A General Index to the Names and Subject-Matter of the Sacred Books of the East — SBE Vol. 50 (compiled by M. Winternitz, 1910)
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and n. ; mole is Rudra's animal, 12, 440 ; at mole-hills, a sacrifice to the king of moles, 30, 114 ; monkeys as human monsters, 5, 60 n. ; simile of the monkey, 36, 292 sq. ; mules are good, if tamed, 10 (i), 77 ; she-mule cannot conceive, 29, 363 ; 30, 178 ;
42, 545 ; she-mule dies when she foals, 35, 236, 236 n. ; simile of the mungoose^ 36, 329 ; otters sacrifice fish in spring, 27, 221, 251, 251 n. ; similes of the panther, 36, 285-7 ; porcupine used in charms against snake-poison, 42, 428 ; simile of the rat, 36, 328 ; let him wander alone like a rhinoceros, 10 (ii), 6-1 1 ; simile of the scorpion, 36, 328 sq.; simile of the road spider, 36, 351 ; simile of the squirrel, 36, 284; dreading on the tail of a tiger^ expression for what is hazardous, 16, 78 sq., 80 n. ; tiger's skin used at the coronation, 41,81,91-3,96, 105, 105 n.; 42, III sq., 378-80; tiger typifies danger to life, 42, no, 518 ; tiger is vigour,
43, 38; origin of tiger, 44, 203, 215; man-tiger, similar to werewolf, 44, 414 ; Will 0' the ^visp, 42, 411 ; fivol'ves, four-legged and twolegged, 37, 86 ; ceremony on a place attacked by ^orms, 30, 128 sq. ; charms against worms, 42, 22-5, 3 1 3-20, 452-5 ; exorcism of vermin infesting grain, 42, 142. Other animals, see separately, and also Parables (c).
Animal sacrifices.
{a) History of a. s. ; different views about them. {b) Different kinds of a. s. {c) The victim. {d) The Yupa, or sacrificial post to which the victim is bound.
(«) History of a. s. ; different views about them.
* It is for sacrifices that beasts have been created by the Self-existent (Brahman) himself. Sacrificing causes the whole universe to
{b) Different kinds of a. s. {c) The victim. {d) The Yupa, or sacrificial post to which the victim is bound.
(«) History of a. s. ; different views about them.
* It is for sacrifices that beasts have been created by the Self-existent (Brahman) himself. Sacrificing causes the whole universe to prosper ; therefore is the slaughter (of beasts) for a sacrifice no slaughter. The sin of him who kills deer for the sake of gain, is not so great (and visited less heavily) in the world to come, than the sin of him who eats meat which has not been off'ered to the gods. Plants, cattle, trees, amphibious animals, and birds, which have been destroyed for the purposes of sacrifice, obtain exaltation in another existence (in which they are born as Gandharvas, or other beings of a high rank),' 7, 169 ; flesh of animals slain for sacrifices maybe eaten, 2, 270, 270 n.; slaughter of animals for a. s. permitted, 8, 289 sq. ; 14, 26 sq. and n., 54, 71 ; 25, 172-6 ; occasions on which a. s. should be offered, 29, 87-9, 88 n. ; 30, 256 sq. ; though implying injury to living beings, a. s. offered in accordance with the Veda, is a sacred duty and leads to heaven, 25, 175 sq. ; 38, 130 sq., 310 ; 48, 598 sq.^; not alluded to^ in the Rik.?,2im\nX.2i, 44, xvii ; the Apri hymns destined for the Praya^a offerings of the a. s., 46, 9 ; a hymn used at the ritual of the a. s., 46, 283 sq. ; he who offers living victims will reside high in heaven, 46, 24 ; the sacrificial fires long for the sacrificer's flesh, he offers to them an animal to redeem himself, 44, 118 sq.; he who performs a. s. eats food every six months in yonder world, 43, 299 ; by a. s. the sacrificer confers upon himself immortal life, 44, 118 sq. ; by sacrificing he-goats, ewes, and cows, he gains these animals, 44, 218; in pressing Soma, they slay it, the animal victim is slain, the havirya^^^a is slain with mortar and pestle, and the two mill-stones, 12, 308 ; 26, 65, 340; 44, 2; substituting lower for higher animals, and vegetable for a. s., 44, xxxvii ; when they spread the sacrifice, they kill it, 44, 2 sq. ; origin and development of a. s., 12, 50-2 ; 26, 178 sq. ; rice and barley the sacrificial essence of all animals, 26, 199, 199 n. ; the cake a symbol of a. s., 12, 49-52 and n.; animals constitute a sacrifice, 44, 155 ; ascetic censuring an
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; origin and development of a. s., 12, 50-2 ; 26, 178 sq. ; rice and barley the sacrificial essence of all animals, 26, 199, 199 n. ; the cake a symbol of a. s., 12, 49-52 and n.; animals constitute a sacrifice, 44, 155 ; ascetic censuring an
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Adhvaryu priest for destruction of life at a. s., 8, 289-93 ; the ancient Brahma«as offered sacrifices without killing cows, 10 (ii), 49 sq. ; no religious merit nor final rescue to be gained by a. s., 19, 129, 135 ; the sin of slaying animals for sacrificial purposes, 22, 12, 18; all kinds of a. s. offered by king Okkaka, 10 (ii), 50 sq. ; to gain great riches, the Brahmawas cause the king to offer a. s., 10 (ii), 50 sq. ; king 5uddhodana abstains from a. s., 49 (i), 24; bloody and bloodless s. in Zoroastrianism, 4, Ixii ; camels may be sacrificed and eaten, 9, 60 ; use and naming of animals for sacrificial purposes, 27, 116 sq. ; animals only to be killed for rites, 40, 241. {b) Different kinds of a. s.
Jgni worshipped by sacrifices of ghrita, heifers, bulls, and cows with calf, 46, 211 ; the Agmshomiya or a. s. to Agni and Soma, 26, 162-222, 225; 30,346; 43, 245, 26osq. ; 44, 1 19 n. ; 48, 598 ; twenty-one Agnishomiya a. s. at Ajvamedha, 44, 372, 375 ; eleven Agnishomiya a. s. at Purushamedha, 44, 404 ; meatoflfering to Ahura, 31, 80, 84 ; meatofferings for various angels and guardian spirits, 5, 335-8 ; a. s. at Ashtakd and Anvash^akya festivals, 29, 105, 206 sq., 344, 417-21 ; 30, 97-102, 112 sq., 294 ; tame and wild animals offered at the Ar^immedha 44, 296 n., 298 sq. and n., 306- 8, 310 sq., 331, 338, 338 sq. n., 382-4, 382 sq. n., 388 ; on the Ajvamedha itself see under Horsesacrifice ; a. s. at the building of the fire-altar, 41, 155-7, 161-86, 197-9, 204, 236, 400-13; 43, 2 ^") 3) 35^j 392 ; at the house-building, 29, 429 ; 30, 122 ; at the building of a city, 3, 183 ; blood-consecration of n3w buildings, 28, 169 sq. ; a. s. offered at the conchision oi covenants, 27, 112; 40, 164,164 n.; ritual and general rules for the a. s. at domestic ceremonies, 29, 30, 176- 8, 360 sq., 418 sq. ; 30, 98-101, 234-6, 3^0 sq. ; expiatory a. s. to Fire and Wa^^ers, 4, 206 sq., 207 n. slaughter of a dun cow in expiation of murder, 6, 9, 9 n. ; sacrifice of a
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