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object, the spirit is concentrated, 40, 15; no more deadly weapon than the w., 40, 84, 84 n.; repress the impulses of the w., 40, 87; w. or testament, see Inheritance. See also Sankalpa, and Volition. Will-o'-the-wisp, or 'little shiner,' 42, 411.
Wind: Aryan storm myths, 4, lxiv; spell against the w.-daêva, 4, 140; the powerful W., made by Mazda, 4, 213 sq.; 31, 291; Bâd, the W., invoked and worshipped, 4, 213 sq.; 23, 10, 18, 166, 285, 334, 352; 31, 256, 277, 291, 346; description of the w. spirit, 5, 169; chief among those that blow, 8, 90, 90 n.; Krishna is the W., 8, 97; carries away perfumes, 8, 112; comes from the eternal divine being, 8, 192; heat in the body urged by a sharp w., 8, 237 sq.; the soul shaken abont by the w., 8, 239; one of the ten fires at the allegorical sacrifice of the sense-organs, 8, 261; presiding deity of nose and smell, 8, 337, 349; the three constituent elements, w., bile, and phlegm, 8, 343 n.; presiding deity of skin and touch, 8, 350, 350 n.; is the source of the feeling of touch, 8, 352; purifies, 14, 171; purified by Ka, 14, 331; appeased by Keresâsp, 18, 372, 376 sq.; 37, 198, 198 n.; both angel and demon, 18, 372 n.; 24, 17 n.; Indian philosophers on the nature of w., 22, 9 n.; sins caused by actions injuring the lives in w., 22, 13 sq.; Tistrya worshipped on the day of Bad (the W.), 23, 92; assists Tistrya, 23, 102; the fiend-smiting W. present at the ordeal, 23, 170; victorious W. helps in battle, 23, 191; not to ease nature against the w., 25, 136 sq.; a guardian deity of the world, 25, 185, 216 sq.; king to emulate the w., 25, 396 sq.; tells the gods the thoughts of man, 26, 94; Ws., 'the noisy goddesses,' invoked to protect cattle, 29, 99, 99 n.; invoked for protection, 29, 349; the quarters, the consorts of W., 30, 213; the bounteous W. of blessed gift, 31, 256; the good and holy W., 31, 277, 326; as the wind cannot be pointed out, yet exists, so
Nirvana, 36, 106 sq.; the breath of nature, 39, 177; the bad man reproaches the w. and reviles the rain, 40, 242; Pañkavâtîya, or oblation to the five ws., 41, 48-50; invoked in a medical charm, 42, 14; breath from the w., eye from the sun, 42, 56; mind fashioned from the w., 43, 6; is everywhere, 43, 33 sq.; deity and metre, 43, 53; by means of the twenty-onefold hymn-form one frees both rain and w. for living beings, 43, 68; Vâyu is the w., 43, 142; is the arrows of the Rudras in the air, 43, 165; Vâta, the w., as a Gandharva, the waters, as the Apsaras, his mates, 43, 232; is on this side of the sun, and also in this and the other world, 43, 235 sq.; bestowing the w. (which blows in the three worlds) on the fire-altar by the oblations of air,' 43, 235-7; fire, sun, moon, quarters pass into the w., 43, 333; kindled by the fire, 43, 399; one of the six doors to the Brahman, 44, 66 sq.; all beings, indeed, pass over into the w., and j from out of the w. they are again produced, 44, 84; 'from the w. I take thy breathings,' 44, 133; the w.-names (Ocean, Flood, Unassailable, Irresistible, Favourable, Ogress-ridder), and offerings to the W. under these names, 44, 478 sq.; the aerial ocean is the w., 44, 479; deities identified with the W., 44, 479-81; five kinds of w., as living beings, 45, 218, 218 n.; origin and feeding of w.bodies, 45, 397; Agni goes along with the flame-coloured Ws., 46, 187. See also Breath, Maruts, Prânas, Sacred objects, Vâta, and Vâyu.
Wine, see Spirituous liquors. Winter, see Seasons. Wisdom, is beneficial, like fire, 5, 394; wise men, 10 (i), 23-6; Buddha explains the state of w., 10 (ii), 128-31; the sevenfold higher w., seven kinds of w., 11, 9, 14, 61, 63, 306; 35, 128; how a Bhikkhu may obtain higher w., 11, 233; w. and justice, 18, 11 sq.; every good achieved through w., and the best w. is the pure religion, 18, 20 sq.; created as an appliance of man, 18,
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