Roberto Calasso - Ardor

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