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GENERAL INDEX / SANSKRIT INDEX
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542n, 546, 553, 568n; philosophical Nä/yaśāstras, 39-40 use of, 25-27, 342-43; see also cos nazisin, see fascism; Germany mogonic lorc; dcities; fables, negation, 596; see also asceticism; inmyths, etc.; folklore
tegration-isolation Neminátha, see Aristanemi Neolithic period, 259, 569
Neoplatonism, 4. 28; see also PloNāgārjuna, Buddhist teacher, 509-10, tinus
518-21, 524. 526n, 546n, 617 Nepal, 498 Nagarjuna Hill caves, 264
nescience (avidyā): Buddhism, 467nagas (serpent water-gods), 142, 207, 68, 475.480, 482, 528,531,533, 541, 519; in art, Pl. III-VII
553-54 (alfirination of); Sankhya, Nagascna, Buddhist monk, 505
295, 297-98, 304, 317, 416; Tantra, Naişkarmyasıddhi (Sureśvara), 422, 590; Vedānta, 24-25, 306, 414, 415, 415
418, 419, 421-24, 430, 457 nakedness, in art, 214
Netherlands, 113-14 náma-rūpa, see phenomenality Newton, Sir Isaac, English natural Nami, 21st Jaina savior, 219, 226 philosopher, 82 Namuci, Vedic demon, 143-44 Nicholas II, czar of Russia, 112 Nanda dynasty, 37, 941, 96, 494
Nietzsche, Fricdrich Wilhelm, GerNandivardhana, Jaina legendary man philosopher, 13, 138 prince, 221
Nikhilananda, Swami, 5n, 51n, 156n, Nanjio, Bunyiu, 5200, 629
46ın, 561-69 passim, 57in-72n, Napoleon I, French emperor, 102-4, 590n-gin, 594n-95n, 626, 627, 630 114, 117
nirvana (enlightenment/extinction): Narasimha Swami, B. V., 614n
in Bhagavad Gita, 408; in Budnature: accepted in Tantra, 576-77; dhism, 448, 472-73, 473n, 478-80,
considered unclean in non-Aryan 183, 499-500 (Asoka's de-emphasis), view, 379
514-15. 523, 527; in Jainism, 183,
muni, 449, 4511, 466
naga, 142 nāgarāja, 519 nair-asya, 454n naivedya, 583n näma-karma, 272 năman, 24, 75, 972, 54;n nāmarūpa, 24 namaskriya, 583n Namuci, 144n neti neti, 343 ni, 87n
nididhyāsanam, 431 nidra, 288 nigamana, 611 nigrahasthana, 611 nila, 229 nimitta-karana, 610 niralambanavāda, 525 nirañjana, 454n, 548 Nirgrantha, 228 nirguna, 52n nirjarā, 274 nicodha, 816 nirupādhi, 455n
nirvana, 18gn, 4730 666