Digitized by
INDEX TO PARTS HI, IV, AND V.
(pap) to, 125; barley pap at
Sautrlmaffi, 1 36, 1 37 ; Varuwa is
the injurer, 137 ; horse slaugh-
tered for him, 163 ; to him
belongs the sling, 279, 280 ; the
sheep sacred to him, 411;
M itra and Vanin a, out-breathing
and down-breathing, connected
with ekavimja-stoma, IV, 68;
rules over one-hoofed animals,
75 ; protector of the west, loi ;
connected with the Adityas,
saptadaia-stoma, marutvatiya-
/astra, vatrQpa-siman, loi, 102;
runmatt (lightsome) oblation to,
238 ; is Agni (when completed
and anointed), 238; is the
kshatra, 239; Vanina and horse,
V, introd xix seq.; part of Pra-
^pati's body affected by Va-
nuia, 36 ; takes SrVs sovereign
power and receives (mitra-
vinda) oblation (ten-kapila
cake), 62, 65 ; sends out his
son Bhr/gu to improve his
knowledge, 108 seq.; through
(a cake to) Vani«a one delivers
one's self from Vanwa's power
and noose, 221 ; Varuira's cakes
of ten kapilas, for Varu»a is
Vir%, the lord of food, 222 ;
connected with winter, 247 ;
upholder of the sacred law, 25 1 ;
is the king of the gods, 251 ;
receives oblation in Sautii-
man! (for assisting in healing
Indra), 252 ; swearing by the
inviolable waters a sin against
Vani^a, 265 ; Varuffa's son or
brother is a whirlpool, 266;
the last of the ten deities (* all
the gods ') receiving oblations of
drops, 281 ; Varuna Gumbaka,
343 ; propitiatory barley pap,
346 ; Varuiva seizes upon the
drowned, 346 ; barley sacred
to him, 346 ; Vanuia Aditya,
king of the Gandharvas, 365 ;
(the regent of waters, ? and
Nakshatras) is the self of the
gods, 505, 506.
Varu;fa-praghdsli&, seasonal offering,
J 1 1, 47; part of Pra^pati*s body,
V, 75 ; oblations of, 75 n.
varuxra-sava, III, introd. xxv,76, 103.
varuni. See BhWgu.
vanmic nature, of cow, III, 51.
varu»ya. III, 57.
va/a, hymn, IV, 112, 223.
vira (? desirable or submissive). III,
vasattvart water, — at Ajvamedha of
four kinds, from the four
quarters, 275.
Vasha/, uttered with ten oblations
of the Darjapdnramisa, V, 3 ;
is the sun and Death, and by it
the Sacrificer is regenerated
and delivered from death, 26 ;
produces wasting away of cattle
in winter, 45 ; — 277 note.
Vasish/i&a, the RJshi, is breath, IV,
5 ; his (knowledge of the) Vir^
coveted by Indra, V, 212 ;
formerly only one of his family
could become Brahman priest,
Vasor dhlrll, shower of wealth, IV,
S13 seq.; is Agni's Abhisheka
(consecration), 213; its mystic
meaning, 221 seq. ; corresponds
to year and Mahad uktham,
221, 222.
Vasu, dwelling in the air, III, 103, 281.
Vasus, by thirteen syllables gain the
trayodaja-stoma, III, 40 ; eight
Vasus produced from Vii(, 149;
placed on earth with Agni, 150 ;
iwith Mitra) mix the clay, 231 ;
ashioned this earth-world by
means of GEyatri, 233; Rudras
and Vasus sing praises of (brick
in) second layer, IV, 25 ; how
produced, 33; Vasus and Rudras,
connected with the four-footed
and the iaturviinja-stoma, 68 ;
Vasus, Rudras, and Adityas sep-
arated, and were the lords when
heaven and earth separated, 75 ;
connected with Agni, &c.,
100 ; the lords of the east, 100 ;
Vasus, Rudras, Adityas, Maruts,
and Vlrve Dev^ build on
different quarters of altar £.
S. W. N. U., 118 ; the eight
Vasus enumerated, V, 116 ;
arise by performance of morn-
ing pressing, 173 : consecrate
the king by the Gayatra metre,
312 ; obtain the part of Vishmi,
the sacrifice, corresponding to
Digitized by
STATAPATHA-BRAHMAJVA.
the morning - pressing, 443 ;
Indra, with Vasus, Rudras, and
Adityas, receives offering at
Pravargya, 479, 480.
▼ata. See wind.
v^tsapra, hymn and rite, III, a6i, 383 ; an unyoking-place, 286.
vatsara, (fifth year of cycle), IV, ai.
Vitsya, a teacher, IV, aya, 345 n.
vausha/, etymology, IV, 341, 346 ; —
forms part of the unexhausted
element of the sacrifice (and
trayf vidyl), V, 170.
vavitl, addressed by Udgsltr/, V, 387.
vayasyd, bricks in second layer, IV, 34.
Digitized by
Rikf Ys^s and SSman are light,
might and glory (fame), 174.
vedi, is this earth, III, 345, 349;
IV, 335 ; V, 248 ; is the world
of the (? place for) gods, IV,
118; measuring of vedi (for fire-
altar), 30 seq. ; (mah^vedi) equal
to vedi of sevenfold fire-altar,
306 ; vedi of ninety steps (for
the sevenfold fire-altar), 308;
is fivefold, 309 ; right edge of
vedi a balance in which the
Sacrificer is weighed, V, 45 ;
is the golden, brilliant-winged
Giyatrt who bears the Sacri-
ficer to heaven, 56; how to
step past it, 57 seq. ; two vedis
at Sautr^aji!, 333; is the
farthest end of the earth,
390.
ve/, sacrificial call, is indistinct (in-
definite), IV, 183; used with
oblation of ghee (with gold
chips in it), on completed fire-
altar, 183; used (with <svlha')
after final benediction of Vasor
dhira consecration, 330; with
*vasha/,* or 'svlhS,' is food
offered to the gods, 231.
vetasa (bamboo), etymology, IV, 174; cf, reed.
vibhitaka nut, used as dice, III, 106 ; tree, not to stand near a grave,
Vibhus,— Savitri, with J?/bhus, Vi-
bhus, and Vl^^as, receives offer-
ing of Gharma, V, 480.
victim, animal, is Prs^pati, and re-
presents all deities, IV, 404;
number of, at Ajvamedha, V,
309 seq.; is quieted ^killed),
331; human (symbolic), 407;
set firee, 411 ; enumerated, 413
seqq.
vikankata, (flacourtia sapida), is the
thunderbolt, III, 53 ; how pro-
duced, 256, 448; pieces laid
round Pravargya pot, repre-
senting the Maruts, V, 466 ; the
vital airs, 486.
vikarnt, brick in sixth or seventh
laver, IV, 96, 99, 140 seq.; is
Vayu, 140; is vital power (ayus),
MI, 291. vikranuuia, one of Vish«u's steps,
vikrinta, one of Vishnu's steps. III,
96. vikriti, (fashioning) formula, III,
283. village-boundaries, contiguous in
time of peace, V, 306, 307. vimita, shed, put upon gaming ground,
III, II.
vii%, bricks of fifth layer, IV, 83. Vira^, metre, gained by Varujia, III,
40; of ten syllables, 183, 196;
V, 403 n. ; is Agni, III, 196;
is food, IV, 50, 304; all food,
IV, 12, 87; V, 408, 418; the
unassailable metre in form of
which tigers were produced,
IV, 38 ; also two-year-old kine,
39 ; is food, 50, 204 ; of thirty
syllables, 94, 385 ; the undi-
minished V'lT^g is Indra's hea-
ven, 94 ; the ten vital airs are
the Vii%, the sacrifice, V, 3 ;
possessed by Vasish/i&a, and
coveted by Indra, 312; is the
earth, 312; created by Prs^pati,
enters the sacrificial horse, 310;
born from the Purusha, and the
Purusha from Vii^, 403.
vij, (peasantry, clan), food for the
noble. III, 13 ; connected with
west, Gagatf, vairQpa-siman,
saptada/a-stoma, rainy season,
91 ; connected with the gods
generally, and the creator, is
freed from death through sap-
tadaja-stoma, IV, 68 ; less
powerful than nobility, and
differing in speech and thought
from each other, 133; is the
sacrifice, 144; sits as it were,
310; is indefinite, 3 10, 345;
speak to the kshatra now in a
loud, now in a low voice, V, 41 ;
obedient to the kshatra, 327;
not to be.equal and refractory,
but obedient and subservient,
to kshatra, 303.
Vishnu, by three syllables gained
the three worlds. III, 40; is
the upper end of the gods, 44 ;
the sacrifice, 45, 113; V, 179;
three-kapala cake, or pap to,
III, 54 ; men belong to him, or
are of his nature, 54; three
steps (strides), 96, 361, 375;
by Vishnu, Pragipati created
Digitized by
^ATAPATHA-BRAHMAiVA.
the worlds, 276, 386; assists
Varuira in recovering his lost
vigour, 114; (upasad) thtee-
kapila cake, or pap, 118; as
embryo a span long, 235, 355,
360, 268 ; Vishnu ^pivish/a, pap
of rice and fresh milk at >few
moon, V, 9; the sixth of the
ten deities (* all the gods *) re-
ceiving oblations of drops, 281 ;
Vishnu nibhQyapa, £ipivish/a,
393 ; a dwarfish animal his vic-
tim at Ajvamedha, 300 ; enters
the world in three places, 388 ;
first reaches end of sacrificial
session, and attains excellence
among gods, 441 ; is the sacri-
fice, 442 ; unable to control his
ambition, 443 ; with his bow
and three arrows, 443 ; his head
is cut oflf, and becomes the sun,
442 ; is divided into three parts
(the pressings of the Soma-
sacrifice), 443.
Vishifu-strides, a feature of the havirya^a, V, 130.
vish/lrapahkti (metre), is the regions, IV, 88.
vish/lvd^a. III, 50, 53.
vishri6!lvi%in. III, 133.
vishfuti. III, introd. xxii.
Vishuvat, central day of Gavim aya-
nam, and formerly one of the
three * great rites * of the year's
sattra, V, (i39)» U4 ; 's in ex-
cess of the year, 158,
vlrvadeva-netrai6, (devifr), seated in the west. Ill, 49.
Vi/v^it Atirltra, with all the pr/sh-
ibsLS and giving away of all one's
property, a substitute for a
year of Soma-pressing (with
Agniitayana), IV, 330, 331; V,
430, 491.
vijv^gyotis (bricks) are (all the light),
Agni, Vlyu, and Aditya, respec-
tively, III, 3 10, 339; making
of, 339 ; mean ofiispring, pro-
geny, 339, 385 ; IV, 139 ; laying
down of the first (Agni), HI,
384; is breath, 385; IV,2; Agni,
130 ; that of third layer, Vayu,
47, 130; is offspring, 47; is
breath, 47 ; the fifth layer, 99,
139; possessed of generative
power, 139; is the sun, 130;
is breath, 131; Stirya its lord,
Vi/vakarman, the purusha (roan)
slaughtered for him, III, 163;
Vijvakarman and Indr^gni con-
nected with the air and the
second svajamltrm/ii, 188,
190; IV, introd. xiv; is Vayu,
6, 106; the /^hi Vuvakarman
is speech, 13; he is Pra^pati,
38, 333 ; settles the third layer
of altar, 41, 47; is Agni, 189,
190, 304; oblation to, 204;
is the lord of all that exists,
204 ; eight oblations to (Agni)
Vijvakarman corresponding to
the Savitra oblations, 266 ; Vis-
vakarman Bhauvana performs
Sarvamedha, and promises the
earth to Kajyapa, 421.
VijvSit, the Apsaras, is the northern quarter, or the vedi, IV, 107.
Vijvimitra, rishi (All-friend), is the ear, IV, 10.
Vi/vantara Saushadmana, IV, 344 n.
VLrvarQpa, the three-headed son of
Tvash/ri, slain by Indra, III,
130; V, 213.
Vuvivasu,theGandharva, lV,introd. xiv.
Vijve DevSA, by twelve syllables
gained Gagati, III, 40; psLUkaL-
bila oblation (pap) on west
part of vedi, 120, 133 ; piebald
bullock the Hotrfs fee, 123;
animal offiering to them (instead
of to Maruts), 126 ; bom from
Vli, and placed with the moon
in the quarters (regions), 150 ;
they and Brthaspati no special
class of deities, 150; put the
quarters in the world, 335 ; are
the seasons, 311; sing praises
of (bricks in) second layer, IV,
26 ; produced, 33 ; i^Mus and
Vijve Devai& connected with
living beings (bhiUta) and trayas-
trim/a-stoma, 69 ; are the lords
of the upper region, 102, 103 ;
connected with Brihaspati, &c.,
103 ; Vasus, Rudras, Adityas,
Maruts, VLrve Devaifr, build on
different sides of altar (E. S.
W.N.U.), 118; sit down with
the Sacrificer on the higher seat
(in the sky), 134; are Indra and
Digitized by
INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V.
Agni, and the three are brah-
man, kshatra, and vu, 344 ; the
most famous of gods, V, 278 ;
are all the gods, 393 ; the coun-
sellors of king Marutta, 397;
offering of barren cows, 402,
411 ; Vijve Dev3i&, except the
Ajvins, 441 ; with Brihaspati,
receive offering of gharma, 4 80 ;
are the vital airs, 488.
vital airs. See pra^ia.
vital power, vitality (^yus). See life.
vrata, rite (of abstinence), III, 185 ;
(fast -milk), 262 ; the four rites,
and rites of rites, IV, 333 seq. ;
343 ; entering upon at New
moon, V, 7 seq. ; vrata (food)
brought at havirya^j/a, 119; is
the head of the sacrifice, 340.
vratadughi, cow, given to Hotr; and Udgitr/s, V, 504.
vr/dhanvant, V, 351.
Vr/tra, slain by Indra by means of
cake-offering, III, 45 ; by Full-
moon offering, V, 6; is the
moon, 111, 45; slain by gods,
48, 49; r/>, ya^s, and s^man
were in him, 138; his retreat
shattered by Vislwru, 139; re-
pelled by Indra, 179; waters
loathing him, 333; verses re-
lating to the slaying of Vritra,
IV, 275 ; is evil, sin, V, 11.
vritra-/ahku (peg), V, 437.
vyahriti, mystic utterance, used with offerings to Rudra, IV, 161.
vyina, becomes the udana, IV, 16.
vylnabhWt (holders of the circulating
air) are the mind-sustainers,
IV, 15.
vyushn'-dviritra. III, introd. xxvi, 139.
wain, as the mark of a sacrificial horse, V, 354.
walking round altar (in sprinkling),
means slighting it, IV, 170;
made good by circumambula-
tion, 170.
warm, is the body of him who is to live, IV, 136.
water (ipaifr), different kinds of, for
consecration, II I, 73 seq. ; pro-
duced out of Vli, 145, 193;
from Pra^pati, 157 ; heals what
is injured, 330; the waters the
udder of the sky, 384 ; the
foundation of the universe, 393 ;
therefrom the universe was
produced, 394 ; water first made
of this universe, 363 ; are un-
settled, 301 ; waters beyond
and below the sun, 305 ; jarful
of water poured out as a thun-
derbolt to clear himself of all
evil (nirr/ti), 334 ; three jarfuls
poured on every four of sixteen
furrows of Agnikshetra, 335 ;
three additional ones on whole
of Agnikshetra, 336 ; is the sky,
343 ; there is water not only in
the channels of the vital airs,
but in the whole body, 337 ;
are the tenth, 363 ; whenever
water (rain) flows everything
that exists is produced, 363 ;
possess self-rule, 364; the deep-
est place of the waters is where
the sun burns, 391 ; are founded
on the mountains (rocks), 405 ;
the eye is their abode, the ear
their goal, the sky their seat,
the air their home, the sea
their womb, sand their sedi-
ment, 416; is food, IV, 35;
is the vital airs, 35 ; waters (of
heaven) are in the highest
place, 37 ; sprinkling of fire-
altar with water, 169 ; springs
forth from rock, 169; is con-
tained in rock, in the mountains,
170; waters as Apsaras, the
Gandharva Vita's mates, 333;
food is produced from them,
332 ; universe originally nothing
but a sea of water, V, 13 ; is
everything, even in the farthest
place, being Paramesh/^in, 15 ;
water one of the six doors to
the Brahman, 66, 67 ; the wa-
ters the foundation of the uni-
verse, 305 ; swearing by the
inviolable waters, sin against
Varuna, 265; waters as the
third of the ten deities (<all the
gods') receiving oblations of
drops, 380; water thrown for
exorcising, 438; the waters a
place of abode to all the gods,
and Varujia their regent, 506.
water-dwellers (fish and fishermen),
