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of goodness, 8, 373 sq. ; 34, 46, 49 ; works endowed with the three qu., 15, 260 ; God, the lord of the three qu., 15, 265 ; the Self concealed in the cloak of the three qu.,15, 295 ; represented in Rudra,

Brahman (m.), and Vish«u, 15, 303 sq. ; food is composed of the three qu., 15, 313; all things in the world are fettered by qu. or guwas, 19, 210 ; heretical systems based on Darkness or ignorance, 25, 505, 5 1 1, 5 1 i n. ; knowledge an attribute of the gu«a of Goodness, 34, 46, 48 sq. ; why they are called white, red, and black, 34, 253 ; the pradhana is the state of equilibrium of the three qu., 34, 353, 3^7, 37© ; are the three constituent elements of the pradhana, 34, 364 n., 366 sq. ; absolute independence, their essential characteristic, 34, 374 sq. ; the gu«a Passion cannot be that which causes suffering, 34, 379 ; the gu«a Darkness is eternal, 34, 380. See also Morality.

Quarters : in the East the seed of the gods springs up, 1, 176 ; demons come from the north, 5, 3 1 8, 3 18 n. ; are one of the ten fires at the allegorical sacrifice of the sense-organs, 8, 261 ; are the presiding deity of space and connected with ear or sound, 8, 337, 340, 350; 15, 81; 43, 10, 363 ; 44, 133 ; East or North, the first of all qu., 8, 347, 354, 354 n. ; East the qu. of the gods. North (West) qu. of men, South qu. of ancestors, 12, 63, 187, 243, 270, 422; 26, 1-4, 146, 165 ; 41, 329, 329 n., 389 ; 42, 186, 188, 192 sq. ; 43, 2^26 sq. ; 44, 424 ; five qu. and their deities, 12, 382 sq. ; 26, 50 sq. ; 41, 152, 152 n. ; 42, 113 ; invoked and worshipped as goddesses, 12, 382 sq. ; 29, 232, 320 sq., 348 ; 30, 171, 194, 213 sq., 277 ; 42, 161 sq. ; 43, 193, 245 sq. ; 44, 140, 143, 505 ; the wind entered the qu., 12, 385 ; North, Rudra's quarter, 12, 438 sq. ; all the qu. are all the prawas, 15, 160 ; Vayu the child of the Qu., 15, 221 ; South the region of brightness, 16, 426 ; Soma desires to consort with the qu., 26, 245 sq. ; game sacrificed to the four qu., 27, 295 ; special colours and weapons for the qu., 27, 328, 328 n.; weeping, spitting, urinating, and reviling forbidden when facing the north, 40, 244; king, at consecration, made to ascend the qu., 41, 91 ; five

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qu. represented by five dice, 41, 107 sq., 10711.; sacrifice (Paw^abila) for the appeasement of the qu., 41, 120-3 ; four qu. the four corners of the earth (or the sun), 41, 155, 242 ; 44, 498 ; nine or ten qu., 41, 196, 296 sq.; 43, 26 sq., 43-6, 91 ; four and four, 41, 203; North-east, qu. of both gods and men, 41, 229, 252; 44, 359; by means of the four qu. the gods carried Agni, 41, 268 ; four or six, 41, 268 sq.; 42, 68, 196; East, Agni's region, 41, 291 ; decline, weakness, sickness in the North, 41, 348 ; are the seven hotras, 41, 368 ; four goddesses, the consorts of the wind, 42, 14; are the heavenly world, 43, 9 sq. ; identified with the metres, 43, 45 sq. ; their names, 43, 46 ; Agni is the ten qu.,

; identified with the metres, 43, 45 sq. ; their names, 43, 46 ; Agni is the ten qu.,

43, 70, 164, 263, 263 n.; the qu. and their rulers, 43, 100-3 ; ten qu., five on each side of the sun, 43, 104; gods and Asuras contending for the qu., 43, 193, 195, 198, 200 ; the goddesses Anumati, &c., are the qu., and the qu. are deities, 43, 264 sq.; seven qu., 43, 277, 314; beheld (or discovered) by the gods,

44, 16-18 ; four qu. belong to the four priests, 44, 402 ; Northern qu. especially sacred, 49 (i), 75.

Quba', mosque of, first place of
public prayer in Islam, 6, 188 sq.,
188 n.

Queen, is one of the king's jewels,
41, 60 ; lies down near the sacrificial
horse, 44, 321 sq. and n. See also
King, Rulers, and Women.

Quiescence, Quietness, Quietism, see Nirvawa, and Tranquillity.

Qurai^^ah, Jews of, 6, xxxviii sq. ;
9, 274 n.

Qurclis, tribe of, 6, xvi, xxvi, xxviii,
xxxiii, xlix, lix, 97 n., 165 n., 249 n. ;
9, 17 n., 62 n., 69 n., 236 n., 254 n.,
320 n. ; their prosperity, 6, liii, Ixi ;
9, 342.

Qur'an, its early portions genuine rhapsodies of an enthusiast, 6, xlvi ; Jewish and Christian influences on it, 6, xlvii-lii, Ixix, 5 n. ; its influence on the Arab mind, 6, 1 ; not a formal and consistent code of morals, 6, lii ; its language and style, 6, jiv sq.,

Qur'an, its early portions genuine rhapsodies of an enthusiast, 6, xlvi ; Jewish and Christian influences on it, 6, xlvii-lii, Ixix, 5 n. ; its influence on the Arab mind, 6, 1 ; not a formal and consistent code of morals, 6, lii ; its language and style, 6, jiv sq.,

Ixxvi sq., 43 n. ; nothng like it in Arabic literature, 6, Iv sq. ; division of the Q^in Surahs, verses, &c., 6, Ivi, Ixv ; means * a reading,' is also called * the discrimination,' 6, Ivii ; 9, 83 ; how it was written down, 6, Ivii sq. ; its arrangement, 6, Iviii ; different dialects and various readings in the Q., 6, Iviii sq. ; its text §xed by Othman, 6, lix ; Surahs revealed at Mecca, and those revealed at Medinah, 6, lix-lxv; chronological arrangement of Q., 6, lix-lxv; mysterious letters at the beginning of Surahs, 6, Ixiv sq. ; 9, 175 n., 295 n. ; names of the Q., 6, Ixv; revealed by the archangel Gabriel, 6, Ixix, 13 ; 9, 98 ; revealed in the * night of power* during Rama^/Mn, 6, Ixxiii, 26; 9, 218, 337 ; translations of the Q., 6, Ixxvii-lxxx; abstract of the contents of the Q., 6, Ixxxi-cxviii ; not composed by Mohammed, but revealed by God in Arabic, 6, cviii, 46, 83, 117, 136, 138, 182, 185, 192, 194, 206, 219, 232, 261 ; 9, 10-13, 43, 98, 122, 160, 162, 182, 190, 199, 203 n., 205, 210 sq., 258, 300; a confirmation of former Scriptures of Moses, 6, cviii, 46, 254 sq. ; 9, 112 sq., 203, 203 n., 225, 228; a guide, a warning, glad tidings, a mercy to believers, 6, 2, 257, 260", 9, 2, 13 sq., 34, 83, 99, 106, 117, 131, 162, 167, 178, 184, 186, 205, 210; some verses decisive, others ambiguous in the Book, 6, 47 ; ask not about painful things till the whole Q^ is revealed, 6, 11 1 ; a special revelation to the Meccans, 6, 125 sq.; when the Q^ is read, listen thereto and keep silence, 6, 163 ; Meccans challenged to bring a surah like it, 6, 197 ; this Q. could not have been devised by any beside God^ 6, 197; God a witness at reciting a Q., 6, 199 sq., 199 n. ; confirms the unity of God, 6, 205 ; were the Qj^ to convulse nature, some would not believe, 6, 236 ; the original (* the Mother of the Book ') is with God, 6, 237; 9, 211 ; revealed to bring men from darkness into light, 6, 238 ; the * Seven of the Repetition,' opening chapter of the Q., 6,

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