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

not to be interrupted, 25, 138 ; must not be offended, 25, 154; touching a c. purifies, 25, 183, 472 ; for the sake of fodder for a c. one may swear falsely, 25, 273 ; damage done by c. and cattle sacred to the gods, 25, 297, 297 n. ; taking grass for feeding c. is no theft, 25, 313; doing good to or dying for c. a penance, 25, 446 sq. ; worshipping and serving c. in atonement for slaying a C, 25, 453 sq. ; scattering grass to a c, a kind of oracle, 25, 470; the sacrificer must not Idc naked in the presence of a c, 26, 9 ; the gods spake, ^ Verily, the c. and the ox support everything here : come, let us bestow on the c^ and the ox whatever vigour belongs to other species ! ' 26, 9, 11; the Dikshita shall not eat the flesh of a c. or an ox, 26, 11; called * the great ones,' 26, 14 ; the c. for which the Soma is bought, 26, 54-63, 69- 7i> 74) 156; different-coloured c. sacred to Soma, Indra, and the F.ithers, 26, 62 sq. ; worshipped at the Tarpa«a, 29, 122, 219; the hiwkara of the c, 29, 298 ; a Snataka should not point out a^c. suckling her calf, 29, 3 1 8 ; at the Ajvayu^a sacrifice they let the calves join their mothers, 29, 332 sq. ; when driving towards c. in a chariot, one should dismount in the middle of them, 29, 364; he who expels the evil world-destroyer benefits the c, 31, 131 sq., 136, 136 sq. n. ; men toil for the c, and Ahura created the plants for her, 31, 152, 155 sq. ; he who spreads Zoroastrianism furthers the kine, 31, 169 sq., 171 sq. ; curse of the c. and horse, when they are stinted, 31, 244 sq. ; the Zoroastrian deprecates all violence against the c, who is Ahura-Mazda's, 31, 248 ; the Fravashi of the kine worshipped, 31, 252 ; the herd-owner is the father of the kine and the typical saint, 31, 306 n., 307 sq. ; the farm-house with its pastures which give pasture to the kine and the holy cattle-breeding man worshipped, 31, 337 sq., 341; harm not the inexhaustible wide-ruling c, 41, 406, 406 n. ; the c. of a Brahmawa inviolable, 42, 169- 72, 430 sq. ; he who kicks a c. will be bereft of his shadow, 42, 214 ; tainted is the milk of a c. suckling an adopted calf, 44, 198;— drinking the Paw^agavya (the five productions of a c, viz. milk, sour milk, butter, urine, and dung) as a purification, 2,

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; he who kicks a c. will be bereft of his shadow, 42, 214 ; tainted is the milk of a c. suckling an adopted calf, 44, 198;— drinking the Paw^agavya (the five productions of a c, viz. milk, sour milk, butter, urine, and dung) as a purification, 2,

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276 n. ; 7, 89, 89 n., 95-7, 103, 150 sq., 168, 175; 14, 13T, 168-72, 174, 183, 187 n., 188, 190 sq., 324-8; 25, 449 J 453, 464, 474 ; cow-dung a means of purifying, 7, 97, 105, 260; 14, 24, 64; 25, 187, 190; hair of c. a means of purifying, 7, 100 ; drops of water falling from the horns of a c. produce religious merit and expiate sins, 7, 105 ; six products of the c. (urine, dung, &c., and Goro- ^ana), propitious, 7, 105 sq., 105 n.; swallowing barley-corns dissolved in the excrements of a c, an expiatory rite, 7, 154; altar smeared with cow-dung, 14, 262, 307 ; 29, 22, 162, 269, 276, 334, 376 sq. ; 30, 14, 27, 43, 64, 89; 44, 191; great merit of drinking gruel made of barley-grains which have passed through a cow, 14, 299 ; c.'s urine used for purification, 25, 1 90 ; a witness shall hold gold, cow-dung, or blades of sacred grass in his hand, 33, 302 ; horn of a c. used for medical charms, 42, 481 sq.; dried cow-dung used for burning dead body, 44, 202 ; — cow-pens, sacred places, 2, 276; 14, 117, 249, 311 ; 25, 136, 138 ; Veda not to be studied in a cow-pen, 25, 147 ; penance of living in a cow-pen, 25, 446, 453, 470; Samavartana ceremony performed in a cow-shed, 30, 165, 275.

(b) G. IN MYTHOLOGY AND MYS- TICISM.

The wish-granting c, 8, 89 ; 42, 183 ; 49 (i), 157 ; the rays of the sun as heavenly c, 12, 271, 271 n. ; the earth is a c, 12, 308 ; 44, 268 ; the c. is food and sacrifice, 12, 325 sq. ; the milk of the c. is Agni*s seed, 12, 326, 330; see also Milk; I^a, Aditi, Sarasvati, divine names of c, 12,355; 26, 415 sq.; 41, 406 n.; 44, 474; the c. are children of the Sun, 14, 134 sq. ; speech meditated on as a c, 15, 193 ; the body and soul of the c. (Drvaspa, Gojurun, Goj), 23, 9, 17, no; Mithra delivers the c. (like Indra), 23, 141, 141 n. ; man's skin was put on the cow, 26, 9, i3sq. ; 41, 31 n. ; the c. is food and hence breath, 26, 348 ; the c. with the five names, the five seasons, 29, 342 ; Ushas, the c, 29,

(Drvaspa, Gojurun, Goj), 23, 9, 17, no; Mithra delivers the c. (like Indra), 23, 141, 141 n. ; man's skin was put on the cow, 26, 9, i3sq. ; 41, 31 n. ; the c. is food and hence breath, 26, 348 ; the c. with the five names, the five seasons, 29, 342 ; Ushas, the c, 29,

343; the kine*s soul, the emblem of the pious, 31, xix-xxi ; the Soul of the Kine (G^uj Urvan) complains to Ahura and Asha, 31, 3-1 1 ; Ahura, the Creator of the Kine, 31, 38, 44 sq., 146, 148, 181; eating kine's flesh introduced by Yima, 31, 55, 61 ; the sacred kine blasphemed by Daeva- worshippers, 31, 55, 62, 62 n. ; evil are those who have slain the kine's life by a blessing, 31, 55, 63 ; they who work in the toil of the mother-kine further the highest wisdom, 31, 82, 90 ; for whom has Ahura made the motherkine, 31, 109, 114 ; the Karpan and the Usi^ gave the kine to rapine, 31, 121 ; striving to gain the sacred kine, 31, 177, 180; the Karpans grant no pastures to the kine, 31, 184; the kine, the body of the kine, and the kine's soul worshipped, 31, 196, 244, 256, 278, 287 sq., 324 sq., 348, 362, 385, 391 ; the moon, which contains the seed of the kine, 31, 199, 210, 216, 225, 256 ; the c. (days, clouds) released by Indra, 32, 14, 37, 44; clouds as c, 32, 295 sq., 299 ; is of Varu«a's, of Rudra's nature, 41, 51 sq. ; a c. means these worlds, 41, 156; the fire-pan is a c, 41, 237; created from Pra^apati's breath, 41, 402 ; the c. is wide-ruling and is food, 41, 406 ; the 'milch-c. is vigour, 43, 39; the bricks of the fire-altar as milch-c, 43, 17 1-4; a black c. with a white calf symbolical of night and sun, 43, 200 ; the thousand-streamed c. milked by Kawva, 43, 203 ; man's form (wealth) is kine, 44, 261 ; ike c. lowed at the sight of the sun, 46, 57 ; Dyaus approached the speckled c, 46, 74, 79 ; Mitra and Varu«a watch over the beloved ambrosia in the c, 46, 75 ; Saramd found the strong stable of the c.f7'om which human clans receive their notirishment ^ 46, 83 ; the lowing milch-c. of i^/ta, 46, 88 ; Agni, the father of the ruddy c. (dawns), 46, 220, 227 ; waters or dawns represented as c, 46, 248, 250, 313 ; Agni has perforated, as it were, the pure udder of the c, 46, 309; the c. (dawns) imprisoned in the rock cow— CREATION

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delivered by the seven Rishis or
Ahgiras, 46,309, 313, 318, 322, 326,
329 sq. ; the secret name of the c,
46, 371 ; Agni has found the c, 46,
397. See also Bull, Cattle, Goj,
Gojurvan, and Ida.,
(c) Miscellaneous.