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and impurity, on the death of a 149; appeal to the s. of heaven, S., 14, 208; 25, 182; 29, 245; they which are mentioned by name, 3, never say to a S. Thou art destitute 362-4; Tistrya, the bright and of offspring,' 14, 210; a S. who is glorious star (of rain), and other s. without sin and without desires, invoked, 4, 222, 222 n. ; 23, 9, 16; enjoys highest bliss, 15, 172; sen- joint invocation to waters and s., 4, iority among S., 25, 55; descendants 230, 232 n., 234; seed of waters, of S. sanctify a company, 25, 110; earth and plants in the s., 4, 234, only S. entitled to sacrifice, 25, 161; 234 1. ; 23, 9, 16, 104, 106, 175 sq. niggardly S. worse than liberal and n.; size of s., 4, 254, 254 n. ; usurer, 25, 164; are exempt from the constellation s. and those also taxes, 25, 237; cannot be made a not of the constellations, produced witness, 25, 265; fined for not in by Allharmazd, 5, 10-12, 12 n.; viting another S. to a festival, 25, twenty-eight lunar mansions, 5, 11, 322; king and Srotriya are the in.; are a specimen of a warlike upholders of sacred law, 41, 106; army, 5, 12; every month is the theologians, accepting no gifts, owner of one constellation, 5, 25 sq.; present at the Asvamedha, 44, 370. influence of Jupiter and Saturn on Srutabandhu, one of the Gaupâ- life and death, 5, 165 sq.; Tîstar yanas, 46, 415.
and Avrak, constellations of the Srutasena, a Parikshita, offered Zodiac, 5, 168 sq.; appearance of horse-sacrifice, 44, 396.
s. and periods of the day, 5, 371; Srûta-spadha, n.p., 23, 213.
position of the sun and constellaSrûtat-fedhri, the virgin mother of tions, 5, 397-400; worship of s. Ukhshyat-ereta, 23, 195 n., 226, among the Sabaeans, 6, xi; signs of 226 n.
Zodiac guarded from the devils who Sruti, Sanskrit t.t. for divine revela- are pelted with shooting s., 6, 245; tion, 1, xiii; Upanishads belong to 9, 305; he must not look at the s., S., 1, Ixvii; meaning of S. inferred while unclean, 7, 220; God the from Smriti, 34, 145 sq.; the Lord of Sirius, the Dog-star, 9, 254; highest authority, 34, 291 n., 293 Sirius worshipped by the Arabs, 9, sq., 297 n.; 38, 211-14, 262 sq. ; 254 n.; oaths by the S., 9, 326-8; men who are unable to ascertain divine female beings, 12, 269 n.; the true sense of S., rely upon 41, 243 sq.; legend of the Krittikas Smriti, 34, 292; supersensuous and the seven Rishis, 12, 282 sq.; matters cannot be perceived with see also Rishis; the Pleiades as barout S., 34, 293; if in conflict with ricades keeping the fiends from the other means of right knowledge, uppermost sky, 18, 94, 94 n. ; the has to be bent, so as to accord with great Graha, called Kshudratma, the latter, 34, 299; teaching of S., entered the natal asterism of Maha48, 119, 120. See also Revelation, vîra in the night of his death, 22, Scripture, Upanishads, and Veda. 266 sq. ; the Haptôiringas (Ursa Srûtvôk-spâdâk, Av. Srûtô-spâdau, Major), 23, 9, 16, 97, 97 n. ; good high-priest, 47, 83 sq., 83 n.
and bad s., belonging respectively Srûvô, see Animals (i).
to the worlds of Ahura Mazda and Srvara, see Snakes.
Angra-Mainyu, 23, 89 n., 92, 176, Stages of life, see Asramas.
176 n.; 24, 127-38; demons flying Staotar-Vahistahê-Ashyêhê, n.p., about as worm-s, or shooting-s., 23, 23, 211, 211 n., 225.
95 sq., 95 n.; Vanant, Tistrya, HapStaota Yêsnya, see Zend-Avesta. tôiringa, and other s., 23, 175 sq. and Stars, invoked and worshipped, n.; Fravashis watch over the Hap108; 14, 252 sq.; 30, 243, 277; 42, tôiringa s., 23, 194; twelve signs of 161; bodies of great sages become the Zodiac, 24, 34, 38, 245, 245 n. ; S., 2, 160 ; 8, 240 ; 12, 269 n.; 39, 47, 124; duties and influence and 245, 245 n.; 41, 244; to be ex- motion of s., 24, 90-3; are guaramined about wind and weather, 3, dian spirits, 24, 92; comet, the evil
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