General Index to Names and Subject Matter

Author(s): M Winternitz
Publisher: Oxford

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AGNI
expiatory rite, 30, 197; 44, 505; invoked at the sprinkling of water, 12, 22; 30, 226; invoked in the Sâmidhenî verses, 12, 102 sq. n., 103-13, 120 sq.; prayers to A. at the setting up of the sacred fire, 30, 201-3; prayer to A., when the fire goes out, 29, 134; invoked at domestic sacrificial rites, 29, 27, 29, 174 sq., 201, 207; invoked at the Vagapeya, 41, 38; daily worship of A., 42, 149; addressed at the ordeal by fire, 33, 108 D., 109 sq., 255; the priest propitiates A. and the gods, 12, 134 sq.; accomplishes all blessings invoked by the priest on the sacrificer, 26, 184; identified with the front part of the warchariot in a battle-charm, 42, 120; gazing reverently at A.'s light, 41, 193; worshipped by King Suddhodana, 49 (i), 22; lord of prayer (Brahmanaspati), 32, 82, 94; accepts the hymn even of the poor sacrificer, 46, 23; carried by prayers as by a vehicle, 46, 130; has been produced or strengthened by prayer, 46, 160, 240, 296, 304, 413; him the pious seek to win by their prayers as the first of the gods, 46, 352; is the voice of praise while heaven and earth listen, 12, 249; deviser of brilliant speech, 46, 215; invoked to make the prayers prosper, 46, 266, 303, 335; wise thoughts for prayers come from A., 46, 352; Gâyatrî, the metre of A., 12, 96, 96 n., 297, 307, 355; 44, 106; the Gâyatrî is A., 26, 87; 43, 178; is of Gâyatra nature, 41, 148, 161, 167, 196, 232, 324, 358, 374; 43, 120, 243, 247, 268, 277, 300, 385; metres in relation to A. (firealtar), 43, 328-31. (u) A. AS CONNECTED WITH VEDA AND VEDA-STUDY.
The Rik verses squeezed out from A., 1, 70; 44, 102; Rikas connected with A., 30, 152 sq.; worshipped at the end of the Svâdhyâya, 29, 219; the Rishi of a Kânda, 30, 242; he who has studied the Veda is like A., 41, 146; has discovered the Sâman for man, 46, 335, 337; invoked at the Upanayana, 29, 189 sq.; 30, 149, 151, 153, 155-61;
is the teacher of the initiated student, 29, 188, 306; 30, 151; the Brahmakârin given in charge of A., 29, 64, 79; 30, 154; 44, 86; prayer to A. at the Samâvartana, 29, 313; invoked by the teacher, 2, 114; the Brahimakârin worships A., 29, 66, 75 sq., 83, 307 sq.; offering to A. by the student who broke his vow, 25, 454 sq.; invoked by the student doing penance, 29, 362; the organs, &c., of an unchaste student go to A., 2, 294, 294 n.; is the Lord of Vows, 12, 3; 26, 45, 99, 161; 30, 64, 156, 162; 42, 18; see also above, p. 14, A. Vratapati; the vow belonging to A., 29, 229. (v) A. IN HIS MORAL CHARACTER.
A. and Rita, 46, 103, 160-2, 164, 228, 240, 372, 382, 385, 393 sq.; the guardian of Rita, 46, 1, 259, 282, 325; kindled on behalf of the Rita, and born from the Rita, 46, 32 sq., 54, 161, 181, 220, 281; penetrated by Rita, 46, 70; the charioteer of Rita, 46, 158, 229, 350; in the abode of Rita, 46, 248, 412; is the divine upholder, 43, 194; is the truth, 41, 226, 281; is true and righteous (Rita-vat), 46, 88, 100, 164, 292, 340, 343, 350, 363; the laws (vrata) of A., 46, 22, 23, 67, 206, 244; administers the law of the gods, 46, 22, 31; immortal A. honours the gods and has never violated the laws, 46, 232; lord of high laws, 46, 42; understands the divine laws and the birth of the human race, 46, 70, 181, 240; has proclaimed his rules to the mortals, 46, 164; his law is not set at naught, 46, 213, 215; the purifier, 46, 6, 8, 52, 115, 211, 228, 241, 257, 259, 261, 275, 296, 335, 341, 343, 375, 382, 414, 418; invoked to purify defiled food, and all sin, 15, 312; invoked to forgive sin, 44, 265; 46, 249, 354; announces the sins of men to the gods, 46, 325 sq.; sins confessed to A., 46, 372; he infringes upon A., who does not give the sterile cow to the Brahmans, 42, 177; leads forward the man who follows crooked ways, 46, 22, 26.
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