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

n. ; 41, 55, 55 n. ; the veshya of V., 12, 73, 73 n. ; the wide-striding, 15, 45, 53 ;

26, 162 sq., 171, 352 ; 32, 363 ; 42, 89; called Vijvabhrit, 15, 315; V. in the sun, V. is the sun, 15, 318 ; 44, 442 sq. ; omitted in the enumeration of gods gathering round

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Buddha, 21, 5 11. ; the Avataras of v., and the Buddhistical and Gaina belief in innumerable Buddhas or Tirthakaras, 22, xxxiv; Vish«usmr/ti revealed by the god V., 25, xxi ; called MartaWa, 26, 12 n. ; identified with Soma, 26, 82 sq., 126, 126 n., 160 sq. ; the day is Agni, the night Soma, and V. is what is between the two, 26, 108 ; part of the thunderbolt, 26, 108, T08 n. ; props and holds fast the earth, 26, 130, 133 ; companion of Indra, esp. in his fight against VWtra, 26, 171 sq. ; 32, 127, 133 sq. ; 41, 138 sq., 396 ; see also Indra (e) ; the highest step of V., fixed like an eye in the heaven, 26, 172 ; lord of mountains, 29, 280 ; the whitish one, the lord of the beings that dwell in the quarters, 30, 237 ; saved the Soma, and the Maruts sat down around it, 32, 127, 133-7 ; connected with the Maruts, 32, 134 ; called vrishan, 32, 144 ; holds the ^akra, 32, 230 ; V. esha or the rapid V., or Soma = rain, 32, 296, 306, 403 ; the terrible, the wanderer, 32, 363 ; Agni and V. are all the deities, Agni being the lower end, V. the upper end, 41, 44 ; when an embryo, was a span long, 41, 235, 255, 260, 268, 393; identical with Agni, 41, 235, 235 n., 276; 46, 186; became an eater of food, 41, 393, 395 ; the four Vedas sprung from v., 42, lii ; in a list of gods, 42, 80, 160, 221 ; lord of the nadir, 42, 193, 655 ; has stepped out upon the earth, 42, 200; passes through three regions, 42, 251 ; lordship bestowed on v., 43, 68 ; V. ^ipivish/a the bald (?), 44, 9, 207, 293, 293 n. ; entered the world at three places, 44, 388; V. with other gods performs sacrifice at Kurukshetra : he excels, becomes overweening, and his head is cut off and becomes the sun, 44, 4 4 1 sq.; is the most excellent of the gods, 44, 442 ; Svayambhu, i. e. V., sleeping on the ocean, 45, 49 n.; Venn = V. ? 45, 290 n. ; the wide-ruling v., 46, 186, 246, 326 ; Agni invoked to bring V. to the sacrifice, 46, 316 ; Agni announces the sins of men to v., 46, 326 J the footprint of V. in s the highest place, 46, 371 ; water is the body of V., 48, 423 ; Brahman, v., and ^iva, 49 (i), 196 sq., 200. See also Ganardana, Hari, Kejava, Krishna, and Vasudeva. {b) In mysticism and philosophy. V. is the sacrifice, 7, 1-3, 9 ; 12, 15, 19, 27, 59-61, 85, 94, 128, 190, 214 sq., 268; 26, 12, 35, 155 sq., 160, 162, 165, 290, 352, 390, 413, 436; 41, 45, 113, 118, 235 n., 276 ; 44, 9, 1795,293, 300, 442 sq.;^is composed of the Vedas and Vedahgas, 7, 10 ; worship of V. (Kejava) who has become one with Brahman, and of V. absorbed in meditation,

(Kejava) who has become one with Brahman, and of V. absorbed in meditation,

7, 156, 156 sq. n. ; is the Self of all fields, i.e. bodies, 7, 287 ; praise of V. as the supreme being, the Lord of all, 7, 292-7 ; 48, 608 ; pervades the three worlds, 7, 298; 48, 92 sq.; in the Anugita, 8, 219-21 ; the emancipated sage is V., 8, 220 sq., 345 ; one of the ten fires at the allegorical sacrifice of the senseorgans, 8, 261 ; a name of the highest Self, 8, 332 ; 15, 311 ; 34, 239 ; 48, 87 sq., 92 sq., 266 ; the self-existent V. is the Lord in the primary creations, 8, 333; is the ruler and creator, the uncreated Hari, 8, 347 ; the great V., full of the Brahman, is the king of kings over all, 8, 347; the unthinkable, self-existent V. is identical with Brahman, 8, 354; 15, 302 sq., 322, 338 ; 34, xxxi n. ; 48, 89 sq., 92 sq., 266, 355, 358 ; the great V., who is full of the Brahman, and than whom thei^e is no higher being in these three worlds, is the soitrce of all the unive7'se,

8, 354 ; through V. exists the earth, 14, 134; the highest place of V., the place whence a man is not born again, the highest abode, 15, 13, 324 ; 34, 239, 245 sq. ; 38, 205, 241, 391 ; 48, 87 sq., 266, 269, 272, 313, 355, 358, 363 ; that part of the Self which belongs to sattva is V., 15, 304 ; identified with the power of motion, 25, 512; he who is consecrated becomes V., 26, 29 ; Ya^us are V., 26, 436 ; in the Bhagavadgita, 34, cxxvi ; from out of V. the gods formed the guest-offering, 44, 138; Hirawyagarbha, Hari, 5ahkara,

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Pradhana, Time, and the totality of embodied souls are forms of V., 48, 93 ; the soul of the Brahma-egg (world), 48, 127; is the Evolved, the Supreme Person under the name of V. glorified, 48, 359 ; from V. there sprang the zvorld and in him it abides ; he makes this zvorld persist and he Titles it — he is the tvorld^ 48, 410, 461.

(r) Worship of V.

glorified, 48, 359 ; from V. there sprang the zvorld and in him it abides ; he makes this zvorld persist and he Titles it — he is the tvorld^ 48, 410, 461.

(r) Worship of V.

The sacrificer makes the V.- strides at the end of the sacrifice, 2, 118, 118 n.; 12, 268-70; 44, 120; worship of Bhagavat Vasudeva or v., 7, xxvii-xxx, 208-11, 266, 268 sq. ; worship of V. (called Vasudeva, or Kejava) as an expiatory ceremony, 7, 155 sq. ; meditation on Bhagavat Vasudeva or v., 7, 289 ; meditation on Purusha v., 7, 290 sq. ; oblations for Agni and v., 12, 7; 26, 88, 364 n.; the pavitras or purifying kuja blades dedicated to V., 12, 19; 29, 25, 378; 30, 33; 41, 84; prayer to v., a penance or expiation, 12, 27, 27 n., 214 sq. ; 26, 35, 412 sq. ; 30, 30 ; invoked to protect the sacrifice, 12, 94, 190; 26, 290 sq. ; the priest propitiates V., 12, 128 ; worship of V. alluded to in Upanishads, 15, 1, 45 > 53 ; invoked in a prayer at conception, 15, 221; 29, 385; 30, 51, 199; offerings to V., 26, 55, 87 sq., 106-8, 364 n., 390; 29, 327; 30, 91, 151 ; 44, 3 n.; the Somacart belongs to V., 26, 131, 133 sq., J 37? 139 sq. ; invoked and worshipped, 26, 159 sq., 352 ; 29, 27, 84, 86, 121, 127, 136, 149, 219, 280, 398; 30, 6r, 244; 41, 38, 241; the sacrificial stake sacred to V., 26, 162-4, 172 ; Soma libations for V., 26, 295; 32, 305; morning oflPering to v., 29, 14 ; worshipped at the new moon sacrifice, 29, 17 n. ; invoked at the ceremony of the seven steps, 29, 284 ; invoked in company with the Maruts, 32, 305, 363-5 ; contemplated in the sacred 5alagram, 34, 126, 178 ; contemplated in an image, 38, 338, 339, 345 ; offering to Agni and V., Indra and v., and to V., 41, 54 sq., 54 n.; the king, at the consecration, makes the three V.-steps, 41, 96; oblations to Agni, Soma, and V. at the Dajapeya, 41, 113 sq., 116 n., 118 ; the V.-strides at the building of the altar, 41, 261, 275-83, 286-90; 43, 298 ; deity of Dvipada metre,

43, 331; the Mahavira pot (at the Pravargya) the head of V., 44, xlviii ; rice pap for V. ^ipivishfa (the Bald), 44, 9 ; when the Agnihotra milk belongs to V., 44, 81 ; by performing the guest-offering they sacrifice to V., and become V.,

44, 141; expiatory oblation to V., to V. ^ipivish/a, V. Narandhisha, V. Apritapa in case of certain mishaps at the Soma-sacrifice, 44, 207-9 ; worshipped at the Ajvamedha, 44, 281, 291 n., 293 ; a dwarfish cow sacrificed to V. at the Ajvamedha, 44, 300.

Vish/^u, Arya, of the Ma^i6ara gotra, a Sthavira, 22, 294.

Vish;/ukumara, elder brother of
Mahapadma, 45, 86 n.

Vish/2U-pura;/a, quoted, 48, 780 sq.