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

; Prawagnihotra, five Agnihotra oblations to Prawa, &c., 1, 89-91 ; 14, 262-4, 266, 304 sq.; 38, 249-52; 44, 321, 378 ; offering of the P., 8, 61 sq. ; their movements in the body, 8,

237 sq. ; produced from food, 8,

238 ; from the Brahman the P. proceed, and into it they enter, 8, 258 ; speech produced by means of the P., 8, 263-6 ; speech dwelt between prawa and apana, 8, 264 ; Pra«ayama or restraint of P., 8, 266 n. ; the five P. as five priests, 8, 270; death met with on the exhaustion of the P., 8, 270 ; the five P. appeal to Brahman to decide who is the greatest amongst them, 8, 271-4; when a creature is born, which of the P. comes into existence first? 8, 274-7; there are three P. (pra«a, udana, vyana) in man, 8, 331; 12, 20, 99; 15, 196, 198 ; 26, 17, 210, 252-8, 255 n., 260, 262-5, 323, 358 sq., 366 ; 41, 317 ; 43, 236 sq., 402 ; 44, 89 sq., 246, 321, 467, 470, 499 ; the five P. are joined to the inner self, and together with speech, mind, and understanding make the eight constituents of the universe, 8, 336; two or three vital airs (prawa, udana, &c.), 12, 19 sq. and n. ; the Samidhs identified with the P., 12, 152 ; the rays of the sun extend down to the P., 12, 343 ; prayer to the five P., 14, 299, 299 n. ; the Vyahritis as the breathings, 15, 49 ; Pra«a, Apana, Vyana form the body of the Self, 15, 55, 308 ; identified or connected with the quarters, 15, 160,338-40; the origin, entry, place, the fivefold distribution (Apana, &c.), and the internal state of the Pra«a, 15, 276-8, 293 sq,; eating, a sacrifice to the P., 15, 312; are born of the mind, 26, 39 ; identified with deities, 26, 39 ; 41, 273 ; grahas are the vital airs, 26, 298 sq., 3:01, 419-21, 424; created seven persons or souls, 41, 144, 144 n. ; assuming the form of a bird, the P. became Pra^apati, 41, 157, 157 n. ; in-breathing and out-breathing protect life, 42, 49 sq., 52 sq., 57, 60 ;

bricks of the fire-altar identified with P., 43, 60, 82, 90; up-breathing and in-breathing identified with full and new moon, 44, 31 ; foreofferings and after-offerings represented as out-breathings and offbreathings, 44, 43, 43 n. ; navel the channel of central breathing, 44, 58 ; Mitra is in-breathing, Varu«a is offbreathing, 44, 269 ; oblations to inbreathing and off-breathing, 44, 378. (c) The p. as organs of sense

AND ACTION.

; navel the channel of central breathing, 44, 58 ; Mitra is in-breathing, Varu«a is offbreathing, 44, 269 ; oblations to inbreathing and off-breathing, 44, 378. (c) The p. as organs of sense

AND ACTION.

In dreamless sleep the P. become absorbed in the prawa (breath) alone, 1> 58, 307 ; the quarrel of the P., viz. breath, speech, eye, ear, mind, 1,72-4; 8, 207; 15, 201-4, 274 sq.; 34, Ixx, 304; 38, 88 sq., 186 sqq., 200, 211, 215, 309; 48, 572, 574; all senses are breath, therefore they are called the P. or breaths, 1, 74 ; 15, 97 sq. ; 48, 577 sq. ; meditation on P. as identified with the hymns of the Rig-veda and their poets, 1,214- 1 8 ; after having become one, the P. perceive speech, form, sound, thought together, but breath alone is self-consciousness, 1, 294 sq. ; absorption of the other P. into breath, at the time of death, 1, 295 sq. ; 15, 126; the seats of the P., 7, 285; the P., the tongue, the mind, and the qualities of goodness and passion make up the manifestations as individual entities, 8, 292, 292 n. ; offerings to the P. (breath, speech, &c.), 15, 210 sq. ; 44, 504, 506; prawa, vital air, a generic name denoting the sense-organs, and the manas, 34, lix, 261, 269 sqq. ; 38, 65 n., 93 sq., 96 ; their origination, 34, lix ; 38, 74-9 ; 48, 568-70 ; they are minute, 34, lix ; 38, 8 4 ; 48, 5 7 2 sq . ; are superintended and guided in their activity by special divinities, they are independent principles, not mere modifications of the chief vital air, 34, lix ; 38, 91-6 ; 48, 586 sq. ; do not depart from the body, 34, cxii ; the word 'person ' applied to them, 34, 261 ; the instance of the P. illustrates the identity of cause and effect, 34, 342 sq. ; the individual soul is the sustaining principle of the P., 34, 361 ; 38, 367 sq. ; difference of scriptural prAa^as—pratyekabuddhas

p. 435

illustrates the identity of cause and effect, 34, 342 sq. ; the individual soul is the sustaining principle of the P., 34, 361 ; 38, 367 sq. ; difference of scriptural prAa^as—pratyekabuddhasp. 435 statements regarding them, 38, 3, 74-9 ; called graha, seizers, 38, 79, 83 ; although guided by divinities, are yet connected with the individual soul, 38, 92 sq. ; are not functions of the chief vital air, 38, 94 ; when a new body is obtained, they also go from the old body to the new one, 38, 105 ; at the time of death the P. go to the other gods, 38, 105 sq. ; do not depart from the embodied soul of him who knows Brahman, 38, 372 sq. ; are i^ishis, 41,143? 333; 43, xxi n., 60,^122, 174, 185; 48, 568 sq.; Pra^apati produces creatures by union with the P., the life-sustaining gods, 43, 32, 34 ; put into the body of Agni (the fire-altar), 43, 51, 54-61, 90 sq., 136, 138-44, 149, 209-12, 214, 220 ; identified with Agni, 43, 70 ; assist Pra^apati in the creation, 43, 72-6 ; are the highest of all this universe, 43, 149 ; the Samans are P., and the P. are immortality, 43, 177 sq. ; are the gods among the gods, 43, 185 sq., 304; are the immortal element, 43, 220; food conveyed to them, 43, 347 sq.; mind, speech, and the other P., 43, 376-9 ; work incomplete without P., P. incomplete without work, 43, 379 ; the mouth is the extreme end of the P., 44, 76 ; speech, breath, eye, and other P., 44, 174 ; imperishable are the P., 44, 174; the sacred fires identified with them, 44, 190; the bearer of P., i.e. the individual soul, 48, 298, 554 sq. ; the rule of the soul and the presiding divinities (Agni, &c.) over the P. proceeds from the will of Brahman, 48, 575-7 ; all P. are ^organs' except the vital breath, 48, 577 sq. ; soul, when passing out from the body, followed by the P., 48, 586. See also Organs, and Senses.

Pra;^asa;;/vada, Sk., the quarrel of the senses, 1, 72 n. ; 34, Ixx. See also Prawas {c),

Pra^^ata Kalpa, the tenth world of the gods, 22, 271.

Pra;^ava, t.t, the drawing out of the syllable Om, see Om.

Pra;/avidya or pra«asa;;zvada, t.c.,
1, 72 n., 234 n., 236 ; 34, Ixviii ; 38,
200 sq., 212. See Prawas (r).

Pra;?ita>^, see Water (Z»).
Praptasena, the 44th Tathagata,

49 (ii), 6.
Pra^yastr/, see Priests {a),
Prasena^it, king of Kojala, 19, 213,

213 n., 230-40.
Praska;/va Ka«va, author of hymns

addressed to matutinal deities, 46,

37, 39, 42 sq.
Praj^na-upanishad, quoted, 8, 20

and notes on 65, 79, 81, 125, 152, 166, 176, 259, 271, 390 sq. ; 34, xliii;

38, 428; 48, 778; translated, 15, xlii sq., 269-84.

Prai-navahanaka Kula of the Kauifika Ga«a, 22, 292.

Pra^niputra Asurivasin, n.p., 15,
226.

Prata^savana, see Sacrifice (/).

Pratapavat, the 2nd Tathagata, 49
(ii), 6.

Pratardana, the son of Divodasa, came to the abode of Indra, instituted the inner Agnihotra, 1, 283, 293 sqq. ; 34, 97-9, loi ; 38, 305 sq. ; 48, 250-4.