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

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________________ SOUL when it leaves the body? 8, 252; no mention of the passage of a s. from the earth to heaven, in Buddhism, 11, 165; anointing the cake with ghee means bestowing a s. on it, 12, 438 sq. and n.; offering to the s., best of sacrifices, to be performed by householders, 14, 262-4, 299; worship of the s., identified with Brahman, 14, 278; ascetic sacrifices in his s., 14, 280; journey of the s. from this world through wind, sun, and moon, to the world where there is no sorrow, no snow, 15, 193; passes through three kinds of rays either to the world of Brahman, or to the mansions of the gods, or to this world, 15, 328 sq.; account rendered by the s. of its good and bad works, 18, 28, 31-3, 47, 50, 54, 56, 60, 62 sq., 66, 71; 24, 50, 82 sq.; when dogs and birds tear the corpse, is the s. aware of it? 18, 36-8; food of ss. in heaven and hell, 18, 66 sq. and n., 72; 24, 21 sq., 21 n., 25; relation of ss. to this world, 18, 67-9; angels, ss., and guardian spirits, 18, 120; saving the s. by gifts to the priest, 18, 150 sq. and n.; purpose of the ceremony for the living s., 18, 237-42, 237 n.; 24, 318-20; ceremonial purification cleanses the s., 18, 284 sq. and n.; ss. of animals and of holy men and women, worshipped, 23, 229; 31, 288, 381; fate of the s. after death, 24, 16-25; ss. of the righteous are the happiest, 24, 66; treasurers' of the s., the female spirits who meet it after death, 24, 137, 137 n.; departed ss., when not properly worshipped, complain to Hôrmazd, 24, 274; departed ss., when properly worshipped, protect their former friends, 24, 274; ss. require gifts of garments, 24, 351; body and animal s. go downwards, the intelligent spirit is on high, 27, 369, 444; offerings for the contentment of each man's s., 31, 209, 223; ss. of the dead find delight in works of Asha, 31, 256; Fravashi of the s., 31, 273, 273 n.; sacrifice to the worshipper's own s. and Fravashi, 31, 309, 331, 350; when passing out of the body at the time of death, s. remains in 543 vested with the subtle material elements which serve as an abode to the prânas, 34, lix; 38, 101-12; 48, 584-9; fate of s. of him who possesses the lower knowledge or no knowledge of Brahman, 34, lxxix, lxxxi sq., cvii; 38, 364-404; the s. of him also who knows the highest Brahman departs from the body, 34, lxxxi; is enveloped in the subtle body until it reaches the river Vigarâ, 34, lxxxin.; when it departs from the body all specific cognition vanishes, but the Self is not destroyed, 34, 281; immortal progress of the s., 37, 275; Zaratûst receives the s. of him who gives thought to religion, 37, 330 sq.; every one making his own s. immortal, 37, 394; accompanied by the chief vital air, the sense-organs and the mind, and taking with itself Nescience, moral good or ill-desert, and the impressions left by its previous existences, the s. leaves its former body and obtains a new body, 38, 102; 48, 586; goes enveloped by water, 38, 103-10, 112, 127; ss. are the food of the gods, on account of their not knowing the Self, 38, 110-12; when it descends from the moon, it enters into similarity (not identity) with ether, air, smoke, mist, cloud, and rain, 38, 126-8; passes through the stages of its descent in a not very long time, 38, 128; when descending, the ss. enter into plants animated by other ss., they do not undergo pleasure and pain in that condition, 38, 129-31; after having entered into plants, s. enters into conjunction with one who performs the act of generation, 38, 131 sq.; is to be meditated upon as the sun, 38, 244; the s., with the breath, goes to the elements, 38, 368 sq.; the abode of the s. when about to depart is the heart, and the point of it is lighted up, 38, 377 sq.; is led by the 'person not a man' to the lower Brahman, 38, 389-402; on the passing away of the effected world of Brahman the ss. go together with the ruler of that world to what is higher than that, 38, 391 sq.; flies swiftly to a distance, 42, 8; 'Thy s. I hold Digitized by Microsoft®

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