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

; repress the impulses of the w., 40, 87 ; w. or testament, see Inheritance. See also Sahkalpa, and Volition.

Will-o'-the-wisp, or '• little shiner,*
42,411.

Wind : Aryan storm myths, 4, Ixiv ; spell against the w.-daeva, 4, 1 40 ; the powerful W., made by Mazda, 4, 213 sq. ; 31, 291 ; Ba^, the W., invoked and worshipped, 4, 2 1 3 sq. ; 23, 10, 18, 166, 285, 334? 352 ; 31, 256, 277, 291, 346; description of the w. spirit, 5, 169 ; chief among those that blow, 8, 90, 90 n. ; Krishna is the W., 8, 97 ; carries away perfumes, 8,112; comes from the eternal divine being, 8, 192 ; heat in the body urged by a sharp w., 8, 2 37 sq. ; the soul shaken about by the w., 8, 239 ; one of the ten fires at the allegorical sacrifice of the sense-organs, 8, 261 ; presiding deity of nose and smell, 8, 337, 349 ; the three constituent elements, w., bile, and phlegm, 8, 343 n. ; presiding deity of skin and touch, 8, 350? 350 n. ; is the source of the feeling of touch, 8, 352 ; purifies, 14, 171 ; purified by Ka, 14, 331 ; appeased by Keresasp, 18, 372, 376 sq. ; 37, 198, 198 n. ; both angel and demon, 18, 372 n. ; 24, 17 n. ; Indian philosophers on the nature of w., 22, 9 n.; sins caused by actions injuring the lives in w., 22, 13 sq. ; Tijtrya worshipped on the day of BaJ (the W.), 23, 92 ; assists Tijtrya, 23, 102 ; the fiend-smiting W. present at the ordeal, 23, 170; victorious W. helps in battle, 23, 191 ; not to ease nature against the w., 25, 136 sq. ; a guardian deity of the world, 25, 185, 216 sq. ; king to emulate the w., 25, 396 sq. ; tells the gods the thoughts of man, 26, 94 ; Ws., * the noisy goddesses,' invoked to protect cattle, 29, 99, 99 n. ; invoked for protection, 29, 349 ; the quarters, the consorts of W., 30, 213 ; the bounteous W. of blessed gift, 31, 256 ; the good and holy W., 31, 277, 326 ; as the wind cannot be pointed out, yet exists, so

Nirvawa, 36, 106 sq. ; the breath of nature, 39, 177; the bad man reproaches the w. and reviles the rain, 40, 242 ; Paw^avatiya, or oblation to the five ws., 41, 48-50 ; invoked in a medical charm, 42, 14 ; breath from the w., eye from the sun, 42, 56 ; mind fashioned from the w., 43, 6 ; is everywhere, 43, 33 sq. ; deity and metre, 43, 53 ; by means of the twenty-onefold hymn-form one frees both rain and w. for living beings, 43, 68 ; Vayu is the w., 43, 142 ; is the arrows of the Rudras in the air, 43, 165 ; Vata, the w., as a Gandharva, the waters, as the Apsaras, his mates, 43, 232; is on this side of the sun, and also in this and the other world, 43, 235 sq. ; bestowing the w. (which blows in the three worlds) on the fire-altar by the * oblations of air,* 43, 235-7 ; fire, sun, moon, quarters pass into the w., 43, 333 ; kindled by the fire,

43, 399 ; one of the six doors to the Brahman, 44, dd sq. ; all beings, indeed, pass over into the w., and from out of the w. they are again produced,

; all beings, indeed, pass over into the w., and from out of the w. they are again produced,

44, 84 ; 'from the w. I take thy breathings/ 44, 133 ; the w.-names (Ocean, Flood, Unassailable, Irresistible, Favourable, Ogress-ridder), and oflferings to the W. under these names, 44, 478 sq. ; the aerial ocean is the w., 44, 479 ; deities identified with the W., 44, 479-81 ; five kinds of w., as living beings, 45, 218, 218 n. ; origin and feeding of w.- bodies, 45, 397 ; Agni goes along with the flame-coloured Ws., 46, 187. See also Breath, Maruts, Prawas, Sacred objects, Vata, and Vayu.

Wine, see Spirituous liquors.

Winter, see Seasons.

Wisdom, is beneficial, like fire, 5, 394; wise men, 10 (i), 23-6; Buddha explains the state of w., 10 (ii), 128-31 ; the sevenfold higher w., seven kinds of w., 11, 9, 14, 61, 63, 306 ; 35, 128 ; how a Bhikkhu may obtain higher w., 11, 233; w. and justice, 18, II sq. ; every good achieved through w., and the best w. is the pure religion, 18, 20 sq. ; created as an appliance of man, 18,

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S-S ; two kinds of w., 18, 90, 90 n., 133 sq., 134 n. ; what w. and intellect are good, 18, 271 sq. ; is the handy bark across the sea of birth and death, 19, 303 sq. ; heavenly W., and W. acquired through the ear, 23, 4, 4 n., 12 sq., 20, 35, 37 ; address, all the night long,the heavenly W., 23, 339; Spirit of W., the innate w. of Auharmas;^, 24, xvi ; conversation with the Spirit of W., 24, 3-1 1 3, 3 n. ; the creator created and managed the world through w., 24, 5, 7 sq. ; the power of w., 24, 7 sq. ; homage to the Spirit of W.,24, 8 ; w. w^ithout goodness and skill without w. are useless, 24, 37 ; the wise and contented man cannot be disturbed, 24, 70 ; he who is perfect in w. is rich, 24, 70 ; who is more complete in w., 24, 76 sq. ; through w. every one is satisfied, 24, 80; the most perfect wealth, 24, 89 ; the seat of w. in the body, 24, 89 sq. ; the many advantages and uses of w., 24, 98-104 ; a wise poor man is more esteemed by the angels than an ignorant king, 24, 105 ; w. and intelligence or reasoning distinguished, 35, 50 sq., 66-9 ; its characteristic mark, 35, 61 sq. ; where is it? 35, 120 ; instinctive and acquired w., 37, 20 sq. ; is for Auharma2<af,37, 317 ; increased by recitation of the revelation, 37, 330 ; of the good religion, 37, 342 ; discriminating through w., 37, 373 sq. ; put away your small w., and your great w. will be bright^ 40, 137 ; Zoroaster sees the omniscient w., 47, 158. See also Knowledge.

Wishes, rites for obtaining special, 26, 145, 251, 454 sq. ; 30, 189, 259 ; 43, 138, 240 sq., 247, 265 ; different rules for building a house according to different w. one may have, 30, 120 sq. ; the anointed king chooses a boon, 41, to8 ; three w. of the sacrificer fulfilled, 42, 181 ; in w. nothing is excessive, 43, 241, 247, 265.

; 30, 189, 259 ; 43, 138, 240 sq., 247, 265 ; different rules for building a house according to different w. one may have, 30, 120 sq. ; the anointed king chooses a boon, 41, to8 ; three w. of the sacrificer fulfilled, 42, 181 ; in w. nothing is excessive, 43, 241, 247, 265.

Witchcraft: sorcery and curses cause impurity, or even loss of caste, 2, 92 ; magic rites and incantations enjoined for the king against enemies, 2, 236 ; Br ah mans and

Buddhists credited with w. practices, 4, 8 ; created by Angra- Mainyu, 4, 8, 8 n. ; men killed by w., 4, 77 ; w. and evil-doing introduced by K%\ Dahaka, 4, 385 ; 18, 217; the sorcery of Noktarga, 5, 138; Bhikkhus must not practise, learn, or teach the low arts of divination, spells, w., &c., 11, 196 sq., 199 ; 20, 152 ; diseases caused by w., 17, 60 ; a most grievous sin, 18, 417 ; 24, 72 ; spells, w., and herbs pernicious to life revert thither whence they come, when one thinks of Avalokitejvara, 21, 414; slander more grievous than w., 24, 9 ; the religion of the Manicheans denounced as w., 24, 1 70 ; charms buried to do injury to enemies, 26, 135, 135 "•> 137 sq.; ceremony to avert death through w., 30, 118; disputes of persons versed in w. to be settled by persons familiar with the three Vedas only, 33, 281 ; ordeal by poison to be administered without the application of spells, 33, 318 ; a vanishing root which makes men invisible, 35, 281; 36, 119; burying images of another to obtain an injurious power over him, 40, 241, 241 n. ; return from w. practices without looking back, 41, 44,

53 sq. ; he who knows the mystic meaning of * year ' is not overcome by magic art, 44, 14 ; Indra exorcized by Tvash/ri with Soma-juice suitable for w., 44, 2 1 3 sq. ; Raivata skilled in sacred spells, and able to counteract poison, 49 (i), 194. See also Amulets, Auspicious rites. Imprecations, Incantations, Magic, Magic rites. Magician, Sorcerers, Spells, and Witches,

Witches and wizards, believed in by the Arabs, 6, xiv; the soul's unatoned sin collected by w., 18,

54 ; wizards and w. vanquished by the angels, 18, 88 sq. ; w. whose vesture is shooting stars, meteors, and comets, 18, 96, 96 n. ; w. described, 18, 97 ; demons, w., and wizards, 18, 126, 384, 418-20, 424 ; 24, 91 sq., 103; execution of supposed w., 18, 428 ; the seven planets have the form of w., 24, 128, 128 n., 131, 132 n.; nail-parings become

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weapons of wizards, 24, 276 ; Haoma invoked against demons, sorcerers, and w., 31, 236 ; wizards and w. to be punished, 37, 259; A^i-hsien, a wizard and soothsayer, 39, 262 sq.; a female practiser of love-spells sacrificed at the Purushamedha, 44, 414: Sito slain by w., 47, 137 sq. ; wizards attempt to harm the infant Zoroaster, 47, 145.