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

Priyakariwi, other name of Tri/ala,
22, 193, 256.

Priyamedha, and the Priyamedhas,
connected with the Ka«vas, 46,
42 sq.

Priyavrata Rauhi«ayana on prayer,
43, 340.

Probation, see Sawgha.

Procreation, see Generation.

Prodigies, see Omens.

Professions or occupations ; persons following certain p., whose food must not be eaten, or who may not be invited to 5raddhas, 2, 67-9, 71, 257 sq., 265-7; 14, 69, 71 ; 25, 103-7, 109, 1 6 1-4; contemptible and unlawful p., 7, 137, 148, 163 sq., 252 sq. ; 15, 341 sq. ; 25, 142, 265 sq., 442 sq., 494, 494 n. ; to be avoided by the Bhikkhu, 11, 191, 195-200 ; Brahma^as following forbidden p. to be treated like 5udras, 14, 17, 175; sins committed by following certain p., 14, 219, 219 n. ; adultery with wives of minstrels and actors not punishable, 14, 233 ; dancers, athletes, butchers, &c., shunned by Bodhisattvas and preachers, 21, 263, 265 sq., 438 ; Gaina monk may beg of royal famihes, cowherds' families, Vaijya, barbers*, carpenters', /akurs', and weavers' families, 22, 92 ; instruction for the p., 27, 235; people following certain p. cannot be witnesses, 33, 86-9 ; property of stage players free of duty, 33, 127; astronomers, physicians, and priests to be honoured by the king, 33, 288 ; laws relating to various kinds of p., 33, 340 sq.; quacks, low artists, jugglers, punished as * open thieves,' 33, 360 sq, ; wrestlers, tumblers, jugglers, &c., forming secret societies, 35, 266, 266 n. ; list of all sorts and conditions of men living in a great city, 36, 209-11 ; distribution and acquire-

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; list of all sorts and conditions of men living in a great city, 36, 209-11 ; distribution and acquire-

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ment of fortune, 37, 179 ; minstrels, heralds, actors, and men of many other p. among the symbolical victims of the Purushamedha, 44, 413-17; of women, 44, 414 sq. See also Actors, Artisan, Arts, Astronomers, Castes, Low arts, and Physicians. Property, law about it, 2, 168-70, 231 sq.; 7, 19 sq., 30, 34, 36 sq., 40 sq.; 14, 80-3; 33, 264 sq.; 37, 57-65> 68, 70, 72, 74, 80 sq., 102, 106, 112 sq., 138-43, 147 sq. ; modes of acquiring p., 2, 231 sq. ; 25, 426; 33, xiii, 52-5, 242 sq.; law about finds and lost p., 2, 231 sq. ; 14, 18 ; 25, 258 sq* and n. ; 33, 1 46 ; confiscation of p. for an habitual offender, 2, 241 ; law of limitation, 2, 243, 243 sq. n. ; 14, 81; 25, 279; 33, do-2, 205 n., 238 sq., 243 sq., 310-14; law regarding p. of orphans and idiots, 6, 7 1 sq. ; 9, 5 ; trusts to be paid to their owners, 6, 80 ; he who injures p. incurs a heavier penalty than he who injures animal life, 7, 173 ; three kinds of p., 7, 189 sq. ; crime of destroying p., 8, 41 n., 159 ; not to be acquired by the ascetic and monk, 8, 364 sq. ; 11, 192; p. of minors and unprotected females to be protected, 14, 79 sq. and n., 81, 229 sq. ; 25, 257 sq. and n. ; deposit and pledge, a title of the law, 25, ciii, 253, 278-80, 278 n., 279 n., 286-9; 33, 61, 63, 65, 120-3, 128, 144, 265, 330, 332- 5 ; punishment required for the protection of ownership, 25, 219; seizure of p. by king, 25, 223 ; law about treasure-trove, 25, 259 sq. andn. ; 37, 134-6, 136 n. ; law about damage done to p., 25, 304-6, 391-3 ; p. of slaves, wives, and sons, 25, 326 sq. ; 33, 136 n., 138 ; indivisible p., 25, 379, 379 sq. n. ; appropriating p. to prevent starvation allowed, 25, 433 sq. ; possession as a means of proof, 33, 58-65 ; once only the family p. is divided, 33, 171 ; acquired by study, 33, 191; law about p. in land and boundary disputes, 33, 266 ; law about p. and possession, 33, 309-14 ; sale without ownership, 33, 334-6 ; value of and damage done to p., animate and inanimate, 37, 86, 136 sq. ; about selling p., 37, 98 ; sequestration law, 37, 1 3 1-4, 136; keeping men and sheep as p., 37, 332 ; prayer to Pushan, to find lost p., 42, 159 sq., 542 ; no idea of p. in a Buddha country, 49 (ii), 13, 43, 55; partition of p., see Inheritance. See also Trade, and Woman {a, g).

Prophecy, see Divination.

Prophets, see Apostles, and Holy persons.

Propriety, reverence and gravity and careful speech essential in, 27, 61 sq. ; rules of p. and moral conduct, 27, 61-70 ; marks the distinction between men and brutes, 27, 64 sq. ; p. and righteousness, 27, 388 sq. ; the rules of p. serve as -instruments to form men's characters, 27, 395; good government secured by p. and righteousness, 28, 462 sq.

ProshZ/^apadas, oblation to, 29, 3 3 1.

Prosperity, goddess of, 41, 324. See also Bhuti.

; p. and righteousness, 27, 388 sq. ; the rules of p. serve as -instruments to form men's characters, 27, 395; good government secured by p. and righteousness, 28, 462 sq.

ProshZ/^apadas, oblation to, 29, 3 3 1.

Prosperity, goddess of, 41, 324. See also Bhuti.

Prostitutes, may be killed without penance, 2, 286 ; what dogs have in common with p., 4, 166 sq., 167 n. ; the evil caused by the p., she may be killed, 4, 205 sq. and n., 279; Vaidehakas live by keeping dancinggirls and other p., 7, 67 ; crime of living by prostituting one's own wife, 7, 137; 33, 88 n. ; food of a p. impure, 7, 155, 163; 14, 70, 298; 25, 161, 163; laws about p., 7, 174, 176, 200; 10 (ii), 19; 33, 129 sq. n., 143, 266 ; punishment of the whore and the whoremonger, 9, 73 ; slave girls not to be compelled to be p., 9, 77, 77 n. ; the courtesan Ambapali, 11, 30-3 ; 17, 105-8 ; thirty friends sporting with their wives, one of them with a p., 13, 116 sq.; novice must not frequent the society of p., 13, 189; towns flourishing through courtesans, 17, 171 sqq. ; Bhikkhunis bathing together with courtesans, 17, 222 sq. ; dancing-girls, 17, 349 ; concubines and courtesans unfit to be adopted, 18, 191 ; a Bhikkhuni is not to keep courtesans, 20, 343 ; a courtesan who becomes a

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Bhikkhuni, 20, 360 ; a Bodhisattva must have no intercourse with whores and whoremongers, 21, 266 ; not allowed to partake of sacrifices, 23, 109, 244 ; p. procuring abortion, hateful to Ashi Vanguhi, 23, 280 sq. ; sin of going to p., 24, 73 ; subsistence by the gain of p., 25, 142 ; clever p. are 'thorns,* 25, 388; brothels watched by soldiers and police, 25, 389 ; Haoma invoked against the body of the harlot, 31, 239 ; prostitution of widows, &c., among heretics, 33, 155 n. ; different classes of women termed *punarbhu ' (re-married) and * svairim * (wanton), 33, 174-6 ; king must not confiscate ornaments of p., 33, 215 ; are punishable as * open rogues,' 33, 223, 360 sq. ; the courtesan Bindumati, 35, 182-4 ; p., swingers and jumpers, slave girls of bullies, 36, 211, 211 n. ; sin of ill-treatment of a courtesan, 37, 211, 211 n. ; p. sacrificed to Desire and Fun at the Purushamedha, 44, 413, 417; women of evil conduct go to hell, 46, 335; H6m- water not for a satisfier of p., 47, 57 ; the demons and the p. withdrawn from mankind, 47, 59 ; Kajika, the harlot of ms% 49 (i), 190.

Proti Kaujambeya ^ Kausurubindi,
pupil of Uddalaka Aru«i, 44, 153,
153 n.