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INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V.
thought protect thee, not man's
thought!'), 130; man as the
year (year's sattra), 144, 145,
168 seiq. ; man does not know
clearly the way to heaven, 305 ;
men the subjects of Manu Vai-
vasvata, the RiJIi their Veda, 362 .
man in the eye. See eye.
man in the sun. See sun.
manas. See mind.
manthin (graha). III, 6; purorui
formula of, 1 1 1 ; produced from
ai^a-saman, and from it the
ekavi;ffja-stoma, IV, lo.
Manu, is Pra^pati, III, 250; car-
ried by the earth (his wife, a
mare), V, 466.
Manu Vaivasvata, king of men, V, 361,
M^nutantavya. See Saumapa.
Manyu, the one god who did not
abandon Pra^pati, IV, 157 ; be-
comes Rudra, 157.
mare, brings forth within a year, V,
12 ; mare with foal the dakshi;ii
at Sautramani, 218, 222 ; mares
enclosed to make the sacrificial
horse whinny, 306.
Mar^^liya hearth, at Agni;(ayana
constructed of six bricks (the
seasons, the Fathers), IV, 243 ;
used for cleansing, V, 490.
mark, on body. See lakshman.
marrow,— the formula used in laying
down the brick is the marrow,
IV, 20 ; is the light of man's
body, 327 ; is the Ya^ushmat!
bricks, hence 360 parts of mar-
row in the body, 387 ; V, 169.
marud-netrai> (devifr), seated in the north. III, 49.
Maruts, — (u^^eshaA) offering of ste-
rile cow to, III, 13; are the
peasantry (vij), 13, 34, 61 ; stay-
ing on Ajvattha tree, 34, 84 ; by
seven syllables gain the domes-
tic animals, 40; seven-kapala
cake to, 61 ; rathavimo^anlya
oblation, 10 1 ; dappled cow
their victim at oblation of teams,
125 ; Adityas and Maruts con-
nected with embryos, and
paJUaywusL'Stomsi, IV, 68 ; lords
of the north, 102 ; connected
with Soma, ekavi^ja - stoma,
nishkevalya - jastra, vair%a -
s^an, 102 ; Vasus, Rudras,
Adityas, Manits, Vijve Deva>&,
build on different sides of altar
(E. S. W. N. Zen.), 118 ; rule
over rain, 170 ; seven cakes of
seven kapalas to them, 208 seq.;
these are the vital airs (of Vaij-
vanara, the head), 209 ; they are
the vLr, 210; their cakes offered
to sitting, 2J0 ; with the hand,
with Svah^ (without a proper
anuvlkya and yS^ya), 211; are
the rays of the sun, 212; the
stormy (region), the troup of
. the Maruts, is the air, 236 ; are
the guardians of one of the four
regions, V, 359 ; Maruts, as
guards-men of king Marutta,
397 ; animal sacrifice to, 402 ;
Maruts, as the people, surround
the (samra^) Pravargya, 466.
Marutta Avikshita, the Ayogava
king, performed the Ajvame-
. dha, V, 397.
marutvatiya-jastrai connected with
Varu«a, the Adityas, the west,
&c., IV, loi, 102 ; on second
day of Ajvamedha, V, 379, 380.
mate, makes man complete, IV, 132 ; is one half of one's self, 132.
Matsya Siwmada, king of water- dwellers, V, 369 ; cf Dhvasan.
Maudgalya. See NIka Maudgalya.
Mayi, — as such, Asuras serve the divine Purusha, IV, 373.
Menaka, the Apsaras, is the southern quarter, or heaven, IV, 106.
metres, — connected with the Brah-
man, &c.. Ill, 91 ; Gayatri,
Trish/ubh, Gagatt, Anush/ubh,
201-202; immortal metres, 203 ;
identified with the white and
black hair of the black antelope
skin, the rik and siman, 266;
mounting of those four metres
(representing the worlds), 276,
277 ; are vital sap, 352 ; the
oceanic (samudriya) metre, 352 ;
the seven, 353; IV, 277, 3U;
looseness in calculating, 111,353;
are life-sustaining gods, IV, 32 ;
the cattle become metres, 36 ;
different kinds of metres, 36
seq. ; are cattle, 45 ; and food,
87 ; the eight defined and the
undefined ones, 53, 88 seq. ;
etymology, 87 ; the kJbzndnsyi
Digitized by
iS-ATAPATHA-BRAHMAiVA.
bricks representing the ten
principal metres, 109, no;
seven, increasing by four (syl-
lables), 212; these are the seven
vital airs, 327-9 ; the different
metres and deities identified
with parts of body, 330, 331 ;
do not fail by excess or de-
ficiency of one or two syllables,
V, 157.
milch-cow, — the bricks of altar are
made such, IV, 172 ; in the other
world one will get many such
by the Brahman, the Yagus,
173; with calf given as dakshi»a
for Aditi's pap at Sautrima;?!,
V, 268.
milk, — used with consecration-water,
111,78 ; is breath (life), 245 ; laid
in female, 245, 311 ; milk from
black cow w^ich has a white
calf, offered to Agni, about to
be laid down on fire-altar, IV,
200 ; milk is breath, 200 ; is
vital sap, 201 ; milk (cups of)
at Sautrimam represents Soma,
and the Kshatra, V, 225, 228 ;
cups of milk there to Ajvins,
Sarasvatt and Indra, 240, 241.
milking-bowl (pinvana), made, V, 454 seq. ; milked into, 475.
milking-pail (dohana), — milk offered from it, IV, 200.
millet, originates from Indra's hair, V, 215.
mind (soul, manas), — everything
gained by it, III, 100; union
of Mind and Speech, 149 ; is
Sarasvat, 398 ; is the foundation
of the body, 270; the first of
vital airs, 402 ; in it all the
vital airs are established, 402 ;
originates from VSyu, in right
side of body, IV, 6 ; from it the
summer is produced, 6 ; is one
only, 7 ; is the moon, 1 1 ; from
it speech is produced, 11 ;
sustained by the circulating
vital air (vySna), 15 ; is the
fifth to the four vital airs, 73 ;
mind (-metre) is Pra^pali, 88 ;
one of the five divisions of vital
air in the head, 190 ; Manas as
Gandharva, with Riks and Sa-
mans as Apsaras, his mates, 233;
Mind alone existed in the be-
ginning, 375 ; thence the other
four vital airs (speech, breath,
the eye, the ear), and after
them work and fire, were evolved
each one from the preceding one
by worshipping with its thirty-
si X thousand Arka-fires, 375 seq. ;
Mind preceded and created by
Death, hunger, 402; thelibations
to Mind and Speech(Sarasvat and
Sarasvati) are such to Full and
New moon, V, 28, 31, 32, 35;
Sacrificer is mind, manifested
in speech, 262 ; what is thought
in mind is spoken by speech,
and heard by ear, 263; is the
overlord of vital airs, 504 ; all is
gained thereby, 507.
mithuna, not to take place during
dtkshi, III, 185; or prior to
maitravaruna curds, 186.
Mitra, — by one syllable gains trivrit-
stoma, III, 40 ; is the Brahman,
67 ; to him belongs wood broken
off by itself, and naturally pro-
duced butter, 67; the larger rice-
grains, 68; what is cooked by
hot steam, 68 ; injures no one
but is every one's friend, 68;
Mitra Satya, pap of nRmba seed
to, 71 ; prayu^am havis (pap),
125 ; Mitra is the breath, 230;
(together with the Vasus) mixes
the clay, 231 ; is the wind, 245;
the out-breathing (pra«a),I V, 68 ;
takes .Sri's noble rank (kshatra)
and receives (mitravindi) ob-
lation (pap), V, 62-5 ; the ninth
of the ten deities ('all the gods' )
receiving oblation of drops,
281.
Mitra-Brihaspati, a pap to, III, 66 ; are the path of the sacrifice, 67.
Mitra - Vanwa, — are anointed as
kings by the gods. III, 73 ; to
them the R^nya belongs by
his arms, 88, 93 ; are dhrrta-
vratau (upholders of the sacred
law), 89 ; mount the chariot
and thence behold Aditi and
Dili, 93 ; are the directors (pra-
iistarau), 99; dish of clotted
curds (payasyS) to them, 105,
186; (pa^iabila) dish of clotted
curds (payasyi) on north part of
vedi, 120, 121 ; Adhvaryu's fee
Digitized by
for it sterile cow, 122 ; — are the
out-breathing (prlna) and up-
breathing (ud^na), lia ; V, 181;
connected with rain and wind,
and the ekavi^n/a-stoma, IV,
68 ; payasy^ to, is a divine
mate for Sacrificer (since prior
to it he must not touch woman),
ayo; this payasyl is seed, put
into Pra^pati, 270; are this and
the other worlds, V, 268 ; the
pri/ia and apana, 269 ; offering
of barren cows, 402 ; seasonal
animal sacrifice, 402, 411.
mitiivanMa-netrai6 (deva^fr), seated in the north. III, 49.
Mitravindi, form of sacrifice (ten oblations), V, 6a seq.
month, — twelve or thirteen in the
year, III, 119; a thirteenth,
182 ; has sixty days and nights,
184; the year their ruler, IV,
74 ; the thirteenth is Agni's
trunk, 167 ; the thirteenth is
the year itself, V, 247 ; is an
excrescence of the year, 276.
moon, — slain when set at liberty,
III, 45; is Vn'tra and Soma,
45 ; (ATandramas) how created,
149; is seed, 149; the Vijve
Devli& placed with moon in the
quarters, 150; isPra^pati, 178;
dwells on earth at new-moon,
178; slaughtered by the gods
at full-moon, 178; is Vr/tra,
178 ; one of Agni's forms, 230 ;
is the hook or point to which
the year is linked by the seasons,
269 ; created with the regions,
286 ; sun and moon Pr^j'ipati's
eyes, the moon the eye on which
he lay, hence much closed up,
313 ; is Soma's highest glory in
the heavens, andcauseshim to be
celebrated there, 355 ; is mind,
and becomes (or gives birth to)
speech, IV, 11 ; is the year and
all living beings, 54; is the
(thunderbolt and) pa^ikidaja-
stoma (because of its waxing
and waning fifteen days), 62 ;
is the tail of Agni-Pra^pati,
the altar and universe, 179 ;
the essence of oblations goes up
to the moon, 179 ; (^andramas),
as Gandharva, with the stars as
Apsaras, his mates, 232 ; when
the moon sets it enters the
wind, 333; is Aditya's (Agni-
Pra^^pati's) food, 349 ; is king
Soma, 349 ; V, 6, 9, 10 ; is the
ascended Pra^pati-Sacrificer,
made up of all existing things,
IV, 354 ; is the bolt of the gate
of sacrifice, V, i ; the heavenly
dog watching the Sacrificer's
cattle (to seize them), 10; the
hare-marked one, 10; full and
new moon variously identified,
30 seq.; moon (Soma) is the
Ajvamedha, 33, 34 ; the moon,
one of the six doors to the
Brahman, 66, 67 ; his light taken
by the sun, 130; represented
by piece of silver tied to a
darbha plant and taken east-
wards, 196; is born again and
again, 315; the type of vitality,
315; is the spotless Brahman
(masc.), 317, 318; JSTandra (the
regent of the regions or of the
Nakshatras?) is the Self of the
gods, 505.
mortals, created from lower (down- ward) vital airs, 1 1 1, 150; IV, 289.
mortar and pestle, put in first layer,
m> 393-396; mean food, 393
seq. ; the mortar is the womb,
the pestle the jijna of the Agni-
animal, 400 ; IV, 2.
mother, bears son on her lap, 111,232.
mouth, — peculiar mark in mouth is
lucky, IV, 81 ; (parlrrit) reach-
ing up to mouth, 159; lifting
of sacrificer on throne-seat up
to the mouth, V, 254.
mr/tyumohint, the first four stoma- bricks of fourth layer, IV, 59 n.
muhfirta, a fifteenth part of the day
(and a thirtieth part of day
and night), IV, 351 seq.;
10,800 in the year, 352 ; V,
169; in each muhClrta a four-
score of syllables completed to
make up the trayt vidya, Pra^a-
pati's body, IV, 353; consists
of fifteen kshipras, V, 169.
Mwufibha. Audanya, discovers atone- ment for slaying of Brahma^ia,
mu%a-grass, layer of it put in fire- pan, as the womb, III, 251.
Digitized by
^atapatha-brAhmajva.
nabhas, the first rainy month, IV, 48. nabhasya, the second rainy month,
IV, 48.
Nal^apit (Ka^iva's hermitage), V, 399.
nada- verse, IV, 113.
nadlpati, III, 75.
Nagna^it, — Svarg-it Nagna^t (or
Nigna^ita), the Gindhira (a
r^anyabandhu), IV, 21.-
Nika Maudgalya, a teacher, V, 201.
nikasad, bricks of fifth layer, are
the gods (seated on the firma-
ment), IV, 97 seq.; are the
four priests with the Sacrificer,
103 ; are the (Sacrificer's) Self,
104 ; the regions^ 104.
nakshatra, III, 19; Agnysidh^na not
to be performed under a
special nakshatra, V, i ; single
nakshatra, 423; are a place of
abode to all the gods, 505 ;
(iTandra, or Varu«a? their re-
gent), 505, 506.
nimba (imba) seed, growing on un- ploughed ground. III, 71.
name, giving of, frees from evil,
III, 159; oblations to names
(of Agni) forming part of the
Vasor dhSr^, IV, 219; he who
is consecrated (anointed) comes
to have two names, 247 ; form
and name, as two forces of the
Brahman, the former being the
stronger, V, 27, 28.
nameless ^nger. III, 221, 294.
Namui^i, an Asura, killed by Indra,
III, 92; drinks Soma with
the Ajvins, 135; takes Indra's
Soma-drink and vital energy,
V, 216 ; wins Indra's source of
strength by means of the Suri-
liquor, 222; is slain by Indra
with foam of water, being
neither dry nor moist, neither
staff nor bow, neither palm nor
fist, 223; is evil, 223; in his
severed head was Soma-juice
mixed with blood, 223; the
Ajvins bring away the Soma
from him, and Sarasvatt distils
(presses) it, 232.
