protector of the south, 101; connected with Rudras, pañkadasa-stoma, praüga-sastra, brihat-sâman, 101; the gods draw together round Indra, 127; magnified by all beings, 140; the greatest of charioteers, 140; to him belongs the 'purîsha' of the altar, 140; equal to all the gods, 140; Indra the highest, mightiest, and strongest of gods, assisted by Brihaspati, fights the Asuras, 192; is Apratiratha (irresistible car-fighter), 192; of trishtubh nature, 262; the deity of the sacrifice, 262; Indra Vimridh, verses to, 276; Agni and Indra created as brahman and kshatra, 342; they join each other as gold man and gold plate, 342; they are the light and immortal life, 343; they are the fire-altar (Agni the bricks, Indra the purîsha), 343; for killing Vritra, &c., is deprived of the Soma-drink, and Kshatriyas with him, 345, n.;--Indra Vimridh, (additional) cake at Full-moon, V, 5, 6; Indra slays Vritra by Full-moon offering, 6; Indra Pradâtri, clotted curds for, at New-moon, 8; Indra Vritrahan, expiatory eleven-kapâla cake at New-moon, 11; statements regarding his battles mere illusion, 14; Indra created out of Pragâpati with a life of a thousand years, 15; Indra
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becomes speech, 16; takes Srî's power and receives (mitravindâ) oblation (eleven-kapâla cake), 62-65; brahmakârin his disciple, 86; Indra is the thunder(-cloud), the thunder being the thunderbolt, 116; covets Vasishtha's (knowledge of the) Virâg, 222; slays Visvarûpa, and drinks Tvashtri's Soma, 223 seq., 248; has his Soma-drink and vital energy taken from him by Namuki, and is restored by the Asvins, 226; bull immolated to him at Sautrâmanî, 217; cows sacred to him, 228; Indra's cake of eleven kapâlas to win his energy, 222, 223; slays Namuki with foam of water, 223; drinks separately the Soma from the mixture of Soma and blood in Namuki's head, 223; Indra Sutrâman, 224; connected with the sky (and the third pressing), 241, 247; with summer, 247; with winter and dewy season, 247; heated by Asvins and Sarasvatî by means of the Sautrâmanî, 249; Asvins, Sarasvatî, and Indra are everything here, 253; and have a share in the gharma, 475; the seventh of the ten deities ('all the gods’) 'receiving oblations of drops, 281; a cow wont to cast her calf his victim at Asvamedha, 300; Dharma Indra, king of the gods, 370; draws his glory by taking in Vishnu (Makta) whence he is Makhavat (Maghavat), 443; decapitates Dadhyañk Atharvana, 444; offering made at Pravargya to Indra, with the Vasus, Rudras, and Âdityas, 479, 480; is the wind, 479.
Indra-Agni, lay down third layer of fire-altar, IV, 41; the best (chiefest) of gods, 42; fire-altar belongs to them, 278; the most powerful of gods, V, 278; are all the gods, 392.
Indra-Brihaspati, animal sacrifice to, V, 402.
Indradyumna Bhâllaveya (Vaiyâghrapadya), a teacher, IV, 393, 396.
Indrânî, Indra's beloved wife, V, 474.
Indra-Pûshan, karu to, III, 55.
Indra-Soma, karu to, III, 56.
Indrastut Ukthya, V, 429.
Indraturîya offering--cake to Agni, karu to Varuna and (gavedhukâ) to Rudra, and sour curds to Indra--III, 50, 51.
Indra-Vishnu, karu to, III, 54; (traidhâtavî) twelve-kapâla cake at Sautrâmanî, 138; connected with kshatra and pañkadasa-stoma, IV, 68; animal sacrifice to, V, 402.
indriya, III, 226, 143.
Indrota Saunaka, V, 393; Indrota Daivâpa Saunaka, 396.
intercourse, sexual, is an Agnihotra offering, V, 114.
intestine. See entrail.
irina, III, 43.
iron, is the vis, V, 304; iron bowl, oblation in, 339.
Îsâna, a form and name of Agni, is the sun, III, 160.
Isha, first autumn-month, IV, 49.
ishtakâ (brick) yagushmatî and lokamprinâ (nobility and peasantry), III, 153; formulas of settling (sâdana), 153, 254; five kinds, 155, 166; head of, 155; are Agni's limbs, 156; made of clay and water, 164, 210; etymology, 164; amriteshtakâ and anriteshtakâ, 271; sharp-edged thunderbolts, 357; are all creatures, 359; special ishtakâ marked with lines, parallel to spine, IV, 18; are the bones, 20, 135; number of, 50; are the creatures that went out of Pragâpati, 54; size and markings, 137; become milch cows, 172; are Pragâpati's joints, the days and nights, 281; made up of Pragâpati's body, 290; three thousand additional marked bricks constituting the highest form of the bird's form and plumage, 303; the one brick, Akshara, Agni, the Brahman, 343; are Pragâpati's lights, 349 seq.; bricks are threefold in respect of gender (sex), 364 seq.; the fire-altar consists of three bricks, Rik,
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[paragraph continues] Yagus, and Sâman, having for their foundations the gold plate, the gold man, and the lotus-leaf, 374; on tomb, V, 434, 435.
ishtâpûrta, V, 287 n.
ishti, (i.e. kâmyeshti) performed in a low voice, IV, 248.
island, neither earth nor water, V, 497.
itihâsa, legend regarding battles between gods and Asuras not true, V, 14; to be studied, 98; is the Veda of water-dwellers, 369.
itihâsa-purâna, to he studied, V, 98.
joy (ânanda), is the soul (of knowledge and life), IV, 339, 340.
jujube (fruit of Zizyphus Jujuba), three varieties of, used in the Sautrâmanî, V, 214, 215, 219.
Ka, Pragâpati, III, 173, 175, 221; V, 86; IV, introd. xiv; the four rites relating to Ka, IV, 334 seq.
Kâdraveya. See Arbuda.
Kaikeya. See Asvapati.
Kakra. See Revottaras.
Kakubh metre, in the form of it bulls were produced, IV, 38; is the prâna, 88.
kâleya-sâman, III, introd. xvi.
kali, die, III, 107; dominant over the other dice, 108.
Kalpa (prospering) oblations, with which the Vasor dhârâ concludes, IV, 220.
kâma, III, 163.
kamasa cups, III, 114.
Kâmpîla, V, 321, 322.
kâmyeshti, performed in a low voice, IV, 248 n.
kandramas. See moon.
Kaṅkatîyas, instructed by Sândilya in the sacrificial art of the fire-altar, IV, 254.
Kanva, saw the cow of plenty and milked her, IV, 203; his hermitage Nâdapit, V, 399.
kapâla, potsherd, of broken ukhâ, III, 263.
kapotî (kapotin), a particular form of a tree, 123.
kapya, a dish, V, 220.
Karakâdhvaryu, IV, 25, 129.
Karakâh, III, 171, 175.
Kârotî,--there Tura Kâvasheya built a fire-altar, IV, 279.
kârshmarya (gmelina arborea), a Rakshas-killing tree, III, 373.
karûkara (? vertebra), V, 165.
Kâsya (of the Kâsis), V, 401.
Kasyapa, all creatures descended from him, III, 390; officiates at Sarvamedha of Visvakarman, V, 421;--the Kasyapas, a family of priests, IV, 345 n.
katurdasa-stoma, gained by Vasus, III, 40.
kâturmâsya, seasonal offerings, instituted by the gods, III, 47; he who offers them eats food, every four months, in the other world, IV, 299;--esoteric remarks upon them, V, 74 seq.; by them Pragâpati fashioned for himself a body, 74; amount to the year and the Mahâvrata, 78; are the year, 309; kâturmâsya victims at Asvamedha, 309, 383; seasonal animal sacrifices, 402.
katurvimsa, first day (after opening day) of Sattra and formerly one of the three 'great rites' of the year, V, (139), 144, 156, 167.
katurvimsa-stoma, is the womb, the year, IV, 64; through it, connected with Vasus and Rudras, the four-footed are freed from death, 68.
katushtoma, is the stay, support, Vâyu, IV, 66; connected with Savitri and Brihaspati, frees the quarters from death, 69; V, 78, 329; is the Krita among dice, 330; the highest of stomas, 332; Gotama's Stoma, 375.
katuskatvârimsa-stoma, connected with Yavas and Ayavas, frees creatures from death, IV, 69; is trishtubh (4 and 22) and thunderbolt, 85.
katustrimsa-stoma, is the range of the ruddy one (sun), the year, IV, 65.
kâtvâla (pit), is the same (in cubit extent) as Agni (fire-altar), III, 309; arka-leaf thrown in, 166; is fire, 166; is the place for cleansing, V, 489 n.; between
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it and the Âgnîdhra is the gate of sacrifice, 497.
Kauravya. See Balhika.
Kausalya, V, 397.
Kausâmbeya, (? a native of Kausâmbî). See Proti.
Kaushya. See Susravas Kaushya.
Kausurubindi. See Proti.
Kâvasheya. See Tura Kâvasheya.
keepers, of sacrificial horse, V, 355.
Kelaka Sândilyâyana, a teacher, his views regarding Agni, IV, 364,
Kesavapanîya, III, introd. xxvi, 126 seq.; stomas of the three savanas (ekavimsa, saptadasa, pañkadasa), 127; may conclude the Râgasûya, 129; Shodasin forms part of Kesavapanîya Atirâtra, IV, 405.
Kesin, a noble race, as performers of a Sattra, V, 131; exist to this (the author's) day, 134.
khadira (acacia catechu), throne-seat thereof at Abhishekanîya, III, 105; is the bone, V, 373-375.
khandasyâ bricks, are the metres and cattle, III, 414; IV, 2;--of second layer, IV, 36;--of third layer, 51 seq.;--of fifth layer, 87 seq., 92, 99, 109 seq.; are Pragâpati, 114.
Khandika Audbhâri, a Kshatriya, skilled in sacrificial matters, V, 131.
khandoma days, V, 156 n.
khara (mounds), III, 10; V, 452 n., 485, 489.
khila (unploughed ground) between two cultivated fields, IV, 54.
kîkasâh, breast-bone, V, 164 n.
kim-purusha, III, 409.
kine, are man's form (wealth), V, 261.
king, he and srotriya upholders of the law, III, 106; if weaker than priest he is stronger than his enemies, 110; king, when consecrated,. is entreated by people (for blessings), IV, 220; only he becomes king whom other kings allow to assume royal dignity, 224, 229, 233, 247; are realm-sustainers, 229; maintains his rule by offspring, 230; kings both combine and keep asunder, V, 41; can oppress the Brâhmana, but fares the worse for it, 286; when clad in mail performs heroic deeds, 300; cannot rear cattle, 326.
King-makers, the non-royal, heralds and headmen, V, 304.
king's brother, III, 110.
king's son. See râgaputra.
kiti, layer of altar, five, III, 150, 191; IV, 147, 204; seven, 249, 253, 358; IV, 205; five, six, or seven, IV, 96; or three, 97;--by whom seen,' and what their ancestry, III, 186 seq., 190; are the seasons, IV, 96;--are sacrificial food, whence the first is sprinkled with ghee, III, 356; the first is led forward on red ox-hide, 256, 257;--building of first layer, 362 seq.; is the earth and the spring season, and the feet, 386; IV, 1 seq.; plan, 17;--second layer, 22 seq.; seen by the gods and laid down by Asvins, 23; plan, 24; is nest-like, 25; is the space between earth and air; and the summer-season, 29; the part between feet and waist, 30;--third layer, 41 seq.; seen by the gods, laid down by Indra and Agni, and settled by Visvakarman, 41; plan, 48; is the air, and rainy season and autumn, 49; is the belly, 138; the waist, 149;--fourth layer, 53 seq.; is the Brahman, 59; upholds heaven and earth, 59; is the space between air and heaven, and the winter-season, 70; the part between waist and head, 71; between waist and neck, 149; plan, 71; is the larger of the Brahman, Pragâpati, the Rishis, Vâyu, the Stomas and vital airs, 81, 82;--fifth layer, 82 seq.; is the shining (virâg) heaven, 82; the fifth (including sixth and seventh) is the head and dewy season, 127; plan, 98; the fifth is the neck, the sixth the head, the seventh the vital airs, 149;--symbolical meanings
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of layers, 147, 148; ditto as regards the bodily parts, 148, 149; the layers of brick are the immortal, and those of earth the mortal, parts of Pragâpati's body, 290; the mortal ones enclosed in the immortal, and made immortal, 290, 291; the seven layers, 291; how the six layers of brick, and six of earth, correspond to the vital airs and the mortal parts of the body respectively, 292 seq.; each layer of bricks and earth takes (or represents) one month, 318.
kitra, name of Agni, III, 161; IV, 269 n.
kitra-sâman, III, 369 (corr. IV, 146).
kitya, III, 151 seq.
klipti, (six) formulas and oblations, III, 30.
knee, consists of two plates (bones), V, 500;--knee-high, IV, 158; V, 249; lifting of sacrificer on throne-seat, 254.
knife, for slaughtering the horse is made of gold, that of paryaṅgyas of copper, and that of the others of iron, V, 303.
knife-paths, V, 326.
knowledge, superior to brick-built altars, IV, 380; by knowledge one ascends to where all desires have vanished, and all sacrificial gifts and mere rites do not attain, 389.
Koka, son of king Sona, V, 400.
Kosha, a priestly, race, IV, 392; cf. Susravas Kaushya.
Kraivya, the Pâñkâla king, performed the Asvamedha, at Parivakrâ, 397.
krânta, one of Vishnu's steps, III, 96.
Kratusthalâ, the Apsaras, is an intermediate quarter (? N.E.), or (Agni's) battle, IV, 105.
krimuka tree, how produced, III, 254; wood red and sweet, 254; has no ashes, 255.
krita, dice, III, 107; V, 330.
Krivi, old name for Pañkâla, V, 397.
krivi (vv. ll. kavi, krayi), III, 98.
Kshatra, nobility, connected with South region, trishtubh, brihat-sâman, pañkadasa-stoma, summer, III, 91; (political power) concentrated in one, 248; connected with Indra-Vishnu, and freed from death through pañkadasa-stoma, IV, 68; Indra its lord, 74; is the eater among the people, 125, 132, 242; attaches to a single individual, 132, 241; stands, as it were, 210; is built up by (social) layers, 242; Indra created as Kshatra, 342; established on the Vis, V, 41; produced from out of the Vis, 225; produced from out of the Brahman, 227; not to be detached from the Vis, 228; Sacrificer consecrated by the Kshatra (a Kshatriya), 253, 254; takes no delight in the priestly office, 286; spiritual lustre takes no delight in the Kshatra, 286.
kshatra-dhriti, III, introd. xxvi, 129.
Kshatriya (cf. râganya), and Vis, III, 100; followed by the other three castes, 226; Brâhmana and Kshatriya, never walk behind Vaisya and Sûdra, 227; Kshatriya and Purohita alone complete, 259; are everything, 260;--Kshatriya destroys enemies and raises his relations, 260; grants settlement with approval of clan, 299; deprived of the Soma-drink, IV, 345 n.; his world is the earth, V, 133; remain Kshatriya in heaven, 250; Kshatriya consecrates Kshatriya, 254; whilst sacrificing becomes a Brâhmana, 348.
kshattri, chamberlain, one of the ratninah, III, 61; is a prasavitri, 61; addresses the Pâlâgalî, V, 387.
kshetrapati,--prayugâm havis (pap) to, III, 125.
kshipra, one-fifteenth part of a muhûrta, V, 169.
kshipra-syena (? the quick eagle), produced from the amritavâkâ, IV, 370.
kshumâ (v. l. kshupâ), name of an arrow, III, 88,
Kubera Vaisravana, king of the Rakshas, V, 367.
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Kuhû, pap offered to her, (the extreme end of) one of the four regions, IV, 264.
Kumâra (the boy, Agni), born from Ushas, III, 159, 160.
kumbhî, pot, III, 270; perforated with a hundred holes, V, 220, 234 n.
kumbyâ (? an explanatory passage), V, 101.
kuntâpa, V, 164 n., 374.
kûrka, a (gold) stool for Sacrificer, V, 360.
kûrma, etymology, III, 390; the same as kasyapa, 390.
Kurukshetra,--Purûravas wanders about in Kurukshetra, V, 70; is the gods’ place of divine worship, 441.
Kuru-pañkâla, III, 124; V, 51.
kurupisaṅgilâ, V, 389, 390.
kusa-grass, garment made thereof, worn for purification, III, 31; is pure, 32, 356.
Kusri Vâgasravasa (Gautama), a teacher, IV, 345 n., 390.
kya, (belonging to Ka), IV, 334 seq.; is the food of Agni, 342 seq., 347 Seq.
ladder (nisrayanî), leant against sacrificial post and mounted by Sacrificer and wife, III, 32.
lakshman, mark,--is lucky on right side of (body of) man, or left side of woman, IV, 81; mark in mouth lucky, 81; lucky on any side, 95.
layer, of altar. See kiti.
lead, piece of, put on tiger's skin and kicked off, III, 91; compared with gold, 92; originates from Indra's navel, V, 215; with lead malted rice bought at Sautrâmanî, 219.
league, a thousand, the farthest distance, IV, 163.
leg,--arms and legs consist of twenty-five parts each, IV, 325; parts of leg, V, 75.
life,--of gods longer than men's, III, 344; life (âyus) and vital air the highest (endowments), IV, 144; life (âyus, vitality) the same as vital air, 143; is food, 196; life of a hundred years is immortality, 299; gains the immortal light, heaven, 323; therefore one must not shorten one's life, 323; consequences of shorter lives, 323, 324; it requires many sacrifices to gain one day or one night (of life), 324; life is to this world what immortality is to the other, 327; those who do not become immortal come to life again, and become the food of Death time after time, 357, 358; retribution in future life, V, 109 seq.
lifting-sticks (saphau or parîsâsau), V, 458; are heaven and earth, 476; therewith Pravargya pot is lifted, 477.
light (ruk), is immortality, III, 383; IV, 238.
lightning, is the teat whence the 'shower of wealth' flows, IV, 221; one of the six doors to the Brahman, V, 66, 67; a terrible form of rain, 261.
lightsome (ruṅmatî) oblations, (to Agni and Varuna), IV, 237-239.
limbs, dependent on vital airs, III, 151; IV, 19;--thirty of the body, IV, 167, 222; are tripartite and furnished with two joints, V, 77.
lines, three drawn round for protection, III, 212; on bricks, IV, 137.
lion, produced from Soma flowing from Indra's nose, III, 131; is vigour, produced in the form of the atikkhandas metre, IV, 38.
liquid,--the means of drinking off one of two liquids mixed together, V, 223.
liquor, spirituous. See parisrut, surâ.
logeshtakâ (clod-bricks), III, 345.
loka, space and world, III, 180.
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no names, 174; therefore called 'virâg,' 174; 10,800 in fire-altar (10,701 in Âhavanîya, 21 Gârhapatya, 78 dhishnyas), 357, 360; it is the gold man in the sun, and the one brick (? akshara) in which the lire-altar results; also the man in the eye, whence two lokamprinâs are laid down, 369; Agni the one lokamprinâ, 381.
long-haired man (eunuch), III, 9, 90.
lost thing, recovered by offering to Heaven and Earth, Vâyu, and Sûrya, V, 347.
lotus-flower, and plant,--golden flower as fee, III, 115 seq.; its leaves a symbol of sky and stars, its seed-stalks of the air, and its suckers of the earth, 117; lotus plant means the waters, 364.
lotus-leaf, placed on antelope skin, III, 215; is speech, 215; the sky, 216; time womb, 222; placed on Âhavanîya site, 343; Agni found on lotus-leaf by white horse (Pragâpati), 360; lotus-leaf as womb, laid down in centre of altar-site under first layer, 363; means water and earth-spread out thereon, 364; (pushkara), the essence of waters, made a stronghold by the gods for Indra, 365; represents the waters, Agni's maternal womb, IV, introd. xx; marks the commencement (womb) of altar, 44, 118, 119; is the immortal light, 365; is the light of the sun, and both are the black of the eye, 367, 368; is the foundation of the sâman as one of the only three bricks of which the altar consists, 374.
lute,--played to one is a form (sign) of wealth (? distinction), V, 285; a Brâhmana and a Râganya play the lute and sing praises of Sacrificer at Asvamedha, 285 seq., 356 seq.
lute-players, masters of, V, 362 seq., 372.
Mâdhava, second spring-month, III, 386.
Madhu, the sweet doctrine (brâhmana), V, 444 n., 471.
Madhu, first spring-month, III, 386.
madhu-graha, III, 11; held by Vaisya or Râganya, 29; presented to the Brahman priest, 29.
Madhuka Paiṅgya, remark on animal sacrifice, 122.
Mâdhyandina-pavamâna (at Vâgapeya), III, 8.
Mâgha, month suitable for erecting of sepulchral mound, V, 423.
maghavat = makhavat, V, 443.
Mahâdeva, V, 81.
Mahad uktham, IV, introd. xxv; in bird's shape, xxv; 110 seq.; (? a different recension, 111 n., 168 n.); the Satarudriya accounted to be equal to it, 168, 273; an ocean of riks, 278; not to be recited for another, 279, 367; fire-altar, Mahad uktham, and Mahâvrata are the Sacrificer's divine, immortal body, 279;--281 seq.; originated from the vital fluid (rasa) of Pragâpati's dismembered body, 282; the Hotri thereby puts Pragâpati's vital fluid into the Soma-cup, 283; it is equivalent to all the riks, 283; is a bird-like body, 286; is the sky, speech, the body, 286; thereby the Hotri puts flavour into the Mahâvratîya cup, 346; is the orb of the sun, 366; triad, Agni, Arka, Mahad uktham, V, 172;--cf. uktha.
mahânâmnî verses, III, introd. xx, xxi.
Mahân Devah, a form and name of Agni, is Pragâpati, III, 160.
mahas (wealth, or joy), as a formula pronounced after the Agnihotra, V, 126.
Mahâsâla Gâbâla, instructed by Dhîra Sâtaparneya on the nature of Agni, IV, 331, 393; (? the sane as Prâkînasâla Aupamanya), 393 n., 395.
Mahâvîra pot (Vishnu and the Sun), etymology, V, 443; making of, 447 seq.; its form, 454; anointed with ghee, 462; is revered (as the sun), 469.
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Mahâvrata, IV, introd. xxv seq.; 110, 168; the last day (before concluding day) of Gavâm ayanam, and formerly one of the three great rites of the Sattra, V, (139), 144, 167.
Mahâvrata-sâman, in bird's shape, IV, introd. xxvi, 110; an ocean of sâmans, 278; not to be chanted for another, 279, 367; fire-altar, Mahâvrata and Mahad uktham are the Sacrificer's divine, immortal body, 279; thereby the Udgâtri puts Pragâpati's vital fluid into the Soma-cup, 282; is equivalent to all (other) sâmans, 283; composition of (Gâyatra, Rathantara, Brihat, Bhadra, and Râgana-sâmans), 282, 283; is a bird-like body, 286; is the air, breath, 286; the vrata of the great one (Agni), 342; thereby the Udgâtri puts flavour into the Mahâvratîya cup, 346; is the light of the sun, 366.
mahâvratîya-graha, IV, introd. xxvi, 282; by offering it, the Adhvaryu puts the vital fluid into Pragâpati, 284; is Pragâpati's food, 346; is offered with 'vaushat,' 202, 346.
mâhendra-graha, belongs to Indra, III, 13, 17;--drawing of, 41, 81, 113.
mahiman, two Soma-cups (drawn for Pragâpati) at Asvamedha, day and night, IV, 401; V, 327; mahiman, is royal power, 327; the first drawn in gold vessel, 391; the second in silver vessel, 394.
mahishî, first wife, III, 238; lies down near the sacrificial horse, V, 386; addressed by Brahman, 386.
Mâhitthi, III, 175; IV, 105-8, 271.
maiden,--beautiful maiden is apt to be loved (by men), V, 295; given as dakshinâ, 402.
Maitrâvaruna, his hearth, III, 80, 81; sterile cow his fee at Dasapeya, 119; is under Hotri, V, 137; is the mind of the sacrifice, 245.
maitrâvaruna-graha, III, 6.
Makha, is the sacrifice, III, 233; Vishnu, V, 443; his head restored, 450 seq.;--Makha Saumya, 454.
male, is pre-eminently endowed with power, IV, 230; m. organ, (of three parts), V, 19; has one joint, 19.
malt, of rice and barley, V, 219, 223 n., 240.
man,--is skinless, III, 32; men belong to Vishnu, 54; lives up to a hundred years, 93, 135, 405; V, 261, 275; has a hundred powers or energies, III, 93, 135; V, 275; is born into a (future) world made by him, III, 181; the sham-man his sacrificial substitute, 197; is a fathom high, 309; is Pragâpati, 309; man's life shorter than the gods’, 344; tends upwards by his vital airs, 368; is not held down by food and breath, 379; man's human form is clay, 382; men have their birthplace in the west (the Gârhapatya), 389; man created from Pragâpati's mind (manas), 402; is the first and strongest of animals, 402; is produced in the shape of the paṅki, IV, 38; (male) is lucky if marked on right side, 31; single man has many wives, 230; man with upstretched arms the measure for the fire-altar, 305; that is his highest measure, 305; fivefold (by food, drink, excellence, light, and immortality), 326, 327; when man dies he, by his five vital airs, passes into fire, sun, moon, the quarters, and the wind, and becomes one of them, 333; must not eat food in the presence of his wife, 369; man at the end of sexual union becomes apathetic and sleeps, 370; is king Soma, V, 6; of sixteen parts, 20; man is born thrice (through birth, sacrifice, and death), 23, 24; daily offering to men (by entertaining guests), 95; black, yellow-eyed man (Wrath) between two women (Belief and Unbelief) in North-East quarter, 110-112; man's thought taken by sun (whence saying, 'the divine
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thought protect thee, not man's thought!'), 130; man as the year (year's sattra), 144, 145, 168 seq. man does not know clearly the way to heaven, 305; men the subjects of Manu Vaivasvata, the Rik their Veda, 362.
man in the eye. See eye.
man in the sun. See sun.
manas. See mind.
manthin (graha), III, 6; puroruk formula of, 111; produced from aida-sâman, and from it the ekavimsa-stoma, IV, 10.
Manu, is Pragâpati, III, 250; carried by the earth (his wife, a mare), V, 466.
Manu Vaivasvata, king of men, V, 361.
Mânutantavya. See Saumapa.
Manyu, the one god who did not abandon Pragâpati, IV, 157; becomes Rudra, 157.
mare, brings forth within a year, V, 12; mare with foal the dakshinâ at Sautrâmanî, 218, 222; mares enclosed to make the sacrificial horse whinny, 306,
Mârgâlîya hearth, at Agnikayana constructed of six bricks (the seasons, the Fathers), IV, 243; used for cleansing, V, 490.
mark, on body. See lakshman.
marrow,--the formula used in laying down the brick is the marrow, IV, 20; is the light of man's body, 327; is the Yagushmatî bricks, hence 360 parts of marrow in the body, 387; V, 169.
marud-netrâh (devâh), seated in the north, III, 49.
Maruts,--(uggeshâh) offering of sterile cow to, III, 13; are the peasantry (vis), 13, 34, 61; staying on Asvattha tree, 34, 84; by seven syllables gain the domestic animals, 40; seven-kapâla cake to, 61; rathavimokanîya oblation, 101; dappled cow their victim at oblation of teams, 125; Âdityas and Maruts connected with embryos, and pañkavimsa-stoma, IV, 68; lords of the north, 102; connected with Soma, ekavimsa-stoma, nishkevalya-sastra, vairâga -sâman, 102; Vasus, Rudras, Âdityas, Maruts, Visve Devâh, build on different sides of altar (E. S. W. N. Zen.), 118; rule over rain, 170; seven cakes of seven kapâlas to them, 208 seq.; these are the vital airs (of Vaisvânara, the head), 209; they are the vis, 210; their cakes offered to sitting, 210; with the hand, with Svâhâ (without a proper anuvâkyâ and yâgyâ), 211; are the rays of the sun, 212; the stormy (region), the troup of the Maruts, is the air, 236; are the guardians of one of the four regions, V, 359; Maruts, as guards-men of king Marutta, 397; animal sacrifice to, 402; Maruts, as the people, surround the (samrâg) Pravargya, 466.
Marutta Âvikshita, the Âyogava king, performed the Asvamedha, V, 397.
marutvatîya-sastra, connected with Varuna, the Âdityas, the west, &c., IV, 101, 102; on second day of Asvamedha, V, 379, 380.
mate, makes man complete, IV, 132; is one half of one's self, 132.
Matsya Sâmmada, king of water-dwellers, V, 369; cf. Dhvasan.
Maudgalya. See Nâka Maudgalya.
Maya--as such, Asuras serve the divine Purusha, IV, 373.
Menakâ, the Apsaras, is the southern quarter, or heaven, IV, 106.
metres,--connected with the Brahman, &c., III, 91; Gâyatrî, Trishtubh, Gagatî, Anushtubh, 201--202; immortal metres, 203; identified with the white and black hair of the black antelope skin, the rik and sâman, 266; mounting of those four metres (representing the worlds), 276, 277; are vital sap, 352; the oceanic (samudriya) metre, 352; the seven, 353; IV, 277, 314; looseness in calculating, III, 353; are life-sustaining gods, IV, 32; the cattle become metres, 36; different kinds of metres, 36 seq.; are cattle, 45; and food, 87; the eight defined and the undefined ones, 53, 88 seq.; etymology, 87; the khandasyâ
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bricks representing the ten principal metres, 109, 110; seven, increasing by four (syllables), 212; these are the seven vital airs, 327-9; the different metres and deities identified with parts of body, 330, 331; do not fail by excess or deficiency of one or two syllables, V, 157.
milch-cow,--the bricks of altar are made such, IV, 172; in the other world one will get many such by the Brahman, the Yagus, 173; with calf given as dakshinâ for Aditi's pap at Sautrâmanî, V 268.
milk,--used with consecration-water, III, 78; is breath (life), 245; laid in female, 245, 311; milk from black cow which has a white calf, offered to Agni, about to be laid down on fire-altar, IV, 200; milk is breath, 200; is vital sap, 201; milk (cups of) at Sautrâmanî represents Soma, and the Kshatra, V, 225, 228; cups of milk there to Asvins, Sarasvatî and Indra, 240, 241.
milking-bowl (pinvana), made, V, 454 seq.; milked into, 475.
milling-pail (dohana),--milk offered from it, IV, 200.
millet, originates from Indra's hair, V, 215.
mind (soul, manas),--everything gained by it, III, I00; union of Mind and Speech, 149; is Sarasvat, 398; is the foundation of the body, 270; the first of vital airs, 402; in it all the vital airs are established, 402; originates from Vâyu, in right side of body, IV, 6; from it the summer is produced, 6; is one only, 7; is the moon, 11; from it speech is produced, 11; sustained by the circulating vital air (vyâna), 15; is the fifth to the four vital airs, 73; mind (-metre) is Pragâpati, 88; one of the five divisions of vital air in the head, 190; Manas as Gandharva, with Riks and Sâmans as Apsaras, his mates, 233; Mind alone existed in the beginning, 375; thence the other four vital airs (speech, breath, the eye, the ear), and after them work and fire, were evolved each one from the preceding one by worshipping with its thirty-six thousand Arka-fires, 375 seq.; Mind preceded and created by Death, hunger, 402; the libations to Mind and Speech (Sarasvat and Sarasvatî) are such to Full and New moon, V, 28, 31, 32, 35; Sacrificer is mind, manifested in speech, 262; what is thought in mind is spoken by speech, and heard by ear, 263; is the overlord of vital airs, 504; all is gained thereby, 507.
mithuna, not to take place during dîkshâ, III, 185; or prior to maitrâvaruna curds, 186.
Mitra,--by one syllable gains trivrit-stoma, III, 40 is the Brahman, 67; to him belongs wood broken off by itself, and naturally produced butter, 67; the larger rice-grains, 68; what is cooked by hot steam, 68; injures no one but is every one's friend, 68; Mitra Satya, pap of nâmba seed to, 71; prayugâm havis (pap), 125; Mitra is the breath, 230; (together with the Vasus) mixes the clay, 231; is the wind, 245; the out-breathing (prâna), IV, 68; takes Srî's noble rank (kshatra) and receives (mitravindâ) oblation (pap), V, 62-5; the ninth of the ten deities ('all the gods') receiving oblation of drops, 281.
Mitra-Brihaspati, a pap to, III, 66; are the path of the sacrifice, 67.
Mitra-Varuna,--are anointed as kings by the gods, III, 73; to them the Râganya belongs by his arms, 88, 93; are dhritavratau (upholders of the sacred law), 89; mount the chariot and thence behold Aditi and Diti, 93; are the directors (prasâstârau), 99; dish of clotted curds (payasyâ) to them, 105, 186; (pañkabila) dish of clotted curds (payasyâ) on north part of vedi, 120, 121; Adhvaryu's fee
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for it sterile cow, 122;--are the out-breathing (prâna) and up-breathing (udâna), 122; V, 181; connected with rain and wind, and the ekavimsa-stoma, IV, 68; payasyâ to, is a divine mate for Sacrificer (since prior to it he must not touch woman), 270; this payasyâ is seed, put into Pragâpati, 270; are this and the other worlds, V, 268; the prâna and apâna, 269; offering of barren cows, 402; seasonal animal sacrifice, 402, 411.
mitrâvaruna-netrâh (devâh), seated in the north, III, 49.
Mitravindâ, form of sacrifice (ten oblations), V, 62 seq.
month,--twelve or thirteen in the year, III, 119; a thirteenth, 182; has sixty days and nights, 184; the year their ruler, IV, 74; the thirteenth is Agni's trunk, 167; the thirteenth is the year itself, V, 247; is an excrescence of the year, 276.
moon,--slain when set at liberty, III, 45; is Vritra and Soma, 45; (Kandramas) how created; 149; is seed, 149; the Visve Devâh placed with moon in the quarters, 150, is Pragâpati, 178; dwells on earth at new-moon, 178; slaughtered by the gods at full-moon, 178; is Vritra, 178; one of Agni's forms, 230; is the hook or point to which the year is linked by the seasons, 269; created-with the regions, 286; sun and moon Pragâpati's eyes, the moon the eye on which he lay, hence much closed up, 313; is Somas highest glory in the heavens, and causes him to be celebrated there, 355; is mind, and becomes (or gives birth to) speech, IV, 11; is the year and all living beings, 54; is the (thunderbolt and) pañkadasa-stoma (because of its waxing and waning fifteen days), 62; is the tail of Agni-Pragâpati, the altar and universe, 179; the essence of oblations goes up to the moon, 179; (Kandramas), as Gandharva, with the stars as Apsaras, his mates, 232; when the moon sets it enters the wind, 333; is Âditya's (Agni-Pragâpati's) food, 349; is king Soma, 349; V, 6, 9, 10; is the ascended Pragâpati-Sacrificer, made up of all existing things, IV, 354; is the bolt of the gate of sacrifice, V, 1; the heavenly dog watching the Sacrificer's cattle (to seize them), 10; the hare-marked one, 10; full and new moon variously identified, 30 seq.; moon (Soma) is the Asvamedha, 33, 34; the moon, one of the six doors to the Brahman, 66, 67; his light taken by the sun, 130; represented by piece of silver tied to a darbha plant and taken eastwards, 196; is born again and again, 315; the type of vitality, 315; is the spotless Brahman (masc.), 317, 318; Kandra (the regent of the regions or of the Nakshatras?) is the Self of the gods, 505.
mortals, created from lower (downward) vital airs, III, 150; IV, 289.
mortar and pestle, put in first layer, III, 393--396; mean food, 393 seq.; the mortar is the womb, the pestle the sisna of the Agni-animal, 400; IV, 2.
mother, bears son on her lap, III, 232.
mouth,--peculiar mark in mouth is lucky, IV, 81; (parisrit) reaching up to mouth, 159; lifting of sacrificer on throne-seat up to the mouth, V, 254.
mrityumohinî, the first four stoma-bricks of fourth layer, IV, 59 n.
muhûrta, a fifteenth part of the day (and a thirtieth part of day and night), IV, 351 seq.; 10,800 in the year, 352; V, 169; in each muhûrta a fourscore of syllables completed to make up the trayî vidyâ, Pragâpati's body, IV, 353; consists of fifteen kshipras, V, 169.
Mundibha Audanya, discovers atonement for slaying of Brâhmana, V, 341.
muñga-grass, layer of it put in fire-pan, as the womb, III, 251.
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nabhas, the first rainy month, IV, 48.
nabhasya, the second rainy month, IV, 48
Nâdapit (Kanva's hermitage), V, 399.
nada-verse, IV, 113.
nadîpati, III, 75.
Nagnagit,--Svargit Nagnagit (or Nâgnagita), the Gândhâra (a râganyabandhu), IV, 21.
Nâka Maudgalya, a teacher, V, 201.
nâkasad, bricks of fifth layer, are the gods (seated on the firmament), IV, 97 seq.; are the four priests with the Sacrificer, 103; are the (Sacrificer's) Self, 100; the regions, 104.
nakshatra, III, 19; Agnyâdhâna not to be performed under a special nakshatra, V, 1; single nakshatra, 423; are a place of abode to all the gods, 505; (Kandra, or Varuna? their regent), 505, 506.
nâmba (âmba) seed, growing on unploughed ground, III, 71.
name, giving of, frees from evil, III, 159; Oblations to names (of Agni) forming part of the Vasor dhârâ, IV, 219; he who is consecrated (anointed) comes to have two names, 247; form and name, as two forces of the Brahman, the former being the stronger, V, 27, 28.
nameless finger, III, 221, 294.
Namuki, an Asura, killed by Indra, III, 92; drinks Soma with the Asvins, 135; takes Indra's Soma-drink and vital energy, V, 216; wins Indra's source of strength by means of the Surâ-liquor, 222; is slain by Indra with foam of water, being neither dry nor moist, neither staff nor bow, neither palm nor fist, 223; is evil, 223; in his severed head was Soma-juice mixed with blood, 223; the Asvins bring away the Soma from him, and Sarasvatî distils (presses) it, 232.
Nârâsamsî-Gâthâh, to be studied, V, 98.
Nârâyana,--Purusha Nârâyana, exhorted by Pragâpati to sacrifice, V, 172, 173.
naudhasa-sâman, III, introd. xvi.
navadasa-stoma, is heat and the year, IV, 63.
navel, goes all round, III. 86; navel of the earth (is the place where ukhâ is standing), 258; gold plate worn by Agnikit over navel, 267; sun stands over navel of the earth (or sky), 267; below navel is seed, 267; part of animal above navel is sacrificially pure, 267; immortal part of vital air is above navel, 267; the intestinal (channel of) vital air round about the navel, IV, 17; navel-high (parisrit), 158; the food above the navel is immortal, below mortal, 285; navel-high, lifting of Sacrificer on throne-seat, V, 254.
neck (grîvâh), consists of fourteen joints, V, 163.
needle,--copper, silver and gold ones (or wires) used for making the 'knife-paths,' V, 326, 327.
Neshtri, draws cups of Surâ, III, 10; leads forth patnî, 31; garment his fee at Dasapeya, 119; is under Adhvaryu, V, 137; Neshtri (or Pratiprasthâtri) leads up the king's wives, 321.
netting (sikya), for carrying the Ukhya Agni, III, 268; is the regions, 268; with six strings of reed grass, 269; is the seasons, 269.
New and Full-moon sacrifice. See Darsapûrnamâsa.
new moon,--thence the sacrifice is spread, III, 180; the night of new moon is the gate of the sacrifice, V, 1; then the moon comes down to this world, 2; new moon an additional offering in honour of Indra for having slain Vritra (at full moon), 6, 7; is a single nakshatra, 423.
nidhana,--prastâva and nidhana, IV, 145, 146.
nidhanavat-sâman, produced from paṅkti, and from it the âgrayana-graha, IV, 11.
night, is a uniter, IV, 89; is the goodness (well-being) of the year, as then all beings dwell together, 326; originates from
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the darkness arising from the Asuras when created, V, 14; means peaceful dwelling, 285.
nigrâbhyâh (water used for moistening Soma-plants), V, 106; are the divine waters, 107.
nîlakantha, IV, 162 n.
nineteen, IV, 71.
ninety,-- sixteen nineties (of dhriti oblations) are the horse's chain, V, 288.
nipples, on fire-pan, III, 237.
Nirriti (evil, corruption), oblation of spilled rice to, III, 43; is this earth, 43, 322; pap of black rice split by finger-nails, 65; her bricks and altar, 319 seq.; to her belong husks, 320; is black, 320; south-west her region, 320; her bricks laid down in a cleft of ground or natural hollow, or where no plants grow, 321; Nirriti visits him who does not offer Soma, 321; is sharp-edged, 321; binds with an iron band, 322; of one mind with Varna and Yamî (Agni and the earth), 322; the awful goddess, 322; the sling sacred to her, 323; in the direction of Nirriti's region (S.W.) stone is thrown (thereby expelling all heat and suffering from the world), IV, 171, 361.
nishka, Worn by Sacrificer round his neck, V, 338; given to Adhvaryu, 350.
nishkevalya-stotra and -sastra, belong to Indra, III, 13, 81; connected with Soma, the Maruts, north, &c., 102; on second day of Asvamedha, V, 380.
niyut (team of Vâyu), is the up-breathing (udâna), III, 173, 177.
north, connected with Anushtubh, autumn, &c., III, 91; is Rudra's region, 97; IV, 158; V, 488; northwards Sacrificer and wile ascend the sacrificial post, III, 32; northwards he puts the Ukhya Agni on the chariot, 290; palâsa branch thrown out northwards, 299; thither he relegates decline, sickness, 348; hungry people live in that region, 348; horse and ram most plentiful in the north region, 404; is the anushtubh, IV, 45; the Maruts its lords, 102; Soma its protector, 102; connected with ekavimsa-stoma, nishkevalya-sastra, vairâga-sâman, 102; self-ruling, 46, 102; north side of altar offering-place to Rudra, 158; is the waters and the law, V, 18; is the region of men, 448; the region of (the Sacrificer's) offspring (or subjects, people), 485.
north-east, standing towards, Pragâpati creates creatures, III, 252, 276; is the quarter of gods and men; 252; IV, 227; there is the gate of heaven, III, 252; in that direction one offers libations and leads up the dakshinâs, 252; towards northeast, the Agnikit stands whilst holding the Ukhya Agni up towards the east, 272 (275), and north-east, 280; the Vishnu-strides made in that direction, 276; animals let loose towards north-east, 239; ditto oxen after ploughing the agnikshetra, 331; ditto white horse, 359; the direction of the sun, V, 485.
nose, a partition between the eyes, and the persons therein (Indra and Indrânî), IV, 369.
nostrils, are the path of breath (prâna), V, 263.
number, the highest and lowest, IV, 172.
nyagrodha (ficus indica), therefrom consecration vessel for a friendly Râganya to sprinkle, III, 83; originates from Indra's bones (and sweet drink), V, 213, 216; means sweet drink, 220; takes root when turned downwards, 317; not to stand near a grave, 427.
oblations, are flesh, IV, 206.
ocean, lord of rivers, III, 75; flows round the earth from east southwards, 301; is a moat, 301; flows round, and encompasses these worlds, IV, 169; flows from left to right, 169; the
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cloudy ocean, the sky, 235; three of Yagus, Sâman, and Rik (Agni, Mahâvrata and Mahad uktham), 278; the year's sattra likened to the crossing of an ocean, V, 145 seq.; (the aerial), is the wind, 479.
offspring, is all the light, III, 239.
ogress-ridder, is the wind, V, 479.
ointment, for eyes and feet, V, 439.
old ox, old barley, and old arm-chair, as fee for oblation to Agni Âyushmat after burial, V, 439.
omentum. See vapâ.
one, is speech, IV, 73.
ore, produced from stone, III, (147), 158.
ox, tired out by drawing the cart, III, 257; is Agni, 355; ox will do for (white) horse in leading forward Agni, 360; (pashthavâh) is vigour, produced in the shape of the brihatî metre, IV, 38; horn from of old as a draught animal, V, 294; holding on to the tail of an ox, while returning horse from burial, 438.
ox-hide, red, for the layers of bricks to be put on, III, 355; Râganya shoots arrows at two ox-hides, IV, 283 n.
padapaṅkti (metre), is the earth, IV, 88.
pail. See milking-pail.
Paiṅgya, remark of his on the shadahas, V, 162.; cf. Madhuka.
palâgala, courier, one of the ratninah, III, 64; to him belong skin-covered bow, leathern quiver, and red turban, 64,
pâlâgalî, addressed by chamberlain, V, 387.
palâsa, (butea frondosa), is the Brahman, III, 53, 83, 258; V, 221; consecration vessel therefrom, for Brâhmana to sprinkle, III, 83; resin of palâsa for boiling water, 229; palâsa is Soma, 229, 258; site of Gârhapatya swept with palâsa branch, 298 not the Âhavanîya, 343; sacrificial stake to be made thereof, V, 123, 373-375; palâsa branch for sweeping burial-place, 430; palâsa peg, 436.
pañkabila pap, consisting of five oblations, III, 120.
pañkadasa-stoma, gained by Âdityas, III, 40; connected with Kshatra, &c., 91; at evening service of Kesavapanîya, 127; produced from antaryâma-graha, and from it the brihat-prishtha, IV, 7; is bright, the thunderbolt, and the moon, 62; through it, connected with Indra and Vishnu, the Kshatra is freed from death, 68; is the arm, 79; connected with Indra, the Rudras, the south, &c., 101.
pañkakûdâ, bricks of the fifth layer, IV, 99, 103 seq.; are the hotrâs, 103; etymology, 103; are the (Sacrificer's) mate, 104; offspring, 104; the regions beyond the sun, 104; shafts and missiles protecting the worlds, 104, 105.
Pañkâla, formerly called Krivis, V, 397; cf. Sona.
pañkavâtîya offering, III, 48.
pañkâvattîya, III, 48.
pañkavimsa-stoma, is the embryos, the year, IV, 64; through it, connected with Âdityas and Maruts, embryos are freed from death, 69.
pañkedhmîya, III, 48.
paṅkti metre, connected with sâkvara and raivata-sâmans, &c., III, 91; produced front winter, and from it the nidhanavat-sâman, IV, 11; is the slow metre, in the form of which men were produced, 38; ditto bullocks (anaduh), 39; is the upper region, 45; consists of five feet; is the ear (of Pragâpati), 327-329; of 10,800 paṅkti consists the whole Rik, and of as many the Yagus (7,200) and Sâman (3,600), 352, 353.
Para Atnâra Hairanyanâbha, king of Kosala, performed the Asvamedha, V, 397.
Parameshthin, Parameshthin and Âditya connected with the sky, the third svayam-âtrinnâ, and fifth layer, III, 188, 190; Pragâpati Parameshthin, lord of beings (bhûta), IV, 76; Parameshthin
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takes Pragâpati's head which is sacred to himself, 142; Parameshthin Prâgâpatya created out of Pragâpati with a life of a thousand years, V, 15; the first who performed New and Full-moon offering, 15; performs it for Pragâpati, as a wish-granting sacrifice, 15; is the heavenly waters (? Parganya) in the highest place, 15.
Parganya, rain-cloud and rain-god, is Bhava (Agni), III, 160; gods become like him, 277; licks the ground and strokes the plants, 277; scarcely born, lights up everything, 278; is beyond the reach of our arms, 278; does not rain in the region where kimpurusha, &c., are, 412; is the boon-bestower, the upper region, IV, 107; animal sacrifice to Parganya, V, 402.
paridhi, enclosing-sticks,--on the middle one the yoking or unyoking of the fire-altar is performed, IV, 250, 252; round tomb, V, 430.
Pârikshita. See Ganamegaya.
Pârikshitîya, V, 396.
parimâd (sâmans), preceding the mahâvrata-sâman, IV, 283 n.; are cattle, 288; how performed, 2881 n.
paripasavya, oblations, V, 321.
pâriplava legend, V, 361 seq.
parîsâsa. See lifting-stick.
parisrit (enclosing-stone),--are the womb of the fire, III, 301, 344; the waters (ocean), 301; IV, 187, 244; are the bones, III, 302; twenty-one for Gârhapatya, (301), 308, 344, 359; offering to Rudra on three of them (the three Agnis), IV, 157; anointing takes place close to enclosing-stones, 227; parisrit of dhishnya hearths, are merely laid down, 294; are the clansmen, 244; represent the additional height obtained by man (with upstretched arms) standing on tiptoe, 305; a line dug for them outside (the altar-ground), 306; are of the nature of nights (protective), 326; are the nights of the year, Pragâpati's body, 354, 358; three hundred and sixty for fire-altar, (261 of Âhavanîya; 21 Gârhapatya; 78 Dhishnyas), 357-358; are the waters encircling the earth (the fire-altar) 381.
parisrut (immature liquor), III, 9, 131, 133; originates from Indra's generative organ, V, 215; not to be consumed by Brâhmana, 260.
Parivakrâ, a city in Pañkâla, V, 397.
parivatsara (second year of cycle), IV, 21.
parivriktâ, discarded wife, addressed by Hotri, V, 387.
pariyagña, enclosing sacrifices, III, 4.
parna,--branch, driving away the calves therewith at new moon, V, 8.; --tree originated from fallen feather of Gâyatrî, (or leaf of Soma), 122; tree in the abode (of plants?), 433.
pârtha-oblations, twelve at Râgasûya, III, 81; twelve at Agnikayana, IV, 225; are the year, 228.
pârthurasma-sâman, V, 333.
partridge (tittiri), springs from Visvarûpa's head, III, 130.
paryagnikarana, V, 307.
paryaṅgya, victims, at Asvamedha, V, 299 n.
paryâya, III, introd. xviii.
pasu, etymology, III, 162; cf. victim.
Pasupati, a form and name of Agni, III, 159; is the plants, 159.
pasu-purodâsa, III, 136, 137, 173, 175; IV, 245, 247, 248; their object, 247 n.; directions (praishas), 265; should belong to the deities to whom the victims are devoted, V, 221.
Pâtava. See Revottaras.
path,--two paths, that of the Fathers, and that of the gods, V, 237, 238.
Pâthya, the bull, is the mind, III, 218.
patnî. See Sacrificer's wife.
patnisâlâ, IV, 307.
patnîsamyâga, their symbolic import, V, 44.
Paulushi. See Satyayagña.
Paumsâyana. See Dushtarîtu.
paurushamedhika, the central (day), V, 419.
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pavamâna-stotra,--(bahish-pavamâna) is heaven, V, 305, 306.
pavamânî-verses, V, 235.
pavitra, a Soma-sacrifice, III, introd. xxvi, 42.
pavitra, strainer, filter,--gold weaved therein, III, 84. (of goat's hair and sheep's wool), V, 235.
payasyâ (dish of clotted curds), to Mitra and Varuna, III, 105, 186, 120; is the essence of cattle, 105.
pearls, 101; gold pearls woven into hair of sacrificial horse, V, 313.
pebble, (gravel) produced from sand, III, (147), 158; used instead of bricks for the sepulchral mound of a non-Agnikit, V, 440.
phâlguna,--full moon of second phâlguna is the first night of the year, III, 179; V, 348.
pilippilâ (?smooth, glossy ),V, 315, 316.
pisaṅgilâ (? tawny), V, 316, 389.
pîtadâru (deodar), V, 373, 374.
Pitarah,--somavantah, barhishadah, agnishvâttâh, libations of Surâ to, III, 136; cf. Fathers.
pitcher, with a hundred or nine holes, III, 135.
plaksha (ficus infectoria), mat of, V, 394.
plants, grow three times a year (spring, rainy season, autumn), III, 340; shoot out a hundredfold and a thousandfold, 340; plants as Apsaras,--the Gandharva Agni's mates, IV, 231; delighted in by every one, 231.
plough (sîra), yoking of, III, 326; etymology, 326; of udumbara wood, 326; its cords of muñga grass, 326.
poison, in Pragâpati's body (from Rudra's shaft), V, 36.
pond, water from, III, 77.
pool, water from, III, 76.
porcupine, V, 390.
post, sacrificial, See yûpa.
Potri, garment his fee at Dasapeya, III, 119; is under the Brahman priest, V, 137.
pradakshinam (prasalavi), V, 323, 468.
Pragâpati, seventeen victims to, III, introd. xxiv, 14; is the sacrifice and food of the gods, 1; lord of speech, 5;--seventeen-fold, 8; IV, 190, 347; V, 352 the thirty-fourth god, III, 9, 79; man is nearest to him,, 5; means productiveness, 151 is the sacrifice and the year, 30, &c.; he who offers Vâgapeya becomes Pragâpati's child, 32; Pragâpati delivers creatures from Varuna's noose, 47; Pragâpati-Agni, the Purusha, 144; Pragâpati becomes relaxed and is restored by Agni, hence called Agni, 151, 152; is Agni's father and son, 153, 154; Agni's father, 360; bhûtânâm patih (the year), husband of Ushas, 158; is Mahan Devah (Agni), 160: covets Agni's forms, 161; is all the metres, 169; a he-goat slaughtered for him, 171; Pragâpati is hornless, 171; twenty-one-fold, 172; one half of him is Vâyu and one half Pragâpati, 175; is the moon, 178; the eighth day after full-moon sacred to Pragâpati, 180; Pragâpati (and Agni) connected with the earth and the first svayamâtrinnâ, 187, 190; is these worlds and the quarters, 193; harnesses the mind, 193; the inspirer of devotion, 194; he is the immortal one, and the gods his sons, 194; digs for Agni, 215; is undefined, 215; both the defined and the undefined, 341; V, 455; the manly-minded, III, 284; is both gods and men, 290; after producing creatures, becomes relaxed, and is restored by the gods, 312; without him there was no firm foundation, 312; is food, 312; the vital air that went from him is Vâyu; his lost vigour is Âditya, 312; his downward vital air is the fire on earth, the air his body, the wind in the air is the vital air in his body, the sky his head, the sun and moon his eyes, 313; Pragâpati is the begetter of the earth, 346; is the whole. Brahman (n.), 353; Pragâpati becomes a white horse and finds Agni on a lotus-leaf, 360; is the Man, 366; the vital air his pleasing form, 367;
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[paragraph continues] Agni and Indra take away his fiery spirit and vigour, 374; they become his arms, 374; his hair becomes the herbs, 380;--IV, introd. xiv seq.; his dismemberment the creation of the universe, xv; is the Sacrificer, ib.; the Arch-sacrificer, xix; the one god above all other gods, xx; the thirty-fourth, xx; V, 151, 211; the food of the gods (Soma), IV, introd. xxi; Father Time or Father Year, xxii seq.; is Death, xxiii; is the Rishi Visvakarman, IV, 28, 37; Pragâpati, the highest lord (parameshthin), becomes a metre, 37; in the form of Gâyatrî overcomes cattle, 37; in the air Pragâpati is Vâyu, 57, 58; is the Brahman (n.), 59, 60; is (aerial) space, and the saptadasa-stoma, 62; becomes pregnant with living beings (bhûta), 67; Pragâpati Parameshthin, the lord of living beings (bhûta), 76; the progenitor (praganayitri), 76; is the mind (-metre), 88; enters heaven last of gods, 113, 117; consists of sixteen parts (kalâ), 189; takes Agni, as his dear son, to his bosom, 206; those going to the heavenly light and becoming immortal become Pragâpati's children, 220; from him couples issue in the form of Gandharvas and Apsaras, and he, becoming a chariot, encloses them, 229, 234; Pragâpati Visvakarman, who has wrought the universe, 233; is Dhâtri, 263; one half of Pragâpati mortal, and the other immortal, 290, 292; becomes clay and water, and enters the earth, afraid. of Death, 290; is recovered in the form of bricks, 290; is built up so as to become immortal, 291; his body in part of Agni's, Indra's, and the All-gods’ nature, 291; he (by chips of gold) finally makes his body of golden form, 295; Pragâpati is the (sacrificial) animals--man, horse, bull, ram, he-goat, 299; Pragâpati goes up to the world where the sun shines, and becomes the one sacrificial animal, 301; is Savitri's well-winged eagle, 30; Father Pragâpati requires his due proportions, 309; Pragâpati's body contains Agni, all objects of desire, 313: poured, as seed, into the ukhâ, 341; is Agni. 345: Pragâpati, the year, and his lights, 349 seq. Pragâpati, the year, has created all existing things, 350; to encompass all beings he divides himself into different bodies, 350 seq.; Pragâpati's body contains (or consists of) the threefold science, 352; Pragâpati and Sacrificer, being composed of all existing things, on ascending, become the moon, and the sun is their foundation, being generated out of their own selves, 354, 355;--Pragâpati, the sacrifice, is the year, V, 1; the Purusha, Pragâpati, born in a year, from a golden egg, 12; his first words, 'bhûh, bhuvah, svar,' 12; born with a life of a thousand years, 13; Pragâpati smites the Asuras with evil and darkness, 13, 14; Pragâpati, by the Full and New-moon sacrifice, becomes the vital air and Vâyu, 15; Pragâpati is everything endowed with breath, 16; gives himself up to the gods and creates the sacrifice as a counterpart of himself, 22; Pragâpati and his daughter, 36 n.;--poison in his body, 36; Srî issuing from him, 62; brahmakârin committed to him, 86; Father Pragâpati resorted to by the gods for advice, 91 seq.; Pragâpati alone in beginning, from him the three worlds, 102; the seventeenfold-Pragâpati, what he consists of (as regards the trayî vidyâ), 170; exhorts Purusha Nârâyana to sacrifice, 172; victim before initiation for Sattra, formerly to Savitri, now to Pragâpati, 174; Pragâpati, the sacrifice, is king Soma, 205 seq.; by producing the sacrifice he lost his greatness which went
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to the great sacrificial priests, 275; the most vigorous of gods, 278; Pragâpati performs Asvamedha, 289; is the chief (mukha) of deities, 292; victim to Pragâpati, 371; is the Brahman (n.), 409; Manu Pragâpati carried by the earth (his wife, a mare), 466.
Pragâpati-hridaya (Pragâpater hridayam), a sâman sung over the completed altar, IV, 180.
prâgvamsa, IV, 307 n.
Prâkînasâla Aupamanya, a teacher, IV, 393 n.; (?) is the same as Mahâsâla Gâbâla, 393 n.; 395 n.
prâkînavamsa, IV, 307 n.
Prâkînayogya. See Satyayagña, Saukeya.
prakrama, step, movement,--forty-nine oblations to forms of the horse, V, 282, 363, 364.
Prâkyas, being, of Asura nature, make their burial-places round, V, 423; and line them with stone, 430.
Pramlokantî, the Apsaras, is the western quarter, or the day, IV, 106, 107.
prâna (vital air), water therein, III, 584; nine, 93, 196, 218, 296; (seven of head and two downward ones), IV, 243; V, 150; ten, III, 174, 297; IV, 51, 165, 243, 246; V, 24; three, III, 218, 385; six, 270: were the Rishis, 143; are good for all beings, 151; is Pragâpati, 192; the sruva, 192; are the thoughts, 193; are Agni, 196; is Mitra, 230; immortal part of vital air is above navel, the mortal part passes by and away from the navel, 267; link the body to food, 270; are the divine inspirers, 305; three downward vital airs, 315; the three compared with the three fires, 317; number of viral airs in body uncertain, 331; food for them placed in mouth, 332, 388; seven vital airs in the head, 340, 402; seven in each victim (or its head), 403; is Pragâpati's pleasing form, 367; belongs to the whole universe, 385; is taken in from the front backwards, 391; is the male, the mate of speech, 391; the head is the birth-place of all the vital airs, 396; the five (of the head)--mind (soul), eye, breath (prâna), ear, voice (speech), 402; depart from Pragâpati, IV, 3; create food with Pragâpati, 3; spring-season produced from breath, 4; the Rishi Vasishtha is breath, 5; are connected and one, 5; five (prâna, apâna, vyâna, udâna, samâna), 15; prâna becomes the apâna, 16;--intestinal vital air (guda prâna), 17; run in body both lengthwise and crosswise, 18; must reach every limb, 19; pass not only backward and forward but everywhere, l9; contracts and expands the body and limbs, 21; are life-sustaining gods, 32; up, down, and through-breathing, 34, 47; ditto and out-breathing, 43; breath necessary for all, 48; separated from each other by the width of a horsehair (vâla), 55; seven in front (upper half of man), 55, 57; seven counter-breathings behind, 55, 58; one in each limb, 55; ten focussed in the head, 57; out-breathing (prâna) is Mitra, the down-breathing (apâna) Vanilla, 68; three (prâna, udâna, vyâna), 73; four prâna, with mind as the fifth, 73; seven in the head, the seven Rishis, 73; nine, 73; ten with the âtman as the eleventh; 74; prâna and apâna, 86; prâna, vyâna, udâna, 90, 237; V, .246; pass backwards and forwards, IV, 90; prâna, apâna, vyâna, 131, 186; V, 89, 90; is kindled by the sun, and hence is warm, IV, 135; without vital air a limb would shrivel up, 136, 140; prâna, vyâna, udâna, 143; they are the same as vital power (âyus), 143 the highest thing in universe, 149; are the immortal element, 178, 327; (prâna, apâna), 167; are the gods of the gods, 185;
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are not eaters of oblations, 185; without them no dwelling-place becomes pure, 186; they are neither in the sky nor on earth, but whatever breathes therein, 186; connects head with body, 188; in the head fivefold (mind, speech, breath, eye, ear), 190; (prâna, breath) is one of the five divisions of vital air (prâna) in the head, 190; eight limbs and eight prânas, 190; vital airs kindle (the body), 205; the vital airs are the immortal part of the body, 292; how they are represented in the layers of the altar (Pragâpati's body), 292 seq.; by the prâna gods eat food, by the apâna men, 295; are the perfect (sâdhya, blessed) gods, 304; vital air is the light of the body, 326; a hundred and one in the body, 326; is not the immortal element, but something uncertain, 327; are the seven metres, 327-330; vital airs consume him who is hungry and feverish, 347, 348; breath evolved from speech, and from it the eye, 377; triad--Agni, Âditya, Prâna--are the eater, the Arka, the Uktha, the Purusha, 398, 399;--Vâyu, on entering man, is divided into the ten vital airs, V, 3; âsya, 'the breath of the mouth,'--therefrom the gods created, 13; from the downward breathing (avâna) the Asuras, 13; downward breathing abhorred by other breathings, but in it everything that enters the others meets, 19; prâna (breath of mouth) is the eater of food, udâna (of the nose) fills man, and (of the eyes, ears, &c.) is the giver of food, 31; prâna and apâna move in a forward and a backward direction respectively, 43; prâna entering udâna and reversely, 83; vyâna entering udâna, 84; central prâna belongs to Indra, 121; with five breathings (prâna, vyâna, apâna, udâna, samâna) five Brâhmanas (or the father himself) to breathe over child (before navel-string has been cut) to ensure long life, 129, 130; two downward (avâna) breathings and udâna (by which men rise, ud-yanti), 165; two, five, six, seven, twelve, or thirteen, 168; prâna and ana, each equal to the twinkling of the eye, 169; 10,800 breathings of man in day and night, 170; prâna and udâna, moving downward and upward, 230; all vital airs established on speech, 246; all vital airs established on prâna and udâna, 262; etymology (pra-nî), 263; nostrils are the path of prâna, 263; food eaten by prâna is pervaded by vyâna, and its essence shed as seed, 264; vital airs of him who speaks impure speech pass away, 326; the mind (soul) their overlord, 504.
prânabhrit, bricks, are the vital airs, IV, 1; how placed, 2; laid down by tens, 3; etymology, 12; are the limbs, 13;--of second layer, 23, 33 seq.;--ten of third layer, 51; are the moon (being food as making up a virâg), 54.
pranîtâh, lustral water, is the head of the sacrifice, V, 35, 492; at the haviryagña, 119; etymology, 270.
prasalavi. See pradakshinam.
prastâva,--prastâva and nidhana, IV, 145, 146.
Prastotri, a horse his fee at Dasapeya, III, 119; under Udgâtri, V, 136.
prâtaranuvâka, III, introd. xviii; IV, 249; of Atirâtra superseded by Âsvina-sastra, but is to be repeated in a low voice by Maitrâvaruna, V, 92, 93.
Pratîdarsa Aibhâvata (king of the Svikna), as authority on the Sautrâmanî, V, 239.
Pratihartri, priest, is under Udgâtri, V, 137.
Prâtipîya. See Balhika.
Pratiprasthâtri, III, 111; gold mirror his fee at Dasapeya, 119; is under Adhvaryu, V, 137; offers the cups of Surâ-liquor on the Southern of the two
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[paragraph continues] Eastern fires, 232; Pratiprasthâtri (or Neshtri) leads up the king's wives, 321.
pratishthâ (stand), is threefold (tripod), IV, 116.
praüga-sastra, connected with Indra, the Rudras, the South, &c., IV, 101.
Pravargya, III, 355; IV, 187; 'setting out,' IV, 187; V, 493 seq.; Pravargya vessels are Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya, IV, 187; the head of the Sacrifice, 188; performed as long as the Upasads, 317; is the sun, 317; V, 445; on Satarudriya day, day of preparation, and sutyâ day, IV, 320;--performance, V, 441 seqq.; time of performance, 458; is Vâyu-Pûshan, 475; when performed, 490 seq.; combined with Upasad, 493; is the year, the worlds (and Agni, Vâyu, and Sûrya), the Sacrificer, &c., 507 seq.
prayâga, mystic significance of, V, 40.
prâyana, III, 305.
prâyanîya offering, III, 325; ends with the Samyos, IV, 258, 259;--Prâyanîya Atirâtra, 254.
prayugâm havîmshi (twelve oblations of teams), III, 123; for yoking the seasons, 123.
prelude. See prastâva.
pressing-stones, (grâvan), are of Brihatî nature, V, 243; the vital airs, 486.
priests, officiating, are the limbs of the Sacrifice, IV, 280; V, 236; are of the same world as the Sacrificer, IV, 280; must not bargain for dakshinâs, 280; sixteen, 348; the order in which these are initiated for a sattra, V, 135 seq.; messes of rice for them, 343; the quarters (regions) parcelled out between them, 402, 412, 420;--priest's mess of rice, see brahmaudana.
prishtha-sâman, six, III, introd. xx-xxiii; V, 148 n.; seven, IV, 277, 314.
prishtha-stotra, III, introd. xvi, xx seq., 333, 376; are the seasons, V, 331.
prishthya-graha, belongs to Agni, Indra, and Sûrya, III, 6.
prishthya-shadaha, III, introd. xxi; V, 148; used by Aṅgiras when contending with Âdityas, V,. 152; etymology, 152, 162,
Prithin Vainya, consecrated first of men, III, 81.
Priyavrata Rauhinâyana, directs the wind, IV, 340.
procreation. See generation.
prospering-oblations. See kalpa.
Proti Kausâmbeya Kausurubindi, residing as religious student with Uddâlaka Âruni, V, 153.
prushvâ. (mist, moisture, or hoar-frost), III, 77.
punaryagña, IV, 121.
punaskiti, on fifth layer of fire-altar, IV, 99, 119 seq.; is seed and generative power, 119; etymology, 121; on what part of the altar to be laid, 121; is the uttaravedi, 121; as substitute for complete altar, 271.
Puñgikasthalâ, the Apsaras, is the (eastern) quarter, or (Agni's) army, IV, 105.
Purâna (stories of old time), to be studied; V, 98; the Veda of birds, 369.
puraskarana, IV, 337.
purastâd bhâgah, III, 333; IV, 185; cf. uddhâra.
purîsha, III, 201; its formulas are Agni's hair, itself his food, IV, 20; covering of soil, 26; is food, 95, 96, 139; is the pericardium, 96; is flesh, 138, 149; vital air, 139; belongs to Indra, 140; is one half of the altar, 140; symbolical meaning of its layers (1st cattle, 2nd birds, 3rd stars, 4th sacrificial gifts, 5th progeny and subjects, 6th gods), 147 seq.; 'earth to earth,' V, 203.
Purîshya (Agni, the altar), III, 201; favourable to cattle, cattle-loving, 206, 214; (? rich, plentiful), 310; Agni Purîshya, the son of the Earth, 311.
pûrnâhuti, III, 42; V, 504.
Purohita, one of the ratninah, III, 59; anoints (sprinkles) king in front, 94; hands the sphya to consecrated king, 110; Kshatriya anti Purohita alone complete, 259; are everything, 260;
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is perfect in sanctity and power, 260; his fire used by king for offering during dîkshâ, V, 371.
Pûru, an Asura-Rakshas, overthrown by Agni in battles, III, 292.
Purukutsa, the Aikshvâka, performed the Asvamedha, V, 397.
Purûravas, son of Idâ,--Purûravas and Urvasî, V, 68 seq.; wanders about in Kurukshetra, 70; becomes a Gandharva, 74.
purusha,--seven purushas (the seven Rishis) made into one, III, 144; IV, 205;--the Purusha, 304, 305; is Pragâpati-Agni, III, 144 (man) a sacrificial animal, 162; 165 seq.; slaughtered for Visvakarman, 162; has twenty-four limbs, 167; twenty-one parts, 172; hornless and bearded, 177; Purusha, IV, introd. xiv seq.; (man in the sun, and in the eye, the gold man), xxii; this divine person (in sun, and eye) is variously served as Agni, Sâman, Uktham, &c., IV, 373; (Agni) Vaisvânara is the Purusha, 398; the Agni-like, Arka-like, Uktha-like Purusha, 399; is the true Brahman, 400; Purusha Pragâpati, born from golden egg, V, 12; Purusha Nârâyana exhorted by Pragâpati to sacrifice, 172, 173; is established in five things, 389; Purusha Nârâyana, 403; Purusha born from Virâg, and Virâg from Purusha, 403;--purushas (men) as victims, 407 seq.;--cf. sun, eye.
Purushamedha, III, introd. xxvi; V, introd. xxi seq., 403 seq.; five sutyâs, 405; etymology, 407.
Purusha-Nârâyana (litany), V, 410; cf. purusha.
purusha-sâman, (III, 369); IV, 146.
purusha-sûkta, IV, introd. xiv.
pûrvâbhisheka, IV, 249.
Pûrvakitti, the Apsaras, in an intermediate (? upper) quarter, or the dakshinâ, IV, 108.
Pûshan, by five syllables gained the five regions, III, 40; pap to, 55, 63; lord of cattle, 55; V, 346; represents productiveness, III, 56; dark grey bullock the fee for oblation to Pûshan, 56, 63; pârtha-oblation to Pûshan, 82; Pûshan Visvavedas (all-possessing), 89; assists Varuna, 113; samsrip oblation (pap) to, 116; prayugâm havis (pap), 125; is this earth, 205; V, 352; Aditi and Pûshan connected with trinava-stoma, IV, 69; rules over small animals, 75; is cattle, 195; V, 293; takes Srî's wealth and receives (mitravindâ) oblation (pap), V, 62-65; protector of travellers, 293; watcher of men, 293; expiatory pap, 346; lord of roads, 352, 353; is (Vâyu) the wind, 474.
pushkara, etymology, III, 365.
pûtîka. See âdâra.
quarters. See regions.
queen, one of the ratninah, III, 60; lies down near sacrificial horse, V, 322.
race. See chariot race.
Râganya, shoots seventeen arrows’ ranges, III, 25; word of four syllables, 25; takes part in chariot race, 29; holds honey-cup and cup of Surâ, 29; sprinkles king from nyagrodha vessel, 83; the bow his strength (vîrya), 89; ten Râganyas drink of Sacrificer's cup, 114; armoured Râganya driving round sacrificial ground, shooting arrows at two ox-hides, IV, 283 n.; not to be engaged with in disputation by Brâhmanas, V, 114; hired by some to drink the Surâ-liquor, 233; a form of the kshatra, 286; battle is his strength, 287; the grandeur of heroism bestowed on him, 294, 295; born (from) of old as one heroic and victorious, skilled in archery, certain of his mark, and a mighty car-fighter, 294, 295; unfit to be consecrated (king), 360; Râganya lute-player, 364 seq.
râganyabandhu, IV, 21; keep most apart (? from their wives in eating) whence a vigorous son is born to them, 370; Ganaka
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of Videha called thus, V, 113.
râgaputra, a hundred princes born in wedlock to be the guardians of the sacrificial-horse, V, 288; those who reach the end of the year's keeping become sharers in the royal sway, 288, 289.
Râgastambâyana. See Yagñavakas Râgastambâyana.
Râgasûya, III, introd. xi, xxiv-xxvi; belongs to king and makes him king, III, 4; inferior to Vâgapeya, 4; IV, 225; performance, III, 43 seq.; is Varuna-sava, 76; a supernumerary (special) rite 246.
raggudâla (Cordia Myxa) V, 373; 374.
Râhûgana. See Gotama Râhûgana.
Raikva, III, 107.
rain, from clouds arising from smoke (steam), III, 185; from smoke sent up by the earth, 383; falls both on ploughed and unploughed land, 336; represented by the apasyâ bricks, IV, 34; falls everywhere in the same direction, 35; is in the wind, 35; falls abundantly in the rainy season, not in autumn, 49; rain and wind, connected with Mitra-Varuna, freed from death through ekavimsa-stoma, 68; is the arrows of the Rudras in the sky, 164; is ruled over by Maruts, r 70; produces a well-ordered state of society, V, 18; sounds like a chant, 45; rain-drops, as many as sweat-pores, hair-pits, and twinklings of the eye, 169; hail and lightning two terrible forms of it, 251; the sky, rain, the first conception, 315.
rainy season, produced from the eye, and from it the Gagatî, IV, 8; consists of months Nabhas and Nabhasya, 48; rainy season and autumn are the air-world, and the middle of the year, 49.
raivata (and sâkvara) -sâman, is a prishtha-sâman, III, introd. xxi, xxii; connected with paṅkti, trayastrimsa, &c., 91; sâkvara and raivata produced from trinava and trayastrimsa, IV, 12; connected with Brihaspati, Visve Devâh, the upper region, &c., 103.
Râkâ, pap offered to her, (the extreme end of) one of the four regions, IV, 264.
Rakshas,--safety from, III, 45; suck out creatures, 49; smitten by Indra and Agni, 51; swept away by the gods, 52; kept by continuous libation from coming after the gods, 191; kept off from south, and sacrifice spread in place free from danger and devilry, 199; seek to hinder the gods from sacrificing, 357; are the associates of the night, 361; rakshas-killing counter-charm, 53, 371, 372; repelled by thunderbolt, 372; harass those wandering in a wild forest, V, 160; Kubera Vaisravana their king, the Devaganavidyâ their Veda, 367, 368.
rakshovidyâ, V, 368 n.
ram, sacrificial animal, III, 162, 165 seq.; slaughtered for Tvashtri, 262; is vigour, IV, 38; vicious ram (aidaka) an unclean animal, V, 178; originates from Indra's nose, 215.
Râma, son of Dasaratha, III, 97.
Râma Mârgaveya, one of the Syâparna family of priests, IV, 345 n.
rampart, threefold, III, 212, 213.
râshtrabhrit oblations, at (consecration of). Agnikayana, IV, 229.
rasmi, rein, III, 101.
Rathagritsa, Agni's commander-in-chief (senânî), is the first spring-month, IV, 105.
rathantara-sâman, III, introd. xiv, xv; connected with Agni, xv; with the brahman, &c., 91; at kesavapaniya used for first prishtha and for sandhi-stotra, 127; produced from trivrit, IV, 5; (rathantara-khandas is the earth, 89); connected with Agni, the Vasus, east, trivrit and âgyasastra, 100; sung over completed altar, is this earth, 179; etymology, 179.
Rathaprota, Âditya's commander-in-chief,
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is the first rainy month, IV, 106.
Rathasvana, Vâyu's commander-in-chief, is the first summer month, IV, 106.
Rathaugas, Agni's chieftain (grâmanî), the second spring month, IV, 105.
rathavimokanîya oblation, III, 101.
Rathekitra, Vâyu's chieftain (grâmanî), is the second summer month, IV, 106.
ratna-havîmshi (ratninâm havîmshi), III, 58 seq.
ratninah, III, 65; do homage to king, 108.
râtrî (night performance), III, 127.
râtrî-paryâyâh, III, 12.
rattan (vetasa), mat used to cut the sacrificial horse on, V, 304, 329, 394; rattan grows in water, 304, 329.
rauhina, plates. V, 454 seq.; cakes, cooked, 468; offered, 472, 489; they are Agni and Âditya; day and night, heaven and earth, 4738 474.
Rauhinâyana. See Priyavrata.
raurava-sâman, is an aida-sâman, IV, 10.
realm, sustained by kings, IV, 229; by couples (offspring), 230.
red, includes all colours, III, 355.
reed (muñga), entered by Agni, III, 198; is Agni's womb, 200; (vetasa) rattan branch drawn across altar to appease it, IV, 174; plucked out from its sheath, V, 267; a bundle held upwards while sepulchral mound is raised, and afterwards put up in the house, 436; sheaths of reed grass kindled, 463.
region (quarter),--five, III. 40, 108; IV, 246; four, III, 203; six, 268; seven, IV, 277; nine, III, 196, 296; ten, 183, 297; IV, 164, 246; ruled over by Pûshan, III, 40; ascent of, 91; connected with the Brahman, &c., 91; how created, 149; are parts of Vâyu-Pragâpati, 152; are Agni, 183; connected with Vâyu, and third layer of altar, 188; heal what is injured, 221; put in the world by Visve Devâh, 235; are both inside and outside of these worlds, 235; by them the worlds are fastened to the sun, 269; created with the moon, 286; are between these two worlds, 349; IV, 26; are the upper sphere, IV, 9; above everything, 10; are the heavenly world, to; become the ear, 10; are in all four directions, 26; face each other, 27; are supported by the sun, 28; names of the five regions (East queen, South far-ruler, West all-ruler, North self-ruler, Great-region supreme ruler), 46, 100 seq.; freed from death through katushtoma, connected with Savitri and Brihaspati, 69; encircling (paribhû), 88; are the firmament, the heavenly world, 100; five on this side of the sun, 104, 195, 200; five on the other side of the sun, 104, 200; four on the other side (?), 198; five propitiatory oblations to (the five) regions (disâm aveshti), 245; how laid down in the several layers, 263, 264;--created by the five gods Parameshthin, Pragâpati, Indra, Agni, Soma, V, 16 seq.; guardians of the four regions are the Âpyas, Sâdhyas, Anvâdhyas, and Maruts, 359; parcelled out between the priests, 402, 412, 420; are a place of abode to all the gods, and Kandra their regent (?), 505.
regional bricks. See disyâ, and âsvinî.
renunciation, of one kind of food for life, III, 337; IV, 224.
retahsik, bricks,--two, are these two worlds, III, 383; IV, 26; are the testicles, III, 384; are the ribs of Agni, the sacrificial animal (bird), 400; IV, (2), 16; their range (or rim), 17, 23, 26.
retribution in future life, V, 109 seq.
Revottaras Sthapati Pâtava Kâkra, (short Sthapati Kâkra, or Kâkra Sthapati), priest and teacher, V, 236, 269.
Ribhu,--Ribhus and Visve Devâh
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connected with beings (bhûta) and trayastrimsa-stoma, IV, 69;--a Ribhu of the Gagat (Gagatî) metre (is the ârbhava-pavamâna) bearing the Sacrificer to bliss, V, 173; Savitri, with Ribhus, Vibhus, and Vâgas, receives offering of Gharma, 480.
ribs, are the middle of the body, IV, 20, 31, 32; fastened on breastbone and costal cartilages, 114;--parsu and prishti, V, 164 n.
rice, different kinds of, III, 69-70; originates from Indra's marrow (and Soma-drink), V, 216.
Rik, was in Vritra, III, 138; part of triple Veda, 139, 141; thereon the Sâman is sung, IV, 13; wife of Sâman, 14; Riks and Sâmans as Apsaras, the Gandharva Manas' mates, 233; they are wishes, as thereby one prays, 233; by the Mahad uktham it enters Pragâpati as his vital fluid, 284; consists of 12,000 Brihatîs, 20,800 Paṅktis, 352,353; a hymn to be recited of the Rik, the Veda of men, V, 362.
riksama-sâman (? vairûpa-sâman, or such as are merely sung, not chanted), produced from Gagatî, and from it the Sukragraha, IV, 7.
Rishabha Yâgñatura, king of the Sviknas, V, 250, 399, 400.
Rishi,--were the non-existent, III, 143; the vital airs, 143, 333; IV, 60, 100, 185; etymology, III, 143; saw the fourth layer of altar, 189, 190; have a fore-share in Agni, 333; the seven Rishis are the seven vital airs in the head, IV, 73; Dhâtri their lord, 73; the first-born Brahman, 100; Rishis spin the thread (of the sacrifice), 124; first made up (constructed) the fire-altar, 174, 185; the seven purushas made into one purusha were the seven Rishis, 205; established in the seasons, 212; the last-born Rishis, 250, 267;--have mistakes in their sacrifice pointed out to them by Gandharvas, V, 29; the seven (Ursa major), 425.
rishîkâ, bear or ogre, V, 307.
ritavyâ, seasonal bricks, are the seasons, III, 386; IV, 29; the three worlds, 129; the nobility, 129; stepping-stones for the gods and Sacrificer to ascend and descend the worlds, 129; the two of first layer are the spring months, Madhu and Mâdhava, III, 386; IV, 2; two of second layer, 24; are the summer months, Sukra and Suki, 29;--two lower of third layer, the two rainy months Nabhas and Nabhasya, 48; the two upper, the autumn months Isha and Ûrga, 49;--two of fourth layer, the winter months Saha and Sahasya, 70;--two of fifth layer, 99, 125 seq., are the dewy months Tapa and Tapasya, 126.
rite. See vrata.
river,--seven flowing eastwards, IV, 211; seven flowing westwards (identified with downward vital air), 212; those drinking thereof become most vile, blasphemous, and lascivious of speech, 212.
Rohinî, the nakshatra, falls on new moon of month Vaisâkha, V, 2.
Rohita, son of Hariskandra, III, 95.
rope, of darbha grass, for tying horse, greased with ghee, V, 374; twelve (or thirteen) cubits long, 276.
royal dignity, means unlimited prosperity, V, 249.
rubbing down of Sacrificer with fragrant substances, at Sautrâmanî, V, 252.
Rudra, is Agni, III, 52, 64; gavedhukâ pap to, 51, 63; rules over beasts, 52, 205; hankers after killed cow, 63; Rudra-Pasupati, gavedhukâ pap to, 70; the North his region, 97; IV, 158; V, 488; Rudra Suseva (most kindly), III, 110; a form and name of Agni, 159; Satarudriya, IV, 250 seq.; is Agni in his immortal form, 156; oblations of wild sesamum, on an arka leaf, to, 156; was originally Manyu, 157; etymology, 257; V, 116; hundred-headed, thousand-eyed,
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hundred-quivered, IV, 157; oblations of gavedhukâ flour on an arka leaf, 158; is the Kshatra (whilst the Rudras are the Vis), 159, 162; the golden-armed leader of hosts, 160; worshipped with mystic utterances, 161; Agni created as the hundred-headed Rudra, 201; his shaft piercing Pragâpati's body, V, 36 n.; the ruler of animals, 229; by hairs of lion, wolf, and tiger being put in cups of Surâ representing wild animals, Rudra's shaft is only directed against these, and he spares domestic cattle, 230; consecrates king by the Trishtubh, 312.
Rudras, by fourteen syllables gain katurdasa-stoma, III, 40; eleven, born from Vâk, 149; placed in the air with Vâyu, 150; kindle the sun, 231; Vasus (with Mitra) and Rudras mix the clay, 231; fashion air-world by means of trishtubh, 234; Rudras and Vasus sing praises of (bricks in) second layer, IV, 25; how produced, 33; Vasus and Rudras connected with embryos and katurvimsa-stoma, 68; Vasus, Rudras and Âdityas separate, and are the lords when heaven and earth separate, 75; connected with Indra, &c., 201; the lords of the south, 101; Vasus, Rudras, Âdityas, Maruts, Visve Devâh build on different quarters of the altar (E. S. W. N. Zen.), 118; of earth, air, and sky, 158-159; originate from drops of oblations, 159; are the Vis (whilst Rudra is the Kshatra), 159; are spread by thousands over these worlds, 168; in tribes (gâtâni), 160; the arrows of the Rudras of sky, air and earth are rain, wind and food, 164, 165; the Rudras invoked in the Satarudriya are Agnis, 167; the eleven Rudras enumerated, V, 116; arise by performance of midday pressing, 173; obtain the part of Vishnu, the sacrifice, corresponding to the midday pressing, 443; Indra, with Vasus, Rudras, and Âdityas, receives offering of Gharma, 479, 480.
rugâ, an arrow, III, 38.
ruṅmatî, oblations to Agni and Varuna, IV, 237-239.
rûpa, farm,--oblations to forms. See prakrama.
Sacrifice, path of, not to be swerved from, III, 24; V, 20; west (to east?) path of sacrifice, III, 347; sacrifice is happiness, 351; performed from the left (north) side, IV, 107; of ever-flowing blessings, 107; all beings are settled in the sacrifice, 144; has only one finale, heaven, 146; is all-sustaining, 199; they who perform it are wise, 199; Yagña as Gandharva, with the Dakshinâs, as Apsaras, his mates, 232; comparative efficacy of sacrifices, 299; is a Man, 300, 305; Pragâpati, the Sacrifice, is the Year, V, 1; 38; the fire its womb, 3; is a counterpart of Pragâpati, 22; becomes the Sacrificer's body, 23, 27; bolt of the sacrifice (yagñameni), 42; the successful issue of the sacrifice, 66-68; the five great (mahâyagña), 95; sacrifice is cattle, 116; animal sacrifice fivefold, 125; like a forest with desert places and ravines, the sacrifice not to be entered without knowledge, 160; (true) form of sacrifice ensures entrance to the heaven of the living, 212; is devotion, 231; a web, 252; the navel of the earth, 390; passage between Âgnîdhra and Kâtvâla is the gate of the sacrifice, 497; sacrifice is the self of all beings, 504.
Sacrificer, is Indra, III, 13; 18; at Vâgapeya sprinkled with remains of offering material, 38; the child of the earth, 125; he is Agni, 212; is really intended to be born in heaven, 345; is Pragâpati, Agni, the sacrifice, IV, introd. xv seq.;
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carried to heaven by, or flying there in shape of, birdlike altar, IV, introd. xxi seq.; becomes Death, xxiii; ousted from his realm (yagamânaloka) by wrong sacrificial procedure, IV, 94; is the fire on fire-altar, 94; sits down with the Visve Devâh on the higher seat (in the sky), 124; is established with Visve Devâh, 202; the fire-altar, Mahâvrata, Mahad uktham, his divine immortal body, 279; is the body of the sacrifice, 280; V, 236; in entering on the fast he gives himself up to the gods, and by the sacrifice he becomes an oblation to the gods by which he redeems himself from them, V, 26; 27; and is freed from sin, 38; Sacrificer dying whilst away from home, 197 seq.; when about to die, 201 seq.; when dead, goes to the place won by him in heaven, 204; symbolically placed in heaven, provided with the Soma-drink, 231; drinks Aindra cup at Sautrâmanî and has his abode with Indra, 245; is Âditya, 248; requests invitation from priests for partaking of cup (of vasa), 259; arises in the other world with a complete body and all limbs, 259; by means of the golden light (or a gleam of light shining after him) goes to heaven, 303; with Vâvâtâ and other wives, 349; whilst sacrificing becomes a Brâhmana, 348.
Sacrificer's wife, led forth by Neshtri, III, 31; puts on garment of Kusa grass, 32; discarded when without son, 65; Sacrificer's wives sprinkle the horse, V, 313; they weave pearls into its hair, 313; they cleanse sacrificial horse, 321-323; walk round it, 322, 323; fan it, 323; the four wives in attendance at sacrifice, 349;--she is made to look upon the Mahâvîra, 472.
sacrificial post. See Yûpa.
sâdana, settling of bricks, III, 154; sâdana and sûdadohas, 301, 305 seq.; 379; V, 5.
sadas, associated with Gagatî, V, 495.
sadasya, a seventeenth priest recognised by the Kaushîtakins, IV, 348 n.
sâdhyas, the guardians of one of the four regions, V, 359.
sagâta, III, 107, 111.
sagûrabdîya, oblation on the darbha bunch on freshly ploughed altar-site, is Agni's fore-share, (III, 332, 333); IV, 185.
sagush, IV, 32.
saha, the first winter-month, IV, 70.
Sahaganyâ, the Apsaras, is an intermediate quarter (? S. E.), or the earth, IV, 106.
sahasradakshina, III, 140.
sahasya, the second winter-month, IV, 70.
Sailâli, V, 393.
Saindhava (horses), are the Hotris and Adhvaryus, V, 94.
Sâkalya, chosen to quench the firebrand Yâgñavalkya, V, 115; questions beyond the deity (Pragâpati-Brahman) and dies in misery, 117.
Sâkâyanins,--their doctrine regarding the nature of Agni, IV, 363.
Sâktya. See Gaurîviti.
Sakuntalâ, the Apsaras, mother of Bharata, V, 399.
sâkvara (and raivata) -sâman, a prishtha-sâman, III, introd. xx-xxii; connected with Paṅkti, Trinava, &c., 91; sâkvara and raivata produced from trinava and trayastrimsa, IV, 12; connected with Brihaspati, Visve Devâh, the upper region, &c.,
sakvarî (verses), V, 331, 333.
sâlâ, III, 117.
sâlâvrika (or sâlâvrika), hyena (?), V, 71.
salt, means cattle, III, 33, 299; seventeen bags (asvattha leaves) thrown up by peasants to Sacrificer, 34; scattered over Gârhapatya site, 299; is the amnion of the fire, 302, 344; saline soil
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means cattle, 343; is seed, V, 426.
Salva, a people, IV, 344.
(My humble salutations to the translator Sreeman Julius Eggeling for the collection)
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