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 an object of respect after the king, 41, 96 ; do not engage in disputation with Ra^anyas, 44, 114; king can oppress B., but fares the worse for it, 44, 286. See also Caste {b).

(/) B. IN Buddhist and Gaina

TEXTS.

Buddhaghosa a learned B., 10 (i), xxi ; etymology of Bahmawo, Pali for B., 10 (i), liv, liv n., 89, 89 sq. n. ; the Buddhist saint, the Arhat, as the true Brahma«a, 10 (i), 39, 89-95; (ii), 89, 113-17, 151 sq., 171-4, 179, 195, 207sq.; 13, 78-80; 36, 26-8, 28 n., 314; a true B. goes scatheless, though he have killed father and mother, 10 (i), 70, 70 sqq. n. ; pleasant is the state oi a B., 10 (i), 79 ; no one should attack a B., but no B. should let himself fly at his aggressor, 10 (i), 90 ; a man does not become a B. by his platted hair, by his family, or by birth ; in whom there is truth and 7'ighteousness, he is blessed, he is a B., 10 (i), 90 sq. ; three kinds of B., Titthiyas, A^ivikas, and Niga«/^as, 10 (ii), xiii ; as described in the Sutta-Nipata, 10 (ii), xiii sq. ; there are B., born in the family of preceptors, friends of the hymns, who commit sins ; their birth does not save them from hell nor from blame, 10 (ii), 23; converted by Buddha, 10 (ii), 40-2, 52,79sq., 103-6, 186-213; Buddha's description of the pious customs of the B. of old, and their gradual degeneration, 10 (ii), 48-52 ; a Thera called a B., 10 (ii), 57 ; Buddha the best of the five B., 10 (ii), 59 ; disputatious B., contrasted with Buddha, 10 (ii), 63 ; B. together with B. ask truly, Art thou a B. .? 10 (ii), 75; to whom a B. should offer, 10 (ii), 82-4 ; Buddha warns Kemya not to invite him, because Kewiya is intimate with. the B., 10 (ii), 97; is a man a B. by birth or by deeds ? 10 (ii), 108-17; a B. may, by intense meditation, cause an earthquake, 11, 45 sq. ; will honour the remains of the Tathagata, 11, 91, 99, 247 ; Sama«a-brahma«a, B. by saintliness of life, 11, 105 sq., 105 n.; compared to the Scribes and Pharisees of the New Testament, 11, 160; their phraseology assumed a different meaning when used by Buddha, 11, 161-5 ; Buddha's criticism of the teaching of the B. as to

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by saintliness of life, 11, 105 sq., 105 n.; compared to the Scribes and Pharisees of the New Testament, 11, 160; their phraseology assumed a different meaning when used by Buddha, 11, 161-5 ; Buddha's criticism of the teaching of the B. as to

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union with Brahman, 11, 171-85; various B. teach various paths, such as the Addhariya B., the Tittiriya B., the AT^andoka B., the ^yâandava B., the Brahma^ariya B., 11, 171, 171 n. ; how they recite the Vedas, 11, 172 sq. ; B. and laymen (brahma«agahapatika), 11, 258 n., 261 ; behave badly at dinners given to them, 13, 152 ; the Lokayata system of the B. not allowed to the Bhikkhus, 20, 151 sq.; an honorific title used by Buddhists and Gainas, 22, xxx ; among those who are not attached to the world, there is real Brahmanhood, 22, 45 ; B. a title of Mahavira, 22, 63, 66, 82 sqq., &c. ; 45, 301, 301 n., 310; Buddha calls himself a B., i. e. an Arahat, 36, 8, 8 n., 10 ; think themselves the highest among men and revile the Bhikkhus, 36, 21 sq. ; B, only worthy of gifts, 36, 120 sq. n. ; B. and Buddhists, both reformers, 36, 127 sq. n. ; the superiority of monks to B., 45,50-6 ; a true monk who is exempt from all Karman is a true B., 45, 138-41 ; called * holy cats ' by Ardraka, 45, 4 1 7 ; B. and Sama«as, see Holy persons. Castes, Priests, and 5rotriyas.

Brahmawa (neuter), title of texts, * sayings of Brahmans,' applicable to all old prose traditions, 1, Ixvi ; several Upanishads occur in B., 1, Ixvi sq.; B. and Ara;2yakas, both hturgical, 1, xci sq. ; in the sense of Upanishad or secret doctrine, 1, 264, 264 n. ; the B. literature, 12, ix, xxii-xxv, xlvii ; B. m.eans a dictum on ceremonial, 12, xxii sq. ; B. and Mantrasawhita to be studied, 25, 144 ; Grihya ceremonies mentioned in B., 30, xiv-xxii ; interpretation of Mantras in the B., 32, 29, 56, 359 sq. ; mystic sense, dogmatic explanation of an oblation, 43, 240; B., Mantras, and arthavadas, 48, 330; see also Aitareya-B., Kaushitaki-B., Pa«^aviwja-B., and iSatapatha-B.

Brahma/^adhammikasutta, t.c,
10 (ii), 47-5^2.

Brahma/^agita, title of a chapter of the Anugita, 8, 256 n., 310 n.

Brahmananda-valli, the second Adhyaya of the Taittiriyaka-Upanishad, 15, xxvii sq.

Bralima;/aspati, invoked to purify from sin, 14, 251 ; the lord of Brahman or speech, 15, 82 ; the Lord of prayer, a name of the Creator, 43, xiv ; lord of the priesthood, 43, 73 ; is the sun, 44, 453 ; invoked at the Pravargya, 44, 453, 476 n., 478 ; Agni identified with B., the Brahman priest among the gods, 46, 186, 190 ; the same as Br/haspati, q. v.

Brahman-egg, created, 48, 127,

334,731.
Brahma-nirvana, t.t., Brahmic bliss,

8, 27 n., 52, 52 n., 176, 176 n.
Brahmanism, germs of Buddhism

and Gainism in it, 22, xxxii. Brahman-slaying, see Brahmahatya, and Brahmawa (d). Brahmapura, city of Brahman, 34,

178. 5^^ Brahman (r).
Brahmar/shi, worshipped, 29, 141.
Brahmasa;;/stha, i.e. he who is

firmly grounded in Brahman, obtains

Brahmanism, germs of Buddhism

and Gainism in it, 22, xxxii. Brahman-slaying, see Brahmahatya, and Brahmawa (d). Brahmapura, city of Brahman, 34,

178. 5^^ Brahman (r).
Brahmar/shi, worshipped, 29, 141.
Brahmasa;;/stha, i.e. he who is

firmly grounded in Brahman, obtains immortality, 1, 35. Brahmasattra, see Veda (c). Brahma 5ikhin, n. of a Brahmakayika god, 21, 5. Brahmasukta, in the Sawhitopanishad of the Atharvawas, 38, 62 ;

48, 191.
Brahma-sutras, Hexts about the

Brahman,' not the Vedanta-sutras,

8, 31, 102 ; another name for

Vedanta-sutras, 34, xiv n. ; see

Vedanta-sutras.
Brahmasvaranadabhinandita, n.

of the 42nd Tathagata, 49 (ii), 6. Brahma-upanishad, or the secret doctrine of the Veda, its teaching, and its result, 1, 44; 34, 94; 48,

336, 525.
Brahmavar>^asa, Sk., t.t., 1, 29 n.
Brahma-veda = Atharva-veda, 42,

xxvii sq., xxviii n., xxx, xliii, lix,

Ixii-lxvii.
Brahmavidya, knowledge of the

Brahman, see Brahman (b).
Brahmavidyabhara/^a,on Bauddha

sects, 34, 401 n., 404 sq. n. Brahma- viharas, see Meditations. Brahma-world (world of the Brahman, neut., or of Brahman, masc), all creatures day after day go into the B., and yet do not discover it,

1, 129; 48, 317 sq. ; deep sleep is

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absorption in the B., 1, 129; 15, 171; 48, 317 sq. ; is free from all evil, and lighted up once for ail, 1, 130; belongs to those who find it by abstinence (brahma^arya), 1, 130 sq.; 38, 384; details about it, its lakes, &c., 1, 131, 132 n., 275 sq. ; the sun is the door of it, 1, 134; the Devas are in the B., and meditate on the Self as taught by Pra- ^apati, 1, 142 ; having shaken off the body^ I obtain self made and satisfied the uncreated world of Brahman^ 1, 143 ; obtained by him who performs the duties of studentship, householdership, and of the mendicant,

I, 144; is water, 1, 279; by lifelong service to a teacher the professed student gains the B., 2, 193 ; 7, 120, 129; 25, 72 sq., 157; a well-conducted Snataka will never fall from it, 2, 226 ; obtained through the Brahma marriage rite, 7, 108 ; attained by a giver of a hundred milch cows, 7, 272 ; even the B. only temporary, 8, 79 sq., 80 n. ; a wise Brahmawa came from B., 8, 231 ; the imperceptible seat of the Brahman, the highest world, 8, 234 ; Satyaloka or B., 8, 234 n. ; the highest goal of Brahmawas and Kshatriyas, 8, 255 ; Matanga, the K3Lnda\a.y went to the B., 10 (ii), 23 ; he who pretends to be an Arhat, without being one, is a thief even in the B.,10 (ii), 23 ; Buddha teaches the beings in B., 10 (ii), 96, 142 sq. ; is void like other worlds, 10 (ii), 208 ; no one in it can digest what Buddha digested, 11, 72 ; the turning of the wheel of the empire of Truth heard in B., 11, 155 ; Buddha understands the B. as all other worlds, 11, 185-7 ; the Iddhi of reaching in the body up to the B., 11, 214 ; Sudassana entered it,