CONTENTS OF VOLUME 32

  1. The sacrifices of the Śrauta ritual

§ 1. General characteristics

§ 2. Establishment and re-establishment of the fires § 3. The Fire-god oblation or Agnihotra

§ 4. The new-moon and full-moon sacrifices 8. The four-month or seasonal sacrifices

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  1. First-fruit sacrifice (agrayana iṣṭi) and others. 7. The animal sacrifice

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  1. The Soma sacrifice

§ 9. The Pravargya or hot-milk sacrifice

§ 10. The AikadaŚina animal offering

§ 11. Other forms of Jyotisṭoma

§ 12. Other Soma sacrifices of one day’s duration

§ 18. The Vajapeya or drink-of-strength

§ 14. The royal consecration.

§ 15 The horse sacrifice

The human sacrifice

§ 17. Other Ahina rites

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333

334

336

389

340

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843

847

848

§ 18. The Sattras or sacrificial sessions

849

§ 19. The Sautrāmaṇī.

§ 20. The piling of the fire-altar

§ 21. The Hotr formulae

§ 22. Expiations.

  1. The domestic ritual .

  2. General character of the domestic sacrifices

§ 2. The various offerings

§ 3. Birth-ceremonies and others

§ 4. Studentship

§ 5. Marriage

  1. Magic in the ritual

§ 1. The relations of magic to religion

§ 2. The nature of Vedic magic

§ 8. The removal of hostile influences

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354

356

856

858

358

859

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369

378

879

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382

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§ 4. The attraction of beneficial substances and powers

886

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§ 5. Mimetic magic

§ 6. Divination and ordeal

§ 7. The magic spell

§ 8. The magic sacrifice

§ 9. Yoga practices

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898

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IV. THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD

  1. The abodes of the dead

§ 1. The nature of the dead

§ 2. The places of the dead.

§ 3. The transmutation of the dead

  1. The disposal of the dead.

  2. 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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406

415

417

425

425

427

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V. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE VEDA

  1. The beginnings of Vedic Philosophy

  2. The Theosophy of the Brahmaṇas

§ 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 Brahmaṇas

§ 5. Modes of thought and categories

  1. The Philosophy of the Upanisads

§ 1. The origin of the Upanisads

483

440

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440

442

454

468

482

489

489

§ 2. The extant Upanisads

497

§ 3. The interpretation of the Upanisads

507

§ 4. The problem and conditions of knowledge

518

§ 5. The nature of the Absolute

516

§ 6. The Absolute and the Universe

522

§ 7. Māyā and Prakṛti-Illusion and Nature

529

(a) Illusion

529

(b) Nature

582

(c) The origin of the Samkhya and Buddhism

585

§ 8. The Supreme and the Individual Souls

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§ 9. The four states of the Soul

§ 10. The doctrine of transmigration

  1. The way of salvation

§ 12. The ethics of the Upanisads and Yoga

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§ 18. The significance of the philosophy of the Upanisads

592

601

APPENDIX

A. The age of the Avesta and the Rigveda

614

B. The sacrifice of Puruṣa and the origin of the world

619

C. The Aryan conception of the heaven

621

D. The drink of immortality

628

E. The Indo-European fire-cult

625

F. Cremation and burial

626

G. The Dravidian element in Indian thought

629

H. Pythagoras and Parmenides.

684

GENERAL INDEX

689

SANSKRIT INDEX

675