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340, 400-428. three principal, i, 401,

Bauddha philosophers, i, 15 n.

— schools, their idealistic doctrine rejected, i, p. xxvi.

— sects, teach the eternal flux of everything that exists, i, 403 n. Bauddhas deny the authoritativeness of Scripture, i, 412.

— the opinion of the B. that the Self alone begins to function in a new body, and that new senseorgans are produced in a new body, ii, 103 seq.

Beatitude, highest, not to be attained by the knowledge of the
Sahkhya-smr/ti irrespective of
the Veda, nor by the road of
Yoga-practice, i, 298.

there is no other means of obtaining it but the knowledge of the unity of the Self which is conveyed by the Veda, i, 298.

Being. See Sat.

Bhagavadgita, as an authority for
Badaraya«a, i, p. cxxvi.

— the doctrine of the Bh. a fusion of the Brahman theory of the Upanishads with the belief in a personal highest being, i, p. cxxvi. Bhagavatas, or Paw^aratras, the forerunners of the Ramanu^as, i, p. xxii seq.

— their views refuted according to

5ankara, approved of according to Ramanu^a, i, p. Ii seq.,

439-443-

— their system nearer to Badarayawa than that of 5ahkara, i, p. c. and the Bhagavadgita, i, p.

cxxvi.

and the Mahabharata, i, p.

cxxvii. ■ contradictions in, i, 442 seq.

— the theory of the Bh. that Brahman carries within its own nature an element from which the material universe originates, i, p. cxvii.

— the doctrine of the Bh. stated,

^ i, 440.
Bhallavins, amantraofthe,ii,2 27seq.
Bharuy^i quoted by Ramanu^a, i,

p. xxi. Bhashika-sutra for the accentuation of the 5atapatha-brahma«a, i, 258 note.

GENERAL INDEX.

p. 445

Bhashyakara, i. e. Dramid'a, i, p. xxii.
Bhedabheda relation of the soul to

Brahman, i, p. xix.
Bhishma chooses the time of his

death, ii, 380. Bhr/gu Varuwi, disciple of Varu«a, i, 199.

— and other sons of Brahman's mind were again born at the sacrifice

of Varu«a, ii, 235.
Bhu^yu Sahyayani, i, p. cv.
Bhuman (that which is much) is

Brahman, i, p. xxxv, 162-169.

— is it the vital air? i, 162-168.

— is bliss, i, 163.

— is immortality, i, 163, 168.

— in it the ordinary activities of seeing, &c., are absent, i, 168 seq.

— knowledge of, ii, 412. Birth, action, death, i, p. xxvii.

— when applied to the sprout, i,

340.

— the terms *b. ' and 'death,' if applied to the soul, have a metaphorical meaning, ii, 28 seq.

— may take place without the ' five oblations,' i. e. not in the ordinary way, ii, 125 seq.

Blind man who had caught hold of the ox's tail, i, 55.

Bliss is Brahman, i, 65, 75.

— of Brahman is absolutely supreme, i, 67,

— Brahman is the cause of b., i, 67.

— absolute b. the result of higher knowledge, i, 138.

— (Brahman asj the bhuman is b., i, 163, 168.

— attaches to the state of deep sleep, i, 163, 164, 168.

— constitutes the nature of the Self, i, 168.

— and other qualities ascribed to

Brahman in different scriptural
texts, have to be attributed to
Brahman everywhere, ii, 201204.

— see also Self consisting of b. Bodhayana, author of a VWtti on the

Vedanta-sutras, i, p. xxi.

Bodhayana quoted by Ramanuj^i-a, i, p. xxi. Body, the product of Nescience, i, 244.

— the Undeveloped, i, 246.

— is the b. the sufferer, or the soul ?

i, 379-

— the Sahkhya cannot admit a real connexion of the soul and the b.. i, 379-

— consists of three elements, fire, water, and earth, ii, 104.

— water (liquid matter) preponderates in the b., ii, 104 seq.

— Brahman's secret names with reference to the Devas and to the b., ii, 216 seq.

— embodied soul and b. viewed as non-different, ii, 374.

— subtle, due to the soul's higher knowledge, not due to Karman or works, i, p. Ixxi.

is beyond the soul, i, 244.

is meant by the term avyakta, i, 241 seq., 244.

and the gross b., i, 244, 245.

consisting of the ten senseorgans, the five pra«as, manas, and buddhi, ii, 65 note.

— — is not destroyed by what destroys the gross b., ii, 372.

the warmth which we perceive in the living b. belongs to the s. b., ii, 372.

Brahma/^arin, ii, 298, 300.

— who breaks the vow of chastity,

ii, 318 seq., 320.
Brahma>^arya, ii, 315.
Brahman ', according to .Jahkara and

Ramanu^a, i, p. xxviii.

— a certain vague knowledge of B.

common to all the Upanishads, i, p. civ seq.

— of iSankara is impersonal, i, p. xxx.

— becomes a personal God through

Maya, i, p. xxx.