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

(6-^ Representatives of the dead in Chinese a. w.

(d) Chinese ancestral temples.

(e) A. w. in Parsi religion.

N.B.— On a. w. in India, see Fathers, Funeral rites, and iITraddhas.

(a) Chinese a. w., general views

Music and dance at a. w., 8, 61 ;

28, 32 sq. ; in worshipping your ancestors prove your filial piety, 8, 98 sq. ; 28, 291, 310 sq. ; former kings help the men of later times, 8, 120; Tan rears altars to the kings Thai, Ki, and Wan, and prays for the

life of his brother Wu, 3, 152-4, 152 n.; the a. w. of the common people, according to Confucius, 3, 299 sq. ; royal a. w. 3, 300-2 ; 27, 108 ; a. w. procures long life, 3, 326 ; a festival in honour of the ancestors, 3, 374 sq. ; Wan conformed to the example of his ancestors, and theii* spirits had no occasion for dissatisfaction, 3, 388; when passing by a grave, one should bow forward to the cross-bar, 27, 185; visits to the graves of one's fathers on taking and returning from a journey, 27, 185; nourishment of the living, burial of the dead, and service of the spirits, 27, 388 sq., 391 ; branches of family and a. w., 28, 43 sq., 43n.; from a. w. arose the worship of nature gods, 28, 67 ; worthies to whom a. w. is due, 28, 207-9 ; ceremonies connected with it,28, 292 sq.; a. w. under different dynasties, 28, 341 sq. ; to reverence the spirits of the departed a duty of rulers, 40, 29; the wicked slight the spirits of ancestors, 40, 243.

{b) Sacrifices to Ancestors in China.

Sacrificial observances paid to the five Tis, 3, xxviii sq. ; Shun sacrificed. a bull to the Cultivated Ancestor, 3, 40, 40 n.; in the twelfth month of the first year 1 Yin, sacrificed to the former king, and presented the heir-king before the shrine of his grandfather, 3, 92 ; sacrifices offered by the king to his ancestors, 3, 107, 241 sq. and n., 244, 348; 27, 30 sq.; 28, 42-4, 60 sq. ; iTMng honours Tan by sending him an offering, as if he were a departed spirit, 3, 194, 194 n. ; animal sacrifices (red bulls) to the ancestors, 3, 195, 366, 370, 370 n., 387 ; services for spirits and manes regulated by the Minister of Religion, 3, 228, 228 n.; animal sacrifices at a. w., 3, 300 ; sacrifices and odes to royal ancestors, 3, 304-36 ; the ancestors enjoy the sacrifice, and bless the worshipper, 3, 306, 339, 339 n., 343-5, 348, 366-8, 370, 375, 401 sq. ; spirits and food offered to the ancestors, 3, 369 sq. ; libations poured out to the spirits of the 2w., 3, 300 ; sacrifices and odes to royal ancestors, 3, 304-36 ; the ancestors enjoy the sacrifice, and bless the worshipper, 3, 306, 339, 339 n., 343-5, 348, 366-8, 370, 375, 401 sq. ; spirits and food offered to the ancestors, 3, 369 sq. ; libations poured out to the spirits of the departed, 3, 386 sq. and n. ; offerings made to the ancestors during a drought, 3, 420 sq., 420 n., 421 n.; extinction of sacrifices to the ancestors equal to extinction of dynasty, 3, 421; the son's duty to mourn for and sacrifice to his parents, 3, 480, 487 sq. ; offerings to the spirits of the ancestors, brought by husband and wife, 16, 182, 184 sq. n.; ancestors associated with God at the sacrifices of ancient kings, 16, 287 sq., 289 n.; sacrifices to the departed, 27, 35 sq., 116 sq., 444- 8 ; 28, 201-6, 221 sq., 231, 233 sq., 238, 240-53 ; food used at offerings to the deceased, 27, 82 ; names to be given to relatives when they are sacrificed to, 27, 117 sq. ; sacrifices at funeral rites, 27, 133, 137, 139, 141 sq., 151, 153? t56sq., 157 n., i6i, t6i n., 168-71, 175, 177 sq., 189 sq. ; 28, 46-8, 48 n., 50, 53-5, 58; sacrifice of Repose, 27, 189 sq. ; sacrifices to princes, high ministers, and officers who benefited the people, 27, 274; spoils of the chase sacrificed to all ancestors, 27, 300 ; sacrifices to deified sovereigns and ministers, 27, 307 ; united sacrifice in the shrine of the high ancestor, 27, 325; sacrifices by a son of a secondary wife instead of the eldest son, 27, 335-7, 335 n., 336 n. ; sacrifices to former masters and sages and to the former aged in the college, 27, 359 sq.; origin and development of offerings to the dead, 27, 369-74, 370 n., 444 ; sacrifice to an old wife, 27, 404 ; sacrifice to all ancestors, 28, 167 ; *they did not sacrifice to their ancestor,' i.e. they had no religion, 40, 166, 170, i7on. {c) Representatives of the DEAD IN Chinese a. w. ;

Personators or representatives of the dead, 3, 78 n., 82, 409, 409 n.; 27, 87, 87 n., 183, 337 sq., 341, 405 sq., 444, 446 ; 28, 12, 24 sq., 53, 75, 79 sq., 88, 152, 212, 240-2, 245-9, 291-3; the departed ancestors represented by living relatives, 3, 300 sq. ; feast given to the personators of the dead after the sacrifice, 3, 333 sq., 402 sq. ;

representatives of the dead at the sacrifice to the ancestors, 3, 365, 365 n., 366 n., 367, 367 n., 369; the personators of the departed spirits respond, blessing the sacrificer, 3, 401 sq. ; the impersonators of the deceased should sit with gravity, 27, 62, 62 n.; a son must not act as personator of the dead at a. w., 27, 69, 69 n.; the representative of the dead and the officer of prayer, 39, 170, 352 ; Kang-sang Khu worshipped as the representative of the departed, 40, 75. {d) Chinese ANCESTRAL TEMPLES.