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

is not subordinate to action, but independent, 34, Ixxv, 10-12, 29; 38, 285-95 ; fruit or result of knowledge of B., 34, ir, 14, I a, 24 sq., 26-9, 231, 266, 300, 327; 38, 117 n., 229 sq., 236, 353-63, 372-5, 419 ; 48, 5, 7 ; conditions for engag-

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ing in the inquiry into B., 34, 12; 48, 10 sq., 305 ; the body is an abode for the perception of B., 34, 178 ; texts exhorting us to strive to see B., 34, 349 ; Bahva explained B. by silence, 38, 157; is not apprehended because it is unevolved, 38, 171; in the state of perfect conciliation the Yogins apprehend it, 38, 171 sq. ; not the subject of injunctions, 38, 185, 162-6, 359 ; some persons, although knowing B., yet obtained new bodies, 38, 235; the state of being grounded in B. belongs to the wandering mendicant, 38, 300-3 ; Atharva-veda correlated with knowledge of B., 42, lix; inquiry into B., 48, 3-156; to be know^n after the knowledge of works has taken place, 48, 5 ; knowledge of B. puts an end to Nescience, 48, 9, 1 1 ; meditation on B. and knowledge of B. the same, 48, 82 sq. ; release not due to knowledge of non-qualified B., 48, 129-38; Nescience not terminated by cognizing B. as the Universal Self, 48, 145-7 ; meditation on non-dual B. enjoined by all Vedanta texts, 48, 193, 197-9, 252, 260, 316, 715 sq. ; even men knowing B. must avoid what is forbidden and do what is prescribed, 48, 288 ; meditation on B. is the means of attaining intuition, 48, 305, 681, 732; knowledge of B. to be understood as knowledge of the Veda in general, 48, 63 1 ; Brahmawas discourse on the supreme B., 49 (i), 127. See also Knowledge, and Meditation.

(/) The higher and the lower B. B. (m.) who is full of the B. (n.) is lord of all entities, and identical with Vishwu, 8, 347 ; higher and lower B. , * the two entered into the cave (of the heart),' 15, 12 n. ; two forms of B., the material and the immaterial, the mortal and the immortal, 15, 107 sq., 306; B. (m.) a personal god, only a manifestation of the Brahman (n.), 15, 302 sq. ; the syllable Om is the high and the low B., 15, 308 ; highest and lower B. distinguished, 34, xix sq., xxxii sq., xxxvi (masc. and neut), 61-4, 171-4; 38, 7, 166, 202 sq., 401 sq. ;

(m.) a personal god, only a manifestation of the Brahman (n.), 15, 302 sq. ; the syllable Om is the high and the low B., 15, 308 ; highest and lower B. distinguished, 34, xix sq., xxxii sq., xxxvi (masc. and neut), 61-4, 171-4; 38, 7, 166, 202 sq., 401 sq. ;

48, 313 sq. ; lower B. associated with Maya, 34, xxv; lower B. called I J vara, the Lord, 34, xxv, xxvii ; in its causal and its effected state, 34, xxix ; 48, 336, 422, 459, 542 ; higher and lower B. not distinguished by Upanishads, nor by Badarayawa, nor by Ramanu^a, 34, xxxi, c, cxiii, cxv sq. ; the B. to which the departed soul is led by the path of the gods is not the highest B., but the lower B., 34, Ixxxii, xc sq. ; 38, 389-402 ; 48, 748-52 ; ^ankara's distinction between a lower and a higher B. not valid, 34, xci-xciv ; the lower B. is the vital principle in all creatures, 34, 172 n. ; the world of the lower B. is called Satyaloka, 34, 181 ; lower B. is for the purpose of worship or meditation, 34, 330 ; 38, 155 sq., 161 sq., 391 ; the qualified B. is the object of the discussion on the difference or non-difference of the cognitions of B., 38, 185; results of meditations on the qualified B., 38, 161 sq., 185, 402-4; the qualified B. is fundamentally one with the unqualified B., 38, 248 ; worlds of B. can only refer to the lower B., 38, 390; on account of its proximity to the higher B., the lower B. can be designated by the word *B.,' 38, 391; immortality is possible only in the highest B., not in the effected one, 38, 392 ; the qualified B. also may be spoken of as being the Self of all, 38, 394 ; B. having for its body all beings in their gross state, is the effect of B. having for its body all beings in their subtle state, 48, 132-4; Prakr/ti denotes B. in its causal phase when names and forms are not yet distinguished, 48, 399; used in a double sense, 48, 533 sq. ; differentiation of names and forms is the work of B., not of Hirawyagarbha, 48, 578-83; the effected or the highest B. is the soul's aim, according as the meditation is, 48, 752-4. (j) Passages in which B. may be

EITHER MASC. OR NEUTER.

B. at the head of the Sadhyas, 1,
43 ; obtained the victory for the
Devas, 1, 149 sq. ; worshipped by

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prayers and offerings, 2, io8, 203,
299; 11, 180; 25, 91 ; 29, 85, 121,
141, 150, 161, 189, 207, 210, 219,
221 sq.,-232, 290, 294, 319-21, 323,
344> 347j 368; 30, 124, 148 sq.,
169, 175, 183, 194 sq., 243; 36, 41;
42, 94, 323 ; 43, 25, 291 ; a part ot
the house called *seat of B.,' 2,
108; marriageriteoif B.,7, 108; 25,

79 ; 29, 166 ; Vishwu is B. personified, 7, 293 ; 8, 347 ; appealed to as umpire, by the quarrelling Pra«as, 8, 271, 273 sq. ; 15, 202 ; teaching and studying the Veda a sacrifice to B., 14, 256 sq. ; 25, 49, 87 sq. ; 29, 217 sq. ; 44, 95-9 ; funeral oblations offered in the mouth of B., 14, 268; the night of B., the muhurta sacred to B., 14, 276, 309; 25, 143, 143 n. ; worshipped by ascetics, 14, 280 ; the teacher is the image of B., 25, 71; punishment, formed of B.'s glory, 25, 218.

(>&) The god B. ' (masc), also

CALLED SaHAMPATI, SVAYAMBHU,
OR HlRAiV^YAGARBHA.

Branches of knowledge traced back to B., 1, 44, 144 ; 8, 312, 314 -93 ; 14, 163 sq. ; 15, xxxix, 27, 227,256; 43, xviii ; 48, 284; the Self is B., 1, 245 ; is the essence of the Veda, Veda belongs to him, 1, 259; 29, 368 ; men who perform sacrifices dwell after death with the gods and B. in heaven, 2, 140 ; the age of one B., a day and a night of B., 7, I, in., 78; 8, 79 sq.,

80 n. ; 25, 20 sq. ; acquired his present exalted position in consequence of good deeds (Karman) in former existences, 7, 153; 11, 163 sq. ; 48, 259 ; part of the hand sacred to B., 7, 198; 14, 21, 166; 25, 40 ; four-faced (ATaturmukha), 8, 83, 90, 93, 103, 345; 25, 254; 48, 90, 312 sq. ; in the list of gods of the Anugita, 8, 219 ; B. Svayambhu, the first of the Devas, the maker (creator) and preserver of the world, 8, 244; 15, 27-9, 315; 25, 3-18, 21 sq., 24 sq. ; 35, 37 ; 45, 244 sq. ; 48, 236, 238; is the first among all the patriarchs (Pra^apatis), 8, 354; the Plaksha, the ever holy field of B., 8, 354 ; the virtuous praised by B. even, 10 (i), 59 ; no