]rjuna, 340, 343.

Nakh[=i]s, 486.

name of the Lord, call upon, 507.

names, 201.

N[=a]nak, 502, 511 ff., 547.

N[=a][.n]gi Panthis, 514.

Nara, N[=a]r[=a]ya[n.]a, 412, 448;
Sv[=a]mi N[=a]raya[n.]a, 506, 514.

Nature, 397.

nautch, 454.

Neo-Platonism, 558, 560.

New Year's festival, 449, 456.

Niadis, 537.

nid[=a]nas, chain of causality, 323.

Night, 48, 76, 79.

Nik[=a]ya, 326.

Nimb[=a]ditya, 508.

Nirgrantha, 283.

Nirmalas, 513.

Nirv[=a][n.]a, 286, 310, 319, 321 ff., 336, 346, 347, 426 ff.

Ni[s.]ads, 440.

non-duality, see adv[=a]ita.

Notovitch, 546.

numbers, 478.

nuns, 290, 310, 330, 557.

nymphs, in heaven, 417.

Nysian, 458.

oath (see ordeals), of king, 213;
may be broken, 255;
water in oath, 362;
other forms of oath, 533, 534.

observances, 246.

oceans, 34.

offerings, 183.

Om, 395, 453.

Omens (see magic), 256, 328.

ophir, 543.

oracles, 533, 534.

Or[=a]ons, 526, 531, 535.

ordeals, 3, 270, 275, 363.

orders, politica), priestly stadia, 264, 353, 365.

orthodoxy, 507, 562.

pacceka, 305.

P[=a]h[=a]rias, 533.

pairs of gods, 83, 102, 138, 462.

palm, 540.

palmistry (sce omens), 256.

P[=a][.n]cajanya fire, 423.
Pa[.n]cak[=a]la, Pa[.n]cak[=a]j[.n]as, 413.

Pa[.n]camah[=a]kalpa, 413.

Pa[.n]catantra, 558.

P[=a][.n]car[=a]tra, 413, 427, 442, 447, 492, 497.

P[=a][n.][d.]avas, 466, 469.

P[=a][n.]dur[=a][.n]ga, 500.

pantheism (see K[r.][s.][n.]a, R[=a]ma,
Vi[s.][n.]u), 37, 47, 57, 138, 140, 248,
356, 407, 414, 484 ff., 498, 547.

Paradise, see Heaven.

Paracu R[=a]ma, 469.

parents, 370.

parimata, 227, 229, 232.

Parjanya, 100 ff., 369, 378.

Parmenides, 559.

parrot, 445, 450.

P[=a]rvat[=i], (goddess) 'of mountains,' 416.

Pacupati, 413, 462, 463.

P[=a]cupata, 447, 482, 509.

P[=a]taliputta, 311.

Pata[.n]jali, 495.

Path, holy, 305 ff., 401,426.

peacock, 445, 450, 528, 536.

Persian, see Darius, Iranian.

pessimism, 306, 314, 316 ff.

phallus (see li[.n]ga), 150, 414, 443, 470. 471, 528, 544.

Ph[=a]nsigars, 494.

Philo, 555.

philosophy (see S[=a][.n]khya, Ved[=a]nta), 141, 495.

Phoenicia, 543.

picture-worship, 374, 557.

pipal-tree, see bo-tree.

Pic[=a]cas (see devils), 415.

planets, 367, 415, 54