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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