abhicāra 234, 270, 277 ff., 350
dakṣiṇā 124, 159, 160, 183, 267, 268, 269
Ādityas 22, 115, 133, 149, 266, 267, 268–269
Darśapūrṇamāsa 357–360
Agni 13, 19, 29, 43, 132–136, 258–259, 393, 424
Delbrück, Berthold 58 ff.
agniciti 324, 326–327
Deussen, Paul 158
Aitareya-Brāhmaṇa 36–37, 258, 341, 367
Dharmaśāstra 290, 302, 367
Ājyatantra 358, 360
discontinuous linearization 57ff.
anaphoric deixis 47–49
dogs 193 ff.
Aṅgirases 133, 146, 149, 256 ff., 266–269,
Douglas, Mary 245
271–272
Dumézil, Georges 113–114, 210, 215
Annaprāśana 400, 409–411
dvigu compounds 163–164
Apsarases 193 ff.
apūpavān verses 123–124, 132, 136
ETÁD-YÁD construction 9 ff.
Arthaśāstra 284, 285, 301–302
Asclepius 101, 108, 109, 112, 115, 116, 211
Falk, Harry 160, 196, 217, 219–220
Aṣṭādhyāyī 24, 39, 163–164, 333, 339, 342, 346
Frazer, James 233, 235–237
Aśvamedha 257, 319–320, 326–327
Aśvins 14, 16, 104 ff., 138, 263–265, 267, 283, 297
Gandharvas 193 ff.
Ātharvaṇīyapaddhati 353, 409, 410
Gonda, Jan 160, 166, 220–221, 350
Atharvan/s 159, 255 ff., 278, 281
Gopatha-Brāhmaṇa 161, 181, 258–259, 268
atharvāṅgiras- 255–257, 259, 281
Griffiths, Arlo 1–2, 196, 201, 203–204,
Atharvaveda Pariśiṣṭa 73
342–343, 364
Avestan 78, 103, 107, 113, 198, 202, 260
Gr̥hya rituals 352 ff.
Gr̥hyasūtras 81, 259, 351, 352, 366, 404–405
Bell, Catherine 235, 241, 246
Bhr̥gu 259, 261, 262, 278, 283, 284
Hanegraaff, Wouter 238
Bloomfield, Maurice 1, 86, 87, 95, 159, 160, 193,
Harari, Yuval Noah 237
205, 240, 278, 320, 352, 374–375
Heesterman, J. C. 179, 182, 260
Bodewitz, H. W. 270–271
Hoffmann, Karl 19, 79–80,
Bollée, Willem 202, 203–204
Hofstadter, Douglas 236–237
Bourdieu, Pierre 239, 241
Homer 103, 109–110, 204, 213, 220
Bronkhorst, Johannes 81, 158, 262, 366
Brown, Michael 242
Indra 18, 104, 136, 209, 247, 260, 283–285, 403
information structure 58–59
Caland, Willem 139, 181–183, 268, 360, 374, 375
iṣṭapūrtá 171, 173, 180
Candravr̥tti 334
cannibalism 211 ff.
Jaiminīya–Brāhmaṇa 105, 157, 181, 185, 258,
cataphoric deixis 47–48
264, 268
Centaurs 210 ff.
Jamison, Stephanie 1, 107, 134, 147
CMH test 65, 67
Jātakarman 352, 356, 399 ff.
Cochran-Armitage test 64–65
construction rite 376 ff.
kalpajā verses 390, 394, 404, 415
corpus-based linguistics 57 ff.
Karmapañjikā 353, 399 ff.
cremation 121, 136, 154, 166, 179
Karmasamuccaya 353, 404, 415
Cyavāna 105–106, 107
Kāśikāvr̥tti 337, 344
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Index
Kassite 210
Paiṭhīnasi 357, 367
Kāṭhaka-Saṁhitā 202, 320, 332
Pākatantra 358, 360
Kauśikasūtra 123, 126, 152, 158, 160, 161, 205,
páñcaudana- ajá- 157 ff.
261, 350–353, 366, 374 ff.
Pañcaviṁśa-Brāhmaṇa 181, 261, 267, 268
– reference system 375
Pāṇini 17, 24, 39, 340, 407
Keith, Arthur Berriedale 85, 179, 181
Parpola, Asko 200, 232, 271, 308
kenning 109–112
Parry, Milman 220–221
Keśava 350–351, 353, 360, 367, 373 ff.
Paspaśā 345
Keśin Dārbhya 180, 182, 184
Patañjali 331 ff.
Kim, Jeong-Soo 41–44
Pāśupatas 202
kr̥tyā 277 ff.
phalādhikāra 352–353, 373 ff.
Kulikov, Leonid 210–215
phonetic variation 76, 79, 138
Kümmel, Martin 61
Pindar 101 ff., 211–213
Pinault, Georges-Jean 106, 194
Lanman, Charles R. 1, 83 ff., 126–127, 131, 134,
Prajāpati 42, 133, 258–259, 285, 313, 393,
142, 144, 374
422, 424
Latent Dirichlet Allocation 92, 94–95
Prākritism 76–78
Lelli, Duccio 73, 194–195, 205, 206, 338,
pratīka 311–312, 390, 414–415
339, 343
Pravargya 176, 178, 326
lexico-statistics 83 ff.
Puṃsavana 356–357, 399
Lubin, Timothy 271
purohita 73, 260, 262, 269–270, 272
Purūravas 201–203
McCone, Kim 215, 218, 219
magic 231 ff., 254, 278–279
Rāmāyaṇa 201, 207, 208, 209, 213, 214
Mahābhārata 105, 201–202, 209, 213–214,
Rau, Wilhelm 331 ff.
262, 277 ff.
R̥bhu/s 17, 101 ff.
Mahābhāṣya 331 ff.
Reinöhl, Ute 57–59
Maitrāyaṇī-Saṁhitā 263–264, 307 ff.
Renou, Louis 46–47, 194, 333, 344–345
Malinowski, Bronislaw 241, 245
Rigveda 1, 11 ff., 29 ff., 33 ff., 68, 74, 80, 83, 84,
Männerbund 215 ff.
92, 103–104, 145, 170, 172, 177, 181, 201, 203,
mantrādhikāra 352, 382 ff.
206–207, 208, 220–221, 247, 254, 255, 258,
Manusmṛti 301–302, 415
260, 263, 265, 271–272, 303, 308, 309, 320 ff.,
Maruts 20, 102, 110, 127, 217, 267
367, 394
Māsavarṣavṛddhikarman 408
royal rituals 73, 121 ff., 270, 325
medicine 101 ff., 211, 261, 264, 265
Rudra 219–220, 266–267, 336
Merseburg spell 102
modifier length 63 ff.
sabhā 216–217
modifier noun pairs 58 ff.
Sāmaveda 77, 161, 181, 258–259, 271, 367
Sanderson, Alexis 262, 269–270, 351
Nāmakaraṇa 356, 405–408
Śāṅkhāyanaśrautasūtra 257, 268, 367
neonatal rites 399 ff.
Śāntyudaka 386, 404–406, 410, 420, 428
Niṣkramaṇa 408 ff.
Sarasvatī 406, 422
nominal expressions 58 ff.
Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa 105, 257–258, 262,
265, 269
Oberlies, Thomas 1, 216, 217
sattra 160, 179, 220
Oldenberg, Hermann 92, 233
Sattrins 220
Ovid 213
Savitar 22, 143
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Sax, William 241
Vānaras 213–214
self-immolation 160, 179
Varuṇa 127, 139, 159, 392
Selva, Umberto 48, 73, 132, 176, 196, 267
Vasilkov, Yaroslav 212, 216
shape-shifting 210–215
Vāstoṣpati 375–379, 383–385, 389–394
Śiva 280–281
Vedic Concordance 86, 311
Smith, Jonathan Z. 235, 238, 241
Vedic vowel harmony 78–79
Soma (deity) 42, 125, 377, 406, 424
Vrātyas 177, 179, 184, 202, 216–220, 266–267,
soma ritual 28–30, 74, 166, 263–264, 268, 283,
271, 308
320, 325, 327
Vṛddhiśrāddha 401, 403, 417
śrauta ritual 254, 259, 265, 269, 271, 280, 303, 308 ff.
Stephenson, Barry 236, 246
wedding abduction 211–213
Styers, Randall 234–235
werewolves 215
Sukthankar, V.S. 278, 280
Whitney, William Dwight 1, 42, 48, 83 ff., 129, 131,
Sūrya 22, 146, 148, 293, 297, 299
132, 135, 140, 142, 150, 153, 173, 194
Sūtaka fire 403–405, 419–420
Witzel, Michael 61, 73, 83–84, 271
śvànvant- 193 ff.
word order variation 57 ff.
Taittirīya-Saṁhitā 207, 220, 257, 264, 266, 320
Yajurveda 41, 61, 69, 80, 83, 139, 160, 181, 255,
Tambiah, Stanley 234
258–259, 263, 270, 308 ff., 333, 343, 346
trayī 255, 279, 281
Yama 15, 23, 25, 33–35, 122, 124, 127, 140–141,
Trita 127, 153–154
144, 153–154, 203–208
Tvaṣṭar 17, 78, 103
yātu 261–263, 286
Universal Dependencies 59 ff.
Zoller, Claus Peter 198–199
Upaniṣads 39, 61, 99, 138, 161, 185, 186, 259, 283
Urvaśī 201–203
van Baal, Jan 245