General Index to Names and Subject Matter

Author(s): M Winternitz
Publisher: Oxford

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ANIMALS ANIMAL SACRIFICES
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329 sq. ; jackal produced from the prosper ; therefore is the slaughter intestine of the dead body filled (of beasts) for a sacrifice no slaughwith foul matter, 44, 203; simile of ter. The sin of him who kills deer the leech, 36, 347; simile of the for the sake of gain, is not so great lion, 36, 338-40; origin of lion, 41, (and visited less heavily) in the 131; the lion is vigour, 43, 38; world to come, than the sin of him moles mystically connected with who eats meat which has not been carth and Agni, 12, 278 sq. and n.; offered to the gods. Plants, cattle, mole is Rudra's animal, 12, 440; trees, amphibious animals, and birds, at mole-hills, a sacrifice to the king which have been destroyed for the of moles, 30, 114 ; monkeys as human purposes of sacrifice, obtain exaltamonsters, 5, 60 n.; simile of the tion in another existence in which monkey, 36, 292 sq. ; mules are they are born as Gandharvas, or good, if tamed, 10 (i), 77; she-mule other beings of a high rank),' 7, 169; cannot conceive, 29, 363 ; 30, 178; flesh of animals slain for sacrifices 42, 545; she-mule dies when she may be eaten, 2, 270, 270 11.; slaughfoals, 35, 236, 236 n. ; simile of the ter of animals for a. s. permitted, mungoose, 36, 329 ; otters sacrifice S, 289 sq.; 14, 26 sq. and 1)., 54,71; fish in spring, 27, 221, 251, 251 n.; 25, 172-6; occasions on which a. s. similes of the panther, 36, 285-7 ; should be offered, 29, 87-9, 88 n. ; porcupine used in charms against 30, 256 sq. ; though implying injury snake-poison, 42, 428; simile of the to living beings, a. s. offered in acrat, 36, 328; let him wander alone cordance with the Veda, is a sacred like a rhinoceros, 10 (i), 6-11; simile duty and leads to heaven, 25, 175 of the scorpion, 36, 328 sq.; simile of sq. ; 38, 130 sq., 310; 48, 598 sq.; the road spider, 36, 351; simile of not alluded to in the Riksamhitâ, the squirrel, 36, 284; 'treading on 44, xvii; the Aprî hymns destined the tail of a tiger,' expression for for the Prayaga offerings of the a. s., what is hazardous, 16,78 sq., 80 n.; 46, 9; a hymn used at the ritual of tiger's skin used at the coronation, the a. s., 46, 283 sq.; he who offers 41, E1, 91-3, 96, 105, 105 n.; 12, 11 living victims will reside high in sq., 378-80; tiger typifies danger heaven, 46, 24 ; the sacrificial fires to life, 42, 110, 518; tiger is vigour, long for the sacrificer's flesh, he 43, 38; origin of tiger, 44, 203, offers to them an animal to redeem 215; inan-tiger, similar to were- himself, 44, 118 sq.; he who perwolf, 44, 414; Will o' the risp, 42, forms a. s. eats food every six 411; wolves, four-legged and two months in yonder world, 43, 299; legged, 37,86; ceremony on a place by a. s. the sacrificer confers upon attacked by worms, 30, 128 sq.; himself immortal lite, 44, 118 sq. ; charms against worms, 42, 22-5, by sacrificing he-goats, ewes, and 313-20, 452-5; exorcism of vermin cows, he gains these animals, 44, infesting grain, 12, 142. Other 218; in pressing Soma, they slay it, animals, see separately, and also the animal victim is slain, the haParables (c).
viryagña is slain with mortar and Animal sacrifices.
pestle, and the two mill-stones, 12, (a) History of a. s.; different views about
308 ; 26, 65, 340; 44, 2; substitutthem.
ing lower for higher animals, and (6) Different kinds of a. s.
vegetable for a. s, 14, xxxvii ; when () The victim. (d) The Yûpa, or sacrificial post to which
they spread the sacrifice, they kill the victim is bound.
it, 44, 2 sq. ; origin and development (a) HISTORY OF A. S.; DIFFERENT of a. S., 12, 50-2; 26, 178 sq.; rice VIEWS ABOUT THEM.
and barley the sacrificial essence of It is for sacrifices that beasts have all animals, 26, 199, 199 1.; the been created by the Self-existent cake a symbol of a. s., 12, 49-52 (Brahman) himself. Sacrificing and 11.; anima's constitute a sacricauses the whole universe to fice, 14, 155 ; ascetic censuring an
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