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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