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

Pur-tora, ancestor of Fre^un, 5, \12 sq., 132 n.; 47, 34.

Puru, conquered by Bharata in battles,^41, 292.

Puru Atreya, author of Vedic hymns, 46, 401, 403.

Puru^t, n. of a warrior, 8, 37.

Purukutsa, the Aikshvaka king,
performed a horse-sacrifice, 44,
397.

Purumi//^a Vaidadajvi, n.p., 32,

356, 3^58-62. Puru^itha 5atavaneya, n.p., 46, 50, Pururavas and Urvaji, the two arams, 12, 389 n.; 26, 91; P. or Aila (son of I^/a), grandchild of Soma, became a madman, 19, 149 ; 49 (i), 138 ; myth of Urvaji and P., 26, 91, 91 n. ; 42, 521 ; 44, xiv, 68- 74, 68 sq. n. ; 49 (i), 113 ; son of Ydk introduced three sacrificial fires, 30, xvi, xvi n. ; a solar hero, 32, 307 sq. ; throws himself into the lap of Nirr/ti, 42, 564 n. ; the well-doing P., 46, 22. Piirus, n. of a clan, 46, 49. Purusha, the Person: a P. not human leads the departed to Brahman, 1, 68, 80, 80 n. ; the Self when free of the body is the highest P., 1, 141 ; as Creator, 1, 210-12 ; 34, cxxiii sq. ; 43, xiv ; 48, 201 sq., 333 sq. ; created from the water, 1, 238 ; is the year, and its essence the sun, 1, 259 ; meditation on P., the embodied Self and the universal Soul, 1, 305 ; 7, 287-91 ; 38, 205 ; a day of P., 7, 78 ; offering of flowers to P., while muttering the Purushasukta, 7, 206 sq. ; there is nothing imperishable except P., 7, 290; Vishwu is P., 7, 291, 296; knows the Kshetra, therefore is he called Kshetra^wa, 8, 351 ; the truth about the unperceived, the P., &c., to be understood by the Sannyasin, 8, 368 ; beyond the Undeveloped there is the P., beyond the P. there is the goal, the highest road, 15, 13, 22 ; 34, cxix, 237 sq. ; 38, 205 ; not larger than a thumb, the P. dwells in the heart of man, 15, 16, 23, 35, 246 sq. ; 34, xxxvii, 195-8 ; the highest P. is Brahman, the Immortal, 15, 19; 25, 6, 6 n. ; 34, xxxv-xxxvii, 17 1-4, 195-8 ; 43, 400; 48, 4, 39, &c. ; the eternal and true P. reached by knowledge of Brahman, 15, 32 sq. ; the heavenly P. is without body, pure, higher than the Imperishable, 15, 34 ; 34, cxix, 298 ; the lord of the world as the P. who has his source in Brahman, 15, 38 ; the Ps. in the sun, moon, lightning, &c., worshipped as Brahman, 15, 100-3 \

PURUSHA— pOSHAN

p. 455

; the heavenly P. is without body, pure, higher than the Imperishable, 15, 34 ; 34, cxix, 298 ; the lord of the world as the P. who has his source in Brahman, 15, 38 ; the Ps. in the sun, moon, lightning, &c., worshipped as Brahman, 15, 100-3 \

PURUSHA— pOSHAN

p. 455

appearance of the P., 15, 107 ; 38, 167-9; the bright, immortal P. in all beings and things is the same as the Self, the Immortal, Brahman, the All, 15, 113-17, 245-8; 48, 334j 356 ; Ya^wavalkya on the p. in the earth, in love, in the colours, in ether, &c., the principle of every self, 15, 142-5 ; the golden P., the lonely bird, 15, 165 ; 43, xxiv, 400 ; P. under the form of mind is light, within the heart, and small like a grain of rice or barley, 15, 192 ; he who knows the great P. passes over death, 15, 245 ; 48, 686 ; with a thousand heads, eyes, feet, 15, 247; 44, 410; the P. of sixteen parts within the body, 15, 283 sq. ; is Pra^apati, called Vijva, who makes the body intelligent and is the driver thereof, 15, 291 sq. ; 43, xxiv ; is Agni Vaijvanara, 15, 294 ; 43, 398 ; when all things perish, he becomes one with the P., 15, 302 ; Pradhana (nature) and the P. (the thinking subject), as food and feeder, 15, 313 sq. ; seven Ps., 25, II, II n., 613 ; 43, xv n. ; the P. in the heart sees everything, 25, 2 69 sq., 269 n. ; the supreme Male, 25, 512 ; individual soul (in the Sankhya sense), 34, xxx, xl, xlvi, 36, 45, 238 n., 370 ; is not the original Brahman but an effect, may be called the internal Self of all beings, 34, 142 ; purijaya, the person dwelling in the castle (of the body), 34, 172, 178 ; is higher than the senses and everything else, 38, 204 sq. ; is hard to know, and to be reached by sharp minds only, 38, 205 ; became Pra^apati, 41, 144 ; the one P. made out of seven Ps., 41, 144 ; 43, 205, 304 sq. ; P.-Pra^apati is related to the herbs, 41, 340 sq. and n. ; the Ps. in the sun, in the eye, and in the gold man of the Fire-altar, 43, xxii, 466-74 ; the Agni-like, Arka-like, Uktha-like P.,

43, 398 sq. ; the fire-altar, as representing P.-Pra^apati, 44, xiv ; P.- Pra^apati born from golden egg,

44, 12 ; P. Narayawa exhorted by
Pra^apati to sacrifice, 44, 172 sq. ;
has entered into five things, 44,
389, 389 n. ; P. Narayawa desiring

; the fire-altar, as representing P.-Pra^apati, 44, xiv ; P.- Pra^apati born from golden egg,

44, 12 ; P. Narayawa exhorted by
Pra^apati to sacrifice, 44, 172 sq. ;
has entered into five things, 44,
389, 389 n. ; P. Narayawa desiring

to overpass all beings, beheld the Purushamedha, 44, 403 ; Vira^ born from P., and P. from Vira^, 44, 403 sq. ; is the wind, 44, 407 ; P. Naraya«a litany, 44, 410 ; the inner ruler of Agni, &c., pleased by sacrifices to Agni and other gods, 48, 155 ;^the body of the highest P., 48, 202 ; Pradhana and all .its effects and the individual souls have their Self in P., 48, 359 ; release consists in attaining to the highest P., 48, 625-8 ; knowledge or meditation originated through the grace of the Supreme P., 48, 699 ; hymn to P., see Purusha-sukta ; in the eye, in the lightning, in the moon, in the sun, see Eye, Lightning, Moon (r), and Sun. See also God, Man, and Soul. Purushamedha, see Human sacrifice. Purushanti, n.p., 32, 360 sq. Purusha-sukta, hymn to Purusha, of the Rig-veda, 1, Ixvi ; 7, 206 sq. ; 8, 280 n. ; 25, 480 ; 43, xiv sq., xv n. ; 44, XX, 410. Purusha- vidya (i. e. meditations on Purusha) of the Taittiriyaka and of the ATMndogya-upanishads, 38, 220-2. Purushottama, the Highest Man, a name of Buddha, 21, 44. Purvay^aryas, * ancient teachers,'

quoted by Ramanu^a, 34, xxi. Purva-Miina;;2sa, system of philosophy, its early existence, 2, xxviii sq., 121 ; 25, xlvii, xlvii n. ; 34, fx ; systematizes the KarmakaWa, 34, ix; inquiry into active religious duty its subject, 34, 10 ; means of proof made use of in the P., 34, 17 sq. and n. ; 38, 262 sq. Purva - Mimamasb - sutras and Kalpa-sutras, their relation to each other, 34, xii; the Vedanta-sutras presuppose them, 34, xiii. See also Gaimini-purvamimawsa-sutra. Purva^y^tti, is a nymph, 43, 108. Pu^, demon of avarice, 5, no sq., no n. Pushan, a name of the sun, 1, 313 ; 15, 199 ; worshipped at the ceremony of setting a bull at liberty, 7, 261 ; 29, loi ; * with the hands of P.,' the distributor of portions to the gods, 12, 16, 42, 53, 213 ; 26,p. 456 pOshan—qualities