General Index to Names and Subject Matter

Author(s): M Winternitz
Publisher: Oxford

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ADITI
the king's consecration, 41, 90; invoked for long life, 42, 50 sq.; invoked to protect the wife, 42, 181; invoked in Aprî hymn, 46, 237; oblations to A., 12, 304 n., 307 sq.; 44, xlii sq.; opening and concluding (rice-pap) oblations to A., 26, 47-51, 259, 386; 44, 140; ricepap for A. at the new moon sacrifice, 44, 5 sq.; pap offering to A. at the third seasonal sacrifice, 44, 76, 76 n.; pap offerings to A. at the Sautrâmanî, 44, 213 n., 268; her share in the Soma feast, 26, 259 sq.; offering to A. in the Queen's dwelling, 41, 60; offering to A. at the Dasapeya, 41, 125; animal sacrifice for A., 41, 125 sq.; the sacrificial ladle, the second hand of A., 42, 183; divinities born from the brahmaudana eaten by A., 42, 629; a rope addressed as A.'s zone, 44, 474.
Aditya, the Sun, a god.
ADITYAS
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92; Agni, Vâyu, and A., 15, 48 sq.; 30, 114, 231; 41, 204; 43, 90 sq., 187; 44, 508; Agni, Vayu, and A. are the hearts of the gods, 43, 162; Agni, Vâyu, and A. are all the light, 41, 210, 239; 43, 388 sq.; Agni, Vâyu, A. are light, might, glory, 44, 173 sq.; Maruts, A., and Brahmanaspati, 42, 126; Suna and Sîra- Vâyu and A., 12, 445 n. (c) A. IN PHILOSOPHICAL
(a) His mythological character. (b) A. and other deities.
(c) A. in philosophical and esoteric teaching.
(d) Worship of Â.
(a) HIS MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTER. Born from the egg, 1, 55; the unborn child, 41, 405; ruler of the sky, 43, 208, 382; the deity in the eastern quarter, 15, 146; why the sun is called Â. (etymology), 15, 310; 44, 130; a being of great merit, 48, 237; the moon is his food, 43, 335; as bowman in the east, 42, 192; Â. Vivasvat, father of Manu, 25, Ivii; one of the Vasus, 15, 140 sq.; 44, 116; is the surveyor of food offered to the ancestors, 30, 228; mentioned in the Anugîtâ, 8, 219; the white Yagur-veda revealed by A., 15, 226; line of battle invented by A., 29, 234.
(b) A. AND OTHER DEITIES.
A form of Agni, 41, 284; 43, 363; A. is one-third of Agni or Fire, 15, 75; 43, 402; Agni, Vâyu, A., and Kandramas identified with four fires, 44, 127; A. is heat and light, to him offering is made in Agni at the Agnihotra, 44, 112 sq.; A. and Indra protected by Trishamdhi, 42, 127 sq.; Indra is A., yonder sun, 43,
ESOTERIC TEACHING.
Â. is the highest Brahman, 1, 54 sq.; 15, 302; 34, 216; 38, 342-5: meditations on A., 34, 216 sq.; 38, 342-5; is one foot of Brahman, 1, 54; 34, 216; secret union of Agni and A., 15, 46; is the eye, 15, 81; 26, 39; in the pupil of the eye, 15, 106; 48, 417; the blood of the woman is a form of Agni, the seed of the man a form of A., 1, 232; is the essence squeezed out from heaven, 1, 70; the Sâman verses squeezed out from A., 1, 70; the Upâmsusavana stone is A. Vivasvant, 26, 240, 354; the Adhvaryu priest identified with A., 15, 122; 29, 195; the ideas of A., &c., are to be superimposed on the members of the sacrificial action, 34, lxxvii; 38, 345-9; worlds of A., 15, 131; the soul reaches A. as the fruit of pious works, 38, 347, 385. (d) WORSHIP OF A.
AND
Who brings to light, invoked by the teacher, 2, 114; invocation of A., the dweller in heaven, 15, 335; Dyaus with A. invoked in danger, 29, 232; the student worships A. as lord of the vow, 30, 156; invoked at the Samâvartana, 30, 163; invoked against the enemies, 42, 128; deity of Gagatî metre, 43, 330; a new moon offering to A., 12, 375; leads him who performs the twilight devotions up to heaven, 14, 249; the A. cup, 26, 408; witnesses watched by A. and other gods, 33, 245; see also Sun, and Surya. Aditya, the Soma cow is an A.,
26, 59. Adityas, a class of deities.
(a) Their mythological character. (b) The A. and other deities. (c) Worship of the A.
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