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

Pradanayura, a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, 21, 4, 372, 394? 404.

Pradhana, t.t. of Sahkhya philosophy, the material cause of the world, 8, 244 sq. ; 34, 291; 48, 200 sq., 281-3, 308-10, 414, 417, 428, 482-4; after perceiving the Brahman, the devotee understands

the P., 8, 253 ; a name of PrakWti, 8, 331 ; he who understands the P., is emancipated, 8, 370; meditated upon by sages, is void of smell, taste, colour, touch, sound, 8, 382 ; is unperceived, 8, 382 ; not an independent power, but the power (jakti) of the Deva, 15, xxxv sq. ; the perishable P. is ruled by the imperishable Hara (God), 15, 235 sq. ; Brahman compared to a spider drawing threads from the P., 15, 263 ; the thinking Purusha abides within P. (nature), 15, 313; how the perception of P. takes place, 15, 314; the Safikhya doctrine of the P. as the cause of the world refuted, 34, xxxii, xlvi, 1, xciii, cxvii, 16, 16 n., 46 sq., 47-64, 70 sq., 135 sq., 139-42, 237-41, 238 n., 252, 257- 60, 263, 290, 296, 313 sq., 353 sq., 363-81, 437 sq.; 48, 200-8, 354- 407? 475 ; the Upanishads teach nothing like the P., 34, cxix, 252 ; figuratively spoken of as thinking, 34, 52 sqq. ; cannot be designated by the term ' Self,' 34, 55-60 ; the internal ruler is not the P., 34, 132 sq. ; absolute bliss cannot result from P., 34, 138 ; the abode of heaven, earth, &c., cannot be the P.J 34, 154, 157 sq. ; the supporting of all things up to ether cannot be the work of the P., 34, 170 sq. ; denoted by * the Undeveloped,' 34, 238, 245 sqq. ; by the term P. the Sahkhya understands the antecedent condition of the world, 34, 242; is something to be cognized, 34, 246 ; is not spoken of as an object of knowledge, 34, 246 sq. ; not mentioned among the subjects of discussion in the colloquy between Yama and Nay^iketas, 34, 247-52 ; is not denoted by a^a, 34, 252-7 ; why it is treated in the Vedanta-sutras, 34, 288 sq., 317; assumed by the Yoga-smr/ti, 34, 296 ; non-intelligent P. cannot be the cause of intelligent soul, 34, 308 ; 48, 205 ; is the state of equilibrium of the three gimas, 34, 353, 364 n., 366 sq. ; 48, 201; arguments of the Sankhyas for the threefold P., 34, 364; is not intelligent, therefore cannot produce 3cannot be the cause of intelligent soul, 34, 308 ; 48, 205 ; is the state of equilibrium of the three gimas, 34, 353, 364 n., 366 sq. ; 48, 201; arguments of the Sankhyas for the threefold P., 34, 364; is not intelligent, therefore cannot produce the world, 34, 367-71 ; 48, 484-6; does not modify itself spontaneously, 34, 371 sq. ; absence of a purpose on the part of the P., 34, 372 sq., 374 ; the soul may move the P. as the lame man moves the blind one, or as the magnet moves the iron, 34, 373 sq. ; the theory of P. adopted by Manu and other adherents of the Veda, 34, 394; Lord acts as ruler of the P. and of the souls, and P., soul, and Lord are of mutually different nature, 34, 434- 7 ; of infinite duration, 34, 438 ; the same as sawsara, 34, 439 ; through P. the souls obtain enjoyment and release, 38, 69 ; Vishwu as P., 48, 93 ; is perishable, 48, 139 ; independent of Brahman, 48, 413 ; the master of the P. and the souls, the lord of the gu«as, 48, 469 ; God not the ruler of P., 48, 522 sq. ; ^Brahman' used in the sense of P., 48, 533.

Fradyumna, Vasudeva, Sankarshan2L, and Aniruddha, 11, 267 n. ; a manifestation of the highest being, 34, xxiii, 441 sq. ; cannot spring from Sankarshawa, 34, li, 441-2 ; a form of Vasudeva, denotes the mind (manas), 34, 440; Aniruddha cannot spring from P., 34, 441 sq. ; the internal organ so called by the Bhagavatas, 48, 524-6.

Pra^apati.

(a) P. a supreme God and creator; the

(c) Worship of P.

(d) P. as a teacher.

(e) P. in philosophy and mysticism.

(a) P. A SUPREME God and creator ; THE PrA^^APATIS.