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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are only a preparation for the highest knowledge, 1, 31 1, 314 sqq.; through not-knowledge, i.e. good w., one overcomes death, through knowledge one obtains immortality, 1,

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312 sq., 319; interrelation of w. and knowledge, 1, 314-20; 48, 9-1 1, 698-700, 703, 725-7 ; inferior to knowledge and devotion, 8, 48 sq., 52 ; 38, 267 ; w. joined with devotion and knowledge, lead to final emancipation, 8, 59-63 ; 38, 359> 361 ; 48, 9 ; a means of attaining devotion, 8, 67 ; Krishna cannot be seen by means of w., 8, 98 ; by w. people conquer perishable worlds, by knowledge everlasting glory, 8, 179 ; good w. lead to misery (rebirth), while knowledge of Brahman leads to immortality, 8, 391 ; 15, 30-3 ; w. and knowledge cannot be together, 15, xxvi ; he who knows the Self, does not become greater by good w., nor smaller by evil w., 15, 179; he who has reached knowledge of Brahman is not affected by the consequences of either past or future evil or good w., 15, 180 ; 34, Ixxvii sq. ; 38, 119, 237,353-7; 48, 646-51 ; knowledge is independent of w., 34, Ixxv ; 38, 285-95, 306; knowledge and w. are the two roads for entering on the road of the gods and the road of the fathers, 38, 123-5 ; knowledge is subordinate to w., this view refuted, 38, 289 ; 48, 686-96; are enjoined for such only as understand the purport of the Veda, 38, 289 ; are enjoined for him who has merely read the Veda, 38, 293 ; destruction of the qualification for w., by knowledge, 38, 294 sq. ; are the washing away of uncleanliness, but knowledge is the highest way, 38, 307 ; w. of permanent obligation enjoined by the Veda, such as the Agnihotra, have the same effect as knowledge, 38, 358-62 ; w. undertaken for the fulfilment of some special wish, do not contribute towards knowledge, 38, 360 ; depend on false knowledge, 38, 363 ; refraining from w. of any kind whatsoever cannot lead to final release, which can only be accomplished by knowledge, 38, 397-400; for one who does not possess perfect knowledge, it is impossible to refrain from all w., 38, 399 ; abandoned by nien who know Brahman, 48, 690;

knowledge arises as the result of good w., if not obstructed by other w., 48, 712 sq. ; salvation by w. and salvation by faith, 49 (ii), viii sq. (c) Results of w., retribution.

Those who practise useful and pious w., go after death through smoke. Sec, to the world of the fathers, &c., and the moon, 1, 80 ; 15, 272 sq. ; 34, 27; 38, 124; a destroyer of religious merit (fruit of w.) is an * assassin,' 7, 41 ; penance for selling religious merit, 7, 177 ; merit and rewards of w. of public utility,

7, 270 sq. ; action is better than inaction, the highest good to be attained by it, 8, 52-6 ; not to be performed for the sake of reward, of public utility,

7, 270 sq. ; action is better than inaction, the highest good to be attained by it, 8, 52-6 ; not to be performed for the sake of reward,

8, 60 ; renunciation and pursuit of w. both instruments of happiness, 8, 63 ; to be regardless of the fruits of w. is true renunciation, 8, 67 ; abandoning all w. to attain immortality, 8, no; godlike endowments are means for final emancipation, demoniac persons go to hell, 8, 1 1 4- 1 7 ; the ascetic must avoid all w. involving expectation of fruit or destruction of life, 8, 365 ; those who perform w. with expectations go near Pra^apati, 8, 389 ; the Buddhist is untarnished by the belief in the efficacy of outward w., 11, 10, 10 n., 27 ; performance of w. has for its fruit transitory felicity, 34, 1 1 ; Bhr/gu's vision of retribution of bad w., 44, 109 sq. ; Vedic idea of the evil deeds recoiling on the evildoer, 46, 170, 172; the fruit of mere w. limited and non-permanent, 48, 4, 5, 155 sq., 255 ; four chief ends of human w., viz. religious duty, wealth, pleasure, and final release, 48, 6 ; the rewards for w. prescribed by the Veda, come from the highest Person only, 48, 625-8; religious w. bring about their rewards of themselves, 48, 626 ; the good w., shaken off by him who goes to the world of Brahman, go to his beloved, the evil w. to his unbeloved relatives or to his enemies, 48, 646-8, 726 sq. ; Sukhavati obtained by prayers, not by w., 49 (ii), 98, 98 n. ; — accordance with the right leads to good fortune ; following what is

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to his unbeloved relatives or to his enemies, 48, 646-8, 726 sq. ; Sukhavati obtained by prayers, not by w., 49 (ii), 98, 98 n. ; — accordance with the right leads to good fortune ; following what is

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opposed to it J to bad ; — the shadow and the echoes, ^7; the way of Heaven is to bless the good, and make the bad miserable, 3, 90 ; £'ood and evil do not wrongly befal men, but Heaven sends down misery or happiness according to their conduct, 3, i o i ; retribution of good and evil taking place in the family, not in the individual, 16, 47 sq.,4i9sq.; on accumulation of good and evil deeds, 16, 391 ; retribution in this life, not in after life, 39, 39 ; 40, 235 sq., 244, 244 n. ; there are no special doors for calamity and happiness {in men's lot) ; they come as men themselves call them. Their recompenses follow good and evil as the shadow follows the stibstance, 40, 235; — souls met by good w. in shape of a maiden, by bad w. in shape of an old woman, 4, 219, 219 n.; 23, 315-17, 319 sq. n., 343 sq.; active merit can repel evil that is destined, 4, 267 sq. ; the soul leaves the body, but his virtue never parts from a man, 4, 378 sq. ; a store of good deeds is full of salvation, 4, 383 ; recompense and punishment for good and evil deeds, 5, Ixi, 157 sq., 168, 293-5, 350 sq.; 24, 137 sq., 146, 149, 259-62, 265-7 ; 37, 201 ; *a good work of three Srosho- /^aranams,' 5, 289, 289 sq. n. ; why the good suffer more than the bad in this world, 18, 2 3-5 ; rewards of the virtuous, 37, 244, 312, 370 sq. ; — good w. rewarded tenfold, evil w. only by the same amount, 6, 137 ; good w. remove evil w., 6, 218 ; wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world ; but enduring good w, are better with thy Lord, as a recompense, and better as a hope, 9, 19, 33 ; recompense for good and evil w. on the last day, no soul being wronged, 9, 107, 166 ; he who brings a good deed shall have better; evildoers only rewarded for that which they have done, 9, 1 1 7 ; all w. of men recorded, 9, 163 ; whoso does evil, is recompensed with the like thereof, and who does right, his is the paradise, 9, 194 ; every man is pledged for what he earns, 9, 249 ; Si^^in register of the w. of the sinners in hell, and the book of the righteous in 'Illiyun, 9, 324 sq. See also Future Life, Karman, and Transmigration. World, worlds.

(«) Views about this w. (cosmology) and worldly existence. {b) Origin, dissolution, and renovation of the w, {c) Two, three, and more worlds.

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