pitadlru (deodar), V, 373, 374.
Pitarai&, — somavantai&, barhishadair,
agnishvattai&, libations of Suri
to, III, 136 ; cf. Fathers.
pitcher, with a hundred or nine holes, III, 135.
plaksha (ficus infectoria), mat of, V,
plants, grow three times a year
(spring, rainy season, autumn),
II I, 340 ; shoot out a hundred-
fold and a thousandfold, 340 ;
plants as Apsaras, the Gandharva
Agni's mates, IV, 331 ; delighted
in by everyone, 331.
plough (stra), yoking of, III, 336;
etymology, 336 ; of udumbara
wood, 336 ; its cords of mu^^a
grass, 336.
poison, in Prs^pati's body (from Rudra's shaft), V, 36.
pond, water from, III, 77.
pool, water from. III, 76.
porcupine, V, 390.
post, sacrificial. See yiipa.
Potr/, garment his fee at Dajapeya,
in, 1 19 ; is under the Brahman
priest, V, 137.
pradakshiiiam (prasalavi), V, 333, 468,
Pra^Spati, seventeen victims to,
III, introd. xxiv, 14 ; is the
sacrifice and food of the gods,
I ; lord of speech, 5 ; seventeen-
fold, 8; IV, 190, 347; V, 353;
the thirty-fourth god. III, 9,
79 ; man is nearest to him, 15 ;
means productiveness, 15 ; is
the sacrifice and the year, 30,
&c.; he who offers Va^peya
becomes Pra^pati*s child, 33;
Pra^pati delivers creatures
from Vanwa's noose, 47 ; Pr^-
pati - Agni, the Purusha, 144 ;
Pra^pati becomes relaxed and
is restored by Agni, hence called
Agni, 151, 153; is Agni's father
and son, 153, 154; Agni's
father, 360; bhutHnim pstih
(the year), husband of Ushas,
158; is Mah^n Deva^ (Agni),
160 ; covets Agni's forms, 161 ;
is all the metres, 169 ; a he-goat
slaughtered for him, 171; Pra^a-
pati is hornless, 171 ; twenty-
one-fold, 173 ; one half of him
is Vayu and one half Pra^pati,
175; is the moon, 178; the
eighth day after full - moon
sacred to Pra^pati, 180 ; Pra^-
pati (and Agni) connected with
the earth and the first svayama-
trinnkf 187, 190 ; is these worlds
and the quarters, 193; har-
nesses the mind, 193 ; the in-
spirer of devotion, 194 ; he is
the immortal one, and the gods
his sons, 194; digs for Agni,
315; is undefined, 315; both
the defined and the undefined,
341; V, 455; the manly-
minded, III, 384 ; is both gods
and men, 390 ; after producing
creatures, becomes relaxed, and
is restored by the gods, 313 ;
without him there was no firm
foundation, 313 ; is food, 313 ;
the vital air that went from
him is Viyu ; his lost vigour is
Aditya, 3x3; his downward
vital air is the fire on earth, the
air his body, the wind in the
air is the vital air in his body,
the sky his head, the sun and
moon his eyes, 313; Pra^apati
is the begetter of the earth, 346;
is the whole Brahman (n.), 353;
Pra^pati becomes a white horse
and finds Agni on a lotus- leaf,
360; is tire Man, 366; the
vital air his pleasing form, 367 ;
Digitized by
Agni and Indra take away his
fiery spirit and vigour, 374 ;
they become his arms, 374 ;
bis hair becomes the herbs,
380 ; — IV, in trod, xiv seq. ; his
dismemberment the creation of
the universe, xv ; is the Sacri-
ficer, ib. ; the Arch-sacrificer,
xix ; the one god above all other
gods, XX ; the thirty- fourth, xx ;
V, 151, air ; the food of the
gods (Soma), IV, introd. xxi;
Father Time or Father Year,
xxii seq.; is Death, xxiii ; is the
itishi Vijvakarman, IV, a8, 37;
Praglpati, the highest lord (para-
mesh/i&in), becomes a metre,
37; in the form of Glyatrf
overcomes cattle, 37 ; in the
air Pra^^pati is Vayu, 57, 58 ;
is the Brahman (n.), 59, 60 ; is
(aerial) space, and the saptadaja-
stoma, 62 ; becomes pregnant
with living beings (bhQta), 67;
Pra^pati Paramesh/i&in, the lord
of living beings (bh^ta), 76 ; the
progenitor (pra^nayitr/), 76 ;
is the mind (-metre), 88 ; enters
heaven last of gods, 113, 117;
consists of sixteen parts (kal^),
189 ; takes Agni, as his dear son,
to his bosom, ao6 ; those going
to the heavenly light and
becoming immortal become
Pn^lpati's children, aao ; from
him couples issue in the form
of Gandharvasand Apsaras, and
he, becoming a chariot, encloses
them, a 39, 234 ; Pn^apati Vij-
vakarman, who has wrought the
universe, 233 ; is Dh&tri, 263 ;
one half of Pra^pati mortal,
and the other immortal, 290,
293 ; becomes clay and water,
and enters the earth, afraid of
Death, 390 ; is recovered in the
form of bricks, 290 ; is built up
so as to become immortal, 291 ;
his body in partof Agni's«Indra's,
and the All-gods* nature, 291;
he (by chips of gold) finally
makes his body of golden form,
395; Pra^pati is the (sacrificial)
animals—man, horse, bull, ram,
he-goat, 299 ; Pra^^pati goes
up to the world where the sun
shines, and becomes the one
sacrificial animal, 301; is Sa-
vitr/'s well- winged eagle, 305 ;
Father Pra^pati requires his
due proportions, 309; Pra^-
pati's body contains Agni, all
objects of desire, 313: poured,
as seed, into the ukhi, 341 ; is
Agni, 345; Pra^lpati, the year,
and his lights, 349 seq. ; Prs^^-
pati, the year, has created all
existing things, 350; to encom-
pass all beings he divides him-
self into different bodies, 350
seq. ; Pra^pati's body contains
(or consists of) the threefold
science, 352 ; Pra^pati and
Sacrificer, being composed of
all existing things, on ascending,
become the moon, and ' the
sun is their foundation, being
generated out of their own
selves, 354, 355; — Pra^pati,
the sacrifice, is the year, V, i ;
the Purusha, Pra^apati, born in
a year, from a golden egg, 12 ;
his first words, * bhOi^, bhuvai&,
svar,' 1 2 ; bom with a life of a
thousand years, 13 ; Pra^pati
smites the Asuras with evil and
darkness, 13, 14 ; Pm^pati, by
the Full and New-moon sacrifice,
becomes the vital air and V&yu,
15 ; Pn^pati is everything en-
dowed with breath, 16; gives
himself up to the gods and
creates the sacrifice as a counter-
part of himself, as ; Pra^pati
and his daughter, 36 n. ; poison
in his body, 36 ; Sri Issuing
from him, 63 ; brahmaiirin
committed to him, 86 ; Father
Pr^pati resorted to by the
gods for advice, 91 seq. ; Prs^-
Eatl alone in beginning, from
im the three worlds, 103 ; the
seventeenfold Pr^gipati, what he
consists of (as regards the trayt
vidyl), 170; exhorts Purusha
Nli^yana to sacrifice, 173 ;
victim before initiation for
Sattra, formerly to SavitW, now
to Pra^pati, 174; Pra^patt,
the sacrifice, is king Soma, 305
seq. ; by producing the sacrifice
he lost his greatness which went
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to the great sacrificial priests,
275 ; the most vigorous of gods,
278 ; Pra^pati performs Ajva-
medha, 289; is the chief
(mukha) of deities, 292 ; victim
to Pra^apati, 371 ; is the Brah-
man (n.), 409 ; Manu Prajapati
carried by the earth (his wife,
a mare), 466.
Pr^gipati-hridaya (Pra^apater hn-
dayam), a s^man sung over the
completed altar, IV, 180.
pragvawwa, IV, 307 n.
Pra>ttnajala Aupamanya, a teacher,
IV, 393 n. ; (?) is the same as Mahajala Gabala, 393 »•> 395 "•
prl^inavamja, IV, 307 n.
PrSbtmayogya. See Satyayj\^/?a, iSauieya.
prakrama, step, movement, — forty-
nine oblations to forms of the
horse, V, 282, 363, 364.
Pra>tyas, being of Asura nature, make their burial-places round,
V, 423 ; and line them with stone, 430.
Pramloianti, the Apsaras, is the
western quarter, or the day,
IV, 106, 107.
prana (vital air), water therein, III,
184; nine, 93, 196, 218, 296;
(seven of head and two down-
ward ones), IV, 243; V, 150;
ten. III, 174, 297; IV, 51,
165, 243, 246; V, 24; three,
III, 218, 385 ; six, 270: were
the i6'shis, 143 ; are good for
all beings, 151; is Pra^lpati,
192; the sruva, 192; are the
thoughts, 193; are Agni, 196;
is Mitra, 230; immortal part
of vital air is above navel, the
mortal part passes by and away
from the navel, 267 ; link the
body to food, 270; are the
divine inspirers, 305 ; three
downward vital airs, 315; the
three compared with the three
fires, 317; number of vital airs
in body uncertain, 331; food
for them placed in mouth, 332,
388 ; seven vital airs in the
head, 340, 402 : seven in each
victim (or its head), 403 ; is
Pra^apati^s pleasing form, 367 ;
belongs to the whole universe,
385 ; is taken in from the front
backwards, 391 ; is the male, the
mate of speech, 391 ; the bead
is the birth-place of all the vital
airs, 396; the five (of the head) —
mind (soul), eye, breath (pra»a),
ear, voice (speech), 402 ; depart
from Pra^pati, IV, 3; create
food with Pra^pati, 3 ; spring-
season produced from breath,
4 ; the ^'shi Vasish^^a is breath,
5 ; are connected and one, 5 ;
five (priita, apina, vyana, iidana,
samana), 15 ; pr^a becomes
the apina, 16 ; intestinal vital
air (guda pi^a), 17 ; run in
body both lengthwise and cross-
wise, 18 ; must reach every
limb, 19; pass not only back-
ward and forward but every-
where, 1 9; contracts and expands
the body and limbs, 21 ; are
life -sustaining gods, 32; up,
down, and through-breathing,
34, 47 ; ditto and out-breath-
ing, 43 ; breath necessary for
all, 48 ; separated from each
other by the width of a horse-
hair (vila), 55 ; seven in front
(upper half of man), 55, 57 ;
seven counter-breathings be-
hind, 55, 58 ; one in each limb,
55 ; ten focussed in the head,
57 ; out-breathing (priiia) is
Mitra, the down - breathing
(ap^na) Varu»a, 68 ; three
(prSwa, udana, vySna), 73 ; four
prsbia, with mind as the fifth,
73 ; seven in the head, the
seven i^his, 73 ; nine, 73 ; ten
with the atman as the eleventh ;
74 ; prljva and apana, 86 ;
prdjva, vyana, udina, 90, 237 ;
V, 246 ; pass backwards and
forwards, 1 V, 90 ; pr^a, apRna,
vyina, 131, 186; V, 89, 90;
is kindled by the sun, and
hence is warm, IV, 135 ; with-
out vital air a limb would shrivel
up, 136, 140; pra;ia, apina,
vyana, udana, 143 ; they are the
same as vital power (ayus), 143;
the highest thing in universe,
149 ; are the immortal element,
178, 337 ; (praiia, apina), 167;
are the gods of the gods, 185;
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are not eaters of oblations, 185 ;
without them no dwelling-place
becomes pure, 186; they are
neither in the sky nor on earth,
but whatever breathes therein,
186 ; connects head with body,
188 ; in the head fivefold (mind,
speech, breath, eye, ear), 190;
(prana, breath) is one of the
five divisions of vital air (prSwa)
in the head, 190; eight limbs
and eight prinas, 190 ; vital airs
kindle (th« body), 205 ; the
vital airs are the immortal part
of the body, 292 ; how they are
represented in the layers of the
altar ( Pra^pati's body ) , a 9 2 seq. ;
by the pr^a gods eat food, by
the apina men, 295 ; are the
perfect (sSdhya, blessed) gods,
304 ; vital air is the light of the
body, 326 ; a hundred and one
in the body, 326 ; is not the im-
mortal element, but something
uncertain, 327 ; are the seven
metres, 327-330 ; vital airs con-
sume him who is hungry and
feverish, 347, 348; breathevolved
from speech, and from it the
eye, 377 ; triad— Agni, Aditya,
Pra/za — are the eater, the Arka,
the Uktha, the Purusha, 398,
399 > — Vayu, on entering man,
is divided into the ten vital
airs, V, 3 ; asya, * the breath of
the mouth,' — therefrom the gods
created, 1 3 ; from the down-
ward breathing (avana) the
Asuras, 1 3 ; downward breath-
ing abhorred by other breath-
ings, but in it everything that
enters the others meets, 19;
praffa (breath of mouth) is the
eater of food, udina (of the
nose) fills man, and (of the
eyes, ears, &c.) is the giver of
food, 31 ; pra^ia and apina
move in a forward and a back-
ward direction respectively, 43 ;
prli^a entering udina and re-
versely, 83 ; vyina entering udi-
na, 84 ; central priiza belongs to
Indra, 121; with five breath-
ings (prlna, vyana, apSna, udina,
samana) five Br^hma^as (or the
father himself) to breathe over
child (before navel-stning has
been cut) to ensure long life,
129, 130; two downward
(avana) breathings and udana
(by which men rise, ud-yanti),
165; two, five, six, seven, twelve,
or thirteen, 168 ; pra^ra and ana,
each equal to the twinkling of
the eye, 169; 10,800 breath-
ings of man in day and night,
170 ; pnl»a and udana, moving
downward and upward, 2 30 ; all
vital airs established' on speech,
246 ; all vital airs established
on prana and udana, 262 ; ety-
mology fpra-ni), 263; nostrils
are the path of prana, 263 ; food
eaten by pr^a is pervaded by
vyina, and its essence shed as
seed, 264 ; vital airs of him who
speaks impure speech pass away,
326; the mind (soul) their over-
lord, 504.
pri^abhrit, bricks, are the vital
airs, IV, i ; how placed, 2 ; laid
down by tens, 3 ; etymology.
1 2 ; are the limbs, 1 3 ; — ot
second layer, 23, 33 seq.; — ten
of third layer, 51; are the
moon (being food as making
up a vir%), 54.
praniti^, lustral water, is the head
of the sacrifice, V, 35, 492 ; at
the haviry^iSfa, 119; etymology,
270.
