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

; quoted as a teacher, 44,

354, 395.
Soma^ushmaya^a, worshipped at

the Tarpa«a, 30, 244. Soma-world, as the reward of meditation on Om, 15, 282.

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Somaya^n, third name to be given to children, 30, 215.

Son of Heaven, see Rulers.

Son(s), a meditation which secures the life of, 1, 49 sq., 49 n. ; substitutes for legitimate s., 2, xix-xxi, 132 n., 271, 307 sq. and n. ; 7, 61-5; 14, 84-8, 90 sq., 226-9 ; 25, cix, 359-65, 367 n., 403 n. ; 33, 192-5, 200 sq., 369, 375 sq. ; whether s. of an Abhijasta may mix with Aryas, 2, 91 sq. ; belong to the begetter, 2, 131 sq. ; number of ancestors saved by s. springing from the different marriage rites, 2, 200 ; rights of s. of an appointed daughter (putrika), 2, 305; 25, cix, 77, 352-5 and n.; legal position of s., 7, 35, 45, 63-5, 67 sq., 70-3 ; 25, 605 sq. ; adopted, 7, 63; 25, 355, 359, 362 ; see also Adoption ; bought, 7, 63 ; 25, 359, 363; duty of begetting s., 7, 65, 260; 25, 34, 354 sq. ; 33, 375; the father obtains immortality y if he sees the face of a living s.^ 7, 65 ; 14, 84 ; 25, 346, 354 ; impurity on the death of s. other than a s. of the body, 7, 91 ; sin of abandoning a s., 7, 135; 25, 321, 442; illegitimate s. defile a company, 7, 252 ; giving away of s., s. an invalid gift, 8, 169 ; 33, 128, 342 ; great love for s., 13, 210; daughter's s. sanctifies the ^raddha, 14, 54 ; s. born without mothers, as Agastya and Vasish^^a, 14, 180, i8on. ; of wives of different castes, 14, 225 sq. ; 25, 357-9» 3^4 ; 33, 371 sq., 374, 376; world of men can be gained by a s. only, 15, 95 sq. ; are bliss, 15, 157; 43, 161; two kinds of s. born by wives of other men, 25, 108 ; king to deliberate on keeping his s. from harm, 25, 240 ; father must not pay the debt of his s., but s. must pay that of his father, 25, 282 sq. ; 33, 41 sq., 45, 263, 327-9; s. has no property, 25, 326, 374 ; Kshetra^a s., and their rights, 25, 333-7, 349 sq. and n., 356, 359-61, 360 sq. n., 365 n., 366 n., 367 n., 369, 369 n., 373 n. ; s. (put-tra) delivers his father from the hell Put, 25, 354 ; respect to be shown to s., 28, 266 ; rite to be performed by one who wishes a son to be born, 29, 253 ;

and n., 356, 359-61, 360 sq. n., 365 n., 366 n., 367 n., 369, 369 n., 373 n. ; s. (put-tra) delivers his father from the hell Put, 25, 354 ; respect to be shown to s., 28, 266 ; rite to be performed by one who wishes a son to be born, 29, 253 ;

only the eldest s. is independent, 33, 50 ; a s. is better than a hundred offerings, truth is better than a hundred s., 33, 93 ; oaths by the heads of s., 33, 315; duties of s. towards deceased father, 33, 376 sq. ; if one brother has a s., all are declared to have male offspring, 33, 385 ; if one wife has s. all are declared to have male offspring through that s., 33, 385 ; father may deposit his s. as a pledge, 36, 122; birth and care of a s., 37, 100, no, 122 ; irreverent s. disinherited, 37, 147; prayer of the king, at the consecration, for his s., 41, 97, 97 n. ; kind as a father to his s., 43, 25, 206 ; are more selfish to the father, than the father to the s., 43, 59 sq. ; in early life s. subsist on father, the reverse in later life, 44, 157 ; lovingly touch their father when he comes home from abroad, 44, 204 ; father and s. part in times of peace,

44, 308, 308 n. ; there will be no better world for men without s.,

45, 62 ; as a tree without branches,
a bird without wings, &c., so is a
man without his s., 45, 66. See also
Child, Family, Father, Inheritance,
Parents, and Woman {h).

So;^a Ko/ivisa, a delicate Se/^>f>i*s son, who becomes an Arhat, 17, i- 1 4.

So;/a KMUkanna, pupil of Maha
Kay^Hyana, 17, 32-40.

Sona. Satrasaha, Pa«/&ala king, performed horse-sacrifice, 44, 400.

SonsLvkai, another n. of Sambhuta
Sa«avasi, 20, 394 n.

Songs, see Gathas, Singing, andW^iw

So/^uttara, father of Nagasena, 35,
XXV, 14, 17.

So;^uttara, a Nesada, Devadatta born as, 35, 286.

Sophists, their theory of everything
being jaundiced, denounced, 24,
149 sq., 149 n.

Sorcerers in Egypt, 6, 201 sq.; profession of s. condemned, 15, 341 ; 31, 318; 33, 360 sq.; spells against s., 21, 372, 374; 31, 313; 42, xxii, 38, 59, 61, 64 sq., 82, 159, 237 sq. ; accompany the king at the mourning rites for a minister, 27, 172 172 n. ; employed to brush the bier, 27, 187, 187 n.; Daevas and s. ab-

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jured, 31, 249 ; exorcists charm devils, 35, 38; magicians and s. enumerated in a list of superhuman beings, Yakkhas, &c., 36, loi ; will be born in hell, 45, 366 sq., 430; Agni burns down s., invoked against s., 46, 6, 32 sq., 96, 103, 331. See also Magician, Witchcraft, and Zaw^as.

Sorcery, see Witchcraft.

Soshans, Soshyans, see Saoshya«t,

Soshans or Soshyans, n. of a Zoroastrian teacher, 5, 243 sq., 243 n., 259, 261 n., 265 sq., 274 sq., 279, 295; 18, 299-302, 299 n., 312, 316, 333, 336 n., 361.

Soshyantihoma, t.t., see Child {b),

Sotapatti, Buddhist t.t, the first step in hohness, 10 (i), 48 n.

Sottiya, see ^rotriya.

Soul.

{a) Views of different^ sects and schools about the nature, size, &c., of the s.

(b) S. and body.

Soshyantihoma, t.t., see Child {b),

Sotapatti, Buddhist t.t, the first step in hohness, 10 (i), 48 n.

Sottiya, see ^rotriya.

Soul.

{a) Views of different^ sects and schools about the nature, size, &c., of the s.

(b) S. and body.

\c) Mythological aspect of s., its fate after death, worship of ss.

{d) Effects of good and evil works on the s. ; the released s.

{a) Views of different sects

AND SCHOOLS ABOUT THE NATURE,
SIZE, ETC., OF THE S.

The living (^iva) s. returns, in deep sleep, to Brahman or the Highest Self, 1, 98 n. ; 34, xxvi, Ixi, 60, 273; 38, 54, 141-9, 176, 210; 48, 205 sq., 317 sq., 379, 383 sq., 604 sq. ; is imperishable, immortal, 4, 373 ; 8, 244 ; 12, 310 sq. ; 34, 37, 133) 438 ; 38, 28 sq.; 48, 310; fires like three breathing ss., 5, 62-4 ; God made you spring from one s., 6, 127 ; 9, 182 ; theory of s. rejected by Buddhism, 8, 26 n. ; 11, 142, 162, 2r4n., 294, 299 sq.; 19, 140 sq., 199 sq., 261 sq., 264, 264 n., 294; 34, 403, 406; 35, 40-5, 67, 86-9, III, 268 n. ; 36, xxi, 137; 49 (i), 177 ; presides over the senses and the mind, rules the organs of action, 8, 112, 112 n.; 34, 102, 133; its three seats (this world, the next world, and the womb), 8, 239 sq., 239 n. ; that living s. is to be known as part of the hundredth part of the point of a hair, divided a hundred times, and yet it is to be infinite. It is not woman, it is not man, nor is it neuter ; whatever body it takes ^ with