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The index has been made by Dory Heilijgers

abhayamudrā, 109, 490, 522

Abhimanyu, 248

Abhinavagupta, 543

abhiṣeka, 100, 264, 535

Abhiṣekanāṭaka, 50

abhyāsayoga, 35–37

Abrahamic religions, 56, 61, 482, 486, 545 Abū ,Alī al-Sindī, 6

Abu -l-Faz.l, 63, 64

Abu -l-K. āsim al-Djunayd of Baghdad, 7 Abū Yazīd of Bisṭām (Bāyazīd), 6 ācārya, 287, 305, 321, 330, 506, 508, 509,

513, 514, 519, 531, 533, 539, 584, 602, 608 Acharya, Diwakar, 539, 553, 558, 559 Ackermann, Hans Christoph, 437

Acyuta, 520, 589

Acyutanāyaka, 160

adharmiṣṭha, 157, 481

adhikāra, 543

adhiṣṭhāna, 227, 259

adhyātman, 224

Adikeśava, 467 ¯

Adikola, 93, 109, ¯ see also Varāha

Adiparvan ¯ (MBh), 489

Adipurāṅa, 193

Adipurus ¯ .a, 589

Adirāma, 94, 110 ¯

Aditi, 307

Aditya, 329 ¯

Adityagupta, 608 ¯

Adityasena, 538, 539 ¯

Adityavarman, 382, 383, 387, 388 ¯

, 546

Adriaensen, Rob, 185, 351, 609

advaita, 16, 18, 103

Advaita, 17, 94

Advani, Lal, 76

Afzal Khan, 478

Agamas ( ¯ Saiva), 16, 293, 460, 463, 519 ´ Agamic Saivism, 292, 464

Agasti, 529

Agastya, 90, 91, 94, 106, 337, 339 Agastya’s hermitage, 91, 337, 340 Agastyasaṁhitā, 9, 16, 18, 61, 465, 466 Agathokles, 556

Aghora, 492, 521

Aghoraśiva, 296, 411

Agni, 264, 353, 354, 506, 507, 519 Agnicayana (altar), 447–449, 451, 452,

455–458, 460

Agniśarman, 297

Agnitīrtha, 91, 99, 106

agrahāra, 328, 356, 539

Agrawal, Jagannath, 375

ahaṁkāra, 29, 30, 228

āhatalakṣaṇa, 129, 130

āhavanīya, 451

Ahicchatra, 419–422, 440, 580, 581 ahiṁsā, 458, 475, 476, 477, 578

Ahirs, 154

A¨ı Khanum, 555–557

aiḍūka, 406, 407, 413, 419–422, 424, 437, 438, 440

Ajanta (Caves), 119, 147, 260, 333 Ajaṇṭā Cave Inscription of Varāhadeva, 127 ajina, 510

Ajitāgama, 411, 431

Ajmer, 9, 570

ājyapa, 353, 354

Akbar, 13, 570

Akbar Nāma, 63, 64

akhār̥ā, 63, 64

Akṣapāda (= Gautama?), 294

akṣati, 476

Alampur, 580

ālaya (temple), 355, 530, 536

alchemy (rasāyana), 12

Alexander, 556

Alexandria on the Oxus, 556

Ali, Daud, 322, 323

All-India Kashiraj Trust, 179, 283 Allah, 8, 9, 11

Allahābād Posthumous Stone Pillar Inscrip tion of Samudragupta, 244, 302, 328 Allchin, F.R., 408

Almore District, 399

-type-of-text, 183, 184

Alta¨ı Mountains, 419

Altekar, A.S., 301, 311

Aḻvārs, 17–20, 167, 168

āmalaka, 258, 260, 262, 263, 406, 575 āmalasāraka, 406, 421

Amara, 129, 130, 239, 240, 242, 243, 249 amarajakula, 239, 242

Amarakośa, 129, 146, 376, 408, 558 Amarāryakula (Amarārya family), 240–242, 245, 256, 260

Amarāvatī, 156, 172

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amātya, 124, 132, 322

Ambakuṇḍa, 91

Ambālā Tālāb (pond), 91

Ambatīrtha, 91, 106

Ambikākhaṇḍa (A recension SP), 181, 185, 469

Ambikāpati, 91

Ambikānātha, 106

Ambrakanagara, 236 ¯

American Institute of Indian Studies, 121 Amīr Khusraw, 90

Amīr ud-Dīn alias Amīr ,Alī, 68, 69 Ammaṇa, 89

Amoghavarṣa I, 304

Amrakārdava, 321 ¯

Amreli, 429

amr̥ta, 490, 506, 519, 580

Aṁśuvarman (Mahāsāmanta), 538 Aṁśuvarman Saṁvat, 469, 538

anaḍudvrata, 545

Anandaprabha, 255 ¯

Anandavardhana, 609 ¯

Ananta (Rudra), 285

Ananta (serpent king), 326, 361, 435 Anantadevī, 314

Anantamahādevī, 236

Anantaśayana, 319

aṇḍa, 437

Andhaka, 386, 603, 604

Andhau, 419, 439

Andhra Pradesh, 245, 252, 253, 453 Andhra(s), 89, 383, 388

Aṅguttara-Nikāya, 406

Añjaneya (Hanumat), 91, 106 ¯

Anna of Austria, 363

anonymous Sanskrit literature, 175, 180 Anquetil-Duperron, A.H., 27

Antaka (Rudra), 285

antinomian praxis, 548, 549, 554 antyeṣṭi, 410

Anugīta, 229

anugraha, 541, 559, see also grace and prasāda

Anukramaṇikā, 604

anumantrita, 593, 594

anuparivāra, 427, 428

Anuśāsanaparvan (MBh), 489, 497 Aojjhā, 51

Aparājitā, 482

Aparārka, 408

Apastambadharmasūtra ¯ , 512

Apastambaśrautasūtra ¯ , 448–450

aprakaṭa, 71

apratigha (invincible), 308, 309

Apratigha Type of coins, 309

Apsaras(es), 497, 581

Aragrāma, 328

Arang, 236, 248

Ara˙ng Copper-Plate of Bhīmasena II ¯ , 236 Ara˙ng Stone Inscription of Bhavadeva ¯

Raṇakesarin and Nannarāja, 240, 248, 250 araṇya, 511

Aravalli, 429

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), 80, 115, 156, 305, 337, 373, 391

Ardhanārīśvara, 261

arhat, 424

Aristotle, 610

Arjuna (son of Pr̥thā), 36, 40, 187, 248, 478, 481, 512, 522, 523, 525, 585–593, 595, 597, 599, 601

Arrianus, 479, 480

artha, 224, 227, 243

Arthapati Bhaṭṭāraka, 142

Arthaśāstra, 55, 157, 452, 476, 479, 481

āryaka, 142

As ¯ .āḍhi, 554

ascetic (practice, etc.), 42, 64, 93, 107, 293, 477, 490, 491, 544, 548, 559, 560, 564, 578, 579, 588, 591

ascetic orders (akhār̥ās), 63, 64,

asceticism, 8, 39, 63, 336, 337, 490, 532, 546, 590, 599, 602

ascetics, 11, 14, 61, 66, 68, 70, 93, 162, 288, 292, 293, 297, 321, 336, 399–401, 403, 410, 412, 513, 516, 520, 529, 531–533, 544–546, 548–550, 553–555, 558–560, 577, 578, 581, 584, 589, 592, 597, 599, 602, see also war rior ascetics

Asher, Frederick M., 394

ashes (bhasman), 66, 110, 288, 294, 295, 407, 408, 410, 413, 421, 423, 425, 427, 429, 430, 433–436, 438–440, 513, 515, 518, 532, 542, 544, 560, 592, 602

Asi River, 467

Asiatic Society of Bengal, 31

Asigarh, 253

Asighāt. (Benares), 467

aśman, 511

Asnī, 484 ¯

aśoka (tree), 191

Aśoka, 144, 324, 428, 475–477, 479

āśrama (stages of life), 14, 531

āśrama (hermitage), 337, 534, 535

Assur, 59

Assyria, 5

aṣṭamūrti, 190, 197, 291, 292

asthi-sañcayana, 410

astra, 593–595

Astraśiva, 296

aśuddhādhvan (Impure Universe), 284, 285 Asuras, 159, 187, 307, 480, 489

Aśvalāyanagr ¯ .hyasūtra, 509

Aśvamedha, 107, 150, 152, 154, 164, 447, 452, 524

Aśvamedhatīrtha, 91

Aśvapati, 386

Aśvatthāman, 497

ataḥ, 542

At ¯.ānāṭiyasutta, 407

atha, 542

Atharvaveda, 47

Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa, 508, 559

atibhāvatī, 124, 134, 140

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Ayodhyāmāhātmyā, 52, 182

āyudhapuruṣa, 596

Aztec society, 153

Babri Masjid, 65, 66, 68-70, 72-74, 77, 337, 478, 485

Bābū Mairāl, 90

Bābūr, 65, 485

Babur’s Mosque, see Babri Masjid

Bābūrām Press, 31

Bactria, 556

Baghelkhand, 146, 533

bagopouro, 417

Bahawalpur (Pakistan), 11, 426

Atibhāvatī, 311, 316, 333, 352, 360, 361, 363, 371, 372, 413, 414

Aticandrā, 140

Atimārga, 285, 293

ātman, 227, 228, see also self

Atri, 295, 297, 529, 554

aṭṭahāsa (laughter), 544

Aṭṭahāsa (sword), 531

atyāśrama, 524

Augustine, St, 56, 71

Aulikaras (Early), 308, 570, 571

Aulikaras (Later), 571, 588, 598, 599 Aupamanyava, 450

Aupaśatika gotra, 419

Aurangzeb, 66

Austro-Asiatic, 559

, 548

Avadh, 66, 68, 69, 72

avamāna, 546, 548, see also dishonour Avantivarman, 303, 394, 397, 527, 601–605 Avantyakhaṅḍa, 469

avatāra (of Viṣṇu), 18, 50, 64, 80, 90, 93, 175, 346, 353, 542

avatāra (of Siva), 292, 293, 296, 494, 530, ´ 553, 554, 559

twenty-eight, 559, 560

avimukta / Avimukta, 468, 471, 473 Avimuktajja (Skt. Avimuktārya), 539 Avimukta(kṣetra), 467, 470, 471, 472, 602 Avimuktamāhātmya, 468, 470

Avimukteśvara (Temple), 471–473, 533 avyakta, 228

axis mundi, 166, 335, 342

Ayachit, ṢM., 90

Aycciyarkuravai ¯ , 168

āyatana, 473, 602, 606

ayodhya, 47

Ayodhyā, 5, 19, 20, 47–52, 55, 64-69, 71-74, 76, 77, 182, 302, 335–337, 410, 464, 478, 485, 550

Ayodhyākhaṇḍa (Rām.), 182

Bahuriband, 347

Bajpai, K.D., 256

bak.ā-, 7 ◦bala (names ending in), 247

Bālacarita (of Bhāsa), 169

Baladeva/Balarāma, 171, 264, 556

Balajaya, 427, 428

Balanandin, 426, 428

Bāleśvara-bhaṭṭākaraka Temple (Srīpura), ´

290, 291, 293, 296

bali (tribute), 138, 410, 492

Bali (king), 159, 353, 369–371

Bali (island), 162, 411

Balogh, D´aniel, 375, 376

Bamhanī Plates of Pāṇḍava King Bharata bala, Year 2, 237, 239, 242

ban-practice, 59

Bāṇa, 303, 405, 406, 421, 527, 528, 531, 535,

536, 603, 605, 607

Banaras Hindu University, 377

Bandhuvarman, 308

Banerji, R̥D., 395

Baptist Missionary Society in Bengal, 70

Barbero, A., 346, 349

Barhut, 253

Barhut Inscriptions, 406

Barkhuis, Roelf, 465

Barlow (Captain), 69

Baroda, 90, 297

Basarh (Vaiśālī), 137, 140

Basarh sealing, 140

Bastar District, 173, 347

Baudhāyanagr̥hyapariśiṣṭasūtras, 497, 502

Baudhāyanagr̥hyasūtra, 510

Baudhāyanaśrautasūtra, 448–450

Bauma-Kara kings, 402

Bayana hoard (coins), 308

Bāyazīd, see Abū Yazīd of Bisṭām

Bedekar, V.M., 179

begging bowl, 578, 580, 589, 594, 596, 597

Benares, 69, 74, 465, 467, 469, 473, 484, 534,

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602, 604, 605, see also Vārāṇasī and Kāśī Bengal, 17, 31, 169, 453

Benisagar, 539

Beṇṇā River, 324, 332, see also Vainyā and Waiganga River

Beṇṇātaṭasthāna, 325, 332

Berach River, 567

Berlin, 24, 26, 34, 44

Besnagar, 302, 305, 320, 321, see also Vidiśā Bhabua, 391

Bhaddā (queen), 408

Bhadrabāhu, 51

Bhadrakālī, 524

bhadrapīṭha, 406, 407, 419, 421, 437 Bhadraviṣṇu, 399

Bhadreśvara, 248, 602, 605

Bhaga, 188, 189, 195, 196

Bhagalpur, 75

Bhagavadgītā, 9, 31, 33–35, 37, 38, 43–45, 61, 62, 477, 478

bhagavat (lord), 414, 431, 529

Bhagavat (Viṣṇu), 155, 320, 326, 330, 333, 340, 341, 344, 352, 376

Bhāgavata (cult), 80, 321, 326, 328, 330, 353 Bhāgavata (devotees), 319, 325, 326, 329, 331, 438

Bhāgavatapurāṇa, 17, 18, 169, 284 Bhagavatism, see Bhāgavata cult

bhāgineyī, 115, 132, 140, 311, 358, 359, 361, 363

Bhāgraharāja, 236

Bhairava, 93, 292, 420, 521

Bhairava Darwāzā, 91

Bhairava (Mantrapīṭha) Tantra, 284, 292, 296

Bhairava tradition, 292, 293, 532

Bhairavācārya (teacher), 531

bhajan, 15

Bhaktas, 15–21, 165, 170, 407, see also Sivabhaktas ´

bhakti, 8, 9, 15–18, 20, 164, see also Rāma, Kr̥ṣṇa and Vaiṣṇava bhakti

bhakti movement, 15, 17, 19, 162, 165, 168 bhaktirasa, 19

bhaktiyoga, 36, 39

Bhāṇḍāgāra, 290, 291

Bhandara District, 326, 418

Bhandarkar, ḌR., 494, 569, 570–574, 576 Bhandarkar, Ramkrishna Gopal, 375–377 Bhānūdayin, 398–400

Bhānugupta, 244

Bhārabhūti, 554

Bhāradvājagr̥hyasūtra, 510

bhārarakṣakas, 261, 267

Bharata, 248, 410, 411, 416, 417, 478

Bharatabala, 238–240, 242, 243, 249

Bharatanātha, 81

Bhāratavarṣa, 519

Bhāravi, 588, 589, 597

Bhargava, 535, 536

Bharhut, 328

Bharukaccha, 563

Bhāsa, 50, 169, 410, 416, 417

Bhāsarvajña, 514, 515

Bhāskaravarman, 255

bhasman, see ashes

Bhasman (Rudra), 285

Bhatsu, 603

Bhaṭṭarāī, Kr̥ṣṇaprasāda, 185

Bhaṭṭasaṅghasena, 330

bhāva (state of modification), 224, 225, 227, 228, 230

bhāva (emotional state), 21, 334

Bhava (Rudra-Siva), 190, 197, 285, 497, 524 ´ Bhavadattavarman, 142, 143, 147

Bhavadeva, 240, 248, 250

Bhavanāga, 324

Bhavānī, 197

Bhavattavarman, 142

Bhāya (kumāra), 415

Bhikṣāṭana, 520

Bhikṣāṭanamūrtis, 578

bhikṣu, 426, 439

Bhillama, 89, 159

Bhīma, 160

Bhīma (Rudra), 285

Bhīma (Siva), 190 ´

Bhīmasena, 236

Bhīmasoma, 290, 291, 293, 296, 297

Bhīṣma, 230, 293

Bhita, 490–492

Bhitargaon, 581

Bhitarī, 376–378, 413

Bhitarī Stone Pillar Inscription of Skanda gupta, 146, 315, 316, 333, 373, 374,

377–379, 414

Bhogarāma Temple, 93, 94, 110, 163

bhogasthala, 52

Bhogavarman (Maukhari), 530, 538, 608 Bhogavarman (son of Sūrasena), 538 ´

Bhojadeva, 532

Bhonsle / Bhonsalas, 91, 255, 356, 365

Bhr̥gu, 534, 536

Bhūdevī, 330

bhukti, 18, 466

Bhuluṇḍa, 326

Bhūmarā, 575

bhūmikā, 406, 421

Bhūtas, 516

bhūtakr̥t, 231

bhūtamātra, 224

bhūtarāja, 156

Bhūteśvara, 580

bhuvana, 284, 406

bhuvanaguru, 531

Biardeau, Madeleine, 179

Biblioth`eque Nationale in Paris, 32 Bihar, 75, 391, 412, 429, 539, 595 Bilaspur District, 253, 256

Bilaspur Museum, 261

Bilsad. Stone Pillar Inscription of Kumā ragupta, Year 96, 308 biruda, 244, 250, 308, 315

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Brahmasvāmin (Rudra), 285, 287

brahmin, 33, 38, 39, 42, 55, 62, 63, 65, 105, 151, 153, 157–162, 190, 291, 294, 295, 328, 332, 336, 337, 354, 363, 405, 409, 411, 447, 471, 496, 505, 511–513, 542, 543, 546, 558, 560, 563, 564, 584, 589, 604, 605, 607 brahmodya, 546, 554

Braj, 18, 20, 71, 170, 464, 550, 551

Bremmer, Jan, 541, 551

Br̥hadārya, 529

Br̥hadbrahmasaṁhitā, 52

Br̥haspati, 106, 110, 188, 231

Bisschop, Peter, 248, 532, 537, 553, 559, 564, 576, 577, 610

BJP, see Indian People’s Party

Black Yajurveda, 449, 450, 510

Bloch, Theodor, 391, 394, 412

Bodewitz, ḤW., 477

Bodhisattva, 13, 61

Bodleian Library, 169, 194

Bogra District, 453

Boṁgī Huḍkī, 329, 333

Bommagaṇṭi Appayārya, 129

Bonazzoli, Giorgio, 179, 180, 181

Bonaventura, 544

Bonda Plates of Mahāśivagupta, Year 22, 254

Bonn, 33

book (attribute), 519, 521, 522

Bopp, Franz, 32, 34

Bosma, Natasja, 247, 249, 254, 296, 610 Boṭa, 239

Brahmā, 38, 41, 91, 106, 160, 190–192, 195–198, 265, 401, 460, 464–466, 489, 498, 549, 582, 588, 589, 594, 598

Brahmā’s Head (brahmaśiras), 523, 589, 593, 594–596, 598, 599

brahmacārin, 490, 491, 506, 509, 511, 527 brahmacarya, 506

brahman, 30, 36–39, 41–44, 188, 223, 295, 506, 534, 549, 585, 589, 594

five (pañcabrahman), 492, 493, 513 brahm´an priest, 187, 188, 190, 508 Brahman, see brahman and brahmin Brāhmaṇa(s), 187, 192, 193, 195, 446, 562 Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa, 51

brahmanical (tradition, view, etc.), 151, 152, 155, 158, 417, 447, 462, 417, 477, 498, 544 Brahmanism, 56, 154

Brahmapurāṇa, 186, 192, 193, 196–199, 223, 408

brahmasattra, 607

brahmaśiras, see Brahmā’s Head

brahmasūtra, 406

Br̥haspati Cycle, 85

Br̥hatphalāyana gotra, 418

Br̥hatsaṁhitā, 460, 482

brick consecration, 73, 74, 76

bricks, 449, 451, 452, 455–457

Brinkhaus, Horst, 180

Britain, 68

British Museum (London), 308, 309, 313,

331, 425, 432, 434, 609

British Rule, 68, 69, 445, 478

brush, 578–580

Bryant, Kenneth, 168

Buchanan, Francis, 391, 392

Buckee, Fiona, 393, 394, 402

Buddha, 49, 255, 261, 424, 436, 437, 553,

562, 602

buddhi, 29, 30, 224–230

buddhir uttamā, 226

Buddhist, 4, 13, 79, 321, 330, 333, 406–408,

412, 417–419, 422, 424–426, 430, 435,

437–440, 477, 521, 553, 583, 602

Buddhism, 24, 61, 321, 429, 437, 483, 544

Bühnemann, Gudrun, 90

Buitenen, J.A.B. van, 223, 224, 228–230

bull, 544, 545, see also Vr̥ṣa

bulva / bulba, 506, 507

Bundelkhand, 302

Būrhīkhar, 238, 240

burial mounds, 412, 413, 419, 425, 439, 451,

see also eḍūka

burial chamber, 438

Burkert, W., 57

Cāhamānas, 482–484

Caitanya, 18, 169

caitya, 409

caityagr̥ha, 425

Cākorḍā, 91

cakra (Viṣṇu’s discus), 91, 107, 189, 320, 326,

327, 343, 361, see also Sudarśana

Cakradhara, 163

Cakrapālita, 144

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Cakrapāṇi, 153, 326

Cakratīrtha (Ramtek), 91, 107, 145 cakravartin, 51, 85

Caland, W., 409, 449, 450

Calcutta, 31, 392, 595

Cālukya(s), 80, 81, 142, 259, 260

Cambodia, 411, 563

campū, 86

Cāmuṇḍa (adhipati), 87, 88

Cāmuṇḍā, 130, 137

Cāmuṇḍasoma, 294

Caṇālasvāmin (ācārya), 330

Caṇḍa, 558

caṇḍāla, 473

candra, 131, 307, 310, 327, 362

Candradeva, 484

Candrakṣamaṇa, 321

Candragupta (brother of Tīvaradeva), 247, 253

Candragupta I, 139

Candragupta II, 114, 115, 126, 131, 137–140, 154, 301–311, 319–323, 326, 330, 333, 352, 358–363, 414, 495

Candragupta Maurya, 144, 303, 479 Candrahāsa, 93, 109, 338

candraka, 406

Candraprabha, 321

candraśālā, 574, 575

Candrāvatī, 138

Caṅgadeva (astronomer), 85

cannibalism, 444

Cāṇūra, 171

caraṇa (school), 328

caste, 3, 5, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 24, 38, 40, 542 Catholic Church / Catholicism, 60, 543 cattle, 245, 443, 448, 544, 545

caturmukha, 489

caturmukhaliṅga, 393, 400–402, 490, 492, 493, 499

caturmūrti, 490

Caturvargacintāmaṇi, 159

Cecil, Elizabeth, 562

Celukṣamaṇa, 321

cemetery, 411, 430, 437, 455

Central Asia, 556

Chakravarty, K.K., 259, 261

Chambal River, 302

Champaran District, West, 412

Chandawar, 484

Chandra Shum Shere collection, 169 charisma, 30, 162, 165

Charles II of Austria, 363

Chartres, 52

chatarī, 405, 431

Chatracaṇḍeśvara, 531

chattrī, 437

chāyā, 418

chāyāstambha / chāyāskambha, 417, 418 Ch´ezy, L´eonard de, 32, 34

Chhabra, B.Cḥ, 375

Chhattisgarh, 235, 237, 347, 348, 577

Chitor (= Chi-ki-to), 562

Chittorgarh, 570–572, 598

Chittorgarh District (Rajasthan), 567

Christ, 8, 9, 547

Christian, 8, 9, 11, 60, 548, 550, 551

Christianity, 57, 546, 550, 551

Cishtī order / ˇ Cishtīs, 9, 10 ˇ

citācaitya (funerary monument), 421

citi, 410, 425, 429, 439, 440, 449, 451

civitas dei, 61, 71

club (attribute), 289, 342, 343, 523, 529, 554, 555, 557–561, 584, 593, see also gadā,

laguḍa, lakula

coins, 63, 140, 155, 239, 242–245, 260, 302, 305, 306, 308, 309, 315, 316, 375, 397,

417, 428, 430, 556, 557, 569–570, 609

coins, types of,

Apratigha, 309

Archer, 309, 375

Hercules-type, 557

King-and-Lady/Lakṣmī, 316, 375

Lion-slayer, 305

Colas / Coḷas, 89, 413, 520, 521

Colas, G´erard, 514, 518

Colebrooke, Henry, 28–30, 33, 35, 36, 38 Colpe, Carsten, 57, 58

Combray (France), 52, 53

communal unrest, 55, 76, 475, 478

communalism, 71

community, 60-64, 70-72, 77, 165, 551

composition-in-performance, 177, 178

composition-in-transmission, 177, 178, 184, 199, 231

Confucius, 28

Congress Party, 73, 74, 76, 77

construction sacrifice, 445, 452, 453, 455, 458, 459, 462

Copper Plate Hoard from Bagh, 325, 328 Corintheans, 547

Council of Trente, 543

Council, Fourth Lateran, 543

creator (sraṣṭr. ), 228

cremation, 405, 407–410, 412, 413, 425,

429–431

cremation ground, 295, 430, 471–473, 531, 542, 544, 549, 560, 602, see also śmaśāna; (eight / nine), 431

Creuzer, Friedrich G., 24

critical edition, 169, 175, 176, 178, 179,

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181–183, 185, 187, 194, 196, 198, 223, 225, 283, 285, 290

Crooke, William, 444

crusade, 56, 58-60, 71, 72

Cunningham, Alexander, 313

Curdi, 461, 462

Cyavana, 534, 536

Cynics, 546, 548, 554, 558

Cyprus, 547

Dadhīca, 534–536

Dahala, 150

daityas, 197, 369, 371, 512

Dakṣa(’s sacrifice), 189, 420, 524, 525, 534, 576–579, 584, 587

dakṣiṇa/ā, 516–518, see also right side dakṣiṇā (fee), 163, 415

Dakṣiṇa Kosala, 48, 65, 147, 235–245, 247, 250, 251, 253, 255, 289, 296, 297, 419, 532, 539, 601

dakṣiṇāmūrti (concept), 516–520

Dakṣiṇāmūrti, 420, 496, 505, 506, 516–522, 525, 526, 560, 573, 576, 580, 587, 596, see also southern mūrti

Damana, 426

Dāmodarasena, 141, 314, 332

dāna, 163

Dānarāśi, 532

Dānavas, 593, 595

daṇḍa, 558, 559

Daṇḍa (king), 337

Daṇḍakāraṇya, 337

Daṇḍapāṇi, 558

Dani, Ahmad Hasan, 119

Daniell, Thomas, 391–393

darbha grass, 510

Darpaśāta, 606

Darya-i Pandj River, 555

Dāsa, 570

Daśapura (modern Mandasor), 307, 308, 570, 571, 598

Dasarā, 482

Daśaratha, 48, 64, 93, 109, 173, 335, 411 Daśārṇa, 302

Dasnāmī (Saiva order), 12, 13, 18 ´ dāsya-rasa, 21

Dattabhaṭa, 308

Daub, 30

dauhitra/ī, 244, 324, 537, 538

Daulatabad, 150

Day of Resurrection, 7, 8, 63

dāyāda, 146

De Marco, Giuseppe, 410, 412, 424, 425, 431, 436, 437

Deccan, 79, 81, 139, 149, 150, 259, 301, 304,

413

Degroot, V´eronique, 567, 576

Dehra Dun District, 447

deification, 52, 161, 164

Delhi, 4, 9, 77, 90, 492, 495

Delhi Sultanate, 323

Deo, ṢB., 170

Deogarh, 356, 367, 368, 574, 581, 588, 589

Deopāṭana Inscription, Saṁvat 39, 538

Deotek, 324

Deoṭek Stone Inscription of Rudrasena, 118,

323, 325

Der Zauberberg, 548

deśadaivata, 481

Deur Temple, 577

Deuteronomium, 59

Deva, Krishna, 236, 251, 259

deva, 126, 152, 310

Devadāruvana, 548, 578–583, 586, 587, 598,

599

Devadeva (Siva), 192, 197 ´

Devadeva (Viṣṇu), 361

Devāditya, 86

Devagiri (modern Daulatabad), 150, 160

Devagupta, see Candragupta II

Devakī, 316

devakula, 395, 399, 400, 410, 415–417, 440,

539

devakulapati, 400

devakulasthāna, 332, 424, 435, 495, 496

devanāgarī, 33

Devānā ˙mpriya Priyadarśin (Aśoka), 475, 476

devanikāya (Temple Council), 398–400

devaputra, 417

Devarakṣita (brahmin), 250

Devarānī Temple (Tālā), 256–260, 262, 264,

272, 281

Devas, 165, 307, 606

Devasena, 144, 146, 147, 372

Devasomā, 293

Devī (the Goddess), 196, 197, 264

Devīcandragupta, 303, 305, 312

devodyāna, 471

Dey, Nundo Lal, 337

Dhām (river), 141, 170

Dhamatari Plates of Sudevarāja, Year 3, 249

Dhana(deva) (king), 419

Dhanustīrtha (Ramtek), 91, 107

dhārā, 388

Dhāraṇa gotra, 312, 328, 414, 438

Dhāriṇī, 311, 312

dharma, 40, 64, 65, 107, 108, 126, 150, 152,

153, 159, 161, 162, 243, 310, 322, 336, 350,

363, 364, 409, 480, 481, 483, 524

676 Index

Dharma, 585, 586, 602

dharmamahārāja, 153, 333

Dharmanibandha, 182

Dharmaśāstra, 152, 477

dharmaśīlana, 475

dharmasthāna, 157, 324, 326, 328, 332 Dharmasūtra, 152

dharmavijaya/yin, 153, 476

Dharmeśvara, 93, 108

dharmiṣṭha, 476

Dhavalikar, ṀK., 460

Dhenkanal District, 402

Dhenuka, 171

Dhenukāsuravadha, 171

dhikr, 10, 11

dhoṭī, 585

Dhr̥tarāṣṭra, 406, 407

Dhruva, K.H., 303

Dhruvadevī / Dhruvasvāminī, 303, 304, 307 Dhruveśa (Rudra), 287

Dhūmrākṣa, 93, 109, 338, 339, 350 Dhūmreśvara, 339

Dhūmreśvara Temple, 338

dhvajastambha, 568

Dhvanyāloka, 609

Digambara, 321

dikpāla, 81

dīkṣā, 513, 528

dīnāra, 398

Diṇḍimuṇḍa, 554

Diogenes, 546

Dīptāgama, 410, 411

Dīrghaśiva, 296

disciples of Lāguḍi, see four disciples dishonour (avamāna), 544–546, 548 Diti, 307, 353, 371

Divākarasena, 141, 314, 329

divyadeha (divine body), 12, 13

Divyāvadāna, 407, 428

Dja ,far al-Sādik, 6

domestic sacrifice, 155, 446, 507

Donaldson, Thomas E., 256

ḍoṅgar Maudā, 327

Dowson, John, 484

Dravida, 405, 408

Dravidian, 175, 259, 260, 408

Droṇa, 187, 293

Droṇabhaṭṭārakā, 239

Droṇāka, 249

Droṇaparvan, 187, 190, 199, 496, 497 dr̥ṣṭam, 324

dualism, 30, see also dvaita

Duboc, Ed., 25

duḥkhānta, 525, 542, 550, 583, 593 Dumont, Louis, 4, 5

Dundas, Paul, 321

Dundubhi (Rudra), 285

Durgā, 482

Durjanpura, 305, 321

Durkheim, E., 58

Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, 428

Dvaidha Sūtra, 450

Dvāparayuga, 336, 554

Dvārakā, 108

dvārapāla, 91, 320

Ecclesiastes, 505

Edgerton, Franklin, 228, 408, 443, 444

edicts (Aśoka), 476

eḍūka (funeral monument), 332, 407–410, 420, 424, 429, 438, 440

Ehavala Cāntamūla, 325

Ekādaśī day, 108, 330

ekamukhaliṅga, 320, 401, 402

ekaveṇi, 306

elements (five), see mahābhūta

Elephanta, 246, 561

Elliot, ḤM., 484

elūkā, 407, 408, see also eḍūka

Emeneau, ṀB., 408

Emesa, 547

England, 56

ens realissimum, 551

Eran, 244, 305

Erdheim, Mario, 153, 162

Eschmann, A., 155

ethnocentricity, 551

Eucharist, 543

, 548

Eumenides, 520

European Association of South Asian

Archaeologists, 373

evil, 59, 60, 77

exclusive, 59, 60, 77

Faizabad, 73

fak.īr, 11, 62

fanā- (passing away), 6, 7, 10

festivals, 330, 478, 482, 606, 607

fire-altar, 447–455, 462

Fleet, J.F., 375, 377, 381, 382, 383

footprint (pada / pāda), 341–343, 346, 347 formulaic style (formularity), 176–178

Fort William, 31

four disciples of Lāguḍi, the, 559–564, 584 France, 52

Frank, Othmar, 32

Frauwallner, Erich, 223, 227–231

fundamentalism, 71–73, 76, 486

funeral pyre, 405, 406

Index 677 Gautamadharmasūtra, 510

funerary monuments, 378, 405, 408, 411, 413, 417, 419, 421, 424, 425, 429, 431, 435–437, 440, see also elūkā, eḍūka, aiḍūka Furies, 520

Fussman, G´erard, 416, 417

gadā (club), 342

Gaeffke, Peter, 26

Gāhaḍavāla(s), 467, 469, 483, 484 Gahana/eśa (Rudra), 285, 286, 290–293, 532 Gai, G.S., 571

Gaikwars, 90

Gail, A., 180

Gajendravadana, 93

Gambhīra (brahmin), 536

gaṇa(s), 261, 262, 265, 273–276, 420, 587 Gaṇakārikā, 513–515, 518

Gaṇapatināga / Gaṇapatīndra, 302 Gaṇḍakī (river), 605

gandha, 225

Gandhāra, 412, 424, 429, 436, 440 Gandharvas, 265, 407, 497, 516, 593 Gandharveśvara Temple (Sirpur), 248, 255, 293, 532

Gandhi, ṀK., see Mahātma Gandhi Gandhi, Rajiv, 73, 74, 76

Gaṇendra, see Gaṇapatināga

Gaṇeśa, 108, 261, 262, 272, 320, 330, 333, 464

Gaṇeśa Nātu, 194, 198

Gaṅgā, 243, 264, 463, 465, 474, 580, 607, see also Ganges

Gaṅgā-Yamunā doab, 323

Gaṅgā Valley, 533

Gaṅgādvāra, 524, 602

Gaṅgāsrotas, 91

Gangdhar Stone Inscription of Viśvavarman, 132

Ganges, 48, 49, 79, 108, 294, 302, 306, 408, 467, 603, 606, see also Gaṅgā

Gangetic Plain, 149, 347, 483

Gaolis, 154

garbhagr̥ha, 83, 88, 261, 329, 515, 521, 522 Garde, ṀB., 430, 560

Gārgya, 295, 527–529, 562

Garh-Dhanora, 347, 348

Garuḍa, 315

Garuḍa standard, 309, 315

Garuḍapurāṇa, 181

Gauḍas, 388, 601, 605, 606

Gauḍavaho / Gaüḍavaha, 482, 531 Gaurī, 261, 463

Gautama gotra, 160

Gautameśvara, 106

Gautamīputra Sātakarṇi, 138

gavākṣa, 568

Gayā, 51

Gāyakhurī, 91

Geer, Alexandra Anna Enrica van der, 411

Geertz, Clifford, 162

Geneva Convention, 479

Gentz, Friedrich von, 35

Gēsū-darāz, 10

Ghaṇṭeśvara, 91, 106

Ghaṭo (gold coin, St. Petersburg collection),

140, 315

Ghaṭotkaca Cave Inscription of Varāhadeva,

119, 120, 127, 130

Ghaṭotkaca(gupta) (son of Candragupta II),

114–116, 126, 139–141, 309–311, 314–316,

358–364, 372, 413

Ghaṭotkacagupta (son of Srīgupta), 139 ´

Ghazni, 63

Ghosh, Ajit, 315, 411, 421

Ghoṣūṇḍī Well Stone Inscription, 570

Ghoṭapadrakagrāma, 250

Girijā, 463

Girinagara (Junagarh), 144, 145

Girnār, 388

Gītā, 34–36, 40, see further Bhagavadgītā

Giuliano, Laura, 335

Goa, 461

Gobhilagr̥hyasūtra, 492, 509

Gogra, 48

Gokhale, S., 120

Gokul / Gokula, 20, 173, 453, 459

Golakyānti, 321

golden man, 448–451

Gomibhaṭa (general), 397–399, 402

Gomuṇḍā, 137

Goncourt brothers, 551

Gonda, Jan, 508, 513

Goṇḍārya, 158

Gonds, 154, 158

Goodall, Dominic, 285

Gopāla (Kr̥ṣṇa), 93, 109

Gopālarājavaṁśāvalī, 530

Goparāja, 244

Gopati (Rudra), 285, 286

gopīs, 21, 93, 109

Gopratāra, 50

Gorakhnāth, 12, 13

Gorakhnāthīs, 12, 431

Gorakhpur, 12

Gosaladevī, 467

gotra, 85, 86, 160, 295, 312, 328, 354, 414,

418, 419, 438, 542

678 Index Govardhan, 20

518, 521, 561, 562, 564, 584, 602, passim

Govinda (Kr̥ṣṇa), 307

Govinda IV, 304

Govindacandra, 467, 469

Govindagupta, 307–311, 314

Govinda(svāmī), 20

Govindavarman, 251

govrata, 545

grace, 10, 14, 17, 18, 108, 153, 154, 160, 161, 165, 285, 291, 293, 295, 322, 326, 463–465, 516–519, 524, 526, 542–544, 549, 550, 559, 583, 584, 586, 593, 599, see also

anugraha, parigraha, prasāda

Grahavarman, 527, 536, 605

graiveyaka, 263

grāma, 239, 250, 256, 290, 328, 376, 377 Granoff, Phyllis, 425, 459, 505, 516 Grant of Bhuluṇḍa, Year 47, 326

granthi, 284, 287, 291

Gr̥dhrakūṭeśvara, 537

Greaves, Laxshmi, 421, 581

Greece, 24–26, 28, 42, 57, 58, 520

Greek, 176, 418, 443, 479, 546–548, 554, 555, 557, 558

Grenet, Frantz, 416, 417

Gr̥hyasūtras, 446, 508, 509, 510

Griffiths, Arlo, 411

Groningen, 185, 284, 351, 374, 391, 601 Gudimallam, 493

Guheśvara, 532

Guhyasūtra, 559

Gujarat, 62, 86, 119, 388, 419, 429, 482, 528, 553, 557, 561, 563

guṇa (quality), 40, 229, 406

guṇa (modification), 225, 228, 229 Guṇaratna, 529

Guntur District, 171

Gupta(s), 50, 51, 80, 114–116, 127, 132, 137–141, 149, 150, 156, 158, 242, 244, 259, 262, 301–312, 320, 322, 323, 329, 332, 333, 352, 375, 377, 378, 414, 421, 438, 471, 533, 534, 570, 573, 581, 601–603, 608, 609, passim

Gupta(s), Later, 537–539, 608

Gupta Empire, 305, 306, 315, 402, 553, 571, 604

Gupta Era (G.E.), 144, 235, 236, 325, 394 Gupta–Vākāṭaka relationship, 115, 145–147, 312, 314–318, 357–364

Gupta, A.S., 179

Gupta, Chandrashekhar, 173

Gupta, P.L., 315

Guptarāma, 94, 110

Gurjaras, 89, 160

guru, 10, 230, 287, 478, 512, 514, 515, 517,

gurupaṅkti, 292

gurvāyatana, 287, 494

Habsburg, 363

Hacker, Paul, 60, 175, 179, 180, 182

H. adīth k. udsī, 8

Haihaya, 88

Hakusiri (kumāra), 415

halanta forms, 119

Halbfass, Wilhelm, 23

Hamilton, Alexander, 32

Hamlapuri, 79, 150, 151, 155, 330

Haṁsatīrtha (Ramtek), 91, 107

Hanumāngar̥hī, 66-69

Hanumat, 21, 90, 91, 93, 106, 109, 111, 144, 164, 339

Hanumat Temple (Ramtek), 93

Hara (Siva), 191, 463, 464, 524 ´

Hara, Minoru, 283, 284, 553

Haraha Inscription of the Reign of Īśāna varman [VS] 611, 252, 253, 381, 383,

386–389, 397

Harapāladeva, 90

Hardy, Adam, 394

Hardy, Friedhelm, 16–18, 167, 168, 194

Hari (Viṣṇu), 105–107, 164, 165, 254, 464, 588

Haribhadra, 189, 529

Harirāja (Sūra family), 236 ´

Hariścandra, 473

Hariṣeṇa, 146, 147, 244, 333

Harivaṁśa, 167, 168, 604

Harivarman, 382, 383, 386–388, 533

Harle, James, 368, 520

Harṣa(vardhana), 303, 389, 394, 405, 469, 531, 534–536, 538, 553, 605–608

Harṣa Era, 392–394

Harṣa kā T.īlā, 528, 531

Harṣacarita, 139, 302, 303, 405, 406, 527, 528, 531, 535, 605

Harṣagupta, 251, 253, 532

Härtel, H., 556

H. asan Niz.āmī, 484

Hastings, Warren, 31

Haṭhayoga, 11

Hāṭhī-bāḍā, 570

Head of Brahmā, see Brahmā’s Head

Heesterman, J.C., 477

Hegel, G.W.F., 3, 4, 23–33, 35, 36, 38–45 Heine, Heinrich, 32, 44

Hemādpanti style, 92

Hemādri, 159, 160

Heracles, 554–558, 564

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 25, 55

Index 679 Hymn of Creation (R. gveda X.129), 443

hermitage, 91, 157, 337, 340, 409, 481, 512, 579, see also āśrama

hero-stones, 413, 417

Hiḍimbā T. ekḍī, 331, 332, 422, 432, 455, 456, 495, 496

Hilair, St, 53

Himachal Pradesh, 76

Himālaya, 340, 601

Himavat, 191, 192, 517, 590

hiṁsā, 477

Hind, 62, 484

Hindū Rāṣṭra, 72

Hinduism (concept), 70

Hindustan, 478

Hingalaj, 12

Hiralal, Rai Bahadur, 236

Hiraṇyakeśigr̥hyasūtra, 510, 511

Hiraṇyakeśiśrautasūtra, 449

Hiraṇyānadīvāsaka, 325

Hisse-Borala, 144, 145, 372

Hisse-Borala Inscription of Devasena, 119, 144, 372

Hiraṇyakaśipu, 90, 106, 254, 346, 353 Hitavada, 75

Hitopadeśa, 32

Hoekstra, A., 176

Hoffmeister, Johannes, 30

Hofstra, Jan, 546

holy place(s), 5, 19, 20, 463, 464, 473, 481, 484, 539, see also tīrtha

holy war, 55-60, 62, 71, 77, 78, 481, 483, 485, see also jihād, and homa, 446, 510, 511

Homer, 176

Homo Hierarchicus, 21

Hopkins, E.W., 496

horse sacrifice, 311, 447, see also Aśvamedha Horstmann, Monika, 463

house, (installation of), 444, 446–447, 460, see also vāstu and Vāstupratiṣṭhā householder, 4, 14, 513, 584

Hr̥daya (Pramāṇa text), 286

huḍum. , 545

Hulin, Michel, 23, 29, 30

hum. , 197

human sacrifice, 444–447, 450–452, 455, 458, see also Puruṣamedha

human skulls, 287, 288, 454, 455

Humboldt,Wilhelm von, 26, 31, 34–36, 39, 40 Hūṇas, 375, 414, 481, 553, 598, 601 al-Husayn b. Maṇsūr al-H. allādj, 7 Hussein, Saddam, 56

Huviṣka, 415, 416

Hydarabad District, 453

I Ching, 28

Ibn Asīr, 482

Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, 48

iconographic(al), 263, 333, 499, 506, 554, 555,

581, passim

iconography, 170, 320, 334, 342, 343, 346,

368–371, 490, 519–522, 558, 569, 573,

576, 583, 609, passim

, 58

Ikkhāgabhūmi, 51

Ikṣvāku(s), 47, 51, 325, 337, 411, 418

Illiers(-Combray), 52, 53

imām, 69, 75

imitatio dei, 544, 545, 548, 550

India Office (London), 169, 484

Indian Museum (Calcutta), 392, 595

Indian philosophy (schools), 24, 27–30, 38,

41, 44, 60, 443, 444, 447, 511

Indian People’s Party (BJP), 73, 74, 76

Indo-European, 32

Indo-Greek, 556

indologists, 152, 177, 186, 445, 447, 546, 609

Indology, 31, 44, 381

Indonesia, 445

Indore Plates of Pravarasena II, Year 23, 146,

329, 364, 375

Indra, 20, 60, 109, 110, 126, 141, 151,

187–189, 192, 195, 264, 307, 308, 310, 316,

354, 360, 387, 489, 506, 585, 586, 589,

590, 597, 606

Indrabala(rāja) (sāmanta), 240, 247–250

Indrabhaṭṭārikā, 238, 239

Indragarh Stone Inscription of VS 767, 532

Indrakīla (mountain), 590

Indrapura, 250

indriya (senses), 224–230

Indus River, 437

Ingalls, Daniel, 546, 553–555, 558

initiation, 291–294, 296, 467, 505, 506,

512–516, 518, 527, 528, 543, 544, 560,

576, 586, see also dīkṣā

Inscription of Ajaṇṭā Cave XVII, 127

Institute of Indian Studies, Groningen Uni

versity, 284, 351

Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmeda

bad, 283, 284

Iran, 417

Isaacson, Harunaga, 185, 194, 351, 352, 514,

609 Īśāla(tīrtha), 92

Īśāna, 190, 493

Īśāna (Pāśupata teacher), 529

680 Index

Īśānadeva, 240, 249, 250

Īśānavarman, 252, 253, 381, 383, 388, 389, 527, 533, 601 Īśāneśvara(bhaṭṭāraka) Temple, 251 ,ishk. (divine love), 7, 8, 11

Islam, 6, 8–10, 14, 57, 62, 65, 68, 77, 484, 485 Islamic, 7, 9, 14, 60, 405, 431

Israel, 59

īśvara / Īśvara, 30, 468 Īśvara (goldsmith), 249

Īśvaratattva / Īśvara Reality, 286, 287 Īśvaravarman, 383, 385, 387, 389, 533 Īśvaravāsaka, 321

ithyphallic, 489, 529, 548, 559, 561, 577–579, 581, 598

Jābāla Upaniṣad, 470, 471

Jabalpur, 146, 150

Jacques, St, 53

Jaeschke, Walter, 24, 41, 43

Jagadindu, 290, 291, 294, 297

Jagatgram, 447, 448, 451, 452, 455 Jain(a), 50, 305, 412, 413, 425, 430, 435, 459, 529, 578

Jaina canon, 49

Jain(a)s, 5, 320, 417, 477

Jainism, 51, 321, 413, 426, 437, 578 Jaipur, 356

Jaitrapāla, 89

Jalhaṇa, 86, 160

Jami Masjid (Jaunpur), 384

Jambūdvīpaprajñapti, 51

Jambumārga, 295, 527, 528, 562–565 Jamkhedkar, A.P., 79–81, 113–115, 122, 125, 134, 140, 141, 356, 357, 367, 460

Janaka’s daughter, see Sītā

Janakītīrtha, 341

Janamejaya, 248, 531

janapada, 48, 531, 569, 570

Janārdana, 406

Janasthāna (hermitage), 337

Janata Dal, 76, 77

Janssen, Frans, 461, 462

japa, 15, 288, 465, 470, 515, 531

Japan, 445

jaṭila, 490, see also matted hair

Jaunpur, 381, 533

Jaunpur Fragmentary Maukhari Inscription, 384

Jaunpur Stone Inscription of Īśvaravarman, 381, 383–388, 395

Java, 411

Jayabala, 239

Jayabhaṭṭāraka, 241, 256, 259

Jayacandra, 467, 484

Jayadeva, 530, 538

Jayadratha, 512

Jayadrathayāmala, 292–294, 296

Jayarāja (= Jayabhaṭṭāraka), 241, 242, 245, 247

Jayaratha, 287

Jayaswal, Vidula, 377, 378

Jayeśvara, 265

Jayeśvarabhaṭṭāraka, 239, 259

Jayeśvarabhaṭṭāraka Temple, 239, 256

Jerusalem, 55, 71, 72, 551

jihād (holy war), 56, 60, 68, 69

jihvāmūlīya, 119

Jiṣṇugupta, 531

Jiṭhānī Temple (Tālā), 256–260, 262–271, 273–280

Jīva Gosvāmī, 52

jīvanmukti, 12, 13

jñāna, 286

jñānamudrā, 519

Jogeśvarī, 246

Jones, William, 27, 31

Jordaan, Roy E., 445, 447, 452

Joshi, J.P., 456

Journ´ee des Aub´epines, 52

Judaism, 57, 59

Junāgaḍh Rock Inscription of Skandagupta, Years 136, 137 and 138, 132, 315, 388

Junagarh (Girinagara), 144

Junnar, 415

‘just war’ (bellum justum), 56, 481

Jvālāmukha, 387

Jyeṣṭhavīrā, 419

ka, 506, 510

Kabīr, 14, 16

Kabīr Bījak, 13

Kadalīvana, 144

Kadalīvāṭaka (modern Kelāpur), 127,

144–147, 156, 157, 371, 414

Kadambas, 81

Kafle, Nirajan, 285

Kaimur Range, 391

Kākanādaboṭa, 321

Kākatīyas, 89

Kāla, 520

Kalacuri Saṁvat, 138, 142

Kalacuris, 142, 150, 561

Kālakarṇī, 532

Kālakūta (poison), 474

Kālāmukha, 12, 287

Kālañjara (mountain), 248, 253, 559

kalaśa, 490, 529

Kali Age / Kaliyuga, 107, 159, 291, 292, 295,

304, 336, 387, 409, 429, 554

Index 681 494, 528, 529, 553, 554, 563–565

Kālidāsa, 31, 51, 92, 130, 131, 151, 153, 156, 311, 312, 340, 341, 349, 350, 482

Kālikā, 109

Kālikā Temple, 80

Kaliṅga(s), 236, 475

Kalipā (river), 92, 107, 108

Kalittokai, 168

Kaliyuga, see Kali Age

Kalpaśāstra, 410, 425

Kalpasūtra, 51

kāma, 243

Kāmadeva (king), 83–85, 165

kamaṇḍalu, 558

Kāmarūpa, 608

Kāmasūtra, 49

Kāmilu-t Tawārīkh, 482

Kamji River, 239, 241

Kaṁsa, 171, 316

Kaṁsavadha, 171

Kaṇāda, 294

Kanakhala, 605

Kanauj, 250, 381, 382, 394, 397, 421, 469, 482, 483, 527, 528, 532–534, 538, 553, 563 Kandhar, 460–461

Kane, P.V., 140, 409, 446

Kaniṣka, 415, 416, 426

Kaṅkālī Mātā shrine, 570

Kaṅkālī T.īlā, 425

kaṅkana, 263

Kāntipurī (modern Kutwar), 302

Kanyakubja / Kānyakubja, 295, 381, 527, 528, 532–534, 553, 563–565, 601–603, 605, 606, 608, see also Kanauj

kanyās, 264

kapāla (skull), 287, 589, 594

Kapālasthāna, 602

kapālavrata, 287

Kāpālika(s), 293, 296, 599

kapardin, 594

Kapila (author Sāṁkhyasūtras), 29, 30 Kapila (ācārya), 328

Kapilā (river), 144

Kapilāṇḍa, 529

Kapileśvara (liṅga), 287, 328, 494 karāma (supernatural power), 10, 11 Kāravaṇamāhātmya, 297

karma(n), 5, 39, 40, 150, 468, 497, 548 karma-doctrine, 40

Karmānta Sūtra, 451

karmayoga, 36, 39

Karṇa, 593

karṇajāpa, 468, 471

karṇikāra (tree), 407

Kārohaṇa (modern Karvan), 287, 295, 297,

Karpūravāpī, 92, 93, 108

Kārttika, 108

Kārttikeya, 261, 604, 607, see also Skanda

Karttunen, K., 557

Karuka, 287

Kāruka (Pāśupata division), 287

Karvan, see Kārohaṇa

Kāsarapura, 87, 88

Kashmir, 70, 71

Kashmir Saivism, 543

Kāśī, 108, 464, 465, 484, see also Vārāṇasī

Kāśīkhaṇḍa, 181, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471

Kaśyapa gotra, 354

Kaṭha Upaniṣad, 227

Kathiawar, 388

Kathmandu, 186, 292, 469

Kātyāyana, 196

Kātyāyanaśrautasūtra, 450

Kaumārakhaṇḍa (Padmapurāṇa), 338, 339

Kaumudīmahotsava, 603

Kauṇḍinya, 431, 496, 502, 513, 514, 516–518,

520, 525, 529, 541–546, 548–550, 553, 558,

560, 561, 564

Kauravas, 187

Kaurus.(y)a, 287, 289, 527, 529–531

Kauśāmbī, 253, 302, 306, 453, 455–459

Kauśika, see Kuśika

Kauśikī Cycle (Skandapurāṇa, SP), 400

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa, 187, 190, 291

Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, 60, 223

Kauṭilya, 467, 477

Kauvatal Plates of Sudevarāja, Year 7, 249

kavi, 85, 147, 151, 354, 601, 603, 607

kāvya, 127, 136

kāyasādhana, 13

kāyasiddhi, 13

Kāyāvarohaṇa, 297

Kāyāvataraṇa (= Kārohaṇa), 529, 542, 553,

see also Kārohaṇa

Kedārakhaṇḍa, 181

Kedāreśvara, 91, 106

Keesargutta, 453

Kelāpur, 144, 156, 371, see also Kadalīvāṭaka

Keśava (Kr̥ṣṇa), 497

Kevala-Narasiṁha Temple (Ramtek), 80, 82,

115, 143, 147, 163, 345, 351, 355, 356,

357, 365, 413, 414, 434, 435

Kevala-Narasiṁha Temple Inscription (KNT),

80, 91, 92, 113–115, 117, 118–145, 310,

311, 315, 327, 328, 351–357, 359, 360,

362, 365, 371, 376, 413, 414

Kevala-Narasiṁha Temple Ramtek Inscrip tion No. 1, 83–86, 165

Kevala-Narasiṁha Temple Ramtek Inscrip

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tion No. 2, 83, 86–88, 90

keyūra, 263

Khadirapadra, 251

Khalistan, 72

khaṇḍa, 181, 182, 184, 185, 469

khānk.āh (monastery), 9, 10

Khairtal hoard (coins), 243, 244

Kharod, 249–251

Khilchipura, 569

Khindsi Lake, 91, 144, 145, 371, 372 Khmer, 400, 537

Kholeśvara, 86

Khusraw Khān, 90

Khwādja Mu,īn al-Dīn Cishtī, 9, 11 ˇ Kielhorn, F., 88, 569

kīkasa, 421

Kippenberg, Hans G., 58, 60

kirāta (hunter), 522

Kirāta, 591, 592

Kirātārjunīya, 587–589, 592, 593, 597, 598 Kirfel, Willibald, 175, 179, 180, 182 Kīrti, 603

Kīrtivarman I, 142

kīrtti, 375

Kiṣkindhā, 48

Klaproth, J.H., 33

Kolte, V.B., 119, 145, 374

Konkan, 160, 415, 561

Konow, Sten, 395, 427

Koran, 6, 7

Kosala, see Dakṣiṇa Kosala

Kosalā, 243, 247, 249, 256

Kosalā (village), 239

Kośalakhaṇḍa, 182

Kosambi, ḌD., 162

Kośīra, 250

Kośīra-Nandapura-viṣaya, 250

koṣṭhikā (storeroom), 400

Koṭivarṣa, 606

kramāditya, 140, 315

Kramrisch, Stella, 446

Kreisel, Gerd, 491–494

krīḍā (play), 541, 550

Krishna District, 252

kriyā, 286, 293

Kropman, Martine, 332, 535

Kr̥pa, 593

Kr̥ṣṇa, 9, 16–21, 36, 38–40, 71, 128, 159, 161, 163, 164, 167–171, 173, 174, 316, 375, 376, 478, 480, 481, 497, 512, 550, 551, 556, 557, 588, 604

Kr̥ṣṇa (Sātavāhana), 415

Kr̥ṣṇa (Yādava king), 89

Kr̥ṣṇa bhakti, 17

Kr̥ṣṇadāsa, 140

Kr̥ṣṇakarṇāmr̥ta, 169

Kr̥ṣṇakarṇāmr̥taṭīkā, 169

Kr̥ṣṇamiśra, 293

Kr̥ṣṇarāja, 561

Kr̥ta Era, see Vikrama Era

Kr̥tayuga, 90, 153, 154, 363, 554

Kr̥tyakalpataru, 193

Kr̥tyaratnākara, 193

kṣatra, 65, 386, 534, 595

kṣatrapa (incḷmahākṣatrapa), 144, 301–303, 306, 373, 418, 419, 493

kṣatriya, 55, 150, 152, 255, 407, 410, 411, 450, 476, 589

Kṣemarāja, 285–289, 515

Kṣemeśa (Rudra), 285, 287

Kṣemeśvara Temple, 383

kṣetra, 467, 471

kṣetrajña, 225, 226, 228, 229

Kṣīrasvāmin, 51

Kṣīratara˙ngiṇī, 51

Kṣupa, 534

Kubera, 406, 407, 585

Kuberanāgā, 138, 306, 323, 360–362, 414 Kuiper, F.B.J., 342, 343

Kujula Kadphises, 416

kula (family), 239, 240, 252, 294, 417, see also devakula

kulapati, 398–400

Kulkarni, ḶR., 80, 88, 94, 338

Kulke, Hermann, 162, 301, 306, 311, 483 kumāra (prince), 415, 418, 605, 606

Kumāra, 264, 265, see also Skanda and

Kārttikeya

Kumāra (or Kaṇāda), 294

Kumāragupta I, 51, 115, 140, 146, 155, 244, 308–311, 313–315, 320, 333, 359, 364,

375–377, 413, 414, 570

Kumārakas, 264

Kumārasambhava, 131

Kumārasvāmin (deity), 333, 375–377, 414 Kumbhāṇḍas, 407

Kumhāra T. ekḍī, 430, 560

kuṇḍa, 81, 339, 341

Kur (Giri?), 63, 64

Kurapadraka, 290, 291

kurgan, 419

kūrmaciti, 456

Kuru(s), 295, 527–531, 563

Kurud Plates of Narendra, Year 24, 243, 244 Kurukṣetra, 527, 528, 531–536, 563, 565, 602, 605

Kurukṣetratīrtha (Ramtek), 91, 107

Kuśa, 93, 109

Kuṣāṇa, 49, 50, 156, 260, 415–417, 421, 440, 481, 493, 529, 557

Kuśika, 287, 295, 431, 494, 527–529, 541–543, 559–561, 564

kūṭa-yuddha (concealed fight), 476 kuṭi (hut), 425

Kutwar, 302

Lacey, Harriet, 150

Laganaṭola Inscription (ad 694/95), 539 laguḍa (club), 529, 554, 555, 558, 559 Lāguḍi, 295, 494, 527–530, 533, 537,

553–555, 558, 559, 561, 563, 564, 584, for his disciples, see four disciples Laguḍīśvara, 559, 564

Lahore, 9, 313

Lajjā Gaurī, 462

Lakhneśvara (Lakṣmaṇeśvara) Temple (Kharod), 249–251

Lakṣmaṇa (brother of Rāma), 93, 94, 110, 163

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līlā, 8, 18–20, 52, 61, 171, 550

līlāsthala, 52

Līlāśuka Bilvamaṅgala, 169, 170

liṅga, 313, 319, 320, 328, 339, 401, 406, 411, 413, 420, 421, 431, 437, 471, 472, 492–494, 496–499, 518, 521, 537, 545, 548, 549, 572, 579, 583, 599, see also

ekamukha-, caturmukha-, svayaṁbhuliṅga twelve liṅgas, 533

Liṅgapurāṇa, 186, 189, 192–199, 203 ff., 294, 559

Liṅgasambhūta, 520

Lingat, Robert, 150

Liṅgayasūrin, 129, 408

lion throne (siṁhāsana), 383, 385, 388, 389 logos, 543

Lokanātha (Viṣṇu), 355

Lokapālas, 406, 407, 421

Lokaprakāśā, 239, 242, 243, 249, 256

Lakṣmaṇa Temple (Ramtek), 80, 88, 89, 93, 94, 165, 166, 338, 339, 347

Lakṣmaṇa Temple (Sirpur), 245, 251, 253, 254, 258

Lakṣmaṇasena, 484

Lakṣmī, 107, 126, 140, 159, 247, 263, 311, 316, 531, 603

Lakṣmīdhara, 193, 468, 469, 533

Lakṣmītīrtha (Ramtek), 91, 107

Lākuḍas, 559

lakula (club), 529, 584

Lakula/eśa, 286, 288, see also Lāguḍi, Lākulin and Lakulīśa(nātha)

Lākula (Pāśupata division), 286, 287, 295, 296

Lakulin / Lākuli(n), 528, 529, 554, 559 Lakulīśa(nātha), 287, 289–297, 494, 523, 529, 530, 532, 537, 539, 546, 554, 555, 558–561, 564, 584, 608

lakuṭa, see laguḍa

Langlois, Alexandre, 32–34

lāṅgula, 559

Laṅkā, 48, 110

Later-Gupta, see Gupta(s), Later laukika, 544, 553, 602

Lauriya-Nandangarh, 412, 417, 427, 429 Lava, 93, 109

Last Judgement, 8

laymen, 516, 517, see also laukika Leiden, 373

Leiden University, 609

Leningrad Museum (St Petersburg), 315 Leontios, 547

Liber Sancti Jacobi, Codex Calixtinus, 53 Licchavi, 530, 531, 538, 608

Life of Symeon the Holy Fool, 547

Loksabhā, 76

Lolārka, 465, 467

Long, Bruce, 520

Lord, Albert, 176, 178

Lord of the Three Oceans, see trisamudra

nātha

Lorenzen, David N., 62, 64

lotus-stalk (attribute), 522

Lucknow, 68, 69

Lüders, H., 328, 415, 416

Lunar Race / Dynasty (somavaṁśa), 239,

247–250, 283, 297, 536

Macchendranāth, 12

Madālasācampū, 86, 88, 163

Madana, 419

Madana (god of love), 401

Madanalobha, 81

madeleines, 53

Mādhāinagar Copper-plate Inscription of

Lakṣmaṇasena, 484

Mādhavavarman II Janāśraya, 173, 174, 251,

252

Madhukara, 607

mādhurya-rasa, 21

Madhva, 18

Madhya Pradesh, 76, 150, 347, 563

Madhyamā / Madhyamikā / Mādhyamikā,

562, 567, 569–571, 598, 599

Madhyameśvara, 602

Mādhyandina śākhā, 354

madhyapuṭa, 284, 285

Magadhā, 252, 397, 484, 534, 537–539, 564,

602, 603, 605, 608

Māgha, 325

684 Index Mahā-Nārāyaṇa-Upaniṣad, 545, 549

308

Mahābhairava, 93, 109, 157

Mahābhārata, 31, 47, 50, 179, 187, 189, 191–197, 199, 202 ff., 223, 230, 264, 265, 329, 375, 376, 400, 401, 409, 410, 429, 473, 478, 479, 489–493, 496–502, 505, 512, 523, 525, 535, 546, 559, 585, 586, 588, 591, 592, 594, 595, 598, 604, 607

Northern Recension, 524

Southern Recension, 516

mahābhūta (elements), 225, 226, 230, 231 Mahādeva, 89, 159, 163, 190, 466, 471, 489, 513, 514, 516–518, 523–525, 570, 591, 592, 598, 599

Mahādeva Temple, 568, 572, 573, 595, 597, 599

mahādevī, 306

Mahākāla, 496, 516, 517, 520, 602 Mahākālahr̥daya, 531

Mahākapāla, 602

Mahākośala, 244

mahākṣatrapa, see kṣatrapa

Mahāmantra, 464, 465, 531

Mahāmāyi Temple (Arang), 248

Mahāmāyūrī, 49

Mahānadī (river), 236, 240, 247, 255, 256 Mahānavamī, 149, 164

mahant (abbott), 12, 400

Mahānubhāva, 92, 94, 163

mahāpratīhāra, 397, 398

Mahāpuruṣa, 157

mahārāja, 154, 245, 397, 398

mahārājādhirāja, 154, 305–307, 321, 389, 438, 531

Mahārāshtra, 170, 173, 335, 418, 455, 460 Mahāśabda (five), 397

Mahāśaiva, 531

mahāsāmanta, 247, 249, 394, 397, 398, 538 Mahāsamayasutta, 407

Mahāsiddhi, 93, 109

Mahāśivagupta (Bālārjuna), 248, 251–256, 289, 290, 296, 297, 532

Mahāśmaśāna, 531

Mahāsthān, 453

Mahatma Gandhi, 55, 75, 76, 475, 477 Māhātmya, 183, 184, 534, 604, 605 Mahāvaṁśa, 428

Mahāvastu, 407

Mahāvideha, 49

Mahāvīra, 51

Mahāvrata (Great Vow), 291, 294 Mahāyāna, 255

Mahbubnagar District, 171

mahendra, 308

Mahendra / Mahendrāditya (king), 243–245,

Mahendravikramavarman (Pallava king), 293 Maheśa, 463, 464, 494

Maheśvara (Siva), 154, 326, 330, 333, 406, ´ 470, 489, 490, 492, 497, 498, 512, 515,

524, 525, 528

Māheśvara(s), 287, 288, 321, 326, 329, 331, 494, 496, 543, 593, 602–608

Māheśvarakhaṇḍa (vulgate Skandapurāṇa), 186, 192–199, 203 ff.

Maheśvaranāga, 313

Maheśvarapura, 562, 563

Mahiṣāsuramardinī, 320, 330, 333

Maḥmūd of Ghazni (Sultan), 62, 63, 73, 482, 483

Maḥmūd (prince), 483

Māhurjharī, 143

Māhurjharī Plates of Pr̥thivīṣeṇa II, Year 17, 325

Māideva (Māyideva), 89

Maikala Range, 157, 242

Mairāl family (Ramtek), 90

Maitrāyaṇīsaṁhitā, 449

Maitrāyaṇīyas, 449, 450

Maitrya, 529

Majhimikā, 569

Major, John, 56

Majumdar, ṇG., 394, 412

Majumdar, R̥C., 301

Majumdar, Susmita, 289, 290

makara, 260, 262, 263, 265, 273, 274, 568, 575

Makran Coast, 12

Malamoud, Charles, 411, 438, 439, 447

Mālava, see Malwa

Mālavā, 147

Mālavas, 302

Mālavikā, 312

Mālavikāgnimitra, 311, 312

Malgā, 249

Malgā Plates of Sāmanta Indrarāja, 240, 249 Malhar, 240, 242, 256, 294, 577–579, 582, 583

Malhar (Junvānī) Copperplates of Mahāśiva gupta, Year 57, 289, 290, 296, 297, 532,

559

Malhar Plates of Jayarāja, 245

Malhar Plates of Sūrabala Udīrn ´ . avaira, 238, 239, 259

Malhar Plates of Vyāghrarāja, 240

Mālinīvijayottaratantra, 285, see also Srī- ´ pūrvaśāstra

Mallinātha, 130

Malwa, 119, 140, 160, 302, 305–307, 312, 316, 317

Eastern Malwa, 302, 309, 310, 323 Western Malwa, 302, 307, 563, 570 Māmallapuram, 342, 413

Man of Mansar, see Manasarapuruṣa Mānavaśrautasūtra, 449, 450 manas, 224–230

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Mantrarāja, 465

Manu, 47, 231

manujendraputrī, 133, 143, 354, 357, 358, 360, 361

Manusmr̥ti, 27, 223, 478, 546, 559

Manuṣyaka, 529

Manasarapuruṣa (Man of Mansar), 422, 423, 434, 435, 457, 458, 461, 462

Maṇḍaka, 249

maṇḍala, 166, 460

Maṇḍaleśvara, 400, 401, 403

Maṇḍaleśvara Māhātmya, 400

Maṇḍaleśvarasvāmin, 398–400

Maṇḍaleśvarasvāmin Temple, 400 maṇḍapa, 83, 115, 329, 356, 365

Mandapesvar, 561

Mandara (mount), 342, 534

Mandasor, 307, 522, 532, 562, 573, see also Daśapura

Mandasor Fort, 569

Mandasor Inscription of Mālava Saṁvat 524, 307, 308

Mandasor Inscription of the Kr̥ta Year 461, 308

Mandasor Stone Inscription of Kumāragupta and Bandhuvarman, 119, 136

Mandasor Stone Inscription of Yaśodharman and Viṣṇudharman, 127

Mandhal, 81, 138, 141, 146, 157, 259, 264, 282, 323–329, 333, 334

Māṇḍhal. Charter of Pr̥thivīṣeṇa II, Year 10, 146, 325

Māṇḍhal. Plates of Pr̥thivīṣeṇa II, Year 2, 142, 325, 340

Māṇḍhal. Plates of Vākāṭaka Rudrasena II, Year 5, 323–326, 328–330, 361, 362 maṅgala, 352, 355, 383, 571

Maniārī (river), 256

Maṇikālakuṇḍa, 92, 108

Maṇikarṇikā, 467, 468, 473

Maṇimekalai, 411

Mann, Thomas, 548

Manorathasvāmin, 571

Mansar, 143, 157, 259, 331–333, 372, 373, 421, 422, 431, 432, 435, 438, 453, 455, 457, 459, 495, 496, see also Man of Mansar and MNS 2, MNS 3

Mansar (site T), 432–435, 438–440 mantra, 15, 446, 448, 464–468, 509, 518, 543, 545, 549, 594, 595

five mantras (Sadyojāta, etc.), 492, 513 see also Mahāmantra, S. aḍakṣara, Sāvitrī, Tāraka, Brahmaśiras

Mantramārga, 505

Mantrapīṭha, 284

Mārāṭha, 80, 90, 92

Maria Anna of Bavaria, 363

Maria of Spain, 363

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa, 473

Mārtāṇḍamāhātmya, 193

Martin, Montgomery, 391

martyrdom, 60, 61

Marx, Karl, 26

Māsod Plates of Pravarasena II, Year 19, 324

Māt., 415, 416, 440

Māta˙ngaśāstra, 285

maṭha (monastery), 12, 399, 400, 403, 532,

602

maṭhikā, 296

Mathurā, 108, 156, 295, 415, 425, 492–494,

527–530, 554–557, 561–565

Mathura Museum, 529

Mathurā Pilaster Inscription of Candragupta

II, Year 61, 287, 328, 413, 494, 502, 529,

541, 558, 561

matrimonial / matrimony, 115, 140, 240, 305,

306, 312, 362, 363, 539, 540

Mātr̥kās (eight), 93, 109

mātr̥s (mothers), 265, see also Mātr̥kās and

Mothers

Matsyapurāṇa, 468, 471, 473

Mattavilāsaprahasana, 293

matted hair, 66, 490, 581, 589, 594

Matthew, 505

Maudā, 327

Maukhari(s), 250–253, 303, 381, 382, 386,

388, 389, 394, 397, 402, 469, 527, 530,

532–534, 536, 538, 553, 601, 602, 604,

605, 608

Maurya(s), 239, 311, 571

Mauss, Marcel, 4

Mausula(s), 286–288, 293, 295, 296

māyā, 8

Mayamata, 520

Māyātattva / Māyā Reality, 284–287, 292

Mayrhofer, Manfred, 408

medha, 447

medhya, 447

megalithic, 409, 429

Megasthenes, 479, 480, 557

Meghadūta, 92, 340, 341, 376

Meister, Michael, 574

Mekalā, 147, 235, 237–240, 242–245, 247,

249, 250, 256

686 Index

Mekalapadraka, 250

memorial (temple), 378, 413, 439

memorial stones, 413, 417, 418, 439, see also chāyā◦

mercury (rasa), 12

Middle Ages, 56, 166

Mihiraka, 249

Mihirakula, 598

Minnat Mian, 75

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu, 80, 86, 88–92, 94, 95, 118, 130, 146, 157, 170, 173, 235, 236, 244, 315, 324, 325, 341, 368, 374, 375

Mīregāon Plates of Prabhāvatī Guptā, Year 20, 314, 332, 354

Mitra, 295, 527, 528, 562

Mitra dynasty, 562

Mlecchas, 483, 604

MNS 2, 331

MNS 3, 331, 332, 373, 374, 422, 423, 432, 434, 435, 455–457, 495

Moghul / Mogul, 65, 66, 478, 485

Mohallā Plate, 324–326, 329

Mohammed, see Muḥammad

Mo-hi-shi-fa-lo-pu-lo, 562, see also Maheśva rapura

mokṣa, 7, 12, 19, 308, 473

Mokṣadharma (MBh), 223, 224, 227, 230–234, 479

Mokṣakuṇḍa, 92, 108

monastic orders, 12, 63, 513

monasticism, 9

‘monda’, 138

Mondasvāmin, 138, 326, 327, 329

monotheism, 6, 14, 15, 62, 72, 77

moon, 167, 168, 173, 174, see also candra morality, 3, 40, 41

Mori Rajputs (Mauryas), 571

Mothers (seven), 320

Mothers (eight), see Mātr̥kās (eight) Mr̥gendratantra, 284

Mudgalīśa, 289, see also Mugalisa Mūdhugi, 160

mudrā, 520

Mudrārākṣasa, 303, 603

Mugalisa, 289–291, 293, 296, 297

Muḥammad, 8

Muḥammad b. Tughluk., 9

Mu,īn al-Dīn, 9

Mukhara, 384, 386, 387

muktāyajñopavīta, 368

mukti (release), 18, 465

Muktīśvara, 93, 109

Mukundara, 573

muṇḍa, 491

Muṇḍa(s), 328

Muṇḍa (a brahmin), 328

Muṇḍa (king), 406, 408

Muṇḍā, 126, 130, 137, 138, 310, 327, 328, 333, 358, 359, 361, 362

Muṇḍa-Sr ´.ṅkhalika Pāśupatas, 294, 531, 532 Muṇḍasvāmin, 326, 327, 329, 333, 361, 362 Muṇḍeśvarī (goddess), 391

Muṇḍeśvarī Hill, 393, 401, 403

Muṇḍeśvarī Inscription of the Time of Udaya sena, Year 30, 392, 394–396, 401 Muṇḍeśvarī Temple, 391, 392

muṇḍin, 491, 492

muñja grass, 510

Murāri (Viṣṇu), 109, 110, 159, 338, 339

mūrti, 496, 505, 513, 514, 515, 516, 518

Muruṇḍa, 328

Mus, Paul, 445

musaladatta, 289

Musaleśa/īśa, 289, see also Mugalisa

Mus´ee Guimet, 555

Mus´ee Marcel-Proust, 53

music, 10, 15, 85, 296, 446, 520, 545

Muslim(s), 5, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 60, 62–66, 68–75, 77, 78, 475, 478, 482–486

Muṣṭika, 171

Musula/eśa/endra, 286, 288, 289, 293, see also Mugalisa

Mutiny, see Rebellion of 1857

mysticism, 8

Nachna, 367

nafs, 7

nāga (serpent), 94, 311, 407, 409, 414, 438, 531

Nāga(s), 94, 138, 302, 305, 306, 309, 311–315, 323, 326, 328, 332, 360–363, 414, 438

Nāga image, 433–435

Nāgabala, 238, 239, 245

Nāgabhaṭṭa, 313

Nāgadatta, 426, 427, 428

Nāganikā (queen), 415

Nāgarāja, 362

Nagardhan, 79, 141, 143, 150, 151, 155, 259, 330, 341, 342, 344, see also Nandivardha na

Nagardhan Plates of Svāmirāja, 144

Nagarī (Rajasthan), 522, 523, 525, 562, 567, 569–572, 575, 578, 579, 581, 583, 588–590, 595, 596, 598, 599

Nāgarī script, 84

Nāgārjunakoṇḍa, 172, 417

Nāgasena, 302

Nagpur (Maharashtra), 79, 90, 149, 150, 157, 170, 324, 335, 337, 356, 373

Index 687

Nagpur (Central Museum), 81, 151, 155, 355 Nagpur Plain, 79

Nagra, 81

Naigama, 571

Naigameṣa, 264, 281, 282

Naikatuṅgādhipeśvara, 537

Naimiṣa, 607

Nakulin, 559

Nakulīśa, 283, 529

Nala(s), 142, 147, 173, 245, 256, 347 Nalacampū, 85, 86

Nālandā, 602

Nalanda Clay Seal of Harṣa, 531

Naliasar, 562

nāmajapa, 11

nāmakīrtana, 11

namāz, 75

Name (of God), 11, 14–16, 18, 465, 473 Name (rama ¯ ), 15, 94, 110, 464, 466, 474 Nanda, 20, 173

Nandapur(a), 250, 296

Nandapuri, 81

Nanded District, 460

Nandikeśvara, 261

Nandin, 261, 496, 516, 517, 518, 520 Nandivardhana, 79, 141–143, 146, 147, 150, 306, 309, 314, 325, 329–332, 340, 364, see also Nagardhan

Nāṇeghāt., 415, 416, 440

Nannarāja I (son of Indrabala), 240, 247–251 Nannarāja II, 253

Nara, 497, 581, 588–590, 599

Nara-Nārāyaṇa, 589

Nārada (seer), 336

Nāradasmr̥ti, 141

Narain, A.K., 322

Narasiṁha (Viṣṇu), 80, 81, 83, 85, 90, 93, 106, 109, 128, 134, 135, 143, 144, 155, 156, 158, 160, 163, 165, 254, 261, 265, 333, 334, 343–349, 353, 355, 356, 365, 372

Narasiṅgha (son of Boṭa), 239, 256 Naratta˙ngavāristhāna, 325

Naravarman, 308

Nārāyaṇa, 160, 196, 320, 322, 327, 398, 497, 581, 588–590

Nārāyaṇa Vāṭikā, 570

Nārāyaṇa Temple, 400

Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa, 467

Nārāyaṇadevakula, 397

Narendra (mahārāja), 243, 244

Narendrasena, 146, 147, 244, 324

Narmadā (river), 174, 302, 306, 312–315, 317, 364, 388, 498, 563

Nasik, 74

naṭarāja, 545

Nāth cult, 13, 16

Nāth Yogis, 12, 13, 17

nāths (nine), 11

National Archives (Kathmandu, Nepal), 180,

194, 292, 469

National Museum (New Delhi), 492, 495 496,

580

National Museum Kathamandhu Stone In

scription of NS 264, 534

National Museum of Afghanistan, 555

Navarātra festival, 482

nawābs of Avadh, 66

Neapolis, 547

Nemeian Lion, 556, 557

neolithic, 439

neophyte, 508

Nepal, 185, 413, 431, 530, 531, 534, 537–539,

602, 608

Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Pro

ject (NGMPP), 185, 194

Nepāla, 608

Nepalese recension (S recension of SP), 471,

472, 537, 608, 609

Neuss, Jürgen, 393, 394

New Indo-Aryan, 175

New Jerusalem, 71

Nhāṇi Sīteci, see Sītecī Nhāṇī

Nibandha, 469

Niḍilā (river), 241

Nigam, ḶS., 261

Nīlakaṇṭha, 191

nīlalohita, 190

Nīlalohita, 589, 594

Nīlamatapurāṇa, 193

Nimbārka, 18

nīrājanā, 481, 482

nirguṇa, 14, 16

Nirr̥ti, 492

nirukti, 467, 471, 489

Niṣṭhurarāja, 236

Nisunda, 400

Niśvāsamukha, 285, 559

Niśvāsatattvasaṁhitā, 285, 559

Niz.ām al-Dīn Awliyā, 9, 10

Norman, K.R., 121

Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW), 571

Nr̥hari, see Narasiṁha

Nr̥siṁha, see Narasiṁha

Nr̥siṁhatīrtha, 91, 107

Nr̥siṁhavarman I, 413

Nuh Sipihr, 90

numismatics, 373, 609

Nyāya, 518

Nyāya–Vaiśeṣika, 28, 29

688 Index Pāragārgya, 529

Oberhammer, Gerhard, 37, 514

Oberlies, Thomas, 546, 553, 554

Obeyesekere, G., 164

ojas, 354

Old Testament, 58

om. , 38, 127, 468, 515, 549

Oṇī District, 291

oral composition, 176

oral tradition, 175, 177, 178, 184, 199 Oriental Despotism, 24

Oriental Institute in Vadodara, 283 orientalist, 470

Orientalism, 31

Orissa, 155, 253, 402, 608

Orthodox Church, 60

Oshibat, 437

Otto, R., 58

Pābūjī Rāṭhaur., 177

pada, see footprint

pādamūla, 330, 340, 343

Padaṇa Hill (Bombay), 289

Padmapura, 141, 324–327, 332

Padmapura District, 324, 328, 329 Padmapurāṇa, 338, 466

Padmāvatī (modern Pawaya), 302 Pakistan, 11, 70, 71, 72, 426, 437

Pāli canon, 49

Pallava(s), 252, 259, 260, 293, 413, 417, 522 paḷḷi-paṭai, 413

Pāñcarātra, 16

Pañcārtha doctrine (Pāśupata), 286–288, 295, 296, 528, 533, 563

Pañcārthabhāṣya, 541, 553, 578

Pañcārthapramāṇa, 286, 287, 541, 563 pañcaśikha, 190, 197

Pañcavaṭī, 337

Pāṇḍava Kingdom, 296

Pāṇḍavas (sons of Pāṇḍu), 585, 588, 595, 596, 598

Pāṇḍavas of Kosala, 235, 238, 239, 247, 248–255, 289

Pāṇḍavas of Mekalā, 235, 237–239, 243, 247–249

Pāṇḍhurṇā Plates of Pravarasena II, Year 29, 323, 332, 354, 503

Pāṇḍu, 239, 248, 601

Pāṇḍuvaṁśin(s), 532, see also Pāṇḍavas Pāṇini, 49, 196, 407

pāṇipātrika, 321

Panjab, 48, 71, 483, 570

Paṅktiratha (= Daśaratha), 93, 109 pāpa, 480

paramabhāgavata, 243

paramabhaṭṭāraka, 244, 531

Paramadhāna Aśrama, 170, 171 ¯

paramamāheśvara, 154, 255, 531, 606

Paramānanda-Sāgara, 20

paramavaiṣṇava, 255

Parameśāna, 192, 559

Parameśvara, 401, 492, 594

paraṁparā, 291, 293, 297, 529, 561, 564, 584 parāmukti, 13

Pāraskaragr̥hyasūtra, 509

Paraśurāma, 180

Pārāvata, 607

parigraha, 516, 518, see also grace

Parīkṣit, 248

Paris, 32–34

Parṇadatta, 144

Parry, Milman, 176

Parry-Lord theory, 175, 176, 179

Pārśvanātha, 320

pārśvasūtra, 405

Parthian, 417

partition, 70, 72

Pārvatī, 131, 186, 191–193, 201, 471, 474, 586, 591, 595

pāśa, 263

pāśajāla (net of bonds), 285, 292, 532

Pāśipadraka, 291

paśu, 446, 449–451, 481, 515, 545, 550

Pāśupata(s), 12, 283, 284, 286–288, 292, 293, 296, 297, 397, 403, 430, 472, 494, 496,

498, 505, 513, 515–517, 525–528, 530–534, 539, 543, 544, 546, 548–551, 553, 554, 557, 561–563, 565, 578, 586, 587, 590, 593–595, 598, 599, 602–605, 608

Pāśupata Saivism, 283, 284

Pāśupata weapon, 512, 523, 526, 593,

594–599

Pāśupata yoga, 525, 527, 542, 558, 560, 563, 583, 584, 594, 606

Pāśupatanāth, 431

Pāśupatāstra, see Pāśupata weapon

Pāśupatasūtra, 286, 287, 431, 496, 502, 513, 514, 516, 518, 529, 541, 543, 545, 549,

553, 558

Pāśupatavidhi, 559

pāśupatavrata (Pāśupata observance), 514, 524–526, 559, 576

Paśupati(nātha), 190, 413, 530, 537, 539, 542, 544, 561, 563, 602, 608

Paśupati Temple Inscription, [Aṁśuvarman] Saṁvat 157, 538

Paśupatinātha Temple (Nepal), 294, 530, 531, 539

Pāṭagaṇḍigūḍem Copper Plate of Ehavala Cāntamūla, 325

Pāṭaliputra (modern Patna), 51, 137, 302, 319, 408, 537

Patañjali, 49, 569

pati, 545

Patil, ḌR., 417

Patna, 85, 137, 138, 302, 391, see also Pāṭaliputra

Patna Museum, 407

Index 689

Poona Plates of Prabhāvatīguptā, 118, 119, 138, 240, 314, 329, 330, 438

post (wooden), 417, 427, 446, 458, 489 Posthomerica, 176

Prabhākara (bhūmipati), 307, 308

Prabhākaravardhana, 405, 421

Prabhāsatīrtha, 294

Prabhāvatī Guptā, 80, 113–115, 118, 133, 137–142, 145, 150, 154, 155, 240, 301, 306, 309–312, 314, 317, 323, 325, 327–334,

patronage, 155, 162, 255, 319–323, 332, 333, 402, 602, 603

Paul, St, 546

Paümacariya, 51

Paunar, 141, 170–174

Paunī, 326, 418

paurāṇika, 178, 471

Pawaya, 302, 370, see also Padmāvatī Pax Britannica, 55

Pazyryk, 419

Periyāḻvār (Viṭṭucittaṉ), 167, 168, 174 Persian, 66

person (concept of), 3, 4, 20, 21, 28, 29, 40 Peshwa, 90

Petersburg, St., 140, 315

Phalgudeva, 419

phallic, 489, 493, 496, 555, 559

phallus, 489, 496, 497, 498, 514, 516, 545, 578, see also liṅga

Phillip II, 363

Piano, S., 346, 349

picchikā, 578

pilgrimage, 62, 65, 72, 85, 162, 347, 403, 467, 550, 606

piḷḷaitamiḻ, 167, 168

Pināka, 490

piṇḍa, 325, 405

piṇḍāra, 401

Piṇḍāraka, 401

Piṇḍāreśvara, 401

Pine Forest, 579, 599, see also Devadāruvana Piṅgala, 529

Pīparḍūlā Copper-Plate Inscription of King Narendra of Sarabhapura ´ , 243

Piprawa, 412

pīr, 10, 12

Piśāca(s), 593

Pītakeśa, 134

Pitāmaha, 406

pīṭha, 263

pitr̥(s), 492

pitr̥tarpaṇa, 91

Pitr̥tīrtha (Ramtek), 91, 107

polytheism, 56, 62, 152

polytheism thesis, 56–59

340, 343, 344, 352, 354, 355, 359–364, 371,

376, 413, 414, 432, 438

Prabhāvatisvāmin, 80, 126, 133, 137, 143,

144, 156, 328, 333, 343, 354, 355, 357,

364, 365, 371, 372, 376, 378, 413, 414

prabhutva, 542

Prabodhacandrodaya, 293

Prabodhinī Ekādaśī, 330

pradakṣiṇā/a, 401, 407, 482, 509, 511

pradakṣiṇapatha, 393

pradhāna, 228

prādurbhāva, 50

Pradyumna, 253

Prahasiteśvara liṅga, 537

Prahlāda Ghāt., 534

Prajāhita (aiḍūka), 406

Prajāpati, 188, 190, 193, 292, 451, 506, 507,

508, 509, 510

prajña, 224

Prakāśadharman, 571, 588, 589

prakāśa-yuddha (open fight), 476

prakaṭa, 71

Prakrit, 327

prakr̥ti, 30, 228, 229

Pramāṇa (texts), 286, 288, 292

Pranardanaprāṇa Kauśika (Pāśupata teach er), 531

praṇava, 468, see also oṁprasāda (grace), 18, 153, 154, 160, 161, 165,

498, 542, 583, see also grace

prasāda (sacred food), 52

prāsāda (temple), 143, 156, 413

Prasannamātra, 242, 244, 245, 260

Prasannapur, 241, 242, 245, 249

praśasti, 146, 252, 304, 324, 352, 354,

357–361, 363

prāśitra (fore-portion), 187, 188, 190

Pratīhāra, 532

pratimā, 375, 376

pratimāgr̥ha, 377, 411, 413, 415–417

Pratimānāṭaka, 410, 411, 415, 416

Pratismr̥ti, 585

pratyantanr̥pati, 302

Pravara I (= Pravarabhaṭṭāraka), 241

Pravarapura, 141–143, 325, 331, 332, 364

690 Index

Pravararāja, 247

Pravarasena I, 152

Pravarasena II, 114, 115, 134, 141, 142, 145–147, 150, 154, 301, 314–316, 324, 325, 330–333, 352, 354, 360, 361, 363, 364, 371, 372, 432, 438, 495

Pravareśvara, 157, 331–334, 374, 495, 496 Pravareśvara Temple (Mansar), 372, 373, 432

Pravareśvaradevakulasthāna, 495, 496 Prayāga, 142, 302, 306, 602, 606, 607 Pregnant women, 412, 424

prema-bhakti, 14

preta, 405

Prītikūṭa (village), 536

Priyadarśikā, 607

Prolegomena (of SP edition), 185, 186 prophet, see Muḥammad

Proust, Marcel, 47, 53

Pr̥thivīpura, 142, 143

Pr̥thivīsamudra, 142, 143, 325

Pr̥thivīṣeṇa I, 154, 323–325

Pr̥thivīṣeṇa II, 142, 143, 146, 147, 173, 325, 326, 332

Pr̥thivīvigraha, 236

Pr̥thvīrāja, 483

Przyluski, J., 559

pseudo-Sam ´ . kara, 519

Ptolemaeus, 49, 556

pūjā, 255, 467

Puṇḍra, 606–608

Punjab, see Panjab

Purāṇas, 179–182, 184, 193, 194, 198, 199, 283, 284, 294, 401, 407, 464, 468, 469, 473, 474, 604, 606–608, 610

Purāṇa of Skanda, 403

Purāṇapañcalakṣaṇa, 47, 176, 179, 190 Purī, 63, 64, 108

pūrṇakalaśa, 580, 581, 595

puroḍāś, 579

Purohita, 531

Pūrugupta, 314

puruṣa, 29, 94, 422–424, 444, 446, 447, 449–451, 457, 460, 517, 542, 563, 584, 589 Puruṣa Hymn (R. gveda X.90), 444, 449 puruṣaciti (man-layer), 449

Puruṣamedha, 447, 454, 455, 462, see also human sacrifice

Puruṣasāman, 448, 450

puruṣaśiras, 449

Puruṣottamakṣetramāhātmya, 184 Pūṣan, 188, 189, 195, 196

Puṣkara, 528, 562, 563

Puṣkarī, 142, 245, 347

Puṣpaka, 336, 529, 530

Puṣpadanta, 321

pustaka, 606, 607

pustakavācaka, 178, 607

Puṣyabhūti(s), 528, 531, 536, 602

Puṣyagupta, 144

Puṣyamitra(s), 311, 315

Quintus Smyrnaeus, 176

Quṭb al-Dīn Aybak, 484

RA recension of SP, 469–473, see also

Skandapurāṇa (SP)

Rabatak inscription, 416

Rabatak Temple, 416

Rad, G. von, 58, 59

Rādhā, 550

Rāghava (brother of Trivikrama), 87, 88, 90, 163

Rāghavadeva, 89, 105

Raghavan, V., 303

Raghu, 164, 482

Raghuji (Bhonsle), 356

Raghunātha Prasāda, 66

Raghupati (Rāma), 340, 341, 343

Raghuvaṁśa, 51, 130, 151, 388, 482

Raipur, 253, 347

Raivataka (mountain), 388

rājadharma, 322

Rājādhirāja II (Cola king), 294

rājanya, 450

Rajaona, 595, 596

Rājapraśasti (in CVC Vratakhaṇḍa), 159 rājarṣi, 128, 138, 352, 358, 359, 361

rajas, 224, 228, 386

Rājaśekharasūri, 529

Rajasthan, 522, 562, 563, 567

rājasthānīya, 571, 598

rājasūya, 150

Rājāyī, 89, 105

Rajgir, 429, 595

Rajim, 245, 251, 256, 346

Rājīvalocana Temple (Rajim), 251, 256, 346 Rajpur, 75

Rajputana Museum (Ajmer), 570

Rajuvula, 557

Rājyaśrī (Lakṣmī), 531, 536

Rakṣas / Rākṣasa, 93, 265, 498, 593

Rām Sāgar, 92, 144

Rāma (Rāmacandra), 9, 14, 16, 21, 48,

50–52, 61, 64, 65, 71, 73, 75-77, 83, 84,

86–88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 106, 108, 110, 111, 128, 161, 163–165, 173, 335–340, 343, 347, 376, 463–467, 474, 498, 550

rama ¯ , 14, 16, 94, 467

Rāma (general), 86

Rāma bhakti, 19, 52, 465

Rāma Navamī, 66

Rāma rājya, 64, 71, 72, 75, 77, 336, 485 Rāma-Kr̥ṣṇa Temple, 91

Rāma’s Birthplace, see Rāmajanmabhūmi Rāma’s footprints, 92

Rāma’s Hill, see Rāmagiri and Ramtek Rāmacandra (Yādava king), 88, 89, 93, 94, 105, 109, 159–161, 163, 164

Rāma(candra) Temple (Ramtek), 166, 339, 347

Rāmacandra Temple (Rajim), 245, 246 Rāmacaritamānasa, 64, 65, 463, 464 Rāmadeva, 111

Rāmagayā (Rāma’s Gayā), 91, 108

Index 691

Rasika (sect), 52

Rāśīkara, 529, 531, 532

Rāṣṭrakūṭa, 304, 461

Rastriya Svayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 72, 73 Ratnarāśi, 532

Ratnaṭīkā, 513–515, 518, 531

Ratnāvalī, 607

raudra, 490, 593, 594

Raudra Weapon, 593

Rāvaṇa, 93, 108, 110, 339, 498

Raven, Ellen, 305, 309, 315, 609

Rawan Plates of Maharaja Narendra, 243 Rāyamukuṭa, 130

Raykwar, G.L., 261, 289

Rebellion of 1857, 70

rebirth, 5, 19, 38, 39, 41

Red Polished Ware (RPW), 571

Rāmagiri, 79, 90–92, 141–145, 147, 155, 166, 325, 329–335, 337–343, 346, 347, 349, 351, 356, 357, 363, 365, 366, 368, 370–372, 378, 413, 432, 434, 435, 438, 455, see also

Ramtek

Rāmagirisvāmin, 143, 330, 333, 340, 341, 343 Rāmagupta, 302–307, 321

Rāmajanmabhūmi, 65, 68, 71-73, 75-77, 337, 485

Rāmakaṇṭha, 287

Rāmakathā, 50

Rāmānanda, 468

Rāmānuja, 8, 17, 18

Rāmarājya, see Rāma rājya

Rāmatīrtha, 92, 108

Rāmāyaṇa, 25, 39, 47, 48, 50, 64, 65, 71, 72, 77, 93, 94, 170, 179, 335–341, 350, 376, 465, 498, 502, 604

Rāmeśvara liṅga, 498

Ramgarh, 391

Rāmottaratāpanīyopaniṣad, 466

Ramtek (Hill), 79, 80, 81, 85, 90, 94, 113, 114, 144, 149, 151, 155, 157, 158, 163, 165, 166, 259, 314, 337, 340, 341, 349, 351, 356, 455, 495, see also Rāmagiri

Ramtek Stone Inscription of the Time of Rāmacandra, 88–111, 144, 145, 337, 338 Rann of Cutch, 419

Rao, Gopinath, 519, 520

rasa (liquid), 589

rasa (emotion), 19, 334

rasa (tanmātra), 225

rasa (mercury, elixer), 12, 451

Rasārṇava, 12, 18

rasāyana (alchemy), 12

Rashkān, 20

◦rāśi, 532

Rāśi branch (of Pāśupata), 532

reification, 50, 52, 71

relic(s), 407, 408, 425, 427, 439, 440

renouncer, 4, 498

renunciation, 7, 55, 425, see also saṁnyāsa

Republic of India, 70

Revā, 174, 388, see also Narmadā

Revākhaṇḍa (R recension SP), 185, 469

Revākhaṇḍa (vulgate Skandapurāṇa, SkP),

185

Revelation, 9

revelation, 197, 541, 543, 544, 599

Rewa, 248

R. gveda/ic, 342, 354, 443, 444, 446, 509, 510,

517

R. iddhapur Plates of Prabhāvatīguptā, 314,

330, 340

Riesebrodt, M., 75

right side, 506–512, 514, 516–518, 520, 523

Rishikesh, 490

Rithapur Plates of Bhavadattavarman, 142

Rock-Edicts, Thirteenth, 475, see also Edicts

Rohitāgiri, 335, 402

Rohtasgarh, 391, 402

Romanticism, 25, 26, 43–45

rosary, 519, 581

Roth, Gustav, 407, 437

Route National No. 7, 149

royalisation, 161, 164

R. ṣabha, 51

R. ṣabhadeva, 419

r̥ṣi, 489, 497, 516, 519, 554

RSS, see Rastriya Svayamsevak Sangh

R. tuparṇa (king), 48

R. tusaṁhāra, 31

Rudra(s), 188–191, 193, 196, 197, 264, 292,

496, 497, 516, 517, 520, 529, 532, 544,

548, 585

eight, 285, 291, see also Vigraheśa

692 Index

twelve Rudras, 284–286

thirty-eight Rudras, 292

sixty-six Rudras, 290–293, 532

Rudra worlds, 284–288, 292, 293

Rudra-Narasiṁha Temple (Ramtek), 81, 143, 344, 345

Rudra’s birth, 193

Rudradāman I (mahākṣatrapa), 419 Rudradeva (Kākatīya king), 89

Rudrapuruṣadatta, 418

Rudrasena II, 114, 115, 126, 131, 136–141, 143, 145, 146, 150, 301, 306, 310, 311, 323–326, 329, 330, 332, 344, 358–363 Rudrasena III, 302, 303

Rudrasiṁha I (Saka ´ kṣatrapa), 144 Rudraśiva (ācārya), 534

Rudrasoma, 290, 291

Rudrayāmala, 182, 184

rūh (higher soul), 7

Rule of Rāma, see Rāma rājya

rūpa, 225, 514, 516, 518

Rupiaṁma, 418

Russian Orthodox Church, 548

S recension, 473, 537, see Skandapurāṇa, SP Sa,ādat Khān, 66

śabda, 225, 543

śabdabrahman, 15, 543

, 49

sacrifice, 188–190, 444, 445, 448, 458, 481, 510, 511, 524, see also construction, do mestic, horse, human and Vedic sacrifice

sacrificer, 448, 449, 451, see also yajamāna sacrificial, 342, 354, 387, passim

sacrificial fire / altar, 190, 387, 399, 447, 456, 482, 505, 508–512, 543

sacrificial victim, 445–447, 449–451, 475, 481 S. aḍakṣara (six-syllable) mantra, 465–468 Sadāśiva, 492, 493, 549, 550

S. aḍdarśanasamuccaya (Haribhadra), 529 S. aḍdarśanasamuccaya (Rājaśekharasūri), 529

sadguru, 13, 16

sādhana, 17, 541, 584, 587, 595

Sāḍū Mātā, 570

sadyojāta, 545

Sadyojāta, 492, 513

Sadyojyotis, 287

Safī al-Dīn of Uch, 11

saguṇa, 16

sahaja, 13

Sahajiyā, 13, 17

Sāhasāṅka, 303

Sahl Al-Tustarī, 8

Saiva, 66, 239, 283, 292, 313, 431, 464–468, ´ 492–494, 531, 549, 555, 559, 590, passim Saiva ´ Agamas, ¯ see Agamas ( ¯ Saiva) ´

Saiva centres, 93, 422, 464, 473, 539, 562, ´ 564, 606

Saiva monuments, 261, 320, 400, 494, 520, ´ 561

Saiva mythology, 186, 420, 534, 548, 598 ´ Saiva religion/movement, 283, 296, 326, 402, ´ 464, 492, 550, 598

Saiva sculpture, 329, 422, 492, 493, 496, 523, ´ 529, 586

Saiva Siddhānta, 284, 288, 291, 296, 493, ´ 534, 543

Saiva texts 465, 467, 468, 505, 546 ´

Saivala mountain, 336–339 ´

śaivala (water plant), 336

Saivism, 12, 196, 284, 293, 321, 464, 550, 553, 594, see also Agamic, Kashmir ¯ and Pāśupata Saivism

Saka(s), 302, 303, 305, 306, 418, 419, 440, ´ 481, 557, 558, 562

Sākambharī, 562 ´

Sāketa, 49–53, 302

Sāketa–Ayodhyā, 53

Sākha, 264 ´

Sakra (Indra), 187, 189, 191, 264, 406, 407, ´ 498

Sākta Tantras, 16 ´

śakti, 162, 434

Sālīki, 450 ´

samā,, 10

samādhi, 405, 431

sāmanta, 240, 247–249, 322

Samantapañcaka (= Kurukṣetra), 535

Sāmaveda, 509, 510

samayadīkṣā, 515

Sāmba (Aditya), 329 ¯

Sāmbapurāṇa, 193

Sambhar, 562

Sambhu ( ´ Siva), 154, 319, 464 ´

Sam ´ . buka / Sam ´ . būka, 93, 109, 336–339, 350 saṁdhyābhāṣa, 463

saṁgamagrāmaka, 256

Saṁgītaratnākara, 85

Sam ´ . kara (Siva), 187, 191, 192, 197, 295, 466, ´ 497, 516, 582, 592

Sam ´ . kara (philosopher), 7, 8, 37, see also pseudo-Sam ´ . kara

Sam ´ . karagaṇa, 561

Saṁkarṣaṇa, 163, 329, 556, 570

Sāṁkhya, 28–30, 44, 223–225, 227–231, 285 Sāṁkhya-yoga, 524

Sāṁkhyakārikās, 29, 30

Sāṁkhyasūtras, 30

saṁnyāsa (renunciation), 5, 21, 55 saṁnyāsin, 63, 66, 491

samrāj (emperor), 152

saṁskāra, 514

Saṁskāravidhi, 559

samudgayamaka, 83–86

Samudragupta, 51, 138, 244, 302, 303, 305, 314, 317, 321, 323, 326, 328, 359 Samudrapura, 142

Saṁyuttanikāya, 49

Sanakānika, 320

Sanatkumāra, 192

Sanchi, 321, 431

Index 693

Sarkar, H., 418

Sārnāth, 575

śārṅga / Sār˙nga (bow), 375 ´

Sār˙ngadeva (king, son of Kāmadeva), 83–85, ´ 88, 165

Sār˙ngadeva (author of the ´ Saṁgītaratnākara), 85

Sār˙ngapān ´ . i (Viṣṇu), 107, 161

Sār˙ngin (Vis ´ .ṇu), 375, 376, 377, 414

Saromāhātmya, 583

sarpa, 448, 449

sarpaśiras, 449

Sarpasenakṣamaṇa, 321

Sāñchi Stone Inscription of Candragupta II, Year 93, 308, 321

Sanderson, Alexis, 250, 285, 292–294, 397, 531, 553

Sān ´ . ḍilya gotra, 85, 86, 328

saṅgha, 61

Saṅgha (Buddhist), 321, 330

Sangsi, 418

Sankalia, ḤD., 48

śaṅkha (conch), 94, 110, 342

Saṅkha, 93, 94 ´

Saṅkhapān ´ . in (Viṣṇu), 110

Saṅkharāma (Ramtek), 94, 110 ´

Saṅkhatīrtha (Ramtek), 91, 106 ´

Sā˙nkhāyanagr ´ .hyasūtra, 509, 511, 512 Sanskrit, 19, 27, 154, 527, passim Sanskrit inscriptions, 80, 83, 113

Sanskrit language, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 198, 354, 395, 408, 413, 603, 605, 608

Sanskrit literature / texts, 9, 19, 27, 32, 33, 49, 64, 152, 168–170, 174, 175, 186, 195, 335, 358, 405–407, 410, 430, 452, 458, 460, 481, 493, 496, 499, 505, 544, 604

Sanskritisation, 155, 158

Santāna, 529

Sāntanapura, 236 ´

Santiago de Compostela, 53

Sāntikarma, 409 ´

Sāntiparvan ´ (MBh), 223, 230

Sant movement, 14

Sants, 11, 13–19

Sapādalakṣa, 562

sapiṇḍa, 140, 146, 147

Sarabha, 243, 244 ´

Sarabhapur, 235, 240, 242–245, 247, 249 ´ Sarabhapurīyas, 240–245 ´

Sārasvata, 535, 536

Sarasvatī, 65, 83–85, 264, 405, 463, 534–536, 603, 605–607

Sarayū, 48, 50

sarcophagus, 425

Sarjū, 48

sārūpya, 411

Sarva ( ´ Siva), 190 ´

Sarva (Rudra), 285 ´

Sarvanātha, 328 ´

Sārvarin-year, 84, 85, 165 ´

Sarvavarman, 253, 397 ´

Saśāṅka (Moon), 605, 606 ´

Sastri, R̥Ananthakrishna, 553

Sātakani/Sātakarṇi (king), 415

Satānīka, 248 ´

Satānīka II, 248 ´

Satapathabrāhman ´ . a, 188, 190, 353, 354, 446,

450, 451, 506–510

Satara District, 173

Sātavāhana(s), 138, 326, 373, 415, 418

Sātavāhana (kumāra), 415

satī, 405

satī-stones, 413

Satna, 253

Satpura Range, 149, 157, 306

satputra, 146

Satruñjaya (mount), 413 ´

Sāṭṭhapadrakagrāma, 250

S. aṭṭilādvādaśī, 325

sattva, 224, 225, 228, 229

Sātvata (school), 328, 329, 333

Satyasoma, 293

Satyaśūra, 570

saumya, 490, 492

Sauptikaparvan (MBh), 189

Saurashtra, 294

saving mantra, see tāraka mantra

Savitr., 187–189, 506, 507, 509

Sāvitrī (mantra), 506–509, 511

Sāyaṇa, 492, 493, 507

Scheuer, Jacques, 496

Schlegel, August Wilhelm, 31–34, 36, 43, 44

Schlegel, Friedrich, 25, 26, 31–33

Schlingloff, Dieter, 455

Schmidt, Hanns-Peter, 477

Schopen, Gregory, 427

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 26

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Schreiner, Peter, 224

scroll-work, 263, 382, 395, 398

Scyths, 419, 481

sealing, 140, 244, 373, 374, 495

seers, 109, 126, 127, 336, 409, 444, 497, 581, 586, 588, 589, 591, 598, 599, see also r̥ṣi Seleucus, 479

self, 4, 7, 21, 224, 227–229, 544, see also ātman

◦Sena, 313

Senas, 484

Senakapāt. Inscription of the time of Siva- ´ gupta Bālārjuna, 250

senāpati, 264, 311, 312, 535, 606

senses, see indriya

serpents / snakes, 7, 93, 94, 110, 262, 311, 319, 326, 361, 386, 414, 423, 433–435, 438, 449, 450, 454, 457, 458, 531, 581, 592, 593, 603, see also nāga, sarpa

Ses ´ .a, 94

Setubandha, 314

Sevnāth (river), 240, 256

Shah, Priyabala (U.P.), 406, 408

Shahdol District, 237, 249, 253

sharī,a, 10

Sharma, A.K., 456

Sharma, G.R., 453, 454, 455

Sharma, Meera, 393

Shastri, Ajay Mitra, 113–115, 118, 133, 134, 235, 236, 242, 244, 251, 252, 289, 290, 325, 373, 374, 378, 415

Shekhar, Chandra, 77

Shiite, 66, 69

Shirodkar, Dr, 462

Shivaji, 478

Shivaji Festival, 478

Shrimali, K.M., 157

Sibi-janapada, 569, 570 ´

Siddha(s), 497, 516, 519, 539

siddhadeha, 12

siddhamusala, 289

siddhas (eighty-four), 11

siddhasthāna, 602

Siddheśvara, 91, 106

siddhi, 11, 108, 583

signet-ring, 309, 311–313, 316

Sihadeva, 49

Sikar, 562

śikhara, 166

Sikhs, 5, 71, 72

Sīlavarman, 452 ´

Silpaśāstra(s), 435, 460 ´

Siṁhaṇa (king), 83–86, 88, 89, 105, 158, 159, 165

Siṁhavarman, 308

Simuka Sātavāhana, 415

Sindūragiri, 79, 90, 91, 94, 106, 108, 109, 111, 372

Sindūragirimāhātmya, 90, 144, 338–340, 372 Sindūravāpī (Ramtek), 92, 93, 108

Sindursi, 347–349

Singh, Purushottam, 429

Singh, Rahul Kumar, 261, 289, 290, 296, 297 Singh, V.P., 76

Sinha, B.P., 252

śipiviṣṭa, 196

śiraścakra, 368

Sircar, Dines Chandra, 236, 241, 242, 244, 375–377, 382, 383, 388, 494, 570

Siriäṁṭha, 531

Sirpur, 240, 245, 247, 251, 252, 254, 258, 293, 348, 349, 532, see also Srīpura ´

Sirpur copperplate hoard, 296

Sirpur Stone Inscription of Sivagupta Bālā- ´ rjuna (in the Gandharveśvara Temple),

248

Sirpur Stone Inscription of the Time of

Mahāśivagupta (i.e. Vāsaṭā’s Inscription in the Lakṣmaṇa Temple), 253, 397

Sirsa (Haryana), 532

śiṣṭa, 542

śiṣya, 584

Sītā, 73, 94, 108, 110, 111, 337, 340, 466, 550 Sītākuṇḍa, 341

Sītecī Nhāṇī, 92

Siva, 12, 13, 86, 109, 186, 187, 189–199, 239, ´ 291, 293, 294, 296, 319, 320, 332, 338,

381, 401, 411, 419, 420, 463–467, 470,

471, 474, 489, 490, 492–494, 497–499,

514–522, 524, 526, 528, 530, 532, 534,

543–545, 548, 549, 553, 554, 559–561, 563, 564, 571, 573, 578–584, 586, 587, 589–591, 593, 595, 598, 602, 604

twenty-eight avatāras, 292, 293

Siva Vigraheśvara, ´ see Vigraheśvara

śiva, 465, 466

Sivā, 109 ´

Sivabhaktas, 411, 431 ´

Sivadeva II, 538, 539, 608 ´

Sivadeveśvara Bhat ´ .ṭāraka, 539

Sivadharmaśāstra ´ , 578

Sivagan ´ . as, 261

Sivahood, 550 ´

Sivapurān ´ . a, 189

śivayogin, 578

six-syllable mantra, see ṣaḍakṣara mantra skambha (cosmic pillar), 342, 343

Skanda, 264, 265, 403, 535, 605–607

Skandagupta, 51, 144, 146, 307–309,

313–317, 333, 364, 375–378, 413, 414, 415

Index 695

Skandapurāṇa (vulgate, SkP), 180, 181, 182, 185, 469

Skandapurāṇa (original, SP), 180, 181, 185, 186, 194, 197–199, 202 ff., 284, 294–297, 400–402, 431, 468–471, 498, 503, 518, 521, 527–529, 533–535, 537, 539, 542, 553, 554, 559–564, 578, 584, 589, 594, 598, 599, 604, 607–609, 610

A recension, 185, 196, 469, 532, see also Ambikākhaṇḍa

R recension, 185, 196, 469, see also Revā khaṇḍa

S recension, 185, 194, 199, 471, 537, see also Nepalese recension

[Skanda]varman, 142

skandha, 4

skeleton, 423, 430, 452, 453, 560

(‘shade’), 418

Slaczka, Anna, 452 ´

Sleemanabad, 347

smaraṇa, 16

śmaśāna (cremation ground), 409, 410, 425, 429, 430, 431, 435, 437, 438, 471–473, 531, 542

Smith, Helmer, 408

Smith, John, 175, 177, 179

Smith, Mary Caroll, 179

Smr̥ti, 140, 182, 184, 231

Smr̥tyarthasāra, 52

snake, see serpents

Soci´et´e des Amis de Marcel Proust, 52 Soḍḍhala, 85

Soḍhala, 320

Sokasallaharaṇa, 406

soma, 291, 293, 294, 297, 554

◦soma, 293, 294

Somanātha Temple, 294, 482

Somārya, 332

Somaśarman, 290, 291, 293–297, 554 Somasiddhānta (Pāśupata school), 293, 294, 296

somasūryavaṁśa, see Lunar Race Soma(vaṁśa) of Mekalā, see Lunar Race Somavaṁśin(s), 253, 297

Someśa, 292–294, see also Somaśarman Somibhaṭṭāraka, 294

Somnāth, 62, 63, 73, 482

Somnāth Temple, 75, 482

Son / Son ´ . a / Soṇa (river), 236, 391, 402, 536, 605

Sōndani, 575

Sonepur, 429

Sontakke, Virag, 150

sound, 15, 225, 543, 545

Soundara Rajan, K.V., 571

Southeast Asia, 405, 411, 445, 563

southern face, 413, 490, 506, 520

southern mūrti, 513, 515, 518, 522

sparśa, 225

Spink, Walter, 171, 561

Spring Festival, 606, 607

śrāddha, 108, 332

Sraman ´ . as, 606

śrāmaṇerī (novice nun), 419, 439

Srautasūtras, 450, 451 ´

Srāvastī, 49 ´

Srī (Laks ´ .mī), 247, 263, 316

Srī-Hars ´ .a, 607

Srīdeva, 310 ´

Srīdhara (grandfather of Trivikramabhat ´ .ṭa),

86

Srīdhara Svāmin (author of ´ Subodhinī), 34

Srīdhara Kavi (father of Trivikrama), 87, 88 ´

Srīgopālabālastuti ´ , 169

Srīgupta, 139 ´

śrīkaṇṭha, 490

Srīkan ´ . ṭha (janapada), 531

Srīkan ´ . ṭha (Nāga), 531

Srīmahārājacaritra ´ , 66

Srīparvata, 138 ´

Srīpura (modern Sirpur), 241, 247–252, 254, ´

255, 293, 296, 532

Srīpūrvaśāstra ´ , 285, 292

Srīśaila (deva), 138 ´

Srīśaila Hills, 171 ´

Srīsam ´ . pradāya, 18

Srīvatsa (Rudra), 285 ´

Sr ´.ṅkhalika, see Muṇḍa-Sr ´.ṅkhalika

Srugandha (Srīgandha?), 570 ´

śruti, 160, 354

Stadtner, Donald, 236, 259, 260

Star (tāraka), see Tāraka

State, the, 476, 477, 481

Stein, Burton, 149, 150, 154, 159, 164

stereoscopy, 121

sthalapavitra, 578

sthālīpāka, 446

sthāna (locus), 514, 521, 534, 602

sthānaguru, 290, 291, 296

Sthānapothī, 92, 93

Sthānasūtra (Thānasuya), 49

Sthāneśvara, 535, 563, 601, 605

Sthāneśvaramāhātmya, 534, 535

sthāṇu (post), 489

Sthāṇu (Mahādeva), 489, 535

Sthāṇutīrtha, 264, 265, 534, 535

Sthāṇuvaṭa, 534, 535

Sthāṇvīśvara (modern Thanesar), 531, see

also Thanesar and Sthāneśvara

696 Index

Stietencron, H. von, 59, 61

stone cists, 408

Stoye, Martina, 186, 193

strīdhana, 363

Stuhr, P., 24

stūpa, 407, 408, 412, 419, 422, 425, 426, 429, 431, 437, 439, 440

sudarśana (artificial lake), 144, 156 Sudarśana (artificial lake near Rāmagiri), 91, 92, 127, 143–145, 147, 157, 371, 372, 414 Sudarśana (artificial lake near Vatsagulma), 144, 147, 372

Sudarśana (artificial lake near Junagarh), 144

Sudarśana (god), 127, 134, 145, 371 Sudarśana (cakra Viṣṇu), 91, 107, 145 Sudarśanā (princess), 407

Sudarśanārya, 510

Sudāya, 424, 425, 436

śuddhādhvan (Pure Universe), 284–286, 291 Suddhavidyā (pure ´ tattva), 285

Sudevarāja, 247–249

Sudheśvara, 91, 106

śūdra, 93, 109, 336–339, 350, 409

Sufi(s), 6, 7, 8, 10–13, 15, 18, 19

Sufism, 6–11, 14, 15

Sui Vihar, 417, 426–429, 433–435, 439 Suka, 230 ´

Sukanyā, 535, 536

Suklatīrtha, 91, 107 ´

sukr, 6

Sūktimuktāvalī, 86

śūla, 406

Sūlikas, 388

Sultan of Delhi, 90

Sumaṅgalastotra, 169

summum bonum, 60, 77

Sunda, 400, 489

Suṅga, 311, 571 ´

Sunna, 69

Sunnis, 68, 70

supreme guru (= Maheśvara), 515 Supuṣpa(deva), 530

Supuṣpavarman, 530

Sūra family, 236 ´

Sūrabala (alias Udīrn ´ . avaira), 237–240, 247, 248, 256, 356

Suradevī, 144

Suranadī (Sur river), 92, 107, 108, 144 Sūrasāgara, 168, 170

Sūrdās, 168, 170, 173

Suri tombs, 394

Surkh-Kotal, 416, 440

Sūrya, 406, 467

Sūryaghoṣa, 250

Sūryavarman, 251–253, 381–383, 389, 532, 533, 602

Sūta, 604–608

Suvarṇanadī, 236

Svacchanda(tantra), 284–287, 515

svadharma, 476, 478

svādhyāya (Veda study), 328, 511

Svāmidāsa (mahārāja), 138, 328

Svāmīghāt., 529

Svāmilladeva, 144, 372

Svāmirāja, 142

Svarlīna, 534

Svarlīneśvara Mandir, 534

svasiddhānta (‘own doctrine’), 295, 527, 528, 532, 533, 539, 563

svayamātr̥ṇṇa, 449

svayaṁbhuliṅga, 471

svayaṁvara, 186, 187, 191–194, 197, 199, 201 Sveta (form of ´ Siva), 292 ´

Sveta (king), 337 ´

Svetāśvatara Upanis ´ .ad, 517

Swann, Charles, 53

śyena (hawk), 451

śyenaciti, 453, 456, 457

Symeon, 547

tad ekam, 443

Tagare, G.V., 468

Taittirīyāraṇyaka, 47, 492, 493, 500, 545 Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa, 546, 554

Taittirīyasaṁhitā, 448, 449

Taittirīyas, 450

Tālā, 247, 256–260, 263, 265

Taleśvara, 399

Taleśvara Copperplate Grant of Dyuti

varman, 399

tamas, 224, 228, 386

Tamil, 167, 168, 170, 174, 408, 411, 413

Tandon, Pankaj, 315

Tante L´eonie, 53

Tantra, 16, 284, 286

Tantrāloka, 287

tantric, 17, 284, 431, 463, 602

Tapaṁgiri (Tapogiri), 79, 90, 106, 164

tapas, 91, 191, 336, 480, 497, 524, 525, 590 tapovana, 291, 293

Taraḍaṁśaka, 255

Tarain, battle of, 483

Tāraka, 606

tāraka brahman/mantra (saving mantra), 467, 468, 470, 471, 473

Tārīkh-i Alfī, 482

Tatpuruṣa, 492

tattva, 44, 284, 285

tax on pilgrims, 65

Tejeśa (Rudra), 287

tejas, 401, 498

Tejasoma, 290, 291

Temple Council, see devanikāya Tewar, see Tripurī

textual criticism, 179, 470 Thānasuya, see Sthānasūtra

Index 697

Trivikrama (Viṣṇu), 80, 83–85, 143, 334, 342–344, 353–358, 361, 365, 368–372

Trivikrama (poet, son of Srīdhara Kavi; ´ author of the Madālasācampū), 83–88, 163, 165

Trivikramabhaṭṭa (grandson of Srīdhara; ´ author of the Nalacampū), 85, 86

Thanesar (Sthāṇvīśvara / Sthāneśvara), 63, 421, 528, 531, 534, 535, 553, 563, 602, 605 Thapar, Romila, 455

Thaplyal, Kiran Kumar, 308, 382

theodicy, 59

theophany, 8

theˆosis, 543

thousand-and-eight names (of Siva), 524 ´ Tibet, 608

Tieken, Herman, 411

Tilak, Bal Gangadhar, 478

tilavācanaka, 332

Tilottamā, 400, 401, 489–490, 498, 521 time, concept of, 8, 61

Times of India, 75

Tiroḍī Plates of Pravarasena II, 325 tīrtha, 338, 410, 421, 484, 533, 608, see also holy places

Tīrthāṅk, 184

tīrthaṅkara, 51, 417, 426

Tīrthavivecanakāṇḍa, 468, 469, 533 Tīrthayātrāparvan (MBh), 50

Tirumolī, 167

Tiruttaṇi, 522

Tiruvorriyur Temple, 294

Tiruvuru, 252

Tīvaradeva, 235, 247, 251–253

Tiwari, Jagdish Narain, 410

Tolstoy, Leo, 477

Toramāṇa, 598

toraṇa, 522, 523, 525, 526, 568, 569, 573, 574, 576, 597

tortoise, 227, 449, 454, 456, 542

Tranakayira (mahāraṭhi), 415

Trāta (mahāsattrapati), 399

tree (cosmic, world), 335, 343

Tretāyuga, 48, 336, 554

trickster, 544

Tripura (Triple City), 190, 191, 193, 194, 386, 474

Tripurī (modern Tewar), 146, 150, 314, 325, 364

Tripurīvāsaka, 325

trisamudranātha, 131, 138, 310

Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritra, 425

Tristhalīsetu, 467

Trivandrum (library), 90

Trivara(nagara) (modern Tiruvuru), 251, 252

Trivikrama Temple (Ramtek), 356, 357,

364–367, 371, 372, 414

Tromp, Hylke, 57

tryakṣa, 499

Tsuchida, R., 562

Tulapadraka, 290, 291

Tulsī Ghāt. (Benares), 467

Tulsīdās, 18, 65, 463, 464, 466, 467, 473, 474

Tumain, 310

Tumain Inscription of Kumāragupta and

Ghaṭotkacagupta, G.E. 116, 138–141, 308,

310, 359

Tumbavana (modern Tumain), 310

Tuṅga dynasty, 402

turtle, see turtoise

Turturiya (temple), 245, 246

Turuṣka, 482, 483

turuṣkadaṇḍa, 483

Tusām Rock Inscription, 329

Tuṣāspha (Yavana king), 144

tūṣṇī ˙m-yuddha (silent fight), 476

Tvaṣṭar, 60

Uccakalpa, 328

Udayagiri, 319–321, 323, 326, 327, 329, 330,

333, 334

Caves (4, 5, 6 and 8), 319, 320

Udayagiri Cave Inscription, Year 106, 320

Udayagiri Cave Inscription of Candragupta

II, Year 82, 138, 319, 320

Udayana (logician), 518

Udayana (king) of Vatsa, 248, 250

Udayasena (mahāsāmanta), 391, 392, 394,

397, 398

Udbhavarāśi, 292, 532, 533

Udīrṇavaira, see Sūrabala ´

udumbara wood, 449

udyāna, 471

ugra, 490–492

Ugra (Rudra), 190, 285

Ujjayanī / Ujjayinī (modern Ujjain), 108,

169, 170, 295, 302, 418, 423, 430, 431, 435,

438, 527–529, 542, 560, 562–565, 602

ukhā (fire-pot), 449

,ulamā-, 9, 10

ulmuka (firebrand), 560

Ulūka, 294

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ulūkhalaka, 449

Ulysses, 337

Umā, 187, 190, 191, 194–197, 490, 492 Umrāvgiri, Gosāīn, 70

Unfinished Durg Plate, see Mohallā Plate union with God, 517, 525, see also yoga Unterdrückungsyoga, 37, 38

upadhmānīya, 119, 131

upahārasūtra, 518

Upamanyu, 498

Upamita (ācārya), 328

Upamiteśvara (liṅga), 287, 328, 494 upanayana, 505, 506, 510, 512, 513, 519, 581 Upaniṣad(s), 27, 477, 511, 585

Upasunda, 489

upāya, 465

Urban II (Pope), 58, 71, 72

Urjayat, 388 ¯

Urvaśī, 581

Uṣas, 190

uṣṇīṣa, 261, 266, 437, 490 492

Utkala, 253

Utkalakhaṇḍa, 181

Uttar Pradesh, 522, 563

Uttarakhand, 399

Vāgīśabhaṭṭa, 294

Vāgīśvarī, 285

vāhana, 263

Vaidya (village), 539

Vaidyanātha, 89

vaijayikadharmasthāna, 325, 496

Vaikhānasa, 599

Vaikuṇṭha (Viṣṇu’s Paradise), 20, 52, 71 Vaimala (Lākula division), 287, 288, 561 Vainyā River, 332, see also Beṇṇā and Wain ganga Vainyapura, 87, 88

Vainyāpurasthāna, 332

vairāgin, 66

Vaiśālī, 137, 307, 310

Vaiṣṇava(s), 16, 66, 133, 155, 163, 320, 329, 342, 343, 400, 432, 464, 465, 467, 468, 520, 534, 542, 550, 551, 571, 588

Vaiṣṇava bhakti, 16–18, 161, 164, 550, 551 Vaiṣṇava Saṁhitās, 16

Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa, 182–184

Vaisnavism, 16, 81, 464, 550

Vaiśravaṇa, 407

vaiśya, 450

Vaivasvata, 386

Vājapeya sacrifice, 524

Vājasaneya/yin (White Yajurveda), 290, 332, 333, 354, 449, 450

Vājimedhatīrtha, 91, 107

vajra, 187, 264

Vajrayāna, 13

Vākāṭaka(s), 79–81, 92–94, 113, 114,

118–120, 127, 137, 139–147, 149, 150,

152–154, 156–158, 160–163, 165, 166, 170, 171, 173, 243–246, 251, 256, 259, 262, 264, 301, 302, 306, 311, 312, 314–316, 323, 324, 326, 329–334, 340–344, 347, 351, 352, 358, 361, 362, 364, 373–375, 378, 413, 414, 417, 432, 434, 435, 438, 495, 496

Vākāṭaka (Eastern or Main Branch), 152, 153, 157, 306, 314, 317, 323, 324, 333, 371, 372

Vākāṭaka (Western or Vatsagulma Branch), 144, 146, 147, 157, 314, 317, 325, 328, 333, 372

Vākāṭaka-Gupta relationship, 115, 145–147, 312, 314–318, 357–364

Vākpatirāja, 482, 531

vaktra, 492

Vallabhadeva, 340, 400

Vālmīki, 339

Vāmadeva, 492

Vāmana, 353, 354, 370

Varadā River (Warda), 312–314

varadamudrā, 173, 332

Varāha, 80, 93, 109, 155, 156, 319, 320, 322, 330, 333, 334, 365, 372

Vārāhaśrautasūtra, 448

Varāha Temple (Ramtek), 365

Varāhadeva (minister), 119, 120, 127, 130, 147

Varāhamihira, 460, 482

Vārāṇasī, 236, 391, 403, 463, 464, 465, 467, 470, 471, 473, 483, 484, 533, 534, 602–606, 608, see also Benares and Kāśī

Vārāṇasīmāhātmya, 468, 469, 470, 471, 473, 533, 534

Vareśvara (Rudra), 292

Varmabhaṭā, 418

varṇāśrama, 524, 531

Varuṇa, 106, 263, 265, 406, 585

Varuṇatīrtha, 91, 106

vāsaka (army camp), 314, 325, 364, 606

Vāsaṭā, 251–254, 532, 539

Vaṣaṭkāra (Rudra), 292

Vasiṣṭha, 534

Vāstoṣpati, 446, 458

vāstu, 435, 460

vāstunāga, 434, 531

Vastupāla, 413

Vāstupratiṣṭha, 446

vāstupūjā, 460

Vāstupuruṣa (Man of the Homestead), 435, 443, 459–462

Vāstupuruṣamaṇḍala, 460, 462

Index 699 Vindhya(s), 91, 250, 317, 323, 336, 337, 388,

Vāstuśamana (animation sacrifice), 445–447 Vāstuśānti (appeasement sacrifice), 445, 446 vāstuyajña, 447

Vasu, 265

Vāsudeva, 163, 173, 329, 375–377, 414, 516, 556, 570

Vatsa, 248, 294, 535, 536

Vatsadevī, 538, 539, 608

Vatsagulma (modern Wasim), 144, 147, 314, 328, 329, 372

Vatsarāja, 239, 248

vātsalyabhāva, 168

Vātsyāyana(s), 49, 535, 536

Vaudeville, Charlotte, 6, 10, 15, 16 Vaula, 160

Vāyupurāṇa, 193, 294, 559

Vāyurakṣita, 307, 308

Vedānta, 30

Veda(s), 38, 55, 56, 446, 464, 506, 511, 524 vedi, 423, 457

Vedic, 65, 152, 192, 196, 197, 199, 342, 353, 354, 405, 409, 410, 412, 429, 439, 440, 446, 447, 460, 505, 512, 517, 542–545, 548, 594 Vedic initiation, 505, 512, 513

Vedic rituals, 73, 152, 153, 342, 353, 415, 456, 506, 508, 513

Vedism, 452

Vediśrī, 415

Veṅkaṭeśvara Press, 194, 195

Vetālasādhana, 531

VHP, see Visva Hindu Parisad

Via Dolorosa, 551

Victoria and Albert Museum, 437 Vidarbha, 81, 142, 149, 150, 153–155, 158, 171, 173, 259, 282, 306, 309, 312–314, 316, 323, 327, 334, 335, 337, 347, 349, 374, 418 Vidiśā (modern Besnagar), 302, 305–308, 311–313, 315, 317, 323, 359, 364, 371 Vidisha District, 305

vigraha, 17, 497

Vigraheśa/eśāna/eśvara (Rudra), 285, 291–293

vihāra (Buddhist monastery), 250, 251, 255, 321

vijayādaśamī, 482

Vijayanagara, 80, 92, 149, 164, 482 vijigīṣu, 55, 61, 476

vikrama (action), 334

Vikrama Era, 397, 570

Vikramendravarman II (Viṣṇukuṇḍin), 251 Vilāsatu˙nga, 256

Vima/Vema Kadphises, 239, 415, 416 Vima Taktu, 416

Vinayapatrikā, 464, 473

391, 401, 429

Vindhyaśakti II, 325

Vindhyavāsinī, 605

Vinīta, 402

Vinītarāśi, 532

Vinīteśvara (temple), 402

Vinīteśvaramaṭha, 397–400

Viṇīyā (Vinītā), 51

Vinoba Bhave, 170

Vipākasūtra, 51

Vīrabhadra, 524

viraha (separation), 17, 18, 550

Virāha(dāsa), 571

Vīrasena, 138, 319, 320

Vīraṭṭāneśvara Temple, 522

virt`u, 162

Virūḍha, 406, 407

Virūpākṣa, 406, 407

Viśākha, 264

Viśākhadatta, 303, 304, 603

Viśiṣṭādvaita, 8, 17

Viṣṇu, passim, 52, 64, 65, 71, 81, 86, 94,

106, 109, 128, 135, 138, 139, 143, 144,

153, 156, 159, 161, 170, 189, 195, 196,

243, 253, 254, 319, 320, 326, 330, 333,

339, 341, 342, 354, 361, 371, 375, 465, 498,

570, 571, 589, 590, 602, 604, see also

avatāra (Viṣṇu), the individual avatāras,

Bhagavat, and Rāmagirisvāmin

Viṣṇu Cakrapāṇi, 145

Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa, 94, 319, 327, 330

Viṣṇu-Sār˙ngin, 375 ´

Viṣṇudatta, 571

Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa (VDhP), 406, 407,

413, 419, 421, 424, 437, 438, 440, 493, 499,

503, 519, 581

Viṣṇugupta, 539

Viṣṇukuṇḍin(s), 170, 171, 173, 251, 252

Viṣṇupada/pāda (Viṣṇu’s footprint),

341–344, 570

Viṣṇupurāṇa, 169, 181, 283, 604

Viṣṇuvardhana, 588

Visva Hindu Parisad (VHP), 73, 74, 76

Viśvakarman, 489

Viśvāmitra, 39, 534

Viśvarūpa (brahmin), 297

Viśvavarman, 308, 570

Viśveśvara, 468

vitarkamudrā, 521, 522

Viṭṭhal Maṇḍir (Ramtek), 90

Vivāgasuya, 51

Viyagappa, Ignatius, 23

viyoga, 543

Vogel, J.Pḥ, 406

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Vraja, see Braj

vrata, 287, 524, 525, 545, 558, see also Mahāvrata and Pāśupatavrata

Vrindavan / Vr̥ndāvana, 18–20, 52, 551 Vr̥ṣa (bull), 534

Vr̥ṣan, 534

Vr̥ṣṇi, 329

Vr̥tra (Indra), 387

Vyāghrarāja, 240, 241, 242

vyākhyānamudrā, 521, 561

Vyāpaśiva, 296

Vyāsa, 37, 187, 230, 585, 586

Wackernagel, Jacob, 517

Wadgāon Plates of Pravarasena II, Year 25, 325

Wainganga River, 324–326, 332, see also Vainyā and Beṇṇā

Wainganga Plain, 149, 150

Wājid ,Alī Shāh, 68, 69

war, 475, 479, 481, 482

warfare, 475, 476, 479, 481

Warda (river), see Varadā River

Warder, A.K. 303, 304, 313

warrior ascetics, 13, 63, 64, 70

Warrior Sufis, 11

Wasim / Washim, see Vatsagulma water reservoir, 134, 143, 371, see also sudarśana

Weber, Max, 58

wedding of Siva and Pārvatī, 186, 192 ´ Wellsted, ṬA., 432

Wessing, Robert, 445, 447, 452

West Bengal, see Bengal

Wezler, A., 185, 194

White Yajurveda, 450, 509, 510, 512 Wikipedia, 601

Wilkins, Charles, 31

Williams, Joanna, 149, 150, 156, 173, 244, 259, 260, 320, 367, 392, 522–524, 573, 574, 576, 587, 588, 595

Willis, Michael, 236, 320, 330, 609 Wilson, Frances, 169

Wilson, ḤH., 33

Witzel, M., 180

Xenophanes, 443, 462

Xiyuji, 51

Xuanzang, 51, 255, 534, 562, 603

Yādava(s), 80, 83–86, 88, 89, 92, 150, 158–166

Yādava inscription, 84, 339, 340, 341, 350 Yadu, 89, 159, 160

yajamāna, 152, 451, 459

yajña, 132, 190, 500, 524

Yajña, 189, 534

Yājñavalkya, 465

Yājñavalkyasmr̥ti, 408

yajñopavīta, 508, 510

Yakṣa/yakṣa, 92, 93, 265, 340, 349, 350, 407, 597

Yakṣas (Buddhist), 406

Yama, 406, 407, 450, 592

Yamagarta-maṇḍala, 402

Yamunā, 20, 606, 607

Yaśodā, 20, 167, 168, 173

Yaśodattā, 419

Yaśodharman, 571, 588, 598

Yaśovarman of Kanauj, 482

Yaśovatī (queen), 405

yaṣṭi, 406, 417, 419, 421, 423, 424, 426–428, 437, 439, 440, 457

yaṣṭipratiṣṭhāna, 428

Yatīndramatadīpikā, 52

Yaudheyas, 302

Yavana(s), 144, 311, 569

yavīyasī, 130

year, 507, 508, 518

yoga / Yoga, 9, 11–13, 20, 36, 37, 39, 42, 230, 295, 490, 497, 517, 520, 524, see also Pāśupata yoga

Yogasūtra, 36, 37

yogavidhi, 544

yogavidyā, 585

Yogeśvara, 573, 583, 584, 586

Yogeśvarī Cave, 530, 561

yogi(n)(s), 11–13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 62, 164, 386, 412, 431, 472, 490–492, 560, 602, 606, 608 Yokochi, Yuko, 352, 400, 401, 537, 594, 610 yuddha, 476, see also kūṭa-, prakāśa-, tūṣṇī ˙m yuddha Yudhiṣṭhira, 230, 328, 398, 399, 585, 586 yuga, 409, 554

Yugapurāṇa, 49

Yugaśaila, 452

Yuktidīpikā, 227

yūpa, 342, 424, 427, 428

yurodivyj ( rodivyi˘), 548

yuvarāja, 314, 315, 329

Zehmke, Britta, 187, 193

Zwalf, W., 424