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General Index 283 abhicara, 126 abhiplava ceremony, 7, 131, 137, 160. See also ceremonies Acamana, 24 adharma, 17 adhvaryu, 23, 24, 109, 110, 111; contrasted with hotr, 40 Aditi, 108, 112, 166 Aditya, 127, 148, 153, 175, 176. See also sun aesthetics, Indian, 17 afterlife, 9, 168–81 Agastya, 156 Agni, 6, 20, 22, 66, 69, 70, 75, 91, 92, 101–3, 105, 125, 153, 168, 207n10, 210n19, 211–213n24, 214n26, 234n1; functions of, 108, 113; hymn(s) to, 111–14, 156–59, 192; list of, 157; as Jatavedas, 107, 112, 155–56; as Sadaspati, 144; as Vaišvanara, 216n30. See also fire agnicayana, 22, 191 agnihotra, 20, 92, 133, 135 agnistoma, 22, 110, 114, 123, 126, 149, 157, 160, 172. See also sacrifice agrayana, 26 ahavaniya, 23, 24 Ahi, 161 ahinas, 34 ahitagni, 23 Aitareya Brahmana, 20, 34, 83, 93, 182, 211n24, 234n1 Aitareyans, 214n25 ajya (ghee). See under food amitra, 118 ancestors, 164, 169 Andra Pradesh, 23 anrta, 149, 151 Antañpata, 24 Anukramani, 219–20n10 Apam Napat, 109, 111 Apastamba, 21 Apastamba Grhya Sutra, 32, 227n5 Apastamba Šrauta Sutra, 108, 169, 227n1, 229n14, 232n13 artha, 72, 73, 74–75 arya-dasa, 118, 139 aryaldasa tribes, 7 arya/mleccha, 118, 139 Aryans, 9, 118–19, 139 Asamati, King, 164 ašis, 28 ašrama system, 185–86 Asura(s), 20, 133, 137, 148, 149, 177 Ašvalayana Grhya Sutra, 160, 168, 169, 176, 225n9, 225n12 Ašvalayana school, 31, 35, 44, 55, 57, 86, 99, 173, 212n24; hautra mantra, 54 Ašvalayana Šrauta Sutra, 2, 3, 5, 21, 33, 34, 57, 103, 123, 124, 130, 133, 135, 146, 149, 155, 156, 165, 182, 199n14, 214n25, 226n18, 234n1; Pusan hymns in, 154 ašvamedha, 27, 152 Ašvins, 95, 134, 149 Atharva Veda, 11, 18, 21, 39, 78–79, Atharva Veda (continued) 169, 170, 219n10, 220–21n13, 227n6, 231n1 atithyesti ritual, 9 bahuvrihi, 55–56 bandhus, 20, 80–81, 144, 204n3 Baskala recension of Rg Veda, 33, 34, 200n31 Baudhayana, 21 Baudhayana Dharma Sutra, 152 Baudhayana Grhya Sutra, 227nn4–5 Baudhayana Šrauta Sutra, 55 Bhaga, 68 Bhagavad Gita, 231n8 bhajan, 15 Bharatas, 162, 163 birds, 148, 150, 157, 159, 161, 184, 220n10 Brahma, 172, 173, 177, 179 Brahman, 24, 113, 170, 185, 212n24 bramanacchamsin, 123, 124 Brahmana literature, 28 Brahmanas, 4, 19–20, 33–34, 60, 77, 96, 128, 132, 143, 145, 204n3 brahmin(s), 8, 15–16, 18, 27, 3, 6, 59, 61, 76, 92, 114, 174, 187, 188, 188–89, 223n34; on comparisons, 194; late Vedic, 6, 36, 190; life of, 127, 140, 147, 190, 192; Nambudiri, 191; payment to, 189. See also hotr; priest(s) brahmodya, 128 Brhadaranyaka Upanisad, 63, 231n8 Brhaddevata, 2, 3, 28, 59, 68–69, 164, 222n15, 226n13 Brhaspati, 67, 74, 122–23, 124, 138 canon, 183–93 passim castes, 96; lower (sudra), 19, 28, 31, 189, 224n34 Catholicism, 38, 52, 53. See also Mary, St. catu poetry, 11–12 ceremonies, 34–35; abhiplava, 123; marriage , 80, 82, 85; niskramana, 227n7; samvartana, 160; Soma, 120; sunrise, 157; utsarga, 128. See also abhiplava; rites; rituals Chandogya Upanisad, 170, 231n1 chariots, 152 children, 26, 102, 108, 164, 175, 176, 227n7 Christianity, 190. See also Catholicism commentary, ritual, 183. See also individual titles compounds, 56 content, focus on, 16 cooking, 91–92, 93; and birth, 92. See also food cow(s), 161, 163; killing, 149; in simile, 160; speech as divine, 150; stealing, 30; Vac as, 142, 150, 187 creation, in Rg Veda, 179, 180, 181 daksina, 23, 24 Danu, 121 daršapurnamasa, 22, 98, 99 dasas, 119, 124 Dasyus, 124, 125 dawn, 105–8 death, 176, 180, 181; good philosophical, 178–79 desert, water in, 109–11 desire, 28–29 devas, 20 devata, 72 dharma, 17, 32, 68, 69–70, 172 Dharma Šastras, 189 Dharma Sutras, 140, 189 dhvani, 17 digestion, 104, 114; and fire, 101–4, 116 disease, 129 drinking, 70 earth, 153; center of, in sacrifice, 157 eating, 105–8. See also digestion; food; stomach education, in Vedas (Grhya Sutras), 26 elites, religious, 140 eloquence, 8, 22, 142–43, 146, 148, 150, 151, 161, 184, 190; words for, 143 enemy, 7, 9–10, 15, 30, 31; eradication of, 131–32; imagining, 117–141 passim etymology, 56 fire, 6, 8, 9, 23, 111–14, 157, 217n2; (grhya) 28, 36, 57, 67, 102, 75, 92; and digestion, 101–4; directing, 168; along with eating and dawn, 105–8; hymn to, 119; prayers to, 165; purifying , 152. See also Agni; sacrifice food, 6, 91, 103; forbidden...

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