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303 Index A Acts of Saint Thomas, 14 Adarkar, Aditya, 169, 171, 172–173 Agamben, Giorgio: on oath, 84, 98–102, 104, 135, 232; on state of exception, 151–153; and work on homo sacer, 122, 184 Agni, 92, 144, 167, 269n35; allied with demons, 63–67, 69–70, 77 Ahura Mazdā, 64 Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 192 American Dream, 255n44 Angoulvant, Gabriel Louis, 54 anthropogenesis, 99–101 āpaddharma, 152–153 Āpastambha Śrauta Sūtra, 120 Aquinas, Thomas, 2 Āraṇyakas, 6 Aristotle, 163–164, 173 Arjuna, 107, 173; and Bhagavad Gītā, 70, 81, 145, 153; and Karṇa, 161–163, 165–168 Aryans, 65, 92, 263n60; and Buddhism, 57; migration hypothesis of, 209; and sacrificial contest, 77, 105 asuras. See devas vs. asuras Aśvaghosha, 14 Āsvalāyana Śrauta Sūtra, 137–138 Aśvamedha, 32–33, 39, 40, 79, 103, 192; in Mahābhārata, 139, 148 Asya Vamāsya. See “Riddle of the Sacrifice” Augustine, 2 B Badiou, Alain, 246, 247, 262n45, 283n101; Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, 28–29, 174; and “Speculative Realism,” 230 Bahulkar, Shrikant, 28 Bailly, Jean-Sylvain, 52–53, 54 Bali, 77–78, 79–80, 90–91 Bataille, Georges, 17, 88 Battacharji, Sukumari, 103 Baudelaire, Charles, 243 Baudhāyana Śrauta Sutra, 113, 197 Benandanti, 120–121, 132 Bergaigne, Abel, 59, 67 Bhagavad Gītā, 70, 80–81, 145, 153, 156, 213; and American scholarship on Hinduism, 26; and avatar doctrine, 76; and attempted ban in Russia, 276n53 Bhāmaha, 283n115 Bhāravi, 210 Bhatti, 278n73 *bhlagh(s)-men, 84, 86–88, 129–130, 202, 210, 304 Index 212, 223 Bhuvaneśvarī, 31 Biardeau, Madeleine, 41, 71 Bible, 23; Gospels, 13–15, 18–21, 24, 82, 131, 256n44; New Testament, 28–29, 34–35, 48, 132, 141, 159; Old Testament, 14, 19, 41, 99, 103, 132, 184 Billot, Frédéric-Florentin, 53 Biswas, S. N., 118 Boas, Franz, 60 Boccali, Giuliano, 228 Boersma, Hans, 246 Brāhmaṇas, 3–4, 6, 8, 39, 43–49, 55, 58, 60–61, 70, 75, 82, 202, 264nn75–76; Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, 40–41, 63, 76, 110, 127, 151; early European reactions to, 44–46, 55, 126; Gopatha Brāhmaṇa, 63; Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa, 133, 151, 215, 217–119, 277n69; Kauśītaki Brāhmaṇa, 76; Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, 115–118; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, 45, 63, 71, 75, 76, 77, 93, 95, 125, 129, 150, 185, 193–194, 197, 215–217, 221, 241–242; Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, 63; Vādhūla Brāhmaṇa, 32, 196, 280n42 Brahmins, 4, 5–7, 15, 20, 34, 37, 45, 53, 61, 73, 79, 80, 89–90, 94–95, 105, 107, 114–115, 124–125, 130; vs. Kṣatriyas, 83–84, 92, 93–94, 127, 129, 133–134, 197, 215, 269n35; as sacrificial victims, 210–211 brahmodyas, 182–183, 187, 192, 211 Brereton, Joel, 241 Bṛhaspati, 105–106, 109, 227, 264n75, 281n63 Buber, Martin, 181–182 Buck-Morss, Susan, 244 Buddhism, 2, 78, 97, 112, 187, 229–230; and Sylvain Lévi, 57–58 Buitenen, J. A. B. van, 154, 155 Burkert, Walter, 31, 55, 228 C Caillois, Roger, 182 Caitanya Caritāmṛta, 34 Caland, Willem, 32, 118 Calasso, Roberto, 1–2, 49, 149–150 Cameron, Alan, 13 Cantor, Georg, 230 Caputo, John D., 141 Carrasco, David, 89 caste system, 53–54 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 243–244 Chanemougam, 53–54 Chantre, Benoît, 55, 97 Charpentier, François, 50 Christianity, 8, 13–14, 16–18, 22, 23, 25, 58, 255n44, 269n48; Girard on, 100–101, 131, 247, 255n44; Heesterman on, 200–201; in India, 14–15, 265n78, 283n114 Clarke, Adam, 34–35 Clausewitz, Carl von, 9, 97, 247 Clive, Robert, 50–51 Clooney, Francis X., 230, 231, 233 Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 50 Colebrooke, Henry Thomas, 39–40 Compton, Todd M., 203, 211 Cormon, Fernand, 278n73 Coutouly, Charles, 54–55 cows, sacred, 259n95 Crooke, William, 32 Cyavana, 198, 214–221, 223–224 D Dadhyañc, 198 Das, Gurchuran, 152, 276n38 Das, Veena, 231–232 deconstruction, 141 Derrida, Jacques, 11–12, 21, 141, 223–226; on pharmakos, 202, 211 Descartes, René, 12 devas vs. asuras, 76–82, 90, 108, 195–198; in Mahābhārata, 143, 159; in Sacrifice, 62–65; and Śukra, 105–106 Devayānī, 106–109 dharma, 75–76, 80, 124, 152–153, 160, 173–174, 201; and ṛta, 232 Dharma (deity), 146–147 Dharmadāsa, 186 Diderot, Denis, 52 Don Quixote (Cervantes), 13...

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