deity, only he is a deity to whom offering is made, IV, 238, 246,
[44] M m
266; different deities and me-
tres identified with parts of the
body, 330, 331; the ultimate
deity not to be questioned be-
yond, V, 117.
Dev^navidy^ the Veda of Rakshas, V, 3«.
devasii (divine quickeners), offerings to, 111,69, 72; IV, 346.
dewy season, consists of the months
Tapa and Tapasya, IV, 126;
which are supreme, 126, 127;
is the sky, 137; is the year's
head, 127.
dhslma>(i&ad, seat-hiding (?) verse, IV, 291.
Dhlnva. See Asita.
Dharma Indra, king of the gods, V, 370.
DhltW (creator), connected with
gods generally, and the Vij, IV,
68; lord of the seven ^ishis,
73 ; is Pra^pati, 263 ; the sun,
264 ; offering of twelve-kapdia
cake to, 264.
Dhira iSitapameya, instructs Maha-
jala C^bdla on the nature of
Agni, IV, 331.
dhishanl. III, 243.
dhishnya hearths. III, 317, 318;
preparation of, IV, 241 ; are
the clansmen to the fire-altar,
as chief, 241 ; consist of a single
layer, 242 ; only with lokam-
prinl bricks, 242 : enumeration
of, 242 n. ; eight, 360.
dhrish/i, fire-tongs, V, 39 n., 500.
Dhr/tarSsh/ra, V, 401.
dhWti, four oblations offered every
evening of preliminary year of
A/vamedha, V, 385, 388, 364.
dhruva-graha. III, 11.
Dhvasan Dvaitavana, king of the
Matsyas, performed the A/va-
medha, V, 398.
dice, game at, III, 106, x is ; V, 330.
dtkshi, III, 68; at Agniiayana to
last a year, 181 ; insignia of,
185; of Agniiayana, 346 seq.;
is speech, IV, 67 ; springs from
faith (jraddhi), 138; is the
body of the sacrifice, 340; of
seven days at Ajvamedha, V,
290 seq. ; twelve, 371 ; is the
vital airs, 291 ; twenty-three
days at Purushamedha, 403.
Digitized by
5ATAPATHA-BRAHMAi\rA.
dikshsuityesh/i, III, 44; IV, 258;
without samish/ays^s^, 258.
dijEm avesh/ayai&, III, 120.
dijya, regional bricks, in first layer,
III, 188 seq.; in second layer
(=lfvini), IV, 31 seq. ; in third
layer, 43 seq. ; are the regions
and the sun, 43, 44; are the
metres, 45.
Diti (and Aditi), viewed by Mitra and Varujva, III, 93.
dog, the moon is the heavenly dog,
watching the Sacrificer's cattle
(to seize them) and coming
down at new moon, V, 10 ;
dog's clutch (jvalu^ita), a burn-
ing pain, I o ; dog driven away by
bow or staff, 11,12; an unclean
animal, 178; four-eyed dog kill-
ed at Ajvamedha and plunged
under horse's feet, 279; dog is
untruth, 446.
dr/ba, (dr/va), arrow, III, 88.
drops, oblation of. See stokiyl.
drought, produces a lawless con- dition, V, 1 8.
drums, seventeen put up, III, 23; one beaten by Brahman priest,
dOrvi, grass (and brick). III, 187,
379; is cattle, 379 ; etymology,
380 ; is the kshatra, breath and
vital sap, 380; grows up joint
by joint, knot by knot, 381 ;
spreads and branches out by
a hundred shoots, 381 ; IV, 2.
Dush/aritu Paumsayana, a king, V, 269, 272.
Dvadajaha, opening Atiritra of, III, introd. xix.
Dvaitavana. See Dhvasan.
dvipara, die, III, 107.
dvavimja-stoma, is vigour, the year,
IV, 63.
dvipadS, the ample metre in the form
of which sheep were produced,
IV, 38 ; of twenty syllables,
385 ; offering of, V, 342.
Dviya^s brick, is this earth, seen
by Indragnt, III, 381; is the
Sacrificer, 381 ; his human
body, 382 ; laying down of,
383 ; is the hip of Agni, the
sacrificial animal, 400; IV, 2.
Dyaus, gives birth to Agni, III, 272.
Eagle. See /yena, supariza.
ear, one of the five vital airs (of the
head). III, 402 ; as the regions,
is the child of heaven, IV, 10;
from it autumn is produced, 10 ;
is Vijvamitra (all-friend), 10; in-
troduced from the left (or up-
per) side, II ; is one only, 11 ;
sustained by the upward vital
air (udina), 15 ; one of the five
divisions of vital air in the
head, 190; the ear evolved
from the eye, and from it work,
378, 379; the two ears con-
nected by channel, V, 36 ; what
is thought by mind is spoken
by speech, and heard by the
ear, 263 ; Adhvaryu and Sacri-
ficer whispering in the (right)
ear of the horse, 287.
earth, three of them, III, 27;
SLfraid of consecrated Br/haspati
and vice versa, 34; ditto of
Vanwa, 103 ; union with Agni,
148 ; (bhfimi) a foundation, 147,
158; (prjthivi) the broad, 148,
158 ; is the Gayatr!, 148 ; con-
nected with Pra^lpati and Agni,
187; created as one consisting
of eight syllables, 232; fashioned
by Vasus by means of Glyatri,
233; navel of the earthy 258;
a firm resting-place, 278 ; sur-
rounded by ocean, 301 ; is cir-
cular, 309 ; the mother of Agni
Purishya, 311; is Prs^pati's
GIrhnpatya, 314; after its crea-
tion, darkness was everywhere,
319; Pra^^pati its begetter,
346; spread on waters like a
lotus leaf, 364 ; is Agni's womb,
364; is established on truth,
364; is the truth, the most
certain of worlds, 364 ; sheds
seed upwards in the form of
smoke (steam) which becomes
rain, 383 ; bears everything
breathing, 387; is measured out,
fashioned (mita) ; is the course
(eva), IV, 88; on earth one
thinks with the heart, and the
mind, 95 ; is the most substan-
tial (rasatama) of worlds, 179;
is the right wing of Agni«Pra-
^pati, the altar and universe,
179; steadied by mountains and
Digitized by
INDEX TO PARTS HI, IV, AND V.
rivers, V, ia6; is the Ksha-
triya's world, 133; connected
with the Ajvins, 341 ; is higher
than the water, 267; he who
hides himself, or goes else-
where, is ultimately tbund on
the earth, 284, 285 ; no creature,
walking erect or horizontally,
can go beyond it, 285 ; is the
great vessel, 315 ; in the begin-
ning of the size of a span, 451 ;
raised up by boar EmOtsha
(Pra^pati, her husband), 451 ;
is a good abode on which all
creatures abide, 457 ; is white,
as it were, 463 ; her over-lords
(Agni, Indra &c.), 464 seq. ;
becomes a mare and carries
Manu, her lord (Pn^ipati),
466 ; Is a place of abode for all
the gods, 505.
east, connected with priesthood &c.,
Ill, 91; Agni's region, 206;
^V, 199; is towards the gods,
111, 215, 355; IV, 226; is the
Gayatri, IV, 45 ; is a queen,
46, TOO ; the Vasus its lord, 100 ;
protected by Agni, 100; con-
nected with trivrrt-stoma, a^a-
jastra, and rathantara-siman,
100 ; is strength and the sky, V,
16, 17; the region of the gods,
485.
easterns. See priyfya.
eater, the. Is Agni, Adit ya, the breath,
IV, 398.
egg. See golden egg.
eight, symbolical significance, IV,
190.
eighteenfold, is the year, IV, 66.
eighty (ajiti), means food, IV, 92,
112, 161; of formulas (to the Rudras), 161, 223.
ekadajini, of sacrificial stakes, V,
301 n., 309; is heaven, 310;
offspring and cattle, 310; a
virSjg', 335, 404, 405-
ekapadA, the gapless metre in the
form of which goats were pro-
duced, I V, 38 ; of ten syllables,
385.
ekatrimja-stoma, is design, the year, IV, 64.
ekavim/a, the twenty-first or twenty-
one-fold, is the sun, III, 265,
308; IV, 62; V, 331, 333,334,
335> 378, 402; produced from
manthi-graha, and from it the
vaira^-saman, IV, 10.
ekavimja-stoma, connected with
Anushmbh &c.. Ill, 91; at
morning - service of Kejava-
paniya, 127; is the upholder
(a foot-hold), the sun, IV, 62 ;
through it, connected with Mi-
tra Varw7a, rain and wind freed
from death, 68 ; the foundation
(the feet), 78 ; connected with
Soma, the Maruts, north &c.,
102 ; second day of A/vamedha
an ekavimja-day, V, 378 ; the
foundation of Stomas, 378.
ekoti, V, 1 50.
elevation (high-lying ground), people in danger take thereto, V, 300.
embryonic water of calving cow, III, 78.
embryos, freed from death through
pa^iavi^ja-stoma, connected
with Adityas and Maruts, IV, 69 ;
killer of embryo is despised, 272.
Emiisha, the boar (Pra^pati) raises the earth (his wife), V, 451.
enclosing-stones. See parijrit.
enemies (or enemies' sons), when
meeting, get on well together
on addressing one another by
name, V, 288.
entrail (vrikali), if not cleansed of
contents in dead body, a tiger
springs therefrom when burnt,
V, 203, (215).
Eshavira, a family of priests, V, 45 n,
etarhi, one-fifteenth part of akshipra, V, 169.
eunuch, long-haired. III, 90 ; malted
rice bought from him, V, 219;
is neither man nor woman, 219.
eva, at least, IV, 19 (u eva).
exorcism, IV, 171.
eye, food flowed from eye of fallen
Pra^pati, III, 312; one of the
five vital airs (of the head), 402 ;
there is always water in it, 416 ;
produced from the sun, and
from it the rain, IV, 8 ; is the
jRishi Gamadagni, 9 ; introduced
from behind, 9; is one only,
9 ; sustained by the downward
vital air (apana), 15; one of
the five divisions of vital air in
the head, 190 ; the man in the
M m 2
Digitized by
5'atapatha-brAhmajva,
(right) eye is the man in the
sun and the gold man of the
altar, 368; he is the same as
Indra, and has a mate in the left
eye, who is Indr^t, 369; the two
persons descend to the cavity
of the heart and enter into
union, and at the end of their
union the man sleeps, 370;
from the union of these two
divine persons all that exists
originates, 371 ; the man in
the right eye (and in the sun)
is Death, his feet stick fast in
the heart, and on his pulling
them out and coming out, he
dies, 371 ; that man in the
eye is the vital air and leads
forward all creatures, 371 ;
whilst being one onlv he is
numerously distributed among
creatures, 372 ; the eye evolved
from breath, and from it the
ear, 377, 378 ; what were man
without eyes, V, 124; white,
black, and pupil, 165, 246, 354;
white and black, 354; by means
of it the body moves, 346.
faggots, three bundles of, lighted
and offered upon whilst held at
dilTerent heights, V, 494.
faith,— truth in faith, V, 46; the
initiation sprung from faith,
138.
falcon. See jyena.
fanning, of the sacrificial horse, by
the king's wives, V, 323 ; of the
(Pravargya) fire, by the Adh-
varyu and his assistants, 467.
fast-milk, livingon, ispenance (tapas),
IV, 256 ; milk of three, two,
one teat during days of initi-
ation, and of none on day of
preparation, 256.
father, is gentle and kind to his son,
IV, 25 ; when asked for any-
thing by his sons, says ' So be
it/ 60 ; takes his dear son to
his bosom, 206 ; sons in early
life subsist on father, the reverse
in later life, V, 157 ; returning
from abroad is received kindly
by sons, 204 ; father and sons
part in time of peace, 308.
Fathers, the hollow is sacred to
them, III, 31 ; are the clans-
men, with Yama for their chief,
299 ; Aditi their ruler, IV, 74;
the south their region, 226;
are the six seasons, 243; he who
does not eat becomes conse-
crated to the Fathers (dies), V,
20, 21 ; daily offering of the
svadhi to them, 95, 96 ; sa-
crificial practices appropriate to
offerings to Fathers, 198 seq.;
the world of the Fathers is in
the south, 225 ; the sura-Uquor
of the Sautramajii falls to the
share of the Fathers of him who
drinks it, 233 ; those who per-
form on southern fire, go down
to the world of the Fathers,
236 ; live in Yama's realm, 236,
237; the path of the Fathers
and that of the gods by one of
which all living beings have to
pass, 237, 238 ; are asleep, 265;
placed in the immortal womb,
272 ; are the subjects of Yama
Vaivasvata, the Ya^us theirVeda,
365 ; the uneven number, and
the single nakshatra belong to
them, 423 ; the door to their
world is in the south-east, 424 ;
their world inclines towards
the south, 424 ; to them
belongs the (sod) filled with
roots, 427 ; they are the world
of plants, and hide among
the roots of plants, 429 ; not
seen together with the living,
440 ; three in number, 455 ;
with Yama and the Angiras, re-
ceive offering of Gharma, 481.
female, lies on left side of male. III,
199; injures no one, 202 ; after
birth conceives again, 311.
fever, one suffering therefrom is
consumed by his vital airs, IV,
348.
fifteen, IV, 74, 309.
fifteenfold, is the thunderbolt, III,
413; IV, 85; V, 384; the arm,
IV, 79 ; the neck, V, 163.
fig-tree, Indian. See Nyagrodhas.
finale. Seenidhana.
fingers (and toes), have a common
connecting link (or limb), III,
417 ; consist of four parts
each, IV, 325 ; the different
Digitized by
fingers, V, 75; the different fingers and their joints, 161.
finger-breadth, the lowest measure,
IV, 300; thereby fire-altar
measured, 300.
fire, when it goes out it is wafted up
in the wind, IV, 333 ; Fire
evolved from Work, 380 ; is
the womb of the sacrifice, V,
3 ; is one of the six doors to
the Brahman, 66 ; sacrificial
fires only desire flesh of victims
and the Sacrificer, 119; four
kinds of fires, (three worlds and
the regions ; Agni,Vayu, Aditya,
^an dramas), 127 ; there is a fire
in every piece of wood, 187 ;
circumambient fire shuts out
the Asuras, 271 ; carried round
victims, 307.
fire-altar (agni) ; the way in which
it is mounted (like a horse). III,
361; building of, 362 seq. ; a
four-footed animal, IV, 19 ; con-
traction and expansion (of
animal's body), 20 seq.; of
eagle-build, 21 ; is the year and
the three worlds, 29; con-
structed so as to extend (fly)
eastwards, 115; Agni its head,
the earth its right, the sky its
left wing, Viyu (the air, vital
air) its body, the moon its tail,
the sun its heart, 178-80; the
Sacrificer's divine body, 226,
256 ; the body of all the gods,
256 ; substitutes for complete
fire-altars at repeated Soma-
sacrifices, 271 ; is an ocean of
Ya^^us, 278 ; Fire-altar, Mahi-
vrata and Mahad uktham are
the Sacrificer's divine, immortal
body, 279 ; is a bird-like body,
285; is the earth, the mind,
the trunk, the head, 286; is
measured by finger-breadths,
300; the sevenfold, 306; for
this a vedi of ninety steps, 308 ;
different forms of, from seven-
fold to one hundred and one-
fold (the latter of which is to
be fourteen times that of the
former), 309 seq.; by building
a smaller fire-altar, one curtails
Pra^pati, and by one larger
than the largest one exceeds
the universe, 312 ; the hundred
and onefold contains all objects
of desire, is the year, and the
sun, 313; it is equal to the
sevenfold one, 314; is built
between the two performances
of the upasads, 316 ; each layer
of bricks and earth takes ^or re-
presents) a month to bulla, 318;
the hundred and onefold the
normal one (?), 321 seq.; it gains
the immortal light, 323 ; it is a
sevenfold one by its layers, 324 ;
the fire (altar) is fivefold (by
food, drink, excellence, lignt,
and immortality), 326 ; is the
food prepared for Prs^pati and
becomes the body itself, 341 ;
is the man in the sun, 366 ; is
the earth, air, sky, the sun, the
nakshatras,the metres, the year,
the body, all beings and all gods,
