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

; student of the V., see Brahmay^arin. See also Brahman (/j), Gwana-kaWa, Karma-kaWa, Knowledge, and Teacher.

(d) Prerogatives of those who

KNOW OR STUDY THE V.

Only a Brahmawa learned in the V. is fit to initiate, 2, 2 ; persons who have studied certain portions of the V. or in whose family the study of the V. is hereditary sanctify the company at a ^raddha, 2, 146, 146 n., 259 ; 7, 253 sq. ; 14, 19 ; great meritoriousness of gifts made to ^rotriyas and those who know the whole V., 2, 203, 203 n. ; pardon may be given by an assemblage of persons learned in the V., 2, 245 ; gifts to Brahmawas who have studied the v., 7, 274 sq. ; veneration due to one who has studied the V., 8, 164 n.; 25, 100 sq. ; a Brahmawa unacquainted with the V. has no right to the prerogatives of his caste, 14, 16-1S ; four students of the four Vs. belong to a legal assembly, 14, 20 ; Brahmawas versed in the V., though deformed, sanctify the company at a ^raddha, 14, 52, 266 sq. ; knowledge of the V. a chief qualification for ^ish/as and members of a legal assembly, 14, 143-6; 25, 510 sq. ; property which the king takes from men who died without heirs should be given to men well versed in the three Vs., 14, 179 ; the science of Brahman to be told to those who are versed in the v., 15, 41 ; a wife not to be chosen from a family in which the V. is not studied, 25, 76 ; families prosper by study of the V., 25, 86 ; only Brahmawas knowing the V. shall receive alms, 25, 93 ; Brahma«as learned in the V. to be entertained at ^raddhas, 25, 99 sq., 102 sq., 107, no; student of the V. allowed to beg, 25, 430 ; disputes of ascetics and sorcerers should be settled by persons versed in the three Vs., 33, 281 ; great merit of him who refrains from killing, even in self-defence, one who regularly recites the V., 33, 285; a person engaged in V.-study must not be put under restraint, 33, 288 ; persons acquainted with the V. shall be heads of associations, 33, 347 ; they say of him who has studied the V., 'he is like Agni,' 41, 146; works enjoined on him only who has learnt the v., 48, 689, 691 sq. (e) SaCREDNESS AND DEIFICATION OF THE V.

Om is the beginning of all the Vs., 1, xxiv, 2 ; 8, 353; speculations on Rih and Saman, 1, 2, 7 sq., 10, 12-15; lucubrations on the four Vs., as connected with the rays of the sun, 1, 38-40 ; are the limbs of the Brahmi-upanishad, 1, 153; speech and mind are the two pins that hold the wheels of the V., 1, 246 ; the great Rishl, whose belly is the Ya^us, the head the Saman, the form the Rihy is to be known as being imperishable, as being Brahman, 1, 279 ; Vedic texts which purify from sin, 2, 275 sq. and n. ; 14, 134, 311, 321, 328, 330; the Vs. are created, 7, 4 ; 8, 120 ; Vs. and Vedaiigas in ni8

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Vishwu, 7, 10 ; sin of reviling the V.,

and n. ; 14, 134, 311,
321, 328, 330; the Vs. are created,
7, 4 ; 8, 120 ; Vs. and Vedaiigas in

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Vishwu, 7, 10 ; sin of reviling the V.,

7, 135; 25, 154, 441 sq., 442 n. ; Lakshmi resides in the sound of the v., 7, 299 ; he who rises above the Divine word, the V., 8, 17, 73; a reservoir of water into which waters flow from all sides, 8, 48, 48 n. ; the Vs. come from the Indestructible,

8, 54 ; Kr/shwa is Om in all the Vs., 8, 74 ; Krishwa alone to be learnt from the Vs., 8, 1 1 3 sq. ; Krishna. alone knows the Vs., 8, 1 1 3 ; those who are first in the V. are forms of the Brahman, 8, 161 ; * he about whom the words of the V. were uttered, 8, 163, 163 n.; the V. cannot save him who is tainted by sin, 8, 163 sq. ; 48, 592 ; constant talk in disparagement of gods, Brahma«as and V., is dark conduct, 8, 320 ; t/ie Bj'd/imana makes the V. rich^ 14, 8 ; the syllable Om, the Vyahr/'tis, and the Savitri are the five V.-offerings cleansing from sin, 14, 252 ; offerings and (Tarpawa) libations made to the four Vs., 14, 255, 308, 320 ; 29, 121, 219 sq., 325 ; 30, 242, 244; Om, Brahman, Sun, and V. identified, 14, 278, 278 n., 316; rites securing success, connected with the four Vs., 14, 322 sq. ; Ya^us, Kik^ Saman, adeja, and Atharvahgiras constitute the body of the inner Self, 15, 56 ; breathed forth from Brahman, 15, in, 184; 34, xxxii, 19-22 ; 48, 386 sq. ; all Vs. have their centre in speech, 15, in, 184; Saman and Rik^ as husband and wife, 15, 220 ; 43, 14 sq. ; God delivers the Vs. to Brahman (m.), 15, 266 ; all the four Vs. proceed from the Self, 15, 330; what is taught in the V,, that is true. What is said in the K, on that the wise keep their stand. Therefore let a Brdhman not read what is not of the F., 15, 343 ; greatness of the v., 25, 12, 504-7 ; an atheist and a scorner of the V., 25, 31, 3 1 n. ; sacred syllables and Savitri the essence of the V., 25, 44 ; he who cavils at the V. excluded from •Sraddha meals, 25, 106 ; ^ the eternal V.' quoted, 25, 127; the V. was revealed to the sages, 25, 477, 479 ; in the second order of existences caused by Goodness, 25, 495, 495 n. ;

the images of the Rik and Saman, 26, 27; RJk and Saman, the baysteeds (of Indra), 26, 371 ; Hhe Rik art thou, the Saman I,' 29, 36, 168, 282 ; 30, 190 ; Ya^us and Saman, and Garutmat, 29, 49 ; Vs. with the metres, invoked in danger, 29, 232 ; Hhe V. called son,' 30, 210; the four Vs. sacrificed at the medha- ^anana for the child, 30, 21 3 ; in the V. which is not the work of man no wish can be expressed, 34, no; from the word of the V. the world, with the gods and other* beings, originates, 34, 202-4 5 the V. is eternal, though the ii/shis are the makers of sections, hymns, and so on, 34, 2 ii-i 6, 3 1 7 ; 48, 3 3 2-4 ; seen by men of exalted vision (r/shis), 34, 213,223; the thousandfold progeny of Va/^, 41, 140 ; diseases healed by the v., 41, 141 ; by Rik and Saman the gods were able to sustain Agni,

41, 266 ; Riks^ Samans, Atharvans,
Ya^us, as divine beings, 42, 161 ;
Riks and Ya^us born from Time,

42, 225; hymn-verses and hymntunes as Apsaras, 43, 2 3 3 ; all the Vs. enter him who knows the mystery of a BrahmaHrin's fife, 44, 50 ; the i?//^-texts are milk-offerings, the Ya^us-texts ghee-offerings, the Saman-texts Soma-ofFerings, the Atharvahgiras - texts fat-offerings, the other Vedic texts honey-offerings to the gods, 44, 96-8, 100 sq. ; imperishable are the Vs., 44, 174 ; the Ahgiras are the V., 44, 366 ; he for whom the revolving legend at the Ajvamedha is recited secures for himself all the Vs., 44, 370 ; V. and sacrifices, being causes of sin, cannot save the sinner, 45, 140; Pra^apati creates the gods by means of the v., 48, 331 sq. ; taught to Hirawyagarbha, 48, 334; the Arawyaka is churned from the Vs., 48, 528; of non-human origin, Aparantatamas their teacher, ^48, 529; Sahkhya, Yoga, Vs., and Arawyakas, members of one another, 48, 530. See also Revelation, and 5ruti.

(/) Contents and authority of
THE V.

V. texts, either extant or lost, the sole or first source of the law.

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