The twenty-nine chapters of this work are numbered, for practical convenience, in one single arithmetical sequence. But they are grouped in five main divisions, or PARTS, as follows:
I. THE SOURCES (4 chapters, pages 1-57)
CHAP.
1-4
II. THE GODS AND DEMONS OF THE VEDA (12 chapters) III. VEDIC RITUAL (6 chapters, pages 252-402)
5-16
17-22
IV. THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (3 chapters, pages 408-482) 28-25
V. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE VEDA (4 chapters, pages
433-613)
26-29
I.-THE SOURCES
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PAGE
- The Rigveda and the Aryans
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- The later Samhitas and the Brāhmaṇas
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- The later literature.
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- The Avesta and Comparative Mythology
§ 1. The Avesta
§ 2. Comparative Mythology and Religion § 8. The origin of religion
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§ 4. The mingling of races and cultures
§ 5. Popular and hieratic religion
II. THE GODS AND DEMONS OF THE VEDA
- The nature of the Gods and Demons .
§ 1. Nature Gods and abstract Deities
(a) Anthropomorphism .
(b) Theriomorphism and the worship of animals
(c) Animatism, Sondergötter, and Abstract Deities
§ 2. Fetishism
§ 3. Animism and the spirits of the dead
§ 4. The term Deva
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Contents of volume 31
- Vedic cosmology and cosmogony
7The interrelation of the Gods
- The Great Gods-Celestial
§ 1. Dyaus the Father
§ 2. Varuna, Mitra, and the Adityas
§ 8. Sūrya, Savitṛ, and Pūṣan
§ 4. Visṇu
§ 5. Vivasvant
§ 6. The Aśvins
§ 7. The Goddess Dawn
§ 8. The Moon
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- The Great Gods-Aerial
§ 1. Indra
§ 2 Trita Aptya § 8 Apam Napāt § 4. Ahi Budhnya § 5. Aja Ekapad § 6. Mātariśvan. § 7. Vayu and Vāta
§ 8. Parjanya
§ 9. The Waters
§ 10 Rudra
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§ 11.The Maruts or Rudras
- The Great Gods-Terrestrial
§ 1. Agni
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§ 2. Bṛhaspati and other forms of Agni
§ 8. The God Soma
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§ 4. The Rivers
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§ 2. The Gandharvas and Apsarases
§ 5. The Earth
§ 6. The Sea
- The Minor Gods of Nature
§ 1The Rbhus and the Rtus
§ 3. Spirits of the Forest, the Trees, the Plants
§ 4. Spirits of Agriculture, Pasture, and the Mountains.
§ 5. Deities of the House
§ 6. Divine Implements
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§ 7. Divine Animals
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§ 8. Totemism
§ 9. The lesser Nature Goddesses.
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§ 10. Constellations and Time Periods
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CHAP.
Contents of volume 31
- Abstract Deities and Sondergötter
§ 1. The nature of Abstract Deities
§ 2. Tvaṣtṛ and other Agent Gods
§ 8. The Creator Gods
§ 4. ‘Subjective Deities
§ 5. Deified states or conditions
§ 6. Aditi and Diti
§ 7. The wives of the Gods
- Groups of Deities
§ 1. Dual Divinities
§ 2. Groups of Gods
- Priests and Heroes
§ 1. The Priests of the fire-cult
§ 2. Other ancient Priests
§ 8. Warriors
§ 4. The First of Men
- The Demons
§ 1. The Enemies of the Gods
§ 2. The Enemies of Man
- The Gods and their worshippers
III. VEDIC RITUAL
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- The ritual in the Rigveda
252
- The nature of the Vedic sacrifice
257
§ 1. The sacrifice as a gift
257
§ 2. The sacrifice as a spell
260
§ 3. The removal of sin by sacrifice and magic
264
§ 4. Communion and sacrament in the sacrifice § 5. The materials of the sacrifice § 6. Fire and the sacrifice
§ 7. The performers of the sacrifice
- Rites ancillary to the sacrifice
§ 1. The consecration
§ 2. The Avabhṛtha
§ 8. Taboos
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Contents of volume 32
At this point occurs the break between Chapters 1-19 and Chapters 20-29
The latter group is bound up as volume 32
CHAP.
- The sacrifices of the Śrauta ritual
§ 1. General characteristics.
§ 2. Establishment and re-establishment of the fires. § 3. The Fire-god oblation or Agnihotra
- The new-moon and full-moon sacrifices
§ 5. The four-month or seasonal sacrifices
§ 6. First-fruit sacrifice (agrayana iṣṭi) and others § 7. The animal sacrifice
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§ 8. The Soma sacrifice
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§ 9. The Pravargya or hot-milk sacrifice
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§ 10. The Aikadaśina animal offering
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§ 11. Other forms of Jyotiṣṭoma
384
§ 12. Other Soma sacrifices of one day’s duration
336
§ 18. The Vajapeya or drink-of-strength
339
§ 14. The royal consecration
340
§ 15. The horse sacrifice
848
§ 16. The human sacrifice
847
§ 17. Other Ahina rites
348
§ 18. The Sattras or sacrificial sessions
349
§ 19. The Sautrāmaṇī
§ 20. The piling of the fire-altar
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§ 21. The Hotr formulae
356
§ 22. Expiations .
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- The domestic ritual.
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§ 1. General character of the domestic sacrifices § 2. The various offerings
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§ 3. Birth-ceremonies and others
366
§ 4. Studentship
369
§ 5. Marriage
- Magic in the ritual
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§ 1. The relations of magic to religion
879
§ 5. Mimetic magic
§ 7. The magic spell
§ 8. The magic sacrifice
§ 2. The nature of Vedic magic
§ 8. The removal of hostile influences
§ 4. The attraction of beneficial substances and powers
§ 6. Divination and ordeal
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§ 9. Yoga practices
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Contents of volume 32
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IV. THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
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- The abodes of the dead
§ 1. The nature of the dead
§ 2. The places of the dead
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§ 3. The transmutation of the dead
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The disposal of the dead
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The cult of the dead
§ 1. The living and the dead
§ 2. The offerings to the dead in the domestic ritual § 3. The offerings to the dead in the Śrauta ritual.
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V. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE VEDA
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The beginnings of Vedic Philosophy
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The Theosophy of the Brāhmaṇas
§ 1. The general character of the Brāhmaṇa philosophy
§ 2. The highest principle of the universe
§ 3. The theory of the sacrifice
§ 4. The ethics of the Brāhmaṇas
§ 5. Modes of thought and categories
- The Philosophy of the Upanisads
§ 1. The origin of the Upanisads
§ 2. The extant Upaniṣads.
§ 3. The interpretation of the Upanisads
§ 4. The problem and conditions of knowledge
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§ 13. The significance of the philosophy of the Upanisads
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§ 5. The nature of the Absolute
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§ 6. The Absolute and the Universe
§ 7. Maya and Prakṛti-Illusion and Nature
(a) Illusion
(b) Nature
(c) The origin of the Samkhya and Buddhism § 8. The Supreme and the Individual Souls
§ 9. The four states of the Soul
§ 10. The doctrine of transmigration
§ 11. The way of salvation
§ 12. The ethics of the Upanisads and Yoga
- Greece and the philosophy of India
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Contents of Appendix
APPENDIX
A. The age of the Avesta and the Rigveda
B. The sacrifice of Puruṣa and the origin of the world
C. The Aryan conception of the heaven
D. The drink of immortality
E. The Indo-European fire-cult
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F. Cremation and burial
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G. The Dravidian element in Indian thought
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H. Pythagoras and Parmenides
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GENERAL INDEX
689
SANSKRIT INDEX
675