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GENERAL INDEX / SANSKRIT INDEX
Sravana Belgola, Jaina figure at, 212-
13, Pl. Vill Sreyamsa, 11th Jaina savior, 219 Sruti, see Srauta-sútras staff, of monks, 262-63 Star Theatre of Calcutta, 589 stars, in astrology, 102n Stcherbatsky, Th., 47ın, 518n, 628 Stevenson, Mrs. S., 623, 624 Sthaviras, Buddhist clders, 494 Stoics, Greek philosophers, 4 strategy (indrajála), in politics, 123 stūpa: at Amaravati, 131, Pl. IX:
Asoka's reverence at, 496; Buddha on men worthy of, 133-34; at Jaggayapeta, 131-32, Pl. Il; at
Vakkula, 496 Subhadda, Buddhist monk, 491 Subhūti, pupil of Buddha, 483-87.
521-28 “suchness" (tathātā), in Buddhism,
1830, 517, 518, 526, 53on, 531,
557-58 Sudassana, Buddhist legendary king,
129n Suddhāvāsa, Buddhist heaven, 553 Sudharma-Gautama, Jaina teacher,
222 Sūdra caste, 40, 59, 572, 573 Suetonius, Roman historian, 112.
126n, 312 Sufi poets, of Persia, 559 sugar, Ramprasad's epigram about,
561, 562, 571
suicide: in Japan, 173; see also suttee Sukhavati-vyuhas, 627 Suleiman (the Magnificent), Turkish
sultan, 117 Sumati, 5th Jaina savior, 213 Sumer, 10gn, 106n, 241; see also
Mesopotamia Sumeru, Mount, 142 sun, 129, 136, 361; as Agni, 340;
Aristanemi's name, 225; dynasty sprung from, 106n, 218, 220; horscsacrifice and, 184; in Kapila's name, 282; as Surya, 9; in Vedic
charm, 71; Visnu symbol, 185 Sun Yat-sen, Chinese leader, 65 Sunahsepa, Brahman hero, 6gn Sunga dynasty, 504 Sūnyatā, see Void Sūnyavāda school of Buddhism,
525n, 608; see also Madhyamika Supārsva, 7th Jaina savior, 213 superimposition, Vedāntic device of,
419-20 superman (mahāpurusa), 128, gon;
see also Cakravartin; hero supreme being ("God"): anthropomorphic, 241, 244-46 (Swedenborgian); Brahmanism/Hinduism, 389-91, 396-98, 999n, 404-6, 112, 424-29, 529, 601-2; Christian, 2, 390, 396, 425; Nyāya-Vai eşika, 611-12; Siva as, 462-63; Tantra, 561-71, 589, 592, 601-2; Vişņu as, 2, 262, 276, 424, 586-87; see also Goddess; Lord; monism; Self
śruti, 6ın stambha, 141 sthånu, 385 sthūla, 271, 327, 373 sthūla-bhūtāni, 827 sthūla-sarīra, 79 striratna, 181 stūpa, 181
sudarśana, 185 Śūdra, 40 sukla, 229 sūksma, 271 sūksma-sarira, 79 šūnya, 526 sūnyatā, 482
susrüşā, 48 678