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INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V.
plentiful in south region, 404; is the trishtubh, IV, 45; is virág (wide-ruling), 46, 101; the Rudras its lords, 101; Indra its protector, 101; connected with paйkadasa-stoma, praüga-sastra, and brihat-sâman, 101; connected with Vâyu, 106; region of Fathers, 226; V, 485; is space and the air, V, 17. South-east, Ukhya Agni (the sun) held up towards, III, 280; sacred to Agni, IV, 80; the sun is placed there, 133; in that region is the door to the world of the Fathers, V, 424. sowing, of all kinds of herb-seeds on agnikshetra, III, 337.
space (aerial expanse) is Pragâpati the year, and the Saptadasa stoma, IV, 62.
spade, is a thunderbolt, V, 448; of udumbara or vikankata wood, 448.
sparrow (kalavinka), springs from Visvarupa's head, III, 130. speech (voice), lord of, is Pragapati, III, 5; based on vital air, 151; is the sruk, 192; world of speech, 145, 192; there is a keen edge to it on one or both sides, 200; speaks truth and untruth, divine and human, 200; consists of vâk (voice) and akshara (syllable), 203; is a spade, 215; is of three kinds, rik, yagus and sâman; or low, half-loud and loud, 239; is healing medicine, 341; by speech the gods conquered the Asuras and drove them out of the universe, 387; the breath is the male, or mate, of speech, 391; a vital air, 402; produced from mind (and the moon), and from it the winter, IV, 11; is the Rishi Visvakarman, 12; sustained by the pervading vital air (samâna), 15; made by the gods their milch-cow, 173; one of the five divisions of vital air in the head, 190; by speech one gets into trouble, a10; speaks both truth and untruth, 257; Agni as Speech (the trayî vidya), 364 seq.; is the sun,
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365; evolved from mind, and from it breath, 376, 377; the libations to Mind and Speech, (Sarasvat and Sarasvatî) are such to the Full and New moon, V, 28, 31, 32, 35;-single of vital airs, 246; mind is manifested as speech, 262; what is thought in mind is spoken by speech and heard by ear, 263; by mind and speech all is gained, 507. sphûrgaka, tree, not to stand near a grave, V, 427.
sphya (sacrificial wooden sword),
handed to consecrated king, III, 110; gaming-ground prepared therewith, 11I. spinal column, is continuous, V, 35.
spoon, (cf. sruk, sruva), taking up of the two offering-spoons (guhû and upabhrit), V, 56; not to clink together, 57, 60, 61. spring-season, connected with east, gayatri, &c., III, 91; is the earth, 386; consists of months Madhu and Mâdhava, 386; produced from breath, and from it the Gâyatri, IV, 4; in spring forestfires occur, V, 45; the Brâhmana's season, 348. sprinkling, of Sacrificer with re
mains of (prasavanîya) offeringmaterial at Vâgapeya, III, 38; of fire-altar with water, IV, 169, 174; of completed fire-altar with mixture of dadhi, honey and ghee, as Agni's after-share, 185; of sacrificial horse with water, V, 278, 316. sprit, bricks of fourth layer, IV, 66 seq.; free creatures from death, 67. spriti, oblations, V, 133.. Sraumatya, a teacher, his view of the nature of Agni, IV, 363. Sraushar, different modes and tones
in uttering it, V, 57 seq.; its five formulas are the unexhausted element of the sacrifice, 170;-482, 502. sri, excellence, III, 144, 163, 392; distinction (social eminence), IV, 110, 132, 241; V, 285, 313; goodness (?), 326, 327; prosperity, V, 18, 59; beauty, 315.
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