Book Title: General Index to Names and Subject Matter
Author(s): M Winternitz
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ 244 GODS the g., 44, 383, 393; in the air, and are mortal, 15, 289; age of the g., in the heavenly light, 46, 245; three 25, 20-2; are invisible, 26, 19: 34, hundred and three thousand g. and 201; do not sleep, 26, 44; 32, 8; thirty and nine did service to Agni, are hidden to men, 26, 76, always 46, 257; the secret names of the g., speak the truth, 26, 95 sq. ; 43, 46, 378; Kshattras among the g., 257 sq., 44, 447; the threefold age 48, 461; wives of the g., see God of the g., 29, 56; 30, 162; are longdesses. See also Devas, Super- lived through ambrosia (amrita), 29, human beings, Suras, and also below 294; the so-called deathlessness of the ik). g. only means their comparatively long (6) ORIGIN OF G. (INDIA). cxistence. And their lordly power also The Devas worshipped breath as is based on the highest Lort and does Bhûti or being, and thus became not naturally belong to them, 34, 130; great beings, 1, 213; anywhere at 38, 17; having several bodies at the the birthplace of a deity, Sraddhas same time, they come to many should be performed, 7, 260; ob. sacrifices, 34, 198–201, 217; 48, tained their divinity by living as 330 sq.; naturally possess all superBrahmakârins, 8, 178; the devotee natural powers, 34, 200, 219; have creates for himself even the divinity certain characteristic shapes without of the g., 8, 250 ; created, 8, 387; which the sacrificer could not repre25, 12, 12 n.; 43, 289; 48, 461; sent them to his mind, 34, 221 sq. ; the sons of Heaven and Earth, 12, possess a body and sense-organs, 225; the highest creation of Brah- 34, 355; 48, 328-30; exist in the man, when he created the g., 15, state of highest power and glory 86-90 ; sprang from the manes, 25, and cannot enter, in this wretched 112; the state of g. reached by the body, into the condition of enjoyers, quality of goodness, 25, 493; ob- 38, 93; may be called light and so tained their authority by means of on, because they represent light and the sacrifice, 26, 27, 36, 39, 46, 101, so on, 38, 388; are free from de174, 445; born of the mind, 26, 42; crepitude, 42, 51, 365: immortality a kind of theogony, 32, 246 sq.; and truth in the g., 42, 84; the g. belief in the existence of the g., 42, love the mystic, 43, 156, 158, 175, 158, 622; were born of the uk- 179, 372, 398, 44, 443 ; made themkhishta, 42, 229; the birth of the g. selves boneless and immortal, 43, is the year, 43, 144; the Brahman 178; are of joyful soul, 43, 339 sq.; (neut.) created the g., 44, 27; after have no loathing for anything, 44, the procreation of the g. offspring is 184, 186; "the patient g. who give produced, 44, 44; are the offspring no reply,' 48, 68; souls of g., 48, of Manu, 46, 42 sq.; originated 198; are liable to suffering, 48,327; from the Self, 48, 367. are qualified for meditation on (c) CHARACTERISTICS, FOOD OF THE divinities, 48, 335-7 ;-Vâyu, the G. (INDIA). eater, and his food, viz. Agni, Aditya, Their exalted character denied, Kandrainas, Ap, 1, 59, 59 n.; sub8, 16 sq., 76, 76 n.; worship the sist on sacrifices, 7, 194; 12, 66 sq., pure great light, 8, 186; become 176; 26, 154; 41, 1; 44, 22, 508 sq.; deluded, wishing for pleasure, 8, sacrificial food for the g. is amrita 322; enlightenment is the character- (ambrosia), 12, 40 sq. ; 26, 191; the istic of g., 8, 348; the path-finding moon is Soma, the food of the g., g., 12, 263 sq.; are immortal, im- 12, 176, 181, 362, 380; 26, xiii ; perishable, 12, 290, 295, 444; 38, 44, 6, 9 sq., 34; the sacrifice their 388; 43, 148; 44, 174; how they food, immortality their sap, the sun became immortal, 12, 310 sq., 343; their light, 12, 361; living food of 26, 147 sq., 346; 41, 157; 43, 220, the immortal g., 26, 201; the souls 256, 356 sq.; 44. 5, 28; are the are the food of the g., 38, 110-12; rays of the sun, 12, 328; 26, 254; the circle of the never-ending food are trebly true, 14, 277, 319; of the g., 43, 221; how the g. eat Digitized by Microsoft ®

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