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

will reign in Paradise, 23, 341 ; selling the rewards for s., 25, 163; are for the good of this world, 25, 175 ; Brahmawas sanctified by s.,

25, 308 ; due performance of s. frees from guilt, 25, 479 ; he who has sacrificed, shares in the world of bliss,

26, 151 sq. ; the s. is a ship bound heavenwards, 26, 311 ; blessing, i.e. perfection, obtained by s., 28, 236 sq. ; s. and sacrificial fee protect the house, 29, 348 ; those who do not perform s. descend to the abode of Yama, suffer there torments, and then again reascend to this world, 38, 122 sq.; 48, 592-6; everything can be obtained by a long sacrificial session for a year or more, 41, 140 ; father procures blessings for the son by s., 42, 89 ; 46, 13 ; is a blessing,

43, 107 ; powers bestowed by Soma-s., 43, 299, 356 ; s. forms the body of the sacrificer in yonder world, 44, 23, 35-8, 273, 273 n.; offering s., a second birth, 44, 23 ; modes of offering by which a priest promotes the sacrificer's welfare,

44, 56-60; successful issue of the sacrificial food, 44, 66-8 ; everything and to every one he offers (at the Sarvamedha), in order to gain

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everything, 44, 420 ; wishing for glory and food men enter upon s., 44, 441; offspring and cattle the reward of s., 44, 504 ; for him who walks in righteousness the s. is anointed with honey, 46, 179; purify the mind, 48, 700, 703 ; only through the propitiation of the gods, s. can bring about their results, 48, 720. (d) Relative value or worth-

LESSNESS OF S., SYMBOLICAL S.

is anointed with honey, 46, 179; purify the mind, 48, 700, 703 ; only through the propitiation of the gods, s. can bring about their results, 48, 720. (d) Relative value or worth-

LESSNESS OF S., SYMBOLICAL S.

Are useless for attainment of salvation, 1, ci ; 8, 16, 47 sq., 84, 367 ; 10 (ii), 41 sq., 192 sq. ; 34, 197 n. ; 49 (i), 120 sq., 126; performers of s. proceed, after death, on the path of the fathers, not of the gods, 1, 80; 15, 96; 34, 27; 38, 1 2 1-6 ; 48, 588-92 ; s. can procure a limited beatitude only, and are a hindrance to real salvation, 1, 314 sq. ; 8, 185 ; should be avoided at the Tishya ceremony, 2, 150; officiousness in s. is called irreverence, multiplying ceremonies leads to disorder, 3, 116; sowing corn, a religious act equal to the recitation of 10,000 sacrificial formulas, 4, 30, 30 n. ; Ahura-Mazda offended by the s. of a thief, or liar, 4, 283-5 ; s. without knowledge is no piety, 4, 347) 347 T^'i good thoughts, words, and deeds, the best s., 4, 355-7, 355 n. ; ceremonial worship (ya^ijn) of mortal sinners who have not confessed, has no value, 5, 302 ; burntofferings will not save a man who is in the bonds of death, 7, 82 ; prayers more efficacious than s., 7, 183 sq.; 14, 128; 25, 45 sq. ; Kr/sh«a cannot be seen by means of s,, 8, 98 sq. ; s. without Mantras condemned, 8, 119; 44, 276; are acts belonging to the quahty of passion, 8, 324 sq., 324 n. ; end in destruction, 8, 355 ; ascetics renounce s., 8, 366 ; 14, 260 ; 25, 205 ; God does not wish men to provide Him with food, 9, 248 ; good works, gifts of food, homage paid to the righteous, are better than s., 10 (i), 32; 14, 245; 19, 26osq.;49 (i), 23; eight persons that are praised by the righteous, Buddha's disciples, are worthy of offerings, 10 (ii), 38 ;

Mara tempts Buddha with a religious life and performing s., 10 (ii), 69 ; Buddha's discussion with Bharadva^a on s., and those who are worthy of s., 10 (ii), 74-9 ; classed with divination, witchcraft, and other 4ow arts' and * lying practices,' forbidden to the Bhikkhu, 11, 196, 199 ; rejected as belonging to worldly existence, 13, 138; prayers and Veda study equivalent to s., 29, 159 sq. ; the gifts to Ahura are the actions of the pious, 31, 80, 83 ; truth better than a thousand horse-s., 33, 93 ; a son is better than a hundred s., 33, 93 ; superiority of asceticism to s. shown, 45, 55 sq. ; the *s.' of the monk described, 45, 55 sq. ; what the true s., and true Brahmawahood consists in, 45, 136-41 ; being causes of sin, s. cannot save the sinner, 45, 140 ; — performed in thought only by a man living in the forest, 1, 51 sqq., 51 n.; there are two ways of the s., by mind and by speech, 1, 69 ; 38, 57; five * libations ' of the Devas on the five ' altars ' : heaven, Par^anya, earth, man, woman, 1, 78 sq. ; 38, 103 ; tke first food which a man may take is in the place of Homa^ 1, 89 ; fired by hope does memory perform s., 1, 119; what people call s. is really abstinence (brahma^arya), 1, 131 ; breath in speech offered, 1, 266 ; oblations of ghee offered to the deities Speech, Breath, Eye, Ear, Mind, and Knowledge, 1, 281 sq. ; allegorical s. of the Pra«as or senses, 8, 61, 260 sq., 276 sq. ; 14, 138; 15, 91; s. of Brahman with Brahman in Brahman, 8, 61 ; Gapa (silent meditation) the chief of s., 8, 89, 89 n. ; the s. of concentration of mind, 8, 279 sq. ; by performing a mental s. at which meditation is the fire, truthfulness the fuel, patience the oblation . . . ahi^^sa the sacrificial cake ... a wise man goes to heaven, 14, 139 ; offering to the Vital Airs or to the soul, 14, 262-4, 266, 280, 299 ; eating represented as a s. of the Self to the Self, 15, 312 sqq. ; by protecting his subjects the king performs a kind of sacrificial session, 25, 307 ; judicial proceedings compared with s., 33, 298 ;

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Dhamma-yiipa, the * sacrificial post' of truth, and the s. of truth, 35, 35 ; meditation as a mental s. on the altars of mind, speech, &c., 43, 375-80; 48, 668-73; libations to Mind and Speech, 44, 28, 28 n., 32.

(e) The s. and the gods.