bone,—bricks are Agni’s bones, IV, 20; bones run both lengthwise and crosswise in the body, 135; in wings and tail of birds no transverse bone, 135; is one of the mortal parts of the body, 178; bonesare the ‘sri’ (? goodness, strength) of men, 326; are the enclosing-stones, hence 360 of them, 387; V, 169; bones of fat and lean persons are alike, V, 20; bones of dead man are collected, 117, 443 1.3 brought home, arranged on black antelope skin and burnt, 200; buried, 433; arranged like bird's body, 435.
boon, choosing of, III, 105.
bow, strung, III, 87; isthe Raganya’s strength (virya), 89; with three arrows given as sacrificial fee, V, 113; Vishzu’s bow and three arrows, 442.
brahmahatya, redeemed by Asvamedha, V, 328; atonement for it, 340, 341.
Brahmaéarin, not delivered to Death, V, 48; cuts off a night from his life by not bringing firewood, 48, 49; his life a sacrificial session, 49; begging alms, 49, 50; brings firewood to teacher, 53, 54, 85; initiation of Brahmaéarin, 86 seq.; teacher, by laying his right handon him, becomes pregnant with him, and in the third night he is born as a Brahmana with the Savitri, 88; whether allowed to eat honey or not, 90; may initiate the Unnetri, 137.
brahmasarya, religious studentship,
V, 86 seq.
Brahman (n.), is Brshaspati, III, 3,
213 IV, 192; (prayer), III, 21; (priesthood) connected with the east, Gayatri, Rathantara, Trivrit, spring-season, 91; the Brahman (trayt vidya) first ~ created, 145, 146; is the foundation of everything, 145; is Agni’s mouth, 146; PragApati is the whole Brahman, 353; constitutes the fourth layer of altar, IV, 59; (priesthood) delivered from death through the trivrit-stoma, 67; Brahmasaspati itslord, 73; is Agni, 85; Agni created asthe Brahman, 342; the firstborn Brahman, the Rishis, 100; the Brahman, the Y its power in the other world, 173; (holy writ) seven-syllables (rid, yagus, saman, brahman), 314; (mystic science) the greatest, 338; established as the vis, V, 41 3;—is the highest of gods, IV, 59;. upholds heaven and earth, 59; is the vital airs, 59; is Pragapati, 59, 60; is the Gayatri, and the sun’s disk, 94; is the universe, 315 ; the (imrishable) akshara, the one rick (of) Agni into which all beings pass, 343; the true Brahman is the Purusha, 400; the universe in the beginning was the Brahman who created the gods, V, 27; the Brahman, having placed the deities in the three worlds and in the higher worlds, went to the sphtre beyond these, whence it descended again by means of its manifestations Form and Name, 27 ; only on being possessed of the Brahman the gods became immortal, 28; delivers creatures to Death, except the Brahma- Marin, 48; six doors to the Brahman, 66 seq. ; sacrifice to Brahman (study of the Veda), 95 seq.; isa light equal to the sun, 388; the ultimate thing of the universe, 409; Brahman Svayambhu, performs austerities, 417; Offers himself up in the
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; sacrifice to Brahman (study of the Veda), 95 seq.; isa light equal to the sun, 388; the ultimate thing of the universe, 409; Brahman Svayambhu, performs austerities, 417; Offers himself up in the
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creatures, and the creatures in his own self, 418; is the firstborn, yonder sun, 459. Brahman (m.), priest, mounts cartwheel, III, 22; beats the drum, 24}; presented with gold honeycup, 29; gets gold satam4nas as fee for protecting sacrifice in south, 108; (V, 211); his fee at Dasapeya twelve heifers with first calf, III, 1193 bull his fee for pa#kabila-oblation to Indra, or brown ox for ditto to Soma, 1223 white-backed bullock for Brihaspati’s ditto pap, 1223 neither performs, nor chants, nor recites; yet gets gold satamana, 1413; is the entire sacrifice, 185 ; as representative of Brihaspati mutters Apratiratha hymn whilst Agni is led forward, IV, 192; is the autumn, V, 45; uses the whole trayi vidya, 104; initiated for sattra (as moon and plants), 135; if he does not know certain rites he may allow another to act for him, 211, 212; formerly they had to be of the Vasisht4a family, 212 ; is the heart of the sacrifice, 245 ; one fettering the sacrificial horse without announcing it to Brahman is liable to incur injury, 277; the spotless Brahman, is the moon, 317, 318; (? Prag4pati), is the horse, 318 ; boon granted to him, 350; is the highest seat of speech, 391; the guardian of the sacrifice, 459; the best physician amongst priests, 483; is seated, 503. BrAahmana(m.), not to be fed upon, having Soma for his king, III, 72,95; IV, 249; sprinkling of king from palasa vessel, III, 83; sprinkles him in front, 94; comes after king, 96; is stronger than king, 110; is followed by the three other castes, 227; Brahmaaa and Kshatriya never go behind Vaisya and Sfidra, 227; into him, as the representative of the Brahman, all beings pass and are reproduced theretrom, V, 85; effect of the study of the Veda on him, 99 seq.;
not to engage with Raganya in disputation, 114; as the scapegoat receives the Sacrificer’s pain and evil, 181; the Brahmana descended from Risshis, represents all deities, 195, 196; Brahmana, if going away offended, is presented with a cow longing for a bull, 195; Brahmaza accepting earthen vessels of dead man, is a remover of corpses, 205; the Soma his drink, 217; not to drink raw spirituous liquor, 260; is a form of the priestly office, 286; king can oppress him, but fares the worse for it, 286; to the Brahmana belongs the fulfilment of wishes, 287; was of old born endowed with spiritual lustre, 294; every Sacrificer becomes a Brahmaza, 348; Brahmaza knowing nothing of the Asvamedha, may be despoiled, 360.
brahmaza (n.), mystic sense, or dogmatic explanation of anoblation, IV, 240.
Brahmanikkbamsin,—bull his dakshiva at Dasapeya, III, 119; is under the Brahman priest, V, 136.
Brahmanaspati, lord of the priesthood, IV, 73; is the sun, V,
brahmaza (n.), mystic sense, or dogmatic explanation of anoblation, IV, 240.
Brahmanikkbamsin,—bull his dakshiva at Dasapeya, III, 119; is under the Brahman priest, V, 136.
Brahmanaspati, lord of the priesthood, IV, 73; is the sun, V,
453. brahmaudana, priests’ mess of rice, V, 274; is seed, 275, 348. brahmodya, theological disputation, V, 79; between Brahman and Hotri, 314; all priests, 388-
390.
breast-bone, IV, 114.
breath. See prawa.
brick. See ishtaka.
Brihaduktha Vamadevya, V, 302.
brihad vagas, III, introd. xv.
Brihaspati, gains Pragapati and ascends to upper region, now his own, III, 2, 59, 1223 is the Brahman (priesthood), 3, 213 IV, 192, 2293 V, 258, 3143 wild rice-pap on seventeen plates, II, a1, 28; afraid of the earth and vice versa, 34; with Briéhaspati’s rulership the Sacrificer is consecrated at Vagapeya, 39; by eight syllables gains Gayatri,
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40; pap to Brihaspati, 59; is Purohita of gods, 59; V, 258; white-backed bullock his fee, III, 593; his the smaller and broken rice-grains, 67; (?is Varuna, 68); pap of wild rice to Brihaspati Vas, 70; parthaoblation to Brihaspati, 82; IV, 228; assists Varua, III, 113; samsrip-oblation (pap), 116; pawkabila (pap) on centre of Vedi, 120, 121; white-backed bullock fee to Brahman for Brihaspati’s oblation, 122; prayigam havis (pap), 125; Savitri and-Brihaspati connected with the regions and the datushtoma, IV, 69; ruler of tame animals, 743 protector of upper region, 103; connected with Visve Devas, trinava and trayastrimsastomas, &c., 102, 103; as Brahman assists Indra Apratiratha in fighting the Asuras, 192; takes Sri’s holy lustre and receives (mitravinda) pap, V, 62~ 65; the eighth of the ten deities (‘all the gods’) receiving oblations of drops, 281; offering of barren cows, 402, 411; Brihaspati, with the Visve Deva, receives offering of Gharma, 480 ; is the wind, 480.
Brihaspati-sava, III, introd. xxiv, xxv, 4; the same as Vagapeya,
34. Brihati, metre,—the fire-altar becomes like it, III, 219; is the year, 220; consists of thirtysix syllables, 318; in the form of it oxen were produced, IV, 38; is the air, 53; a thousand brihatis, 111; is the mind (of Pragapati), 327, 328; 12,000 make up the whole Rsk, 352; twenty-one brihatis, as the measure of the universe, 384- 387; the éAaturmasya formulas amount to 362 brshatis, and hence to the year and Mahavrata, V, 78; by it the gods reached heaven, 156, 172; the TApas4ita-sattra amountsthereto, 172; cattle related thereto, 221; the pressing-stones are of brihati nature, 243.
brihat-saman, III, introd. xv, xvi, xx-xxiii; connected with Indra, xv; with Kshatra, &c., 91 ; produced from pa&sadasa-stoma, IV, 7; (brihak bandas) is heaven, 19; connected with Indra, the Rudras, the south, &c., 101; sung over completed fire-altar, is the sky, 179.
brihat-stotra, Vagapeya-saman, IIT,
It.
Budila Asvatarasvi Vaiyaghrapadya, a teacher, IV, 393.
brihat-stotra, Vagapeya-saman, IIT,
It.
Budila Asvatarasvi Vaiyaghrapadya, a teacher, IV, 393.
bull, liberated as fee for Agni-Soma cake, III, 45; fee for Indragni cake, 46; dark-grey, fee for Pfishan’s trishamryukta, 56; brown, for Soma’s, 56; is the Pragapati of cows, 58; belongs to Indra, 60; spotted, 61; fee for oblation to Maruts, 61; sacrificial animal, 162, 165 seq. ; slaughtered for Indra, 162; eight-hoofed, 177; (ukshan) is vigour, produced in the form of the Kakubh, IV, 38 ; two-yearold (dityavisd) produced in the form of the Virag, 39; other ages of other metres, 39 ; originates from Indra’s mouth, V, 215; has an excrescence (hump), 276.
burial-place (smasana), V, 421 seq.; four-cornered, 423; is made round by people of Asura nature, the Easterns and others, 423, 424; the site for it, 424 seq.; size, 428, 435; ploughing ofsite, 431.
calf, year and a half old, is vigour, produced in the form of the trishtubh, IV, 39; white calf of black cow, 200.
carpenter, his house is the restingplace of the sacrificial horse and its keepers, V, 360.
cart. See chariot.
castes, four, do not vomit Soma, III,
131.
cattle, belong to Pishan, III, 55; (Rudra, 52); are purisha, 201; represented by the édandasya (metre-) bricks, IV, 36; thrive when it rains, 36; become metres, 36; Pragapati, in the shape of Gayatri, overtakes the
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cattle, 37; thrive exceedingly in the homestead of him who possesses many of them, V, 126 ; their eye taken by the sun, whence they only know things by smelling, 130; bovine cattle represent all animals, 332.
chamberlain. See kshattri.
chanting-place, of bahishpavamanastotra, V, 305.
chariot, -race, introd. xxiv, 17 seq.; taken down from stand and turned, ITI, 18, 98; with three horses, warrior and charioteer, 50, 1023; gads driving on, 289; placed north of fire with pole to the east, 290; offering made on head of chariot, 1V, 233; chariot shifted sunwise round the fire on the brick-altar, 234; is the sun, 235; by oblations of air the gods yoked the chariot for the obtainment of all their wishes, 236; two smashed chariots joined together, V, 198 ; made complete by means of cords, 318.
charioteer, not to get down from chariot along with king, III,
104.
child, born with head first, ITI, 233; in womb grows by warmth, 254; tries to speak and stand up at the end of a year, V, 13; first speaks words of one or two syllables, 13; born after being fashioned for a year, 88, circumambulation, (thrice) of altar (to atone for ordinary walking round), IV, 170; of sacrificial horse (by the king’s wives), V, 32a, 323.
clavicle. See collar-bone.
clay, produced from foam, III, 147, 157; lump of, is Agni, 206 seq. ; ditto for Pravargya vessels, V,
449.
clod-bricks, are the regions, III, 345, 348; vital sap, 345; IV, 44; clod of earth deposited midway between a grave and the village, V, 440.
cloud, originates from smoke, III, 85; is the udder whence the ‘shower of wealth’ flows, IV, 231.
; ditto for Pravargya vessels, V,
449.
clod-bricks, are the regions, III, 345, 348; vital sap, 345; IV, 44; clod of earth deposited midway between a grave and the village, V, 440.
cloud, originates from smoke, III, 85; is the udder whence the ‘shower of wealth’ flows, IV, 231.
coin. See gold coin, cold, is the body of him about to die, IV, 136.
collar-bone, classed with the ribs, V, 164.
colour (outward appearance), is everything, V, 354.
commander of army. See senanf.
conception,—one born a year after conception may perform Agnidayana without having carried the Ukhya Agni for a year, IV, 274.
consecration. See anointment.
copper, piece of, put in mouth of eunuch, III, 90; melts, V, 493.
cord, is Varunic, III, 222, 236; cf.
rope. costal cartilages, IV, 114. cotton tree, (salmalia malabarica), the highest tree, V, 317. couch, no sleeping on during initiation, III, 185. counter-charm, III, 53, 371. couples, sustain the realm, IV, 230. courier. See palagala. cow, dakshin4 for first-fruits, III, 46; her Varunic nature, 51; oke-trained cow dakshin& for ndraturiya, 51; belongs to Rudra, 52; dakshina for oblation to Aditi, 60 ; cow-raid, 98; - cow and boar friendly together, 103; means these worlds, 156; has four nipples, 237; most fit to yield a livelihood, 237; when milked out is worn, 257; (or bull) created from PragApati’s breath, 402; is (the supplier of) food, 406; not to be injured, 406; milch cow (dhenu) is vigour, produced in the shape of the gagati metre, IV, 39; the bricks of altar made such, 172; milked by sitting person, 172; milk of black cow, with white calf, offered to Agni about to be laid on fire-altar, 200; black cow and white calf are night and sun, 200; cow of plenty, seen and milked by Kanva, 203 ; offering of barren cow (to Mitra-Varuna), 263-265; brings forth within a year, V, 12; cow suckling a strange calt, her milk used for offering in case of an
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Agnihotrin dying, 198; cow, wont to cast her calf, victim of Indra at Asvamedha, 300; barren cows immolated, 402, 411; tail of barren cow tied to the left arm of a dead man, 438 n.; of Pravargya, see gharmaduha.
cow-dung, smeared over fire-site, V, 1913 used for burning dead body, 202.
creation, III, 145 seq.; nine primary substances, 147.
creator. See Dhatri.
creatures (praga), produced from PragApati, the sacrifice, III, 40; in all quarters, IV, 31; Pragapati their lord, 73; Yavas and Ayavas their lords, 76.
crosswise, offering made on Svayamatrinna of completed altar, IV, 183.
crow, is untruth, V, 446.
cubit, means the (fore-)arm, V, 449.
curds and whey, sour curds, See dadhi.
cushions, wrought of gold threads, for the priests to sit on, V, 360, 361.
dadhi, sour curds, is life-sap, III, 3743 belongs to Indra, 375; a form, or the life-sap, of the earth-world, 389, 390; mixed with honey and ghee, for sprinkling completed fire-altar, IV, 182 seq.; globule of sour curds put on Samidh, as a form of cattle, 203.
dadhigharma, V, 502.
dadhi, sour curds, is life-sap, III, 3743 belongs to Indra, 375; a form, or the life-sap, of the earth-world, 389, 390; mixed with honey and ghee, for sprinkling completed fire-altar, IV, 182 seq.; globule of sour curds put on Samidh, as a form of cattle, 203.
dadhigharma, V, 502.
Dadhikr§, III, 27.
Dadhikravan, ILI, 27; V, 326.
Dadhyafé Atharvaaa, is speech, III, 218; knew the pure sacrificial essence (the Madhu), 444; is decapitated by Indra, and restored by the Asvins, 443, 444.
Daivapa. See Indrota.
Daiyampati, instructed by Sandily&yana, IV, 273.
Dakshayana, form of Full and Newmoon sacrifice, to be performed for fifteen years, V, 5.
dakshiza (sacrificial gift), (cows), the way along which they pass, III, 99, 101;--dakshina as Apsaras, the Gandharva Yag#a’s mates,
IV, 232; the sacrifice is praised for them, 233; no bargaining for, as depriving the priests of their place in heaven, 280; wins food, 285 ; no oblation without dakshina, V, 7: stand south of altar, 17; time for bringing them up at animal sacrifice, 120; are healing medicine, 217; is the glory, 446; must not be given away by the priest, at least not on the same day,
446.
Danava (Asuras), V, 95.
dandavadha, III, 108.
darbha-grass, bunch of, put on ploughed Agnikshetra, III, 332; contains food and drink, 332; grew up from waters loathing ritra, 332; IV, 44; handful put on mixture of ghee (with gold chips), sour curds and honey for sprinkling therewith with the tops) on completed re-altar, 182; a means of purification, V, 195, 274; piece of gold tied thereto and taken westwards (as the sun), 195; ditto of silver, taken eastwards (as the moon), 196 ; rope thereof for tying sacrificial horse, 2743 sepulchral mound covered therewith, 436.
darkness, after the creation of the earth, III, 319.
DarsapOrzamisa, the offerer thereof eats food every half-month in the other world, IV, 299; esoteric remarks on, V, 1 seq., 52 seq.; to be performed for thirty years (twice 360 full and new moons) thereby gaining the 360 days and nights of the year, 4, 5; first performed by Paramesh¢sin Pragapatya, 15; after him Prag4pati, Indra, Agni, and Soma, 15, 16.
Dasapeya, III, introd. xxvi; requires special offering-place, 68, 113 seq.; etymology, 114; an Agni-
shtoma, 118, Dasaratha, king of Ayodhya, III, 97-
Dasaratra, V, 140; last day of, called avivikya, IL11, introd. xvii; compared to the seat (or
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body) of a chariot, the two shadahas being the wheels, V, 149, 155 Ney 159.
dative of purpose, III, 198.
Dauéshanti. See Bharata.
daurgaha, V, 397.
dawn, precedes the sun, III, 273.
day, a separater, IV, 89 ; originates from the light emitted by the gods when created, V, 14; the (one) day (after day) is the year, 155. :
day and night, nourish Agni, III, (271), 273; encompass the universe, 287; days and nights are endless, 352; rulers of Arya and Sddra, IV, 74, 75; are Pragapati’s joints, 281; are forms of Brahman and Kshatra, V, 286.
:
day and night, nourish Agni, III, (271), 273; encompass the universe, 287; days and nights are endless, 352; rulers of Arya and Sddra, IV, 74, 75; are Pragapati’s joints, 281; are forms of Brahman and Kshatra, V, 286.
dead man, his bones arranged in bird-form, V, 435.
Death, seizes creatures whilst in Pragfpati’s womb, IV, 67; created above (mortal) beings as their consumer, 290; searches for (the half-mortal) Prag§pati who has entered the earth, 290 ; is the year, 356 seq.; he is the ender, 356; has only the body for bis share, 357; those who do not become immortal come to life again and become the food of Death time after time, 358; Agnias Death, 365; Death is immortal, and the man in the sun, 366; Death is both the man in the sun and that in the right eye, 371, 374; is both one and many, being the man in the sun, he is numerously distributed on earth among creatures; whence also both near and far away, 372; Death becomes the self of him who knows, and makes him immortal, 374; Death, hunger, being alone in the beginning, creates Mind, 402; Arka and Asvamedha become Death, 404; creatures delivered to him, except Brahmafiarin, V, 48; deaths take place in any world, 339; oblations to Deaths, 340.
deity, only he is a deity to whom offering is made, IV, 238, 246,
(44)
266; different deities and metres identified with parts of the body, 330, 331; the ultimate deity not to be questioned beyond, V, 117. Devaganavidya, the Veda of Rakshas, 368.
devasti (divine quickeners), offerings to, III, 69, 72; IV, 246.
dewy season, consists of the months Tapa and Tapasya, IV, 126; which are supreme, 126, 127; is the sky, 127; is the year’s head, 127.
dhamakdad, seat-hiding (?) verse, IV, 291.
Dhanva. See Asita.
Dharma Indra, king of the gods, V,
370.
Dhatri (creator), connected with gods generally, and the Vis, IV, 68; lord of the seven Rishis, 73; is Pragapati, 263; the sun, 264; offering of twelve-kapala cake to, 264.
Dhira Sataparneya, instructs Mahasala GAabala on the nature of Agni, IV, 331.
dhishava, III, 243.
dhishnya hearths, III, 317, 318; preparation of, IV, 241; are the clansmen to the fire-altar, as chief, 241 ; consist of a single layer, 242; only with lokamprina bricks, 242 ; enumeration of, 242 n.; eight, 360.
dhrishii, fire-tongs, V, 39 n., 500.
Dhritarashera, V, 401.
dhriti, four oblations offered every evening of preliminary year of Asvamedha, V, 285, 288, 364.
dhruva-graha, III, 11.
Dhvasan Dvaitavana, king of the Matsyas, performed the Asvamedha, V, 398.
dice, game at, III, 106, 112; V, 330.
diksha, III, 68; at Agnizayana to last a year, 181; insignia of, 185; of Agnifayana, 246 seq.; is speech, IV, 67; springs from faith (sraddha), 138; is the body of the sacrifice, 240; of seven days at Asvamedha, V, 2go seq.; twelve, 371; is the vital airs, 291; twenty-three days at Purushamedha, 403.
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dikshaniyeshti, III, 44; IV, 258; without samishtayagus, 258.
disim aveshéayaé, III, 120.
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dikshaniyeshti, III, 44; IV, 258; without samishtayagus, 258.
disim aveshéayaé, III, 120.
disya, regional bricks, in first layer, III, 188 seq.; in second layer (=Asvini), IV, 31 seq. ; in third layer, 43 seq.; are the regions and the sun, 43, 44; are the metres, 45.
Diti (and Aditi), viewed by Mitra and Varuaa, III, 93.
dog, the moon is the heavenly dog, watching the Sacrificer’s cattle (to seize them) and coming down at new moon, V, 10; dog’s clutch (svaluéita), a burning pain, 10; dog driven away by bow or staff, 11, 12; an unclean animal, 178; four-eyed dog killed at Asvamedha and plunged under horse’s feet, 279; dog is untruth, 446.
driba, (driv4), arrow, III, 88.
drops, oblation of. See stokiya.
drought, produces a lawless condition, V, 18.
drums, seventeen put up, III, 23; one beaten by Brahman priest,
24.
dfrva, grass (and brick), III, 187, 379; is cattle, 379; etymology, 380; is the kshatra, breath and vital sap, 380; grows up joint by joint, knot by knot, 381; spreads and branches out by a hundred shoots, 381; IV, 2.
Dushfaritu Pawmsayana, a king, V, 269, 272.
Dyadasaha, opening Atiratra of, III, introd, xix,
Dvaitavana, See Dhvasan.
dvapara, die, III, 107.
dvivimsa-stoma, is vigour, the year, IV, 63.
dvipada, the ample metre in the form of which sheep were produced, IV, 38; of twenty syllables, 385; offering of, V, 342.
Dviyagus brick, is this earth, seen by Indragni, III, 381; is the Sacrificer, 381; his human body, 382; laying down of, 383; is the hip of Agni, the sacrificial animal, 400; IV, 2.
Dyaus, gives birth to Agni, III, 272.
Dviyagus brick, is this earth, seen by Indragni, III, 381; is the Sacrificer, 381; his human body, 382; laying down of, 383; is the hip of Agni, the sacrificial animal, 400; IV, 2.
Dyaus, gives birth to Agni, III, 272.
Eagle. See syena, supara. ear, one of the five vital airs (of the head), III, 402; as the regions, is the child of heaven, IV, 10; from it autumn is produced, 10; is Visvamitra (all-friend), 10; introduced from the left (or upper) side, 11; is one only, 11; sustained by the upward vital air (udana), 15; one of the five divisions of vital air in the head, 190; the ear evolved from the eye, and from it work, 378, 379; the two ears connected by channel, V, 36; what is thought by mind is spoken by speech, and heard by the ear, 263; Adhvaryu and Sacrificer whispering in the (right) ear of the horse, 287. earth, three of them, III, 27; afraid of consecrated Brihaspati and vice versa, 34; ditto of Varuna, 103; union with Agni, 148 ; (bhGmi) a foundation, 147, 158; (prithivi) the broad, 148, 158; is the Gayatri, 148; connected with Pragapati and Agni, 1873; created as one consisting of eight syllables, 232; fashioned by Vasus by means of GAyatri, 233; navel of the earth, 258; a firm resting-place, 278 ; surrounded by ocean, 301 ; is cirpet 309; the mie Sack Agni urishya, 3113; is ti’s G§arhapatya, 314; after its crea tion, darkness was everywhere, 319; Pragapati its begetter, 346; spread on waters like a lotus leaf, 364; is Agni’s womb, 364; is established on truth, 364; is the truth, the most certain of worlds, 364; sheds seed upwards in the form of smoke (steam) which becomes rain, 383; bears everything breathing, 387; is measured out, fashioned (mit); is the course (eva), IV, 88; on earth one thinks with the heart, and the mind, 95; is the most substantial (rasatama) of worlds, 179; is the right wing of Agni-Pragapati, the altar and universe, 179 ; steadied by mountains andp. 531 rivers, V, 126; is the Kshatriya’s world, 133; connected with the Asvins, 241; is higher than the water, 267; he who hides himself, or goes elsewhere, is ultiinately found on the earth, 284, 285; nocreature, walking erect or horizontally, can go beyond it, 285; is the great vessel, 315; in the beginning of the size of a span, 451; raised up by boar Emfisha (Pragapati, her husband), 451; is a good abode on which all creatures abide, 457; is white, as it were, 463; her over-lords (Agni, Indra &c.), 464 seq.; becomes a mare and carries Manu, her lord (Pragapati), 466; is a place of abode for all the gods, 505.
east, connected with priesthood &c., TIT, 91; Agni’s region,‘ 206; IV, 199; is towards the gods, III, 215, 355; IV, 226; is the Gayatri, IV, 45; is a queen, 46, 100; the Vasus its lord, 100; protected by Agni, 100; connected with trivrit-stoma, Agyasastra, and rathantara-siman, too ; is strength and the sky, V, 16,17; the region of the gods, 485.
easterns. See praéya.
eater, the, is Agni, Aditya, the breath, IV, 398.
easterns. See praéya.
eater, the, is Agni, Aditya, the breath, IV, 398.
egg. See golden egg.
eight, symbolical significance, IV,
190.
eighteenfold, is the year, IV, 66.
eighty (asiti), means food, IV, 92, 112, 161; of formulas (to the Rudras), 161, 223.
ekadasini, of sacrificial stakes, V, 301 2, 309; is heaven, 310; offspring and cattle, 310; a virdg, 335, 404, 405.
ekapada, the gapless metre in the form of which goats were produced, IV, 38; of ten syllables, 385.
ekatrissa-stoma, is design, the year, IV, 64.
ekavinrsa, the twenty-first or twentyone-fold, is the sun, III, 265, 308; 1V, 625 V, 331, 333) 334,
335, 378, 402; produced from manthi-graha, and from it the vairaga-saman, IV, ro.
ekavimsa-stoma, connected with Anushtubh &c., III, gr; at morning - service of Kesavapaniya, 127; is the upholder (a foot-hold), the sun, 1V, 62; through it, connected with Mitra Varuna, rain and wind freed from death, 68; the foundation (the feet), 78; connected with Soma, the Maruts, north &c., 102; second day of Asvamedha an ekavimsa-day, V, 378; the foundation of Stomas, 378.
ekoti, V, 150.
elevation (high-lying ground), people in danger take thereto, V, 300.
embryonic water of calving cow, III, 78.
embryos, freed from death through pagkavimsa-stoma, connected with Adityas and Maruts, IV, 69; killer of embryo is despised, 272.
Emfsha, the boar (Prag4pati) raises the earth (his wife), V, 451.
enclosing-stones. See parisrit.
enemies (or enemies’ sons), when meeting, get on well together on addressing one another by name, V, 288.
entrail (vrikala), if not cleansed of contents in dead body, a tiger springs therefrom when burnt, V, 203, (215).
Eshavira, a family of priests, V, 45 n.
etarhi, one-fifteenth part of a kshipra, V, 169.
eunuch, long-haired, III, 90; malted rice bought from him, V, 219; is neither man nor woman, 219.
eva, at least, IV, 19 (u eva).
exorcism, IV, 171.
eye, food flowed from eye of fallen Pragapati, ITI, 312; one of the five vital airs (of the head), 402; there is always water in it, 416; produced from the sun, and from it the rain, IV, 8; is the Rishi Gamadagni, 9 ; introduced from behind, 9; is one only, 9; sustained by the downward vital air (apana), 15; one of the five divisions of vital air in the head, 190; the man in the
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(right) eye is the man in the sun and the gold man of the altar, 368; he is the same as Indra, and has a mate in the left eye, whois IndrAni, 369; the two persons descend to the cavity of the heart and enter into union, and at the end of their union the man sleeps, 370; from the union of these two divine persons all that exists originates, 371; the man in the right eye (and in the sun) is Death, his feet stick fast in the heart, and on his pulling them out and coming out, he dies, 371; that man in the eye is the vital air and leads forward all creatures, 371; whilst being one only he is numerously distributed among creatures, 372; the eye evolved from breath, and from it the ear, 377, 378; what were man without eyes, V, 124; white, black, and pupil, 165, 246, 354; white and black, 354; by means of it the body moves, 346.
faggots, three bundles of, lighted and offered upon whilst held at different heights, V, 494.
faith—truth in faith, V, 46; the initiation sprung from faith, 138.
falcon. See syena.
fanning, of the sacrificial horse, by the king’s wives, V, 323 ; of the (Pravargya) fire, by the Adhvaryu and his assistants, 467.
fast-milk, living on, is penance (tapas), IV, 256; milk of three, two, one teat during days of initiation, and of none on day of preparation, 256.
father, is gentle and kind to his son, IV, 25; when asked for anything by his sons, says ‘So be it,’ 60; takes his dear son to his bosom, 206; sons in early life subsist on father, the reverse in later life, V, 157; returning from abroad is received kindly by sons, 204; father and sons part in time of peace, 308.
Fathers, the hollow is sacred to
them, III, 31; are the clansmen, with Yama for their chief, 299; Aditi their ruler, 1V, 74; the south their region, 226; are the six seasons, 243; he who does not eat becomes consecrated to the Fathers (dies), V, 20, 21; daily offering of the svadh&8 to them, 95, 96; sacrificial practices appropriate to offerings to Fathers, 198 seq.; the world of the Fathers is in the south, 225; the sura-liquor of the Sautramazi falls to the share of the Fathers of him who drinks it, 233; those who perform on southern fire, go down to the world of the Fathers, 236; livein Yama’s realm, 236, 237; the path of the Fathers and that of the gods by one of which all living beings have to pass, 237, 238; are asleep, 265; placed in the immortal womb, 272; are the subjects of Yama Vaivasvata, the Yagustheir Veda, 365; the uneven number, and the single nakshatra belong to them, 423; the door to their world is inthe south-east, 424; their world inclines towards the south, 424; to them belongs the (sod) filled with roots, 427; they are the world of plants, and hide among the roots of plants, 429; not seen together with the living, 440; three in number, 455; with Yama and the Aagiras, receive offering of Gharma, 481.
female, lies on left side of male, III, 199; injures no one, 202; after birth conceives again, 311.
female, lies on left side of male, III, 199; injures no one, 202; after birth conceives again, 311.
fever, one suffering therefrom is consumed by his vital airs, IV, 348.
fifteen, IV, 74, 309.
fifteenfold, is the thunderbolt, III, 413; IV, 85; V, 384; the arm, IV, 79; the neck, V, 163.
fig-tree, Indian. See Nyagrodhas.
finale. See nidhana.
fingers (and toes), have a common connecting link (or limb), III, 4173; consist of four parts each, IV, 325; the different
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fingers, V, 75; the different fingers and their joints, 161.
finger-breadth, the lowest measure, IV, 300; thereby fire-altar measured, 300.
fire, when it goes out it is wafted up in the wind, IV, 333; Fire evolved from Work, 380; is the womb of the sacrifice, V, 3; is one of the six doors to the Brahman, 66; sacrificial fires only desire flesh of victims and the Sacrificer, 119; four kinds of fires, (three worlds and the regions ; Agni, Vayu, Aditya, Kandramas), 127; there is a fire in every piece of wood, 187 ; circumambient fire shuts out the Asuras, 271; carried round victims, 307.
fire-altar (agni) ; the way in which it is mounted (like a horse), III, 361; building of, 362 seq.; a four-footed animal, IV, 19; contraction and expansion (of animal’s body), 20 seq.; of eagle-build, 21; is the year and the three worlds, 29; constructed so as to extend (fly) eastwards, 1153 Agni its head, the earth its right, the sky its left wing, Vayu (the air, vital air) its body, the moon its tail, the sun its heart, 178-80; the Sacrificer’s divine body, 226, 256; the body of all the gods, 256; substitutes for complete fire-altars at repeated Somasacrifices, 271; is an ocean of Yagus, 278; Fire-altar, Mahavrata and Mahad uktham are the Sacrificer’s divine, immortal body, 279; isa bird-like body, 285; is the earth, the mind, the trunk, the head, 286; is measured by finger-breadths, 300; the sevenfold, 306; for this a vedi of ninety steps, 308 ; different forms of, from sevenfold to one hundred and onefold (the latter of which is to be fourteen times that of the former), 309 seq.; by building a smaller fire-altar, one curtails
Pragapati, and by one larger than the largest one exceeds the universe, 312; the hundred and onefold contains all objects of desire, is the year, and the sun, 313; it is equal to the sevenfold one, 314; is built between the two performances of the upasads, 316 ; each layer of bricks and earth takes (or represents) a month to build, 318; the hundred and onefold the normal one (?), 321 seq.; it gains the immortal light, 323; it isa sevenfold one by its layers, 324; the fire (altar) is fivefold (by food, drink, excellence, light, and immortality), 326; is the food prepared for Pragdpati and becomes the body itself, 341; is the man in the sun, 366; is the earth, air, sky, the sun, the nakshatras, the metres, the year, the body, all beings and all gods, 381-390.
firebrand, belongs to Rudra, V, 201.
fire-pan. See ukha.
firebrand, belongs to Rudra, V, 201.
fire-pan. See ukha.
firmament (naka), is the heavenly world above the Virag (layer), IV, 93, 1003 is the regions, 100; in the world of righteousness (sukrita) above the third luminous back of the sky, 123; the heavenly world, the back of the sky, 198; the heavenly world beyond the highest fire-altar, 250, 304.
first-fruits, offering of. See Agrayaneshti.
fivefold, is the animal sacrifice, V,125; the Asvamedha becomes so, 308.
flax, forms amnion of Agni’s womb, III, 252; foul smell of, 252.
flesh,not to be eaten duringinitiation, III, 185; of fat person fat, of lean lean, V, 20; is the best kind of food, 119.
foam, produced from water, III, 147, 157.
food, kinds of, given to Sacrificer, III, 36; one kind to be renounced by him, 37; satisfies if roportionateto body, 260, 330;
fv. 189; to food the body is bound by the vital airs, III, 270; is taken in from the front (mouth) backward, 4023; the resort of the waters, 416; thep. 534 sSATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
purisha is Agni’s food, IV, 20; is seventeenfold, 79; whilst eating food one drives away evil that is above him, 87; is asked for by sick man when he gets better, 87; is of three kinds, 93; its essence is invisible, 95; threefold (ploughing, rain, seed), t10; benefits the body only if put in the body, 135; put in (a channel of) the vital air benefits the whole body, 139; are sustained by food, 139 ; they close up if food is not eaten, 139; isthe arrow ofthe Rudras of the earth, 165; sour curds, honey, and ghee are every kind, or the best kinds, of food, 184, 185 ; is variegated (varied), 196; is served from the right side, 226; is of two kinds, immortal and mortal, 285; food taken by the arm at a cubit’s distance, 306; food, when enclosed in the body, becomes the body itself, 3413 the food consumed by man in this world consumes him in the other, V, 260.
food-brick, I1I, 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, 2033 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 DarsapGirzamasa.
fumigation, of pan, III, 240; of Pravargya vessels, V, 455, 456.
funeral ceremonies, V, 421 seq.
faneral pile, V, 201, 202, 203. furrow, what it yields, III, 329; are the vital airs, their meetingplace speech (voice), 332.
Gabala. See Mahasila, Satyakama.
gagata, of Gagati nature, cattle (animals), V, 252, 284, 313.
funeral ceremonies, V, 421 seq.
faneral pile, V, 201, 202, 203. furrow, what it yields, III, 329; are the vital airs, their meetingplace speech (voice), 332.
Gabala. See Mahasila, Satyakama.
gagata, of Gagati nature, cattle (animals), V, 252, 284, 313.
Gagati, gamed by Visve Devaé, III, 40; connected with Visve Devab &c., 91; of twelve syllables, 1693; 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 rzksama-saman, 1V, 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 Prag4pati), 327-329; a Ribbu of the Gagat metre (the Arbhava-pavamana) bearing the Sacrificer to bliss, V, 173; thereby the Adityas consecrate the king, 313.
Gamadagna, Apri-verses, V, 302.
Gamadagni, rishi, is the eye, IV, 9; is Prag4pati, V, 302.
Ganaka, of Videha, questions Yag#avalkya as to Agnihotra, V, 46; obtains Mitravinda sacrifice from YAgfavalkya,66; questions Brahmanas regarding Agnihotra, 112 seq.; teaches Yigflavalkya, 114; becomes Brahman, 115; has a sacrifice performed with 1,000 cows as dakshina, 115.
Ganamegaya P4rikshita, IV, 345 n.; cups of fiery liquor poured out in his palace, V, 95; performs Asvamedha, 396.
Gana Sarkarakshya (S&yavasa), a teacher, IV, 393, 396.
Ganasruteya. See Aupavi.
Gandhfra (Nagnagit), IV, a1.
Gandharva, the heavenly, thoughtcleansing, II1, 5; is yonder sun, Savitri, 195 ;—twenty-seven of them, 19 ; were the first to yoke the horse, 20; from Pragapati
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couples issue in the form of Gandharva and Apsaras,I V,229; Gandharva and Apsaras made offering to in rashtrabhrit oblations, 230 seq.; Gandharva and Apsaras affect sweet scent (gandha) and beauteous form (rfipa =apsas), 230; and worship the divine Purusha under those forms, 373; carried by horse Vagin, 401; three Gandharvas (Yavamat, Uddflamat, Antarvat) point out to the Rishis imperfections in their sacrifice, V, 29, 30; get the Apsaras Urvasiback from Purfiravas, 69; produce a flash of lightning, 70; teach Purfravas how to produce a sacred fire, to become one of themselves, 73; the people of king Varuna Aditya, the Atharvans their Veda, 365.
garbha, of prishtha - saman, III, introd. xx seq.
garbha, of prishtha - saman, III, introd. xx seq.
G§rhapatya, thence fire of ukha 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 3 ascended by the gods, 319; on the fifth layer of the fire-altar, 1V, 99, 117 seq. ; is food, 118 ; Garhapatya hearth is a womb, 119; is the vedi, 121, 307; the original Ahavaniya (of the hall) is the womb in which the gods begat the GArhapatya of Agnidayana, 308 ; from it the Ahavantya is born, 308 ; atonement for G4rhapatya going out, lest master of the house die, V, 83 ; ditto for going out 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.
Gavam ayanam, a sSattra, V, 139 seq.; deities of, 140 seq.; the three great rites of it (Katurvimesa, Vishavat, MahAvrata), 144.
gavaya, V, 338.
gavedhuka seed (coix barbata), is refuse, III, 51, 713 used for oblation to Rudra, 51, 63, 71, 158 ;—grass used for smoothing newly-made vessel, V, 455.
gayatra, Agni, III, 148, 1613 IV, 277, 300; (bandas) is Agni, IV, 178.
gayatra-siman, produced from GAyatri, and from it the up&ssugraha, IV, 4; when used in stotras, 4; sung over completed and appeased altar, is Agni, 178.
GAyatri, is Agni’s metre, III, 313 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, IIT, 167, 218, 253; produced from spring season, and from it the gayatrastoma, 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 Pragapati), 327; Gayatri tripada, 385; the golden, brilliant-winged Gayatri who bears the Sacrificer to heaven, V, 53; is the vedi, 56; GaAyatri in bird’s shape fetches Soma from heaven, 122; a falcon of the Gayatri metre (the bahishpavam§na)bearing the Sacrificer to bliss, 173 ; thereby the Vasus consecrate the king, 312; is fiery mettle, 312.
generation, thfeefold (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, 3543 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 allp. 536 worlds, and of thought and speech, 471, 489; is cow’s milk (and ghee), 475.
gharmadugha (samrag-cow), is Ida, Aditi, Sarasvati, V, 474; is bound by its horns, 474; is given to Adhvaryu, 503.
worlds, and of thought and speech, 471, 489; is cow’s milk (and ghee), 475.
gharmadugha (samrag-cow), is Ida, Aditi, Sarasvati, V, 474; is bound by its horns, 474; is given to Adhvaryu, 503.
ghee, in consecration water, III, 79; is seed, 211 &c.; the lifesap of the universe, of waters and plants, 333; a form, or the life-sap, of the air, 390; with gold chips init 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, 396, 312; is the gods’ favourite resource, 296,
410.
Ghora, a work of the Atharvans, V, 366n,
ghosha (roar), partha-oblation to, IIT, 82.
ghritaéi, the apsaras, is an intermediate region (? N.W.), or the offering-spoon, IV, 107.
girdle, sign of initiation, III, 185.
go, ox, IIT, rrg.
goat, (he-), means Prag4pati, III, 353 brings forth thrice a year, 353 (aga) how created, 147, 173; he-goat sacrificial animal, 162, 165 seq.; slaughtered for Agni, 162; for Pragapati, 171; searches for Agni, 204, 205; addressed, 225; represents Brahmana, 227; is the form of all cattle, 230; sprung from Pragapati’s head, 245 ; from his voice, 402; eats all kinds of herbs, 245 ; produced in form of ekapada metre, IV, 38; the grey (smoke-coloured) animal originates from Indra’s eyes, V, 2143 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, 79: V, 258; slay Vritra, IIT, 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
gods, offer to one another, III, 1;
are thirty-three (or four), 9, 79: V, 258; slay Vritra, IIT, 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 m (Pragapati’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; Ahavaniya is the world of the gods, 3443 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 Ahavaniya), 389; order: Agni (and Diksha), Indra and Vishau, gods generally and creator, Mitra and Varura, Vasus and Rudras, Adityas and Maruts, Aditi and Pfishan, Savitri and Brihaspati, Yavas and Ayavas, Ribhus and Visve Devaé, IV, 67-69; gods generally (manviewers) connected with the creator (Dh&tri) and the Vi, 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, 1273 are just as many now as there were of old, 128; Agni, Vayu, Aditya, the hearts of the gods, 162; gods holding to truth, and Asuras to untruth, 2573; created from the breath (praza), 289; seven worlds of the gods, 277; (the three worlds and four quarters), 3143 are of joyful soul, 339: the true knowledge belongs to them alone, and he who knows it is not a man, but ene of the gods, 339; were first mortal, and only after gaining the year,p. 537 became immortal, V, 5 ; created from Prag4pati’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 svaha, 96; contend with the Asuras for Pragpati, the sacrifice, 105; number of gods (8 Vasus, rr Rudras, 12 Adityas, Indra, Pragapati), 115 seq.; the one god, Praza, 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 S&man their Veda, 370; reside on earth, in the air, the heavens, the regions, the nakshatras, the waters, 505, 506; Agni, Vayu, Sfrya, Kandra, Varuna are the Self of the gods, 505, 506.
gold, is immortal life, III, 35, 84,
gold, is immortal life, III, 35, 84,
93, 265; IV, 343; V, 2393; gold threads woven in strainers, HII, 84; its uses, 1413; produced from ore, (147), 1583 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 sura at Sautramani, 220, 235, 236; sacrificers and priests cleanse themselves by means of piece of gold held over 4atvala, 239 a originates from seed of immolated horse (Prag4pati), 275 ; (satam&na) niece Se 3 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 dakshina, 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, 402-404; fire-altar bestrewed with 5 and 300, IV, 146 seq.; make Agni thousand-eyed, 201; some thrown into ghee for oblation on (svayamatrinna of) completed altar, 182; these chips complete making Prag4pati’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),
53golden 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 Pragapati-Agni, 366; the Sacrificer, 368, 382 ; when laid down, one must not walk in front of him, 369; two offeringspoons 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 Agniéit’s neck, 265; is the truth and Aditya, 265; with twenty-one knobs, the sun’s rays, 265; means vital
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gold plate, III, 35; trodden upon by consecrated king, 92; with 100 holes, 93; (gold piece) on gaming - ground offered upon, 112; hung round Agniéit’s neck, 265; is the truth and Aditya, 265; with twenty-one knobs, the sun’s rays, 265; means vitalp. 538 energy and vigour, 266; sewn up in antelope skin, 266; worn over navel, 267; is Praga ti’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, 146; 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 one of the only three bricks of which the altar consists, 374; gold and silver plates beneath feet of Sacrificer whilst consecrated at Sautramaai, V, 251; 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 RahOgana, originator of Mitravinda sacrifice, V, 66.
Gotama’s Stoma (Katushtoma), Vv,
375. go-vikartana, huntsman (?), one of the king’s ratnani, III, 63. govinata, form of Asvamedha, V, 400, 401, graha (cup of Soma), after their drawing chanting of stotra and recitation of sastra, 1V, 133 is the draught of Prag4pati’s vital fluid, 282.
graha oblations of ghee relating to Soma cups and implements, forming part of the Vasordh&ra, IV, 216, grain, are a form of day and night, V, 296; parched grain, a form of the Nakshatras, 296.
Gramant (headman), one of the ratninad, III, 60; is a vaisya, 61; II,
Gravastut priest, is made the Hotri, V, 137.
grave, See burial-place.
great region. See upper region.
Grshapati, III, 158; V, 1313 ini-
tiated first (being the earth),
135.
grivab. See neck.
groats, parched, are a form of the gods, V, 296.
guda praaa, intestinal vital air, IV,
17. guest-offering, III, 355.
guhfi. See spoon.
Gumbaka (Varuna), V, 340, 343. Gyotishtoma, form of Agnis' IV, 287.
hail, a terrible form of rain, V, 251.
hair, of lion, wolf, tiger thrown on flesh-portions. of Sautramani, III, 1323 ditto in cups of Sura, V, 418; these are a form of Rudra, 229; purisha 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 Pragapati’s hair-pits the stars originate, I1V, 361; as many as there are twinklings of the eye, V, 169.
Hairanyanabha. ‘See Para.
HAlingava, a teacher, his view of the nature of Agni, IV, 363.
hand, laid down, palm upwards, for protection, V, 465.
haras,—haras, soéis, ardis (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, 4
Harissandra, father of Rohita, 11,95.
havirdhana, associated with Gayatri,
haras,—haras, soéis, ardis (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, 4
Harissandra, father of Rohita, 11,95.
havirdhana, associated with Gayatri,
V, 494haviryag#a, killed by mortar and pestle, V, 2; as distinguished from the Soma-sacrifice, 119. haya, horse, carries the gods, I
4ol. hazel-cock (kapifgala), springs from Visvarfipa’s head, III, 130. head, of child born first, III, 233; IV, 287; ditto of animals, IV, 40, (287); human head is placed on ukha, III, 311; is the birth-place of the vital airs, 396; measures a span, if fourcornered, contracted in the middle, 3963 is (the focus) of
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the ten vital airs, IV, 57; is threefold, and consists of two kapalas, 78, 387; is of Gfyatri 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, 95; Agni, Vayu, Aditya 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 (pratima) 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 Adityas separated and became the lords, IV, 75; propitiatory cake on one kapila, when sacrificial horse, or anything else, is lost, 347; with Sfrya and Vayu, 347; between them everything is contained, V, 484; are the out- and up-breathing, 488.
heavenly world, above the Virag, is the firmament, IV, 93; is the firmament, 100, 304; and the regions, 100; is the year, 100; is entered from below, tog; 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 toa 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 Agnidit’s neck, 266.
herald. See King-makers.
hiv, makes SAiman complete, IV, 178; is the Saman, V, 306.
hiranya, etymology, III, 367.
Hiranyagarbha, is Pragapati and Agni, III, 172; came first into existence, 388 ;—IV, introd. xiv, 295 n.
hita, ITI, 151.
herald. See King-makers.
hiv, makes SAiman complete, IV, 178; is the Saman, V, 306.
hiranya, etymology, III, 367.
Hiranyagarbha, is Pragapati and Agni, III, 172; came first into existence, 388 ;—IV, introd. xiv, 295 n.
hita, ITI, 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 Brahmaéirin, 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 Sautramazi, 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 Brshaspati’s oblation, 22,28; Varuza’s sacrificial animal, 60; how created (etymology of asva), 146; sacrificial animal, 162, 165 seq.; slaughtered for Varua, 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 highlyfavoured of animals, 209 ; horse’s footprint offered upon, 212; horse is addressed, 224; represents kshatra, 227; sacred to Pragpati, 240; white horse led in front of the bricks of the first layer being carried forwards, 359; is made to step on altarsite from the north, 359; smells the first layer of bricks, 359, 361; IV, 141; white horse
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(Pragapati) finds Agni on lotusleaf, 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 Pragapati's eye, 402; V, 328; is the speed of the wind, III, 405; the onehoofed animal, 410; yoked (tied) below shaft, IV, 237; right horse first by gods, the left by men, 237; carries (draws) men, 401; thesea its birth-place, 4o1- 4°3; sacrificial horse (Pragapati, the Purusha), 401; prizewinning horses constantly sprinkled (?), V, 953; sacrificial horse sacred to Pragapati, 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, 3323 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.
hotra, 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 paskabila oblation to Visve Devas, 122; Hotri means abundance, 142;
his fee at Sautramast 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 hotrss (priests generally), 121; initiated for sattra, as Agni and speech, 136; is the voice of the sacrifice, 245; is the sacrifice, 459, 460, 504. Hotriya hearth, of Agnigayana, of twenty-one bricks, and as many enclosing-stones, IV, 243. householder (grihamedhin) unlearned in scriptures, V, 362. hunger, death is hunger, IV, 402; Yépa 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.
Ida, mother of Purfravas, V, 68; Manu’s daughter (is the Agnihotra cow), 81.
ida, invocation of, II1, 41, 113; IV, 248; is food, V, 19; the central air, 20; is faith, 42.
idam, II, 143;—(ida) one-fourteenth part of an etarhi, V, 169.