A General Index to the Names and Subject-Matter of the Sacred Books of the East — SBE Vol. 50 (compiled by M. Winternitz, 1910)

Ogres, ogresses, see Demons, and
Pija^as.

Ogress-ridder, a name of the wind, 44, 479.

Ohod, battle of, 6, 6 r, 61 n., 64 sq.,
66 n.

Okkaka, King, slays animals for sacrifices, 10 (ii), 50 sq. ; the Sakya son, an offspring of O., 10 (ii), 186.

0-LAI— OMENS

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O-iai, put to death by King Wu, 40,
131, 131 n.

Old age : way must be made for an aged man, 7, 203 ; the reward of him who reveres the aged, 10 (i), 33> 33 '^^ ? the virtuous man is an elder, not he whose head is grey, the latter is called * old-in-vain,' 10 (i), 64 ; paying of reverence and apportionment of the best seat and water and food, shall be according to seniority, 20, 191-6; reverence to the aged, 25, 52, 55, 58 sq., 221 ; 28, 62, 216, 230-2; aged people not to be insulted, 25, 151 ; king to treat kindly the aged, 25, 322 sq. ; feasting and cherishing the aged, 27, 23, 27, 239-44, 240 n., 287 sq., 347 sq., 359-62, 418, 464-70; 28, 124; rules and laws concerning o. a., 27, 66, 78, 228; rules for juniors in their intercourse with elders, 27, 67-71, 73 sq., 76, 80 sq., 96 ; 28, 439 sq. ; centenarians visited by the sovereign, 27, 216; three classes of old men in the college, 27, 385 ; three grades of o. a., 37, 176, i76n. ; — the devotee works for, attains to release from o. a. and death, 8, 77, 109, 151, 170, 187, 249 sq., 349; the misery of birth, o. a., death, disease, 8, 103, 233j 247, 289, 356 ; 10 (i), 37 ; 25, 209, 212 ; seat of Vishwu free from

0. a., 8, 194 ; the cause of birth,
death, and o. a., 8, 371. See also
Death {b), Disease, and Etiquette.

Old things, used at funeral rites,

44, 439.
Old times, Siddhas belong to, 8,

314.
Om, sacred syllable, meditations on,

1, xxiii-xxvi, 1-17, 133; 15, 281-3,
301, 320-5 ; 34, Ixviii, 171-4 ; 38,
193 sq., 196-9, 283; 48, 314, 664,
682-5; means ether, 1, xxv; 15,
189 ; explanation of O. and the
Udgitha, 1, in.; issued from the
Vyahritis, 1,35; is all this (universe),
1,35; 15,50; 34, i69sq.; O. (yes)
is true, Na (no) is untrue, 1, 230;
pronounced at the beginning and
end of a lecture in the study of the
Veda, 2, 48 sq., 183 sq. ; 7, 126;
Veda recitation is separated from
profane speech by O., 2, 48 sq. ; is

Dd

Brahman, 7, 183; 8^ 79, 163 n.,

282 sq. ; 14, 278, 316; 15, 10, 50, 189; 25, 45; Kr/shwa is O., 8, 74, 83, 89 ; O., tad, sat is Brahman, 8, 120 sq., 121 n. ; is the Veda, the essence of the Veda, 8, 163 n., 353 ; 14, 283, 316; 15, 189; 25, 149, 149 n., 483; is essential in recitation of Saman hymns, 12, 100, 100 n. ; to pronounce O. is the best mode of reciting the Veda, 14, 46 ; great merit of repeating O., 14, 126; by meditating on it one becomes one with Brahman, 14,

; to pronounce O. is the best mode of reciting the Veda, 14, 46 ; great merit of repeating O., 14, 126; by meditating on it one becomes one with Brahman, 14,

283 sq., 283 n.; 15, 301, 343 sq.; 34, 170; O. is the bow, the Self is the arrow, Brahman is the aim, 15, 36 ; the pra«ava (= O.) a means of perceiving the Self, 15, 237 ; all ceremonies to begin with O., 15, 337 ; O. and Vyahr/tis accompanying suppressions of the breath, 25, 211; prawava, the drawing out of the syllable 6m, 26, 88, 88 n. ; is truth, 26, 331, 331 n. ; is common to the three Vedas, 38, 282 sq. ; O. not to be placed in a wrong place, 44, 385 ; one does not become a Brahmawa by O., 45, 140; meditation withAum, i.e. O., on the highest Person, 48, 311 sq. ; Yama's instruction about 0., 48, 362. See also Sacred syllables, and Udgitha.

'Omaiy-yat ibn Abi Zalt, prophesied the coming of Mohammed, 6, 159 n.

Omar ibn el 'ifa//ab converted by
Mohammed, 6, xxiv, xlvi ; the first
to think of editing the Qur'an, 6,
Ivii.

Omens (Omina and Portenta), forboding death, 1, 261-3 ; causing interruption of the study of the Veda, 2, 33-46, 260-4 ; 7, 124 sq. ; 14, 64-7, 208-11; 25, 145-9; 29, 115, 142, 323 sq., 414 ; 30, 80 sq. ; penances for, rites for averting, evil o., 2, 129 sq., 184, 236, 236 n.; 7, 20; 25, 152; 29, 83, 100, 136-40, 224-6, 231, 366 sq., 405 sq., 425 ; 30, 81, 127 sq., 180-4, 253, 368 sq., 296 sq., 306 sq., 326; 42, 166-8, 262 sq., 474 sq., 555 sq., 564 sq. ; the life of the mother of a person who eats at the Tishya ceremony will be shortened, 2, 149 ; a Snataka shall speak about unlucky things

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OMENS— ORDEAL(S)

as lucky, 2, 221 ; auspicious things to be passed with the right turned towards them, 2, 225 sq. and n. ; a king must h'sten to the advice of interpreters of o., 2, 236; crowing of a hen in the morning indicates subversion of the family, 3, 132; evil o., 3, 355; 7, 200-3, 217 sq. ; 8, 40, 365 n. ; 18, 280, 280 n., 326 ; appearance of a pair of phoenixes, a good o., 3, 406, 406 n.; King Yu blamed lor disregarding evil o., 3, 428; prayers recited at sneezing, yawning, and sighing, 5, 352, 352 n. ; 20, 152 sq. ; 24, 265 sq. ; 37, 452 ; houses not to be entered from behind, 6, 27, 27 n. ; auspicious things and persons (in which Lakshmi resides), 7, 298-301 ; approaching from the right, a good o., 9, 169 ; the Bhikkhu must refrain from the interpretation of o., 10 (ii), 60,176; 11,196-9; 20,152; knots as o., 12, 73, 73 «•; 26, 134, 146; tuck of a garment sacred to the Manes, 12, 435, 435 n. ; an ascetic shall not hve by explaining o., 14,

; an ascetic shall not hve by explaining o., 14,

48 ; 25, 208 ; if a man sees himself in the water, he should recite a certain verse, 15, 216 sq. ; auspicious and inauspicious lineal figures, FoL 16 ; the miracles at Buddha's birth good o., not portents, 19, 7 sq. ; white cloth spread out for good luck by a woman who had had a miscarriage, 20, 129 ; knowledge of o., the last of the seventy-two sciences, 22, 282 ; thunder a dangerous o., 27, 260 ; rules for wind, thunder, rain, 28, 5 ; occurring to a wedding procession, 29, 40 sq., 170 sq. ; 30,

49 sq., 258, 262 ; birth of twincalves inauspicious, 29, 100; 42, i45> 359-61 ; a weather-prophet not fit to be a witness, 33, 88 ; interpreters of evil o. termed ' open thieves,' 33, 360; interpretation of o., the business of Brahmans, 35, 247 sq. ; danger from ill-omened speaking, 37, 129 ; prodigies, a ewe lambing and a quail hatching in the house, 40, 107 ; when the axle of the chariot creaks, that voice is demoniacal, 41, 291 ; amulets against the consequences of evil o., 42, 82 ; Rudra invoked against evil o., 42,

156, 619 ; the black bird defiles the sacrifice, 42, 186 ; cry of birds a good o., 42, 312; the * seven i^/shis' obscured by a nebulous mass or comet, 42, 390, 563 ; not looking backwards, 44, 205, 267 ; good and bad o. from the glowing of the Gharma (pot at the Pravargya), 44, 468, 485 ; he who puts his faith in prognostics will be born an Asura, 45, 231; lucky and unlucky marks of the body, see Body. See also Divination, Eclipses, Miracles, and Trees.

Ororaaiyet ibn 'i/alf, tries to induce
Mohammed to give up his poorer
followers, 9, 17 n.

Omnipotence depends on the omnipotent ruler being the cause of all created things, 34, 132.

Omniscience, * all-knowing ' denotes death, and is the same as nescience, 21, 118 n.; obtained by a hermit's life, 21, 132 sq., 139 sqq. ; Buddha has raised o. in the Arhats, who do not know it, 21, 202 ; ascribed to the Pradhana, 34, 46 sq.

Onaha, Pali t.t., * obstacles,' 11,
182 n.

Opapatika, Pali t.t., a being sprung into existence without the intervention of parents, such as the higher devas, 11, 213 sq. n.

Opposites, pairs of, such as heat
and cold, pleasure and pain, &c.,
8, 48, 48 n., 60, 63, 74 n., 76, III,
160, 167 n., 168 n., 233, 246 sq.,
257, 292, 351, 357 sq., 366, 369 sq.,
379. See also Pain, and Pleasure.

Oracles: the Bhikkhu should not apply himself to the interpretation of sleep and signs, or of the cry of birds, 10 (ii), 176 ; how to find out the quahties of a girl one intends to wed, 29, 165 ; 30, 42 sq., 257 ; what the sacred fires prophesy for the deceased and his son, at the funeral, 29, 242 sq. See also Divination.

Oral tradition, as an authority for
the true teaching of Buddha, 11,
67-70.

Ordeal(s), by the heated hatchet, to find out a thief, 1, 108 sq., 108 n. ; 34, 323 n. ; a means of ascertaining the truth, as part of judicial pro-

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