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Aaron
abdāls (“substitutes” for prophets); see also Apkallus; Saptarṣis; Seven Seers
Abel
abhaya (“non-fear”)
Abraham
Achilles
action, ritual action (karman); see also karman
Adam
ā-dhā- (“to establish inside, within itself”)
adhvaryu (officiant concerned with sacrificial gestures)
Aditi
Ᾱditya
Aesculapius
Aesop
affinity
Afghanistan
Africa
Agni (“Fire”)
agnicayana (construction of the fire altar); see also fire altar
agnihotra (“fire oblation”); see also libation; oblation
agniṣṭoma (soma sacrifice)
agnyādheya (“installation of fires”)
aham (“I”)
āhavanīya (fire “into which the oblation is poured”); see also fire; gārhapatya
Ahi Budhnya (“Serpent of the Deep”)
ahiṃsā (“nonviolence”); see also violence, nonviolence
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa
Aja Ekapād
ākāśa (“space”); see also kha; space
akṣa (Terminalia bellirica)
akṣara (“indestructible”)
Alberich
algorithm
altar (vedi); see also vedi
āmalaka (Phyllanthus emblica)
America
analogical pole
analogy; see also connective mode
Ananta (“Infinite”); see also Śeṣa
Anaximander
ancestors (pitṛ)
Aṅgiras
animals
anirukta (“unspoken,” “indistinct”); see also indistinct
anna (“food”); see also food and eating
anointing
Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
antarikṣa (“intermediate space”)
antelope (mṛga), black antelope
anthropology
anti-gods (asuras); see also Asuras
Antigone
anuṣṭubh (meter of thirty-two syllables); see also meters
āpas (“waters”); see also water
Ᾱpastamba Śrauta Sūtra
Apkallus; see also abdāls; Holy Carps; Saptarṣis; Seven Seers
Apollo
Apsaras (celestial Nymphs); see also Ghṛtācī; Nymphs; Śāradvatī; Urvaśī
Apsu (primordial waters)
Āptyas
ar- (“to articulate,” “to correspond”)
Arafa
Arbuda Kādraveya
arc- (“shine,” “pray”); see also arka
archaic
Archilochus
ardor (tapas); see also tapas
Aristophanes
Arjuna
arka (“radiance”)
arrow
Aruṇa Aupaveśi
Arundhatī
Ᾱrya
Ᾱryāvarta (“the Land of the Aryans”)
asat (“that which is not,” “unmanifest”); see also unmanifest
ascesis, asceticism; see also áskēsis; tapas
asham (“guilt,” offering for guilt)
ashes
áskēsis (“exercise,” “ascesis”)
Asuras (anti-gods)
aśva (horse); see also aśvamedha; horse
Aśvala
aśvamedha (“horse sacrifice”); see also horse
aśvattha (Ficus religiosa); see also pippal
Aśvins
Atharvaveda; see also hymns
Athena
Athens
ātman (“Self”); see also Self
Atri
attention
Aua
auctoritas
Augustine of Hippo, Saint
authority
avabhṛtha (ritual final bath)
awakening; see also wakefulness
Bachmann, Ingeborg
bala (“strength”)
bandhu (“bond,” “nexus”); see also connections; correspondences; equivalences; nexus; sampad; upaniṣad
barbarian
Bardamu
barley
barter
Battle of the Ten Kings
Baudelaire, Charles
being, nonbeing; see also asat; existence; manifest; sat; satya; unmanifest
Benveniste, Émile
Bergaigne, Abel
Berkeley, Busby
Berthelot, René
Bhaga
Bhagavad Gītā
bhakti (“devotion”)
Bharadvāja
Bharata
Bhṛgu
Bhujyu Lāhyāyani
bhūman (“fullness,” “superabundance”)
bhūr, bhuvas, svar (ritual exclamations)
Biardeau, Madeleine
Bible; Epistle to the Hebrews; Genesis; Gospels; Leviticus; Numbers
birds
birth
Black Age
Black Yajur Veda
blood
blood sacrifice
Bloy, Léon
Bodewitz, Hendrik Wilhelm
body
boons and curses
Bouvard and Pécuchet
bow
Brahmā; see also Prajāpati
brahman
Brāhmaṇas
brahmavarcasa (“brahmin radiance”)
brahmin, brahminic
brahmodya (disputation on brahman); see also disputation
brain
bread
breath (prāṇa)
breathing; see also prāṇa; vital breaths
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya (Śaṅkara)
Bṛhaddevatā (attributed to Śaunaka)
Bṛhaspati
bṛhatī (meter of thirty-six syllables); see also meters
bricks (iṣṭakā); see also fire altar; iṣṭakā
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter
Brummell, George Bryan
Buddha
Buddhism
budh- (“to awaken,” “to be attentive,” “to understand”); see also awakening; wakefulness
Budha
Buphonia festival
Bürgel
Cain and Abel
Caland, Willem
Candramas
capital punishment
Castle, The (Kafka)
Catholic Church; see also Council of Trent; Vatican Council, Second
caturviṃśa (“twenty-fourth,” a soma sacrifice)
Cebes
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
chance
Chāndogya Upaniṣad
chant, chanter (udgātṛ); see also sāman; Sāmaveda; udgātṛ
chaos
chariot
charogne, Une (Baudelaire)
China
Christianity, Christians; see also Catholic Church; Vatican Council, Second
cities
citta (“mind”); see also manas; mind
civilization
clarified butter; see ghṛtá (ghee)
classification
clothing
Coetzee, J. M.
coitus, copulation (mithunam)
commedia dell’arte
community
completeness
connections; see also bandhu; correspondences; equivalences; nexus; sampad; upaniṣad
connective mode of thought
Conrad, Joseph
consciousness
consecration (dīkṣā)
consent to kill; see also appeasement; killing
continuity
continuum and discrete
contradiction
convention
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish
correspondences; see also bandhu; connections; equivalences; nexus; sampad; upaniṣad
cosmogonies
Costello, Elizabeth
Couchoud, Paul-Louis
Council of Trent
cows and oxen
Craftsman (Tvaṣṭṛ)
creation (sṛṣṭi); see also world
Crito
Cronos
Cyrus the Great
Dakṣa
dakṣiṇā (“ritual fee”)
Dandekar, Ramchandra Narayan
darbha (Desmostachya bipinnata)
Darwin, Charles
Daumal, René
Dawn (Uṣas)
day; see also night
death (mṛtyu); see also Mṛtyu
death, recurring (punarmṛtyu)
death sentence
debt (ṛṇa)
Decius Mus, Publius
De Filippo, Eduardo
Delphi
Descartes, René
desire (kāma); see also kāma
destruction; see also mashḥit
detachment (tyāga); see also tyāga; yielding
Deussen, Paul
Devas (“gods”); see also gods
de Vaux, Fr. Roland Guérin
devayajana (“place of offering of the gods”)
devayāna (“way of the gods”)
devotio; see also self-sacrifice; suicide
devour, devourer; see also food and eating; predators
dhā- (“establish,” “place”)
dharma (“law,” “order”); see also law; world order
dhī (“thought,” “vision,” “contemplation”)
dhiṣṇya (fires)
dhūrv- (“to injure”)
dhyāna (“meditation”); see also meditation
digital mode of thought; see also substitution; substitutive thinking
dīkṣā (“consecration,” “initiation”); see also consecration
dīkṣita (“consecrated one”)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysus
Dioscuri
Diotima
Dīrghatamas, Māmateya Aucathya
discontinuity
discernment (vijñāna)
discrete, continuum and
disputation; see also brahmodya; dog, curled-up
divine, divinity; see also gods
dog, curled-up
Don Giovanni
doubt
dream
duality
duḥkha (“pain”)
Dumézil, Georges
Dumont, Louis
Dumont, Paul-Émile
Durkheim, David Émile
Earth, earth (Pṛthivī)
Eckhart, Meister
Eggeling, Julius
egoity (ahaṃkāra); see also I (aham)
Egypt
eídōlon (“simulacrum”); see also simulacrum
ejaculation; see also semen
Elea
elements; see also Earth; fire(s); water, waters
Eleusinian Mysteries
Elohim
embryo
Empedocles
empires
energy
enigma
Enlightenment
Epistle to the Hebrews
equivalences; see also bandhu; connections; correspondences; nexus; sampad; upaniṣad
Eros
eros, erotica; see also ejaculation; semen
error
escape
etiquette
Eucharist; see also Last Supper
Eumolpidae
Europe
Eurylochus
Evagrius Ponticus
evil (pāpa, pāpman); see also death; guilt
evolutionism
excess; see also surplus
exchange; see also sale; substitution
exclusion from sacrifice
existence, existent; see also sat
extinction (nirvāṇa)
eye
faith; see also śraddhā
fasting
Faust
Feast of the Sacrifice
fences
filter (pavitra)
fire(s); see also Agni; agnihotra; agnyādheya; āhavanīya; dhiṣṇya; gārhapatya
fire altar; see also agnicayana
first portion (prāśitra)
Flaubert, Gustave
flood
Fludd, Robert
food and eating; see also anna
forest
formula (mantra); see also mantra; Yajurveda; yajus
Freud, Sigmund
fruits
full, fullness (pūrṇa, bhūman); see also bhūman; excess; pūrṇa
fundamentalism
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli)
gambling
Gandharvas; see also Genies
Ganges
Gārgī Vācaknavī
gārhapatya (fire “of the head of the family”)
Gautama
gāyatrī (meter consisting of three lines of eight syllables); see also meters
Gāyatrī
Geldner, Karl Friedrich
Genesis
Genies (Gandharvas); see also Gandharvas
gestures; see also libation; ritual liturgy, ceremony; sacrifice
ghats
ghṛtá (ghee)
Ghṛtācī; see also Apsaras; Nymphs
gift
Girard, René
gnosis
goat
Gödel, Kurt Friedrich
gods
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
gold
goose, wild (haṃsa)
Gospels
Gotama Rāhūgaṇa
government
grah- (“to grasp”)
graha (soma libation)
Granet, Marcel
grass (dharba, kuśa, muñja)
Grassmann, Hermann
Great Bear, the
Greece, Greeks
Grey, Sir George
Guénon, René
guilt
Hades
Hagia Triada
Hammoudi, Abdellah
Hammurabi
happiness (sukha, ka)
Harappa
haṭṭa’t (“error,” “sin,” sacrifice for an unintentional sin)
head
heart
Heesterman, Jan C.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
hei tiki; see also Tiki
Helen
hemlock
Heraclitus
Herodotus
Hertz, Robert
Hesiod
Hilberg, Raul
Hitler, Adolf
Hoffmann, Karl
holocaust
Holy Carps; see also Apkallus
Homer
homoíōsis (“assimilation”)
honey
horse (aśva)
horse sacrifice (aśvamedha)
hotṛ (priest “who pours the oblation”)
hourglass
Hubert, Henri
human sacrifice
hunt, hunter
hut (sadas)
hymns 3; see also Atharvaveda; Ṛgveda; Sāmaveda; Yajurveda
I (aham)
Ibn ‘Arabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint
Iliad (Homer)
immortality
impermanence
impurity
indestructible (akṣara)
indh- (“to kindle”)
Indha (“the Flaming One,” Indra’s secret name)
indistinct (anirukta); see also anirukta
Indra
Indradyumna Bhāllaveya
Indrāṇī
Indus civilization
initiation (dīkṣā); see also consecration
intellectual
intention (saṃkalpa); see also saṃkalpa
internalization
intoxication; see also soma
invisible; see also visible
invocations; see also bhūr,* bhuvas*,* svar*; svāhā; vaṣaṭ
irony
Isaac
Islam
Islamist suicide-killers; see also suicide
Israel
iṣṭakā (“bricks”); see also bricks
iṣṭi (“oblation”)
iva (“in a certain way,” “so to speak”)
Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa
Janaka
jang
Jāratkārava Ᾱrtabhāga
Jerome, Saint
Jerusalem
Jesus
Jews
John, Gospel of
joy (sukha); see also sukha
K. (in Kafkas’s The Trial and The Castle)
ka (“happiness”)
Ka (“Who?,” name of Prajāpati); see also Prajāpati
Kadrū
Kafka, Franz
Kahola (or Kahoḍa) Kauṣītakeya
kāma (“desire”); see also desire
Kāma
Kaṅkati Brāhmaṇa
Kant, Immanuel
karīra (Capparis aphylla)
karman (“action”); see also action; ritual
Kaṭha Āraṇyaka
Kathāsaritsāgara (Somadeva)
Kaṭha Upaniṣad
Kātyāyana Śrauta Sūtra
Kātyāyanī
kavi (“poet”); see also poetry; poets
Keith, Arthur Berriedale
kénōsis (“self-emptying”); see also self-emptying
Kerala
kha (“space”)
Kierkegaard, Søren
killing
killing of animals
kindling
Kircher, Athanasius
knowledge (veda)
kola (“yoke”)
Kramrisch, Stella
Kṛśānu
Kṛṣṇa
kṣatriya (“warrior”); see also warrior
Kumbhayoni
Kuru
kuśa (Poa cynosuroides)
Lampetia
language; see also speech; word
Last Supper
Latins
Lautréamont
law; see also dharma
Laws (Plato)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lévi, Sylvain
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Leviticus
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
libation; see also agnihotra; graha
Liber
Livy
Locke, John
lógos
loka (“world”)
Lommel, Herman
lotus
Lüders, Heinrich
Luther, Martin
macrocosm, microcosm
Mahābhārata
mahāsattra (“great sacrificial session”)
mahāvrata (“great vow”)
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā
Maitreyī
Malamoud, Charles
Mallarmé, Stéphane
man- (“to think”); see also mind
manas (mind); see also mind
mānasāḥ putrāḥ (“mind-born children”)
manifest (sat); see also unmanifest
Mann, Thomas
mantra (metrical part of the Vedas, formula)
Manu
Maoris
mārga (“way”)
Marpa
Mārtāṇḍa
Maruts
Marx, Karl
mashḥit (“destroyer”)
Mass
Mātariśvan
Māthava of Videha, King
matter
Mauss, Marcel
māyā (“spell,” “enchantment,” “magic”)
meaning
Mecca
medha (“essence,” “juice,” “sap”)
meditation (dhyāna)
Meluhha
memory
Mesopotamia
metaphor
metaphysics
meters; see also anuṣṭubh; bṛhatī; gāyatrī; triṣṭubh; virāj
Meuli, Karl
Mexico
Milarepa
milk; see also agnihotra
Milky Way
Minard, Armand
mind (citta, manas); see also citta; manas
Mind (Manas)
Mitra (“Friend”)
mlecchas (“barbarians”)
modes of thinking
Mohenjo-daro
money
moon
morality, secular
Moses
Mount Mūjavant
mṛga; see also antelope
mṛgavyādha (“he who shoots the antelope”)
mṛtyu (“death”); see also death
Mṛtyu (Death)
Müller, F. Max
muñja (Saccharum munja)
Mus, Paul
Musil, Robert
Mysteries
myth
nakedness
Nārada
nature
Nazi Germany
Nefertiti
Nerval, Gérard de
neṣṭṛ (officiant who escorts the sacrificer’s wife)
Newtonian science
New Zealand
nexus; see also bandhu; connections; correspondences; equivalences; sampad; upaniṣad
Nietzsche, Friedrich
night; see also day
Nirṛti (“Dissolution”)
nirukta (“form that is expressed”)
Nirukta
nirvāṇa (“extinction”)
Nisan
Noah
nonbeing, being
nonviolence
noûs (“intellect”)
Numa Pompilius
Numbers
Nymphs (Apsaras); see also Apsaras
oblation
ocean
Odysseus
Odyssey (Homer)
offering
officiants
‘olah (offering “that goes up,” holocaust)
Oldenberg, Hermann
Olivelle, Patrick
Olympians
Olympic games
omnipotence
omniscience
order
orgasm
Orion
Orth, Stefan
Oupnek’hat (Anquetil-Duperron)
ousía (“substance”); see also sat
Ovid
padá (“foot,” “track,” “word”)
pain (duḥkha)
palāśa (Butea frondosa)
Palestine
Pañcālas
paradox
Parmenides
Passover
past
paśu (“domestic animal that can be sacrificed”)
Paul of Tarsus, Saint
pavitra (“filter”)
peace
Pentateuch
Persephone
Persia, Persians
person (puruṣa); *see *Puruṣa
Peter, Saint
Phaethusa
physiology
phýsis
pilgrimage
pippal (Ficus religiosa)
pitṛyāṇa (“way of the ancestors”)
plan (saṃkalpa)
Plato 357
Pleiades
Plotinus
Plutarch
poet
poetry
Polynesia
Porphyry
positivism
potestas; see also kṣatriya
power
Powys, John Cowper
Prajāpati; see also Brahmā; Ka
prāṇa (“breath,” “life”); see also breath; ṛṣis; vital breaths
prāṇāgnihotra (“libation in the fire of breath”)
prāśitra (“first portion”)
pratiṣṭhā (“foundation”)
pravṛtti (“progression,” “activity”)
prayer
predators, prey; see also food and eating; devour, devourer
prehistory
priest
primates
primitive
Prometheus
prose
Proust, Marcel
Pṛthivī (“Vast,” the earth)
punarmṛtyu (“death recurring”)
Pune
Purāṇas (“Antiquities”)
pūrṇa (“full,” “fullness”)
Puruṣa (“Person”)
puruṣamedha (“human sacrifice”)
pūrve devāḥ (“earlier gods”)
Pūṣan
Pythagoras
quality
quantity
quantum mechanics
quincunx
Rakṣas (wicked demons)
Rāmāyaṇa
Ramses II
rapture
rasa (“taste”)
Rasmussen, Knud
ratio
Rau, Wilhelm
ṛc (“praise”); see also formula; mantra; Ṛgveda
reader
reality
reason
recursive procedure
reflection (chāyā); see also self-referentiality
Reformation
reincarnation; see also death, recurring
release (mokṣa; mukti)
religion; see also Christianity, Christians
Renou, Louis
renouncer (saṃnyāsin)
renunciation (saṃnyāsa)
Republic (Plato)
residue (ucchiṣṭa); see also Śeṣa; śeṣa; ucchiṣṭa
Ṛgveda
riṣ- (“to wear out”)
ritual, liturgy, ceremony; see also gestures; sacrifice
ritual fee (dakṣiṇā)
rival, malicious (dviṣan bhrātṛvyaḥ)
ṛṇa (“debt”)
Roman Catholic Church
Rome
Roth, Joseph
ṛṣis (“seers”)
ṛta (“order,” “truth”)
Rudra; see also Kṛśānu; Śiva
Sabbath
sacrifice; see also agnihotra; aśvamedha; sattra; soma sacrifice
sacrificer (yajamāna)
sacrificial post (yūpa)
Sādhyas
Śākalya, Vidagdha
sale
salilá (“wave,” “primordial ocean”)
salvation through sacrifice
sāman (“melody,” the mantras of the Sāmaveda)
Sāmaśravas
Sāmaveda; see also hymns
sambhārāḥ (“utensils,” “accessories” for the liturgy)
sambhṛ- (“to collect,” “to prepare”)
saṃhitā (“collection”)
śamitṛ (“appeaser,” slaughterer); see also killing
saṃkalpa (“intention,” “plan”)
saṃnyāsin (“renouncer”)
sampad (“that which happens together,” “correspondence,” “equivalence”); see also bandhu; correspondences
saṃskāra (“sacramental ceremony”)
samudrá (“sea,” “ocean”)
Sanatkumāra
Śāṇḍilya
Śaṅkara
Sanskrit
Sappho
Saptarṣis (“Seven Seers”)
Saptasindhu (“Land of the Seven Rivers”)
Śāradvatī
Saraṇyū
Sarasvatī River
sat (“that which is,” “being,” “manifest”); see also being, nonbeing; manifest
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa
Satī
sattra (sacrificial “session”)
sattva (“luminous quality”)
Saturn
satya (“truth”); see also truth
Satyakāma Jābāla
Sātyayajña
Satyrs
sautrāmaṇī (rite dedicated to Indra, the “good protector”)
Savitṛ
Sāyaṇa
Scarpetta, Eduardo
Schaller, George Beals
Schayer, Stanisław
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schreber, Daniel Paul
Schroeder, Leopold von
science
secrecy
secularization
secular morality
secular society
Self (ātman); see also ātman
self-emptying (kénōsis); see also kénōsis
self-existing (svayambhū)
self-mortification
self-referentiality; see also ātman; reflection; Self
self-reflection
self-sacrifice
semen
Semiramis
Senart, Émile
serpent
Śeṣa
śeṣa (“residue”); see also residue; surplus; ucchiṣṭa
Seven Seers (Saptarṣis); see also rṣis
sex, sexual pleasure; see also coitus
Siberia, Siberians
Silburn, Lilian
silence (tūṣṇīm)
Simon, Erika
simulacrum
Sirius
Śiva; see also Rudra
skin; see also clothing; nakedness
sky
sleep
society
Socrates
soma (“juice”)
Soma, King
soma sacrifice
Sophists
Sophocles
sovereignty
space (ākāśa, kha, antarikṣa); see also ākāśa; kha
speech (vāc); see also Vāc; vāc
Spinoza, Baruch
splendor; see also Śrī
spoons (juhū, sruva, upabhṛt)
śraddhā (“trust,” “faith”)
Śrī
Staal, Frits
Strehlow, Carl Friedrich
strength
Strindberg, August
study
substance, matter
substitution
substitutive thinking; see also digital mode of thought
Sudās
suicide; see also Islamist suicide-killers
Su-ilisu
sukha (“happiness”); see also happiness; joy
Sumerians
Sun (Sūrya)
sun
Suparṇī
surplus; see also bhuman; residue; śesa
Sūtra (“thread,” “rule”)
sva (“of his own,” “self”); see also ātman; Self; self-referentiality
svādhyāya (“inner recitation”); see also reader
svāhā (ritual exclamation)
svayambhū (“self-existing”)
Śvetaketu Āruṇeya or Auddālaki
svid (particle that introduces a question)
Sviṣṭakṛt (“he who offers well the sacrifice”)
Swaminathan, C. R.
Swiss Guards
symbol
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa
Taittirīya Saṃhitā
Taittirīya Upaniṣad
tamas (“darkness”); see also sattva
tan- (“to tend,” “to extend”)
Tantrism
tānūnaptra (ceremony connected to Tanūnapāt, a form of Agni “son of himself”)
tapas (“ardor”)
Tārā
tat tvam asi (“this you are”)
tejas (“incandescent energy”)
témenos (land marked out and excluded from common use)
temple
Ten Kings
Thales
Theogony (Hesiod)
thought; see also Vedic thought
Thucydides
thunderbolt (vajra)
thýein (“to sacrifice”)
Tiki, tiki
Timaeus (Plato)
time
Tiresias
triṣṭubh (verse form consisting of four lines of eleven syllables); see also meters
truth (ṛta, satya); see also ṛta; untruth
Tvaṣṭṛ (“Craftsman”)
tyāga (“yielding,” “detachment”)
ucchiṣṭa (“residue”); see also residue; Śeṣa; śeṣa
Uddālaka Ᾱruṇi
udgātṛ (officiant “chanter” of the hymns of the Sāmaveda); see also chant, chanter
udumbara (Ficus glomerata)
universal society
unmanifest (asat); see also manifest
untruth; see also truth
Upakosala Kāmalāyana
upaniṣad (“secret connection”); see also bandhu; connections; correspondences; equivalences; nexus; sampad
Upaniṣads; see also Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad; Chāndogya Upaniṣad; Kaṭha Upaniṣad; Taittirīya Upaniṣad
upasad (“siege,” triple offering of ghee to Agni, Soma, and Viṣṇu)
Urabunna
Urvaśī; see also Nymphs
Uśānā (plant from which the soma is prepared)
Uṣas; see also Dawn
Uṣasta Cākrāyaṇa
Utnapištim
Uttara Nārāyaṇa (the second part of the puruṣasūkta)
Vāc (“Speech”)
vāc (“speech,” “voice”); see also speech
vagina
vajra (“thunderbolt”); see also thunderbolt
Valeri, Valerio
Vālmīki
value; see also exchange; money
Vāmadeva
vānaprastha (“withdrawn into the forest”)
vara (“boon”); see also boons and curses
Varanasi
Vārṣṇya
Varuṇa (Lüders)
Varuṇa
varuṇapraghāsa (rite of atonement connected to Varuṇa)
vaṣaṭ (ritual exclamation)
Vasiṣṭha
Vasiṣṭha Caikitāneya
Vāstavya (“connected to the site and to the residue”); see also Rudra; vāstu
vāstu (“site,” “residue”); see also residue; śeṣa; ucchiṣṭa
Vasu
Vatican Council, Second
Vāyu (“Wind”)
veda (“knowledge”); see also knowledge
Veda
Vedānta; see also Śaṅkara
vedi (altar); see also altar
Vedic civilization
Vedic thought; see also thought
vegetarianism
vijñāna (“discernment”)
victim
Videha
village
Vinatā
violence, nonviolence
vípra (“quivering,” poetic inspiration); see also poetry
virāj (vedic verse form consisting of four lines of ten syllables); see also meters
Virāj
visible; see also invisible
Viṣṇu
visṛṣṭi (“further creation”); see also creation
viṣuvat (central day of a yearlong sacrifice)
Viśvāmitra
Viśvarūpa
Viśvāvasu
Viśvedevāḥ
vital breaths (prāṇa); see also breath
Vivasvat
voice; *see *word; Vāc; vāc
Voltaire
vow (vrata); see also mahāvrata
vṛ- (“to cover,” “to wrap”)
vrata (“way of life,” “vow”); see also vow
Vṛṣākapāyī
Vṛṣākapi
Vṛtra
Vyāsa
Wagner, Richard
wakefulness
walking upright
war
warrior (kṣatriya); see also kṣatriya
water, waters (āpas)
wave (salilá)
Weil, Simone
wheel
White, John
White Yajur Veda
Wilamowitz, Ulrich von
Wilde, Oscar
wind
Witzel, Michael
woman
womb
wooden sword (sphya)
word (lógos)
work (opus); see also action; karman
world, worlds; see also creation; world order
world order (Weltordnung, ṛta)
Xenophon
ya evaṃ veda (“he who knows thus”)
Yahweh
yaj- (“to sacrifice”)
yajamāna (“sacrificer”); see also sacrificer
yajña (“sacrifice”); see also ritual, liturgy, ceremony
Yājñavalkya
Yajurveda; see also hymns
yajus (“ritual formula,” mantra of the Yajur Veda); see also Yajurveda
Yama; see also death; mṛtyu; Mṛtyu
year
yielding (tyāga)
yoga (“yoke,” “junction”); see also yoking
yoking; see also yoga
yūpa (“post”); see also sacrificial post
Zarathustra
Zen
Zeus
Zhou
Zuo zhuan
Zürau