Handbook of History of Religions

Author(s): Edward Washburn
Publisher: Sanmati Tirth Prakashan Pune

Page 649

pessimism, 306, 314, 316 ff.
phallus (see li[n]ga), 150, 414, 443, 470. 471, 528, 544.
Ph[=a]nsigars, 494.
Philo, 555.
philosophy (see S[=a][-n]khya, Ved[=a]nta), 141, 495.
Phoenicia, 543.
picture-worship, 374, 557.
pipal-tree, see bo-tree.
Pic[=a]cas (see devils), 415.
planets, 367, 415, 545.
plants, worship of (see trees), 540; plant-souls, see metempsychosis.
Plato, 2, 559.
Plotinus, 561.
pocket-altars, 475.
pole-rite, 378, 443, 534.
political divisions, 26, 27.
polyandry, 467, 535.
polygamy, 533.