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ascesis, asceticism;
see also ásk
ē
sis
;
tapas

asham
(“guilt,” offering for guilt)

ashes

ásk
ē
sis
(“exercise,” “ascesis”)

Asuras (anti-gods)

a
ś
va
(horse);
see also a
ś
vamedha
; horse

A
ś
vala

a
ś
vamedha
(“horse sacrifice”);
see also
horse

a
ś
vattha
(
Ficus religiosa
);
see also pippal

A
ś
vins

Atharvaveda
;
see also
hymns

Athena

Athens

ā
tman
(“Self”);
see also
Self

Atri

attention

Aua

auctoritas

Augustine of Hippo, Saint

authority

avabh

tha
(ritual final bath)

awakening;
see also
wakefulness

Bachmann, Ingeborg

bala
(“strength”)

bandhu
(“bond,” “nexus”);
see also
connections; correspondences; equivalences; nexus;
sampad
;
upani

ad

barbarian

Bardamu

barley

barter

Battle of the Ten Kings

Baudelaire, Charles

being, nonbeing;
see also asat
; existence; manifest;
sat
;
satya
; unmanifest

Benveniste, Émile

Bergaigne, Abel

Berkeley, Busby

Berthelot, René

Bhaga

Bhagavad G
ī
t
ā

bhakti
(“devotion”)

Bharadv
ā
ja

Bharata

Bh

gu

Bhujyu L
ā
hy
ā
yani

bh
ū
man
(“fullness,” “superabundance”)

bh
ū
r
,
bhuvas
,
svar
(ritual exclamations)

Biardeau, Madeleine

Bible; Epistle to the Hebrews; Genesis; Gospels; Leviticus; Numbers

birds

birth

Black Age

Black Yajur Veda

blood

blood sacrifice

Bloy, Léon

Bodewitz, Hendrik Wilhelm

body

boons and curses

Bouvard and Pécuchet

bow

Brahm
ā
;
see also
Praj
ā
pati

brahman

Br
ā
hma

as

brahmavarcasa
(“brahmin radiance”)

brahmin, brahminic

brahmodya
(disputation on
brahman
);
see also
disputation

brain

bread

breath (
pr
āṇ
a
)

breathing;
see also pr
āṇ
a
; vital breaths

B

had
ā
ra

yaka Upani

ad

B

had
ā
ra

yakopani

adbh
āṣ
ya
(
Ś
a

kara)

B

haddevat
ā
(attributed to
Ś
aunaka)

B

haspati

b

hat
ī
(meter of thirty-six syllables);
see also
meters

bricks (
i
ṣṭ
ak
ā
);
see also
fire altar;
i
ṣṭ
ak
ā

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter

Brummell, George Bryan

Buddha

Buddhism

budh
- (“to awaken,” “to be attentive,” “to understand”);
see also
awakening; wakefulness

Budha

Buphonia festival

Bürgel

Cain and Abel

Caland, Willem

Candramas

capital punishment

Castle, The
(Kafka)

Catholic Church;
see also
Council of Trent; Vatican Council, Second

caturvi
ṃś
a
(“twenty-fourth,” a
soma
sacrifice)

Cebes

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

chance

Ch
ā
ndogya Upani

ad

chant, chanter (
udg
ā
t

);
see also s
ā
man
;
S
ā
maveda
;
udg
ā
t

chaos

chariot

charogne, Une
(Baudelaire)

China

Christianity, Christians;
see also
Catholic Church; Vatican Council, Second

cities

citta
(“mind”);
see also manas
; mind

civilization

clarified butter;
see gh


(ghee)

classification

clothing

Coetzee, J. M.

coitus, copulation (
mithunam
)

commedia dell’arte

community

completeness

connections;
see also bandhu
; correspondences; equivalences; nexus;
sampad
;
upani

ad

connective mode of thought

Conrad, Joseph

consciousness

consecration (
d
ī
k
ṣā
)

consent to kill;
see also
appeasement; killing

continuity

continuum and discrete

contradiction

convention

Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish

correspondences;
see also bandhu
; connections; equivalences; nexus;
sampad
;
upani

ad

cosmogonies

Costello, Elizabeth

Couchoud, Paul-Louis

Council of Trent

cows and oxen

Craftsman (Tva
ṣṭṛ
)

creation (
s
ṛṣṭ
i
);
see also
world

Crito

Cronos

Cyrus the Great

Dak

a

dak

i
ṇā
(“ritual fee”)

Dandekar, Ramchandra Narayan

darbha
(
Desmostachya bipinnata
)

Darwin, Charles

Daumal, René

Dawn (U

as)

day;
see also
night

death (
m

tyu
);
see also
M

tyu

death, recurring (
punarm

tyu
)

death sentence

debt (
ṛṇ
a
)

Decius Mus, Publius

De Filippo, Eduardo

Delphi

Descartes, René

desire (
k
ā
ma
);
see also k
ā
ma

destruction;
see also mash

it

detachment (
ty
ā
ga
);
see also ty
ā
ga
; yielding

Deussen, Paul

Devas (“gods”);
see also
gods

de Vaux, Fr. Roland Guérin

devayajana
(“place of offering of the gods”)

devay
ā
na
(“way of the gods”)

devotio
;
see also
self-sacrifice; suicide

devour, devourer;
see also
food and eating; predators

dh
ā
-
(“establish,” “place”)

dharma
(“law,” “order”);
see also
law; world order

dh
ī
(“thought,” “vision,” “contemplation”)

dhi
ṣṇ
ya
(fires)

dh
ū
rv-
(“to injure”)

dhy
ā
na
(“meditation”);
see also
meditation

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