Kraivya, the Pl^it^la king, performed the Ajvamedha, at Parivakri,
krinta, one of Visbiu's steps, III, 96.
Kratusthall, the Apsaras, is an in-
termediate quarter (? N.E.), or
(Agni's) battle, IV, 105.
krimuka tree, how produced, III,
254 ; wood red and sweet, 254 ;
has no ashes, 255.
kr/ta, dice. III, 107 ; V, 330.
Krivi, old name for Pa^/fila, V, 397.
krivi (w. 11. kavi, krayi), III, 98.
Kshatra, nobility, connected with South region, trish/ubh, br/hat-
slman, pa^adaja-stoma, sum-
mer, III, 91; (political power)
concentrated in one, 248 ; con-
nected with Indra-Vishwu, and
freed from death through pa^-
>(adaja-stoma, IV, 68 ; Indra
its lord, 74 ; is the eater among
the people, 125, 132, 242 ;
attaches to a single individual,
132, 241 ; stands, as it were,
210 ; is built up by (social)
layers, 242 ; Indra created as
Kshatra, 342 ; established on the
Vij, V, 41 ; produced from out
of the Vij, 225 ; produced from
out of the Brahman, 227 ; not
to be detached from the Vi/,
228 ; Sacrificer consecrated by
the Kshatra (a Kshatriya), 253,
254 ; takes no delight in Uie
priestly office, 286; spiritual
lustre takes no delight in the
Kshatra, 286.
kshatra-dbr/ti, III, introd. xxvi, 129.
Kshatriya (cf. ra^nya), and Vlf, III,
100 ; followed by the other
three castes, 226 ; Brihmajza
and Kshatriya, never walk be-
hind Vaijya and .St^dra, 227 ;
Kshatriya and Purohita alone
complete, 259 ; are everything,
260; — Kshatriya destroys ene-
mies and raises his relations,
260 ; grants settlement with
approval of clan, 299 ; deprived
of the Soma-drink, IV, 345 n. ;
his world is the earth, V, 133 ;
remain Kshatriya in heaven, 2 50 ;
Kshatriya consecrates Ksha-
triya, 254 ; whilst sacrificing
becomes a Brihmana, 348.
kshattri, chamberlain, one of the
ratnina/r, III, 61 ; is aprasavitri,
61 ; addresses the Plligalt, V,
387. kshetrapati, — ^prayu^g^ havis (pap)
to, III, 125. kshipra, one-fifteenth part of a mu-
hilrta, V, 169. kshipra-jyena (?the quick eagle),
produced from the amritavika,
IV, 370. kshumH (v. 1. kshupi), name of an
arrow, III, 88. Kubera Valrravaiza, king of the
Rakshas, V, 367.
N n
Digitized by
5ATAPATHA-BRAHMAJVA.
KuhQ, pap offered to her, (the ex- treme end of) one of the four
regions, IV, 364. Kumlra (the boy, Agni), bom from
Ushas, III, 159, 160. kumbhi, pot. III, 270; perforated
with a hundred holes, V, 220,
234 n. kumbya ( ? an explanatory passage),
V, loi.
kuntapa, V, 164 n., 374.
k(ir>a, a (gold) stool for Sacrificer,
V, 360. kQrma, etymology, III, 390; the
same as kajyapa, 390. Kurukshetra, — PurQravas wanders
about in Kurukshetra, V, 70 ;
is the gods* place of divine
worship, 441. Kuru-paM>^]a, III, 124 ; V, 51. kurupijangili, V, 389, 390. kora-grass, garment made thereof,
worn for purification, III, 31 ;
is pure, 32, 356. Kujri Va^jravasa (Gautama), a
teacher, IV, 345 n., 390. kya, (belonging to Ka), IV, 334
seq. ; is the food of Agni, 342
seq., 347 seq.
ladder (nlrraya/zi), leant against sa-
criftcial post and mounted by
Sacrificer and wife. III, 32.
lakshman, mark, — is lucky on right
side of (body of) man, or left
side of woman, IV, 81 ; mark
in mouth lucky, 81 ; lucky on
any side, 95.
layer, of altar. See Mil.
lead, piece of, put on tiger's skin and
kicked off. III, 91 ; compared
with gold, 92 ; originates from
Indra's navel, V, 215; with
lead malted rice bought at Sau-
trlma/ii, 219.
league, a thousand, the farthest dis- tance, IV, 163.
leg, — ^arms and legs consist of
twenty-five parts each, IV, 325;
parts of leg, V, 75.
life, — of gods longer than men's. III,
344 ; life (iyus) and vital air the
highest (endowments), IV, 144;
life (iyus, vitality) the same as
vital air, 1 4 3 ; is food, 1 96 ; life of
a hundred years is immortality.
299 ; gains the immortal light,
heaven, 323; therefore one
must not shorten one's life,
323 ; consequences of shorter
lives, 323, 324 ; it requires many
sacrifices to gain one day or
one night (of life), 324 ; life is
to this world what immortality
is to the other, 327 ; those who
do not become immortal come
to life again, and become the
food of Death time after time,
357> 358 ; retribution in future
life, V, 109 seq.
lifting-sticks (/aphau or parlrasau),
V, 458; are heaven and earth,
476 ; therewith Pravargya pot
is lifted, 477.
light (mA)f is immortality, III, 383; IV, 238.
lightning, is the teat whence the
' shower of wealth * flows, IV,
221; one of the six doors to the
Brahman, V, 66, 67 ; a terrible
form of rain, 261.
lightsome (ninmatt) oblations, (to Agni and Varujia), IV, 237-239.
limbs, dependent on vital airs. III,
151; IV, 19; — thirty of the
body, IV, 167, 222 ; are tripar-
tite and furnished with two
joints, V, 77.
lines, three drawn round for pro-
tection, III, 212 ; on bricks,
IV, 137.
lion, produced from Soma flowing
from Indra's nose. III, 131 ; is
vigour, produced in the form of
the ati/f>(^ndas metre, IV, 38.
liquid, — ^the means of drinking off
one of two liquids mixed to-
gether, V, 223.
liquor, spirituous. See parisrut, sura.
logesh/akl (clod-bricks), III, 345.
loka, space and world. III, 180.
lokamprmE, brick, is the peasantry,
III, 153 ;— of Garhapatya, 308 ;
— their number on fire-altar,I V,
4 1 ; two laid down in comers
and thence filling up of layer,
22, 41, 58, 82 ;— is the sun, 96,
1 3 1, 1 34, 1 35 ; the nobility, 1 3a,
242 ; is the body, 134 ; the vital
air, i3f>; when made milch-
cows by the gods, stand with
averted faces, having received
Digitized by
no names, 174 ; therefore called
* vira^,' 174; 10,800 in fire-
altar (10,701 in Ahavaniya, 21
Girhapatya, 78 dhish»yas), 357,
360 ; it is the gold man in the
sun, and the one brick (? ak-
shara) in which the fire-altar
results; also the man in the eye,
whence two lokampr/nis are
laid down, 369 ; Agni the one
lokampri;^!, 381.
long-haired man (eunuch). III, 9, 90.
lost thing, recovered by offering
to Heaven and Earth, Vlyu,
and Siirya, V, 347.
lotus-flower, and plant, — golden
flower as fee. III, 115 seq. ;
its leaves a symbol of sky and
stars, its seed-stalks of the air,
and its suckers of the earth,
117; lotus plant means the
waters, 364.
lotus-leaf, placed on antelope skin,
HI, 215; is speech, 275; the
sky, 216; the womb, 222;
placed on Ahavantya site, 343 ;
Agni found on lotus-leaf by
white horse (Pra^apati), 360;
lotus-leaf as womb, laid down in
centre of altar-site under first
layer, 363 ; means water and
earth spread out thereon, 364 ;
(pushkara), the essence of wa-
ters, made a stronghold by the
gods for Indra, 365 ; represents
the waters, Agni*s maternal
womb, IV, introd. xx; marks
the commencement (womb) of
altar, 44, 118, 119 ; is the im-
mortal light, 365; is the light
of the sun, and both are the
black of the eye, 367, 368 ; is
the foundation of the saman as
one of the only three bricks of
which the altar consists, 374.
lute, — played to one is a form (sign)
of wealth (? distinction), V, 285 ;
a Brahma;2a and a Ra^nya play
the lute and sing praises of
Sacrificer at Ajvamedha, 285
seq., 356 seq.
lute-players, masters of, V, 362 seq., 373.
Madhava, second spring-month, III, 386.
Madhu, the sweet doctrine (brlh- maija), V, 444 n., 471.
Madhu, first spring-month. III, 386.
madhu-graha, III, 11; held by
Vaijya or Ra^anya, 29 ; pre-
sented to the Brahman priest,
29.
Madhuka Paifigya, remark on animal sacrifice, 122.
M^dhyandina-pavamana (at V^a- peya). III, 8.
Magha, month suitable for erecting of sepulchral mound, V, 423.
maghavat=makhavat, V, 443.
Mahldeva, V, 81.
Mahad uktham, IV, introd. xxv ; in
bird's shape, xxv; no seq.;
(? a different recension, in n.,
168 n.) ; the .Satarudriya ac-
counted to be equal to it, 168,
273 ; an ocean of rikSy 278; not
to be recited for another, 279,
367 ; fire-altar, Mahad uktham,
and MahSvrata are the Sacri-
ficer*s divine, immortal body,
2 7 9 ;— 2 8 1 seq. ; originated from
the vital fluid (ras«i) of Pra^a-
pati's dismembered body, 282 ;
the Hotri thereby puts Praga-
pati's vital fluid into the Soma-
cup, 283 ; it is equivalent to all
the rikSf 283 ; is a bird-like
body, 286 ; is the sky, speech,
the body, 286 ; thereby the
Hotri puts flavour into the
Mah^vratiya cup, 346 ; is the
orb of the sun, 366 ; triad, Agni,
Arka, Mahad uktham, V, 172 ;
— cf. uktha.
mahanlmni verses, III, introd. xx, xxi.
Mah^n DevaJf, a form and name of Agni, is Pra^Spati, III, 160.
mahas (wealth, or joy), as a formula
pronounced after the Agnihotra,
V, 126.
Mahiuila Oabala, instructed by
Dhtra i^atapar/feyaon the nature
of Agni, IV, 331, 393; (? the
same as Praiinaj^la Aupa-
manya), 393 n., 395.
Mah^vira pot (Vishmi and the Sun)^
etymology, V, 443; making ot,
447 seq. ; its form, 454 ; anointed
with ghee, 462 ; is revered (as
the sun), 469.
N n 2
Digitized by
fi-ATAPATHA-BRAHMAiVA.
Mahlvrata, IV, in trod, xxv seq. ;
no, 1 68; the last day (before
concluding day) of Gavsim
ayanam, and formerly one of
the three great rites of the
Sattra, V, (139), 144, 167.
MahSvrata-siman, in bird's shape,
IV, introd. xxvi, no; an
ocean of slmans, 278 ; not to
be chanted for another, 279,
367 ; fire-altar, Mahavrata and
Mahad uktham are the Sacri-
ficer*s divine, immortal body,
279; thereby the UdgStri puts
Pra^apati's vital fluid into the
Soma-cup, 282 ; is equivalent
to all (other) simans, 283 ;
composition of (Gayatra, Ka-
thantara, Br/hat, Bhadra, and
Rl^na-samans), 282, 283 ; is a
bird-like body, 286 ; is the air,
breath, 286 ; the vrata of the
great one (Agni), 342 ; thereby
the UdgStri puts flavour into
the Mah^vratiya cup, 346 ; is
the light of the sim, 366.
mahSvratiya-graha, IV, introd. xxvi,
282 ; by offering it, the Adh-
varyu puts the vital fluid into
Pra(^pati, 284 ; is Pra^pati's
food, 346 ; is offered with
* vausha/,* 202, 346.
mihendra-graha, belongs to Indra,
III, 13, 17, -—drawing of, 41,
81, 113.
mahiman, two Soma-cups (drawn for
Pra^pati) at Ajvamedha, day
and night, IV, 401 ; V, 327 ; ma-
himan, is royal power, 327; the
first drawn in gold vessel, 391 ;
the second in silver vessel, 394.
mahishf, first wife, III, 238 ; lies down near the sacrificial horse,
V, 386 ; addressed by Brahman, 386.
Mahitthi, III, 175 ; IV, 105-8, 271.
maiden, — beautiful maiden is apt
to be loved (by men), V, 295 ;
given as dakshind, 402.
Maitrftvaru»a, his hearth, III, 80, 81 ;
sterile cow his fee at Dajapeya,
119 ; is under Hotr/» V, 137 ; is
the mind of the sacrifice, 245.
maitrlvaruna-graha, III, 6.
Makha, is the sacrifice, III, 333; Vishnu, V, 443 ; his head re-
stored, 450 seq.; — Makha Saumya, 454.
male, is pre-eminently endowed
with power, IV, 230 ; m. organ,
(of three parts), V, 19 ; has one
joint, 19.
malt, of rice and barley, V, 219, 223 n., 240.
man, — is skinless, III, 32 ; men be-
long to Vishnu, 54 ; lives up to a
hundred years, 93, 135, 405 ; V,
261, 275; has a hundred powers
or energies, III, 93, 135; V,
275; is bom into a (future)
world made by him. III, 181 ;
the sham-man his sacrificial sub-
stitute, 197 ; is a fathom high,
309 ; is Pra^pati, 309 ; man's
life shorter than the gods*, 344 ;
tends upwards by his vital airs,
368 ; is not held down by food
and breath, 379 ; man's human
form is clay, 382 ; men have
their birthplace in the west
(the Girhapatya), 389 ; man
created from Pr^pati's mind
(manas), 402 ; is the first and
strongest of animals, 402 ; is
produced in the shape of the
pahkti, IV, 38 ; ^male) is lucky
if marked on right side, 31 ;
single man has many wives, 2 30 ;
man with upstretched arms the
measure for the fire*altar, 305 ;
that is his highest measure, 305 ;
fivefold (by food, drink, excel-
lence, light, and immortality),
326, 327 ; when man dies he,
by bis five vital airs, passes into
fire, sun, moon, the quarters,
and the wind, and becomes one
of them, 333; must not eat food
in the presence of his wife, 369 ;
roan at the end of sexual union
becomes apathetic and sleeps,
370; is king Soma, V, 6; of
sixteen parts, 20 ; man is bom
thrice (through birth, sacrifice,
and death), 23, 24 ; daily offer-
ing to men (by entertaining
guests), 95 ; black, yellow-eyed
man (Wrath) between two
women (Belief and Unbelief) in
North-East quarter, iio-iia ;
man's thought taken by sun
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