side, right side of animal the stronger, IV, 115.
silk-cotton tree. See cotton tree.
silver, piece of, tied to a darbha plant
and taken eastwards (as the
moon), V, 196 ; gold and silver
plates (lightning and hail) be-
neath feet of Sacrificer whilst
consecrated at Sautramairt, 251;
as dakshijrl, 357 ; silver plate
inserted under sand, 463.
Sintvalf, is V^, III, 331 ; pap to
her, (the extreme end of) one
of the four regions, IV, 364,
jipita, (? bald part), V, 9.
£ipivish/ay (? bald), Vishnu, V, 9.
jiras, etymology (/rt, jri), III, 144, 145, ^01.
ji/na, man sports therewith, V, 76.
sitting, >-one who has gained a posi-
tion in the world is anointed
sitting, IV, 237.
six, its symbolic meaning. III, a68, 369; IV, 166.
sixteenfold, is Aditya as the wielder
of the fifteenfold thunderbolt,
I V, 85 ; animals (cattle), V, 352 ;
man, animal, universe, 303 n.
sky (dyaus), union with the sun
(Aditya), III, 149; connected
with Paramesh/i&in and Aditya,
1 88; is the waters, 3 16; fashioned
by the Adityas by means of
Oagati, 334 ; udder of, is the
waters, 384 ; is Pn^ipati's head,
313, 317; sheds seed in the
form of rain produced by smoke
(steam), 383; the seat of the
waters, 416; is blissful (jambhQ),
IV, 88 ; above the third lumi-
nous back of the sky is the
world of righteousness (sukr/ta),
133; is the left wing of the
Agni-Pra^lpati, the altar and
universe, 179 ; is the higher
abode, 303 ; the highest home,
303 ; steadied by clouds and
stars, V, ia6; connected with
Indra, 341 ; the sky, rain, the
first conception, 315, 389; is,
as it were, yellow, 467; is a
place of abode for all the gods,
505.
slaughtering-knife. See knife.
sleep, not to be disturbed, as during
it the union of the two divine
persons in the eyes takes place,
IV, 371; mouth of him who
has been asleep is clammy, 37 1 ;
in sleep man's functions cease,
AoksL (noise, praise), pirtha-oblation to. III, 8a.
jmajina. See burial-place; ety- mology, V, 433.
smoke, is the breath of the sacrifice,
III, 340; is seed shed by the
earth, and becomes rain, 383;
is the vigour of fire, IV, 250.
snake, is neither worm, nor non-
worm, III, 90; are the people
of Arbuda KIdraveya, the Sar-
pavidyd their Veda, V, 367.
Sndtaka, may initiate the Unnetri
priest.
may miti , V, 137.
Digitized by
5ATAPATHA-BRAHMAJ\7A.
jokis^ — haras, joiis, ariis (heat, fire, flame) of Agni, IV, 182.
Som a, the moon, III, introd. xxviii ;
means truth, light, 8 ; glory, 56 ;
princely power (kshatra), 82 ;
by four syllables gained four-
footed cattle, 40 ; pap to, 56 ;
brown bull is of his nature, 57 ;
Soma Vanaspati, pap of jya-
mika millet to, 70 ; Soma, king
of Brahmanas, 72, 95; pSrtha-
oblation to Soma, 82 ; tiger-
skin his beauty, 8t, 92 ; ratha-
vimo^aniya-oblation to, 102 ;
assists Varuwa, 113; (upasad)
pap to, 1 18 ; (pa^iabila) pap on
south part of veda, 120, 121 ;
fee to Brahman, brown ox,
122; prayi^am havis (pap), 125;
Soma withheld from Indra, 1 30;
Soma juice flows from Indra,
131; Soma bought at new
moon after year's initiation,
i8r ; is paramahuti/r, 258; the
blowing wind (Vayu), 342 ; the
vital airs, 342 ; the breath,
354; life-sap, 342; buying,
driving about, &c., 342 ; is the
drop, 405 ; the imperishable,
405; is Pra^pati, IV, introd.
xxi ; rules over trees, IV, 76 ;
protector of the north, 102 ;
connected with Maruts, eka-
vimja-stoma,nishkevalya-jastra,
vair%a-siman, 102 ; the nectar
of immortality, 251, 252 ; with
Agniiayana, Soma to be pressed
for a year, 320; is the moon,
349; V, 6, 9, 10; pressed at
full moon, and in the subsequent
half-month enters waters and
plants, 10; Soma created out
of Pra^lpati with a life of a
thousand years, 15; Agni and
Soma become eater and food,
16 ; Soma, the moon, is the
Ajvamedha, 33, 34; takes .Sri^s
royal power and receives (mitra-
vindS) oblation (pap), 62-65 ;
fetched from heaven by Glyatrt
in bird's shape, 122; Pra^ipati,
the sacrifice, is king Soma, 205
seq.; one purged by Soma oflers
the Sautramani, 217 seq. ; is the
drink of the Brlhma^a, 217;
is Indra's faithful companion.
226 ; contributes to joy (intoxi-
cation), 227; jukra somapTtha,
231; jukra madhumat, 232;
taken from Indra by Namuii,
and brought away again by the
Ajvins and distilled by Saras-
vat?, 222, 232; the second of
the ten deities *all the gods'
receive oblations of drops, 280 ;
Soma Vaishnrava, king of the
Apsaras, 366 ; Soma is the seed
of the vigorous steed, 390 ; king
Soma's throne-seat, 461.
Soma-netr&i& (devli&), seated above,
Soma-Rudra, pap to, cooked with
milk from white cow with white
calf. III, 65; they removed
darkness from the sun (SQrya),
66.
Soma-sacrifice, interlinked with
Agnii^ayana, III, 343; the per-
former of it eats food once a
year in the other world, IV,
299 ; is (Pra^pati's^ seventeen-
fold food, 348; as distinguished
from haviryawla, V, 119.
soma-samsthi. III, introd. xi, xii.
Somajushma Sltyaya^i, disputation
on Agnihotraat Ganaka's house,
V, 112, seq.
somltipavita, III, 129; somatipGta, V, 226.
somavamin, III, 129; V, 217, 226.
soma-vendor, malted rice bought
from him at Sautiimani, V,
220.
son, — sons treated kindly by father,
IV, 25; when asked by father
to do anything, say * what will
therefrom accrue to us?* 59;
dear son a favourite resort,
16 r; taken by father to his
bosom, 206; sons in early life
subsist on father, the reverse in
later life, V, 157; father re-
turning from abroad is received
kindly by his sons, 204 ; father
and son part in time of peace,
308.
Soni, SitHlsaha, king of PiS^ala, per-
formed the Ajvamedha, V, 400,
sounding-holes, are the vital airs,
South, connected with Kshatra, &c., Ill, 91 ; kine and goats most
Digitized by
INDEX TO PARTS HI, IV, AND V.
plentiful in south region, 404 ;
is the trish/ubh, IV, 45 ; is vir^
(wide-ruling), 46, 101 ; the
Rudras its lords, loi ; Indra its
protector, 10 1 ; connected with
paiviadaja-stoma, praiiga-jastra,
and br/hat-siman, 10 1 ; con-
nected with Valyu, 106 ; region
of Fathers, 226 ; V, 485 ; is
space and the air, V, 17.
South-east, Ukhya Agni (the sun)
held up towards. III, 280; sa-
cred to Agni, IV, 80 ; the sun
is placed there, 133; m that
region is the door to the world
of the Fathers, V, 424.
sowing, of all kinds of herb- seeds on agnikshetra, III, 337.
space (aerial expanse) is Pra^lpati
the year, and the Saptada^a-
stoma, IV, 62.
spade, is a thunderbolt, V, 448 ; of
udumbara or vikahkata wood,
448.
sparrow (kalavinka), springs from Vijvariipa's head, III, 130.
speech (voice), lord of, is Pra^a-
pati, III, 5 ; based on vital air,
151; is the srui, 192; world
of speech,' 145, 192 ; there is
a keen edge to it on one or
both sides, 200; speaks truth
and untruth, divine and human,
200 ; consists of vli (voice) and
akshara (syllable), 203 ; is a
spade, 215; is of three kinds,
rii, ya^s and saman ; or low,
half-loud and loud, 239; is
healing medicine, 341 ; by speech
the gods conquered the Asuras
and drove them out of the uni-
verse, 387 ; the breath is the
male, or mate, of speech, 391 ;
a vital air, 402 ; produced from
mind (and the moon), and from
it the winter, IV, 11; is the
J^ishi Vijvakarman, 12 ; sus-
tained by the pervading vital
air (samlna), 15 ; made by the
gods their milch-cow, 173 ; one
of the five divisions of vital air
in the head, 190; by speech
one gets into trouble, 2x0;
speaks both truth and untruth,
257 ; Agni as Speech (the trayt
vidyd), 364 seq.; is the sun,
365; evolved from mind, and
from it breath, 376, 377 ; the
libations to Mind and Speech,
(Sarasvat and Sarasvati) are
such to the Full and New moon,
V, 28,31, 32, 35 ;— single of viUl
airs, 246; mind is manifested
as speech, 362 ; what is thought
in mind is spoken by speech
and beard by ear, 263 ; by mind
and speech all is gained, 507.
sphilr^aka, tree, not to stand near a grave, V, 427.
sphya (sacrificial wooden sword),
handed to consecrated king, III,
1x0; gaming-ground prepared
therewith, 11 1.
spinal column, is continuous, V,
spoon, (cf. srui, sruva), taking up of
the two offering-spoons (^uhO
and upabhrit), V, 56; not to
clink together, 57, 60, 61.
spring-season, connected with east,
^yatr!, &c., I II, 9 x ; is the earth,
386; consists of months Madhu
and MIdhava, 386 ; produced
from breath, and from it the
Giyatrt, IV, 4 ; in spring forest-
. fires occur, V, 45 ; the Brih-
iiuuia*s season, 348.
sprinkling, — of Sacrificer with re-
mains of (prasavaniya) offering-
material at Vap-apeya, III, 38;
of fire-altar w.tn water, IV, 169,
174; of completed fire-altar
with mixture of dadhi, honey
and ghee, as Agni*s after-share,
185; of sacrificial horse with
water, V, 278, 316.
sprit, bricks of fourth layer, IV, 66
seq. ; free creatures ^om death,
67.
spn'ti, oblations, V, 133.
•Sraumatya, a teacher, his view of the nature of Agni, IV, 363.
iSrausha/, different modes and tones
in uttering it, V, 57 seq.; its
five formulas are the un-
exhausted element of the sacri-
fice, 170; — 482, 502.
/r?, excellence. III, 144, 163, 392;
distinction (social eminence),
IV, no, 132, 24X; V, 285, 313;
goodness (?), 326, 327; pros-
perity, V, 18, 59 ; beauty, 3x5,
Digitized by
^ATAPATHA-BRAHMAiVA.
M, goddess of beauty and fortune,
springs from Prag4pati, and is
despoiled by the gods, V, 6a.
Sri%aya, a people, V, 369.
srish/i, bricks of fourth layer, IV,
71 seq. ; ? throwing of prastara
(sacrificer) into the fire, V, 24 ;
creation (?), 458.
5rotriya, is an upholder of the sacred law, III, 106.
sru>( (offering-spoon), is speech,
III, 192 ; the two serving as
Agni's (the golden man's) arms,
373; of udumbara for Vasor
dharS, IV, 214.
^rutasena, performs A/vamedha, V, 396.
sruva, (dipping-spoon), thrown east-
ward or northward, III, 53 ; is
breath, 192; two oblations
therewith, IV, 204.
staff, as sacrificial fee, V, n , 12.
stake, sacrificial See Ydpa.
stambays^s. III, 325.
standing, one is stronger than sitting,
IV, 172, 178 ; he who has not
yet gained a position (but is
striving to gain it) is anointed
standing, 227.
stars (nakshatra), how created, III,
149 ; are the lights of righteous
men who go to heaven, 244;
are the hair (of the world-man),
IV, 288 ; as Apsaras, the Gan-
dharva JTandramas' mates, 232 ;
are lightsome (bhakuri), 232 ;
originate from Pra^pati's hair-
pits, 361.
steer (r/shabha) is vigour, produced
in the form of the satobrihat!
metre, IV, 38.
step, is the briskness in man, V, 266.
sthali, cauldron. III, 270.
sthapati (governor), III, in. Cf. Revottara.
sticks, striking king with, III, 108.
stobha. III, introd. xxiii.
stokiya, oblations of drops, a thou- sand to ten deities, V, 279, 280.
Stoma, — are laid down as bricks in
fourth layer, IV, 59; are the
vital airs, 61 ; are food, 218;
oblations relating to the Uneven
and Even stomas, forming part
of the Vasor dhftri, 217, 218;
seven, 277, 314; do not fail by
excess or deficiency of one
stotriya, V, 157 ; increasing by
four (verses), 166, 167.
stomabhag^, bricks of fifth layer,
are tile essence of food, IV, 92
seq. ; are the firmament (naka),
93, 97; the first twenty-one
are the three worlds and four
regions ; the last eight are the
Brahman, the disk of the sun,
94; are the heart, 96, 99, 115.
stone, — hunger is laid into it, hence it is hard and not fit for eating,
IV, 170; put in water-pitcher
and through it in NirWti's re-
gion, 171 ; it should break there,
171 ; variegated stone set up
whilst Agni is led forward, 195 ;
is the sun, 196 ; is the vital air
and vital power, 196 ; is put
into the Agnidhriya dhishjiya,
243, 360.
stool, gold, for Sacrificer, and Adh- varyu, V, 360, 361,
stotra. III, introd. xii seq. ; attended
by Sacrificer, 4 1 ; is the Sacri-
ficer's own self, 41 ; stotras of
Abhisheiantya, 69 ; the same as
the jastra, IV, 14; connected
with the production of food
(life), 7a.
stotriya-triia, IV, 14.
stronghold, threefold. III, 213.
sG, 'to animate, speed,' III, a.
Subhadrika, dwelling in Kslmpila,
Subrahmajrya, priest, is made the
Udgltri,V, 137. sddadohas, and sidana, III, 301,
305, &c.; is the breath, 302,
354; IV, 5.
suMy heat, pain, suffering, IV, 171 ; V, 497 n-
SuAif second summer month, IV, 29.
iSukra, first summer month, IV, 29.
^kra-graha, 1 1 1, 6 ; purorui^ formula
of, in; produced from r/k*
sama-siman, and from it the
saptadaja-stoma, IV, 8.
