Philosophies of India

SR No.: 007309
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell
Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 709
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 34 MB

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GENERAL INDEX
Cross-references are given as an aid but do not necessarily indicate exact correspondences. Literary works are printed in italic type. Plate references pertain to the descriptive matter in the List of Plates, pp. xiii-xv, as well as to the pictures. For meanings of Sanskrit terms, see the Sanskrit Index, beginning on the page opposite and running concurrently on the lower part of the pages following.
actions, see karma (actions: Brāh
manism) Abel and Cain, legend of, 186n Adam, "first man," 62n, 241 Abhidharmakośa (Vasubandhu),529n adhikarin, see pupil Abhinandana, 4th faina savior, 213 Adi-Buddha, 5gon abhinivisa, see life instinct
Aditi, Vedic goddess, ion absorption (samadhi): dual (savikal- Advaita Vedānta, see Sankara; Ve
pa), 485-86, 440n, 455, 592; non- danta dual (nirvikalpa), 436, 437-40 (ob. Advayavajra, Buddhist teacher, 556n stacles), 455; in Tantra, 562, 590, affirmation: of Vedic Brāhmanism, 592-98; in Yoga, 407n
845-47, 349-51, 379-80, 413-14, 575; Abü, Mount, Jaina temples at, 215n, of Mahāyāna Buddhism, 558; of Pl. VII
Tantra, 575, 595, 596, 598 Achaeans, on
Afghanistan, 184, 498, 505; art of, Achaemenids, 112; see also Darius I 182n; see also Gandhāra Achilles, Homeric hero, 284
afterworld, see heaven/hell Acrisius, king of Argos, 812
Agamas, 570,588, 597; divisions, act of truth (satya), 160-69; parables, 568n; sädhanã in, 591; see also
161-62 (courtesan), 163-66 (queen Tantras
and sage), 167-69 (Yaññadata) ages of the world, Indian theory of, action, faculties of (usually karmen- 106n
driya), 55, 228; Brāhmanism, 364, Agni, Vedic god, 8, 9, 71, 204, 844, 873; Buddhism, 541n; Sankhya- 368, 398; -Vaišvānara, 339-40 Yoga, 228, 317, 318, 327; Vedānta, Agnihotra sacrifice, 378
Agotra, Buddhist teacher, 588n
228
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