Brahmajiaspati, lord of the priest- hood, IV, 73; is the sun, V,
brahmaudana, priests' mess of rice, V, 274 ; is seed, 275, 348.
brahmodya, theological disputation,
V, 79 ; between Brahman and
Hotri, 314; all priests, 388-
390.
breast-bone, IV, 114.
breath. See praj^a.
brick. See ish/akl^.
Br/haduktha VSmadevya, V, 302.
br/had vaias. III, introd. xv.
Brihaspati, gains Pn^pati and as-
cends to upper region, now his
own. III, 2, 59, 122; is the
Brahman (priesthood), 3, 21 ;
IV, 192, 229 ; V, 258, 314 ; wild
rice-pap on seventeen plates,
III, 21, 28 ; afraid of the earth
and viceversi, 34; with Briha-
spati's rulership the Sacrificer
is consecrated at Vi^peya, 39 ;
by eight syllables gains Giyatr!,
Digitized by
^atapatha-brAhmaj^a.
40; pap to Brihaspati, 59; is
Purohita of gods, 59 ; V, 358 ;
white-backed bullock his fee,
III, 59; his the smaller and
broken rice-grains, 67; (?is
Varuwa, 68) ; pap of wild rice
to Brihaspati Vai, 70 ; partha-
oblation to Br/haspati, 82 ; IV,
328; assists Varuna, III, 113;
sawsr/p-oblation (pap), 116;
pa»itabila (pap) on centre of
Vedi, 120, 121 ; white-backed
bullock fee to Brahman for
Br/haspati's oblation, 122; pra-
y^ghn havis (pap), 125 ; Savitri
and Brihaspati connected with
the regions and the i(atush/oma,
IV, 69 ; ruler of tame animals,
74 ; protector of upper region,
103 ; connected with Vijve De-
y^f triwava and trayastriiwja-
stomas, &c., 102, 103 ; as Brah-
man assists Indra Apratiratha
in fighting the Asuras, 192 ;
takes 5n*s holy lustre and re-
ceives (mitravindl) pap, V, 62-
65 ; the eighth of the ten deities
(*all the gods*) receiving ob-
lations of drops, 281; offering
of barren cows, 402, 411 ; Bri-
haspati, with the Vijve Dev^,
receives offering of Gharma,
480 ; is the wind, 480.
Br/haspati-sava, III, introd. xxiv, XXV, 4 ; the same as V^apeya,
Brihati, metre,— the fire-altar be-
comes like it. III, 219; is the
year, 220; consists of thirty-
six syllables, 318; in the form
of it oxen were produced, IV,
38 ; is the air, 53 ; a thousand
br/hat!s, iii; is the mind (of
Pra^-apati), 327, 328; 12,000
make up the whole Rikf 352 ;
twenty-one brihatts, as the
measure of the universe, 384-
387 ; the ^aturmasya formu-
las amount to 362 brihatts, and
hence to the year and Mahl-
vrata, V, 78; by it the gods
reached heaven, 156, 172; the
Tapaj^tita-sattra amountsthere-
to, 172 ; cattle related thereto,
221 ; the pressing-stones are of
brihatt nature, 243.
brihat-siman, III, introd. xv, xvi,
xx-xxiii ; connected with Indra,
XV ; with Kshatra, &c., 91 ; pro-
duced from pa^iadaja-stoma,
IV, 7; (br/hai i^ifrandas) is
heaven, 19 ; connected with
Indra, the Rudras, the south,
&c., loi ; sung over completed
fire-altar, is the sky, 179.
br/hat-stotra, Va^peya-siman, III, II.
Buiila Axvatarlrvi Vaiyighrapadya, a teacher, IV, 393.
bull, liberated as fee for Agni-Soma
cake, III, 45 ; fee for Indragni
cake, 46; dark-grey, fee for
PQshan's trishamyukta, 56;
brown, for Soma's, 56 ; is the
Pra^ipati of cows, 58 ; belongs
to Indra, 60; spotted, 6t; fee
for oblation to Maruts, 61 ;
sacrificial animal, 162, 165 seq. ;
slaughtered for Indra, 162 ;
eight-hoofed, 177; (ukshan) is
vigour, produced in the form of
the Kakubh, IV, 38 ; two-year-
old (dityava6) produced in the
form of the Virig-, 39; other ages
of other metres, 39 ; originates
from Indra^ mouth, V, 215 ; has
an excrescence (hump), 276.
burial-place (jmajina), V, 421 seq.;
four-cornered, 423 ; is made
round by people of Asura nature,
the Easterns and others, 423,
424 ; the site for it, 424 seq. ;
size, 428, 435 ; ploughing of site,
431.
calf, year and a half old, is vigour,
produced in the form of the
trish/ubh, IV, 39; white calf of
black cow, 200.
carpenter, his house is the resting-
place of the sacrificial horse and
its keepers, V, 360.
cart. See chariot.
castes, four, do not vomit Soma, III,
cattle, belong to Piishan, III, 55;
(Rudra, 52) ; are purtsha, aoi ;
represented by the ititondasyi
(metre-) bricks, IV, 36; thrive
when it rains, 36; become
metres, 36; Pra^pati, in the
shape of Gayatr!, overtakes the
Digitized by
cattle, 37; thrive exceedingly
in the homestead of him who
possesses many of them, V, 1 26 ;
their eye taken by the sun,
whence they only know things
by smelling, 130 ; bovine cattle
represent all animals, 333.
chamberlain* See kshattri.
chanting-place, of bahishpavamlna- stotra, V, 305.
chariot, -race, introd. xxiv, 17 seq. ;
taken down from stand and
turned, III, 18, 98 ; with three
horses, warrior and charioteer,
50, 102 ; gods driving on, 389 ;
placed north of fire with pole
to the east, 390 ; offering made
on head of chariot, IV, 233;
chariot shifted sunwise round
the fire on the brick-altar, 334 ;
is the sun, 335 ; by oblations of
air the gods yoked the chariot
for the obtainment of all their
wishes, 236; two smashed
chariots joined together, V,
198 ; made complete by means
of cords, 318.
charioteer, not to get down from
chariot along with king, III,
104.
child, bom with head first. III, 333;
in womb grows by warmth, 254 ;
tries to speak and stand up at
the end of a year, V, 1 3 ; first
speaks words of one or two
syllables, 1 3 ; born after being
fashioned for a year, 88.
circumambulation, (thrice) of altar
(to atone for ordinary walking
round), IV, 170; of sacrificial
horse (by the king's wives), V,
322, 333.
clavicle. See collar-bone.
clay, produced from foam. III, 147,
157 ; lump of, is Agni, 206 seq. ;
ditto for Pravargya vessels, V,
449.
clod-bricks, are the regions, III,
345, 348 ; vital sap, 345 ; IV,
44 ; clod of earth deposited
midway between a grave and
the village, V, 440.
cloud, originates from smoke. III,
85 ; is the udder whence the
'shower of wealth' flows, IV,
coin. See gold coin.
cold, is the body of him about to die, IV, 136.
collar-bone, classed with the ribs, V, 164.
colour (outward appearance), is everything, V, 354.
commander of army. See senlni
conception, — one bom a year after
conception may perform Agni-
iayana without having carried
the Ukhya Agni for a year,
IV, 274.
consecration. See anointment.
copper, piece of, put in mouth of eunuch. III, 90; melts, V, 493.
cord, is Varunic, III, 233, 336; cf. rope.
costal cartilages, IV, 114.
cotton tree, (sabxialia malabarica), the highest tree, V, 317.
couch, no sleeping on during initia- tion, III, 185.
counter-charm. III, 53, 371.
couples, sustain the realm, IV, 330.
courier. See paligala.
cow, dakshiiil for first-fruits. III,
46 ; her Varumc nature, 5 1 ;
yoke-trained cow dakshina for
Indratudya, 51 ; belongs to
Rudra, 53; dakshijvl for obla-
tion to Aditi, 60 ; cow-raid, 98 ;
cow and boar friendly together,
103 ; means these worlds, 156 ;
has four nipples, 237; most fit
to yield a livelihood, 237 ; when
milked out is worn, 257 ; (or
bull) created from Pra^pati's
breath, 402 ; is (the supplier of)
food, 406; not to be injured,
406; milch cow (dhenu) is vi-
gour, produced in the shape of
the ^gati metre, IV, 39 ; the
bricks of altar made such, 172 ;
milked by sitting person, 172 ;
milk of black cow, with white
calf, offered to Agni about to be
laid on fire-altar, 200 ; black
cow and white calf are night
and sun, 200 ; cow of plenty,
seen and milked by Kaivva, 203 ;
offering of barren cow (to Mi-
tra-Vam«a), 263-265 ; brings
forth within a year, V, 1 2 ; tow
suckling a strange calf, her milk
used for offering in case of an
Digitized by
iSatapatha-brAhmaata.
Agnihotrin dying, 198; cow,
wont to cast her calf, victim of
Indra at Ajvamedha, 300 ; bar-
ren cows immolated, 402, 411 ;
tail of barren cow tied to the
left arm of a dead man, 438 n. ;
of Pravargya, see gharmaduhi.
cow-dung, smeared over fire-site,
V, 191 ; used for burning dead
body, aoa.
creation, II 1, 145 seq. ; nine primary substances, 147.
creator. See DhitrL
creatures (pra^), produced from
Prajfapati, the sacrifice, III, 40 ;
in all quarters, IV, 31 ; Pra^a-
pati their lord, 7 3 ; Yavas and
Ayavas their lords, 76.
crosswise, offering made on Svaya-
matr/msa of completed altar,
IV, 183.
crow, is untruth, V, 446.
cubit, means the (fore-)arm, V, 449.
curds and whey, sour curds. See dadhi.
cushions, wrought of gold threads,
for the priests to sit on, V, 360,
361.
dadhi, sour curds, is life-sap, III,
374 ; belongs to Indra, 375 ; a
form, or the life-sap, of the
earth-world, 389, 390; mixed
with honey and ghee, for sprink-
ling completed fire-altar, IV,
1 8a seq. ; globule of sour curds
put on Samidb, as a form of
cattle, 203.
dadhigharma, V, 502.
Dadhikra, III, 27.
Dadhikrivan, 111, 27; V, 326.
Dadhya^i^ Atharva^a, is speech. III,
a 18; knew the pure sacrificial
essence (the Madhu), 444; is
decapitated by Indra, and res-
tored by the Ajvins, 443, 444.
Daivipa. See Indrota.
Daiyampati, instructed by ShuTiiyi- yana, IV, 273.
Dikshayajia, form of Full and New*
moon sacrifice, to be performed
for fifteen years, V, 5.
dakshi«a (sacrificial gift), (cows), the
way along which they pass. III,
99, loi ;— dakshina as Apsaras,
the Gandharva Y^»a's mates,
IV, 232 ; the sacrifice is praised
for them, 233; no bargaining
for, as depriving the priests of
their place in heaven, 280 ; wins
food, 285 ; no oblation without
dakshina, V, 7 : stand south of
altar, 1 7 ; time for bringing
them up at animal . sacrifice,
120; are healing medicine, 217;
is the glory, 446 ; must not be
given away by the priest, at
least not on the same day,
446.
I^nava (Asuras), V, 95.
dani/avadha, III, 108.
darbha-grass, bunch of, put on
ploughed Agnikshetra, III, 332;
contains food and drink, 33a;
grew up from waters loathing
Vn'tra, 332; IV, 44; handful
put on mixture of ghee (with
gold chips), sour curds and
honey for sprinkling therewith
iwith the tops) on completed
ire-altar, 182 ; a means of
purification, V, 195,274; piece
of gold tied thereto and taken
westwards (as the sun), 195 ;
ditto of silver, taken eastwards
(as the moon), 196 ; rope there-
of for tying sacrificial horse,
274; sepulchral mound covered
therewith, 436.
darkness, after the creation of the eaith. III, 319.
DarjapOriramisa, the offerer thereof
eats food every half-month in
the other world, IV, 299 ; eso-
teric remarks on, V, i seq., 52
seq. ; to be performed for thirty
years (twice 360 full and new
moons) thereby gaining the
360 days and nights of the year,
4, 5 ; first performed by Para-
mesh/i&in Pr^patya, 15; after
him Prs^pati, Indra, Agni, and
Soma, 15, 16.
Dajapeya, III, introd. xxvi; requires
special offering-place, 68, 113
seq.; etymology, 114; an Agni-
shfoma, 118.
Dajaratha, king of Ayodhyl, III,
97.
Dajaratra, V, 140; last day of,
called avivlkya. III, introd.
xvii ; compared to the seat (or
Digitized by
INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V.
body) of a chariot, the two
shai/ahas being the wheeb, V,
149, 155 n^ 159.
dative of purpose, III, 198,
Dauitshanti. See Bharata.
daurgaha, V, 397.
dawn, precedes the sun, III, 273.
day, a separater, IV, 89 ; originates
from the light emitted by the
gods when created, V, 14; the
(one) day (after day) is the
year, 155.
day and night, nourish Agni, III,
(271), 373; encompass the uni-
verse, 287 ; days and nights are
endless, 352 ; rulers of Arya
and iSadra, IV, 74, 75; are
Pr^g-apati's joints, 281 ; are
forms of Brahman and Kshatra,
V, 386.
dead man, his bones arranged in bird-form, V, 435.
Death, seizes creatures whilst in
Pra^pati's womb, IV, 67;
created above (mortal) beings
as their consumer, 290 ; searches
for (the half-mortal) rrs^pati
who has entered the earth, 290 ;
is the year, 356 seq.; he is the
ender, 356 ; has only the body
for his share, 357 ; those who
do not become immortal come
to life again and become the
food of Death time after time,
358 ; Agni as Death, 365 ; Death
is immortal, and the man in the
sun, 366; Death is both the
man in the sun and that in the
right eye, 371, 374; is both one
and many, being the man in
the sun, he is numerously dis*
tributed on earth among crea-
tures; whence also both near
and far away, 372 ; Death be-
comes the self of him who
knows, and makes him immortal,
374 ; Death, hunger, being alone
in the beginning, creates Mind,
402 ; Arka and Ajvamedha be-
come Death, 404; creatures
delivered to him, except Brah-
ma>(^rin, V, 48; deaths take
place in any world, 339; ob-
lations to Deaths, 340.
