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GENERAL INDEX.
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Vaiseshikas, the non-difference of
cause and effect defended against them, i, p. xlix, 320-
343. - refutation of their tenet that the
world originates from atoms set in motion by the adrishta, i, p. 1
seq., 381-400. - their belief in a non-intelligent
soul, i, p. liv; ii, 33–35. - teach that the Lord is the opera
tive cause of the world, i, 17 n.,
435. - their argument against the Vedân
tins, i, 381. - difficulties with regard to their
six categories, i, 394 seqq. - their doctrine may be called
semi-destructive or semi-nihil
istic, i, 401, 401 n. - refutation of their doctrine of
many Selfs, ii, 70. - their opinion that the mind only
proceeds to the new abode of
fruition, ii, 104. Vaishnava sects, the most important
of Hindu sects, i, p. xvii. Vaisvânara is Brahman, i, p. xxxv,
143-153. - is to be meditated upon as a
whole, not in his single parts, i,
p. lxxv; ii, 274–277, 279. - is the gastric fire, i, 143 seq., 146
seq. - is the elemental fire, i, 144, 147. - is the divinity whose body is fire,
i, 144, 147. - is the embodied Self, i, 144. - is man, i, 146-148. - cannot be the divinity of fire, or
the element of fire, i, 148 seq. - worship of the highest Lord as,
i, 149 seq. -- a span long, ii, 191. - legend of the six Rishis who
wished to obtain a knowledge
of, ii, 274-276. - Sutegas, the head of, il, 275,
376. Vaisvanara-vidya, or knowledge of
Agni Vaisvanara, ii, 187, 233,
249, 292, 400. Vakaknu, the daughter of, possessed
the knowledge of Brahman, ii,
315. Vâkyakara, i.e. Tanka, i, p. xxii.
Vâmadeva, i, p. Ixv. -- by intuition identifies himself
with everything in the universe,
ii, 37, 37 n., 101. - the Rishi V. saw and understood
it, singing, 'I was Manu, I was
the sun,' ii, 238. -- became Brahman in his mother's
womb, ii, 328. Vâmadevya, knowledge of the, ii,
310. Varuna, Bhrigu, his pupil, i, 199.
with a noose, i, 217 n. - Bhrigu and other sons of Brah
man's mind were again born at
the sacrifice of, ii, 235. - is the lord of all water, ii, 386. - above V. there come Indra and
Pragâpati, on the path of the
gods, ii, 386. - beyond lightning there is V., ii,
386, - the souls are led through the
worlds of V., &c., by the person,
not a man, ii, 389. Vashkalin, Bâhva questioned about
Brahman by, ii, 157. Vasishtba, the son of Brahman's
mind, having parted from his former body in consequence of the curse of Nimi, was, on the order of Brahman, again procreated by Mitra and Varuna,
ii, 235. Vasudeva, a manifestation of the
highest being, i, p. xxiii, 440. - from it originated Sankarshana, i,
p. li. -- a surname of Kapila, who burned
the sons of Sagara, i, 294. - to be worshipped, i, 440. - appears in four forms, as V.,
Sankarshana, Pradyumna, and
Aniruddha, i, 440. is the ultimate causal essence, of which his three other forms (Sankarshana, &c.) are the
effects, i, 440. - objections to the doctrine of the
Bhagavatas as to the four forms
of, i, 441 seq. - the only real essence, i, 442. - and Arguna, dialogue on know
ledge originating in a future
life, ii, 328 seq. Vasus, class of gods, i, 202, 216.
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