Authors: Roberto Calasso
Tags: #Literary Collections, #Essays, #Social Science, #Anthropology, #Cultural
plan (
sa
ṃ
kalpa
)
Plato 357
Pleiades
Plotinus
Plutarch
poet
poetry
Polynesia
Porphyry
positivism
potestas
;
see also k
ṣ
atriya
power
Powys, John Cowper
Praj
ā
pati;
see also
Brahm
ā
; Ka
pr
āṇ
a
(“breath,” “life”);
see also
breath;
ṛṣ
is
; vital breaths
pr
āṇā
gnihotra
(“libation in the fire of breath”)
pr
āś
itra
(“first portion”)
prati
ṣṭ
h
ā
(“foundation”)
prav
ṛ
tti
(“progression,” “activity”)
prayer
predators, prey;
see also
food and eating; devour, devourer
prehistory
priest
primates
primitive
Prometheus
prose
Proust, Marcel
P
ṛ
thiv
ī
(“Vast,” the earth)
punarm
ṛ
tyu
(“death recurring”)
Pune
Pur
āṇ
as (“Antiquities”)
p
ū
r
ṇ
a
(“full,” “fullness”)
Puru
ṣ
a (“Person”)
puru
ṣ
amedha
(“human sacrifice”)
p
ū
rve dev
āḥ
(“earlier gods”)
P
ūṣ
an
Pythagoras
quality
quantity
quantum mechanics
quincunx
Rak
ṣ
as (wicked demons)
R
ā
m
ā
ya
ṇ
a
Ramses II
rapture
rasa
(“taste”)
Rasmussen, Knud
ratio
Rau, Wilhelm
ṛ
c
(“praise”);
see also
formula;
mantra
;
Ṛ
gveda
reader
reality
reason
recursive procedure
reflection (
ch
ā
y
ā
);
see also
self-referentiality
Reformation
reincarnation;
see also
death, recurring
release (
mok
ṣ
a
;
mukti
)
religion;
see also
Christianity, Christians
Renou, Louis
renouncer (
sa
ṃ
ny
ā
sin
)
renunciation (
sa
ṃ
ny
ā
sa
)
Republic
(Plato)
residue (
ucchi
ṣṭ
a
);
see also
Ś
e
ṣ
a;
ś
e
ṣ
a
;
ucchi
ṣṭ
a
Ṛ
gveda
ri
ṣ
-
(“to wear out”)
ritual, liturgy, ceremony;
see also
gestures; sacrifice
ritual fee (
dak
ṣ
i
ṇā
)
rival, malicious (
dvi
ṣ
an bhr
ā
t
ṛ
vya
ḥ
)
ṛṇ
a
(“debt”)
Roman Catholic Church
Rome
Roth, Joseph
ṛṣ
is
(“seers”)
ṛ
ta
(“order,” “truth”)
Rudra;
see also
K
ṛśā
nu;
Ś
iva
Sabbath
sacrifice;
see also agnihotra
;
a
ś
vamedha
;
sattra
;
soma
sacrifice
sacrificer (
yajam
ā
na
)
sacrificial post (
y
ū
pa
)
S
ā
dhyas
Śā
kalya, Vidagdha
sale
salilá
(“wave,” “primordial ocean”)
salvation through sacrifice
s
ā
man
(“melody,” the
mantras
of the
S
ā
maveda
)
S
ā
ma
ś
ravas
S
ā
maveda
;
see also
hymns
sambh
ā
r
āḥ
(“utensils,” “accessories” for the liturgy)
sambh
ṛ
-
(“to collect,” “to prepare”)
sa
ṃ
hit
ā
(“collection”)
ś
amit
ṛ
(“appeaser,” slaughterer);
see also
killing
sa
ṃ
kalpa
(“intention,” “plan”)
sa
ṃ
ny
ā
sin
(“renouncer”)
sampad
(“that which happens together,” “correspondence,” “equivalence”);
see also
bandhu
; correspondences
sa
ṃ
sk
ā
ra
(“sacramental ceremony”)
samudrá
(“sea,” “ocean”)
Sanatkum
ā
ra
Śāṇḍ
ilya
Ś
a
ṅ
kara
Sanskrit
Sappho
Saptar
ṣ
is (“Seven Seers”)
Saptasindhu (“Land of the Seven Rivers”)
Śā
radvat
ī
Sara
ṇ
y
ū
Sarasvat
ī
River
sat
(“that which is,” “being,” “manifest”);
see also
being, nonbeing; manifest
Ś
atapatha Br
ā
hma
ṇ
a
Sat
ī
sattra
(sacrificial “session”)
sattva
(“luminous quality”)
Saturn
satya
(“truth”);
see also
truth
Satyak
ā
ma J
ā
b
ā
la
S
ā
tyayajña
Satyrs
sautr
ā
ma
ṇī
(rite dedicated to Indra, the “good protector”)
Savit
ṛ
S
ā
ya
ṇ
a
Scarpetta, Eduardo
Schaller, George Beals
Schayer, Stanis
ł
aw
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schreber, Daniel Paul
Schroeder, Leopold von
science
secrecy
secularization
secular morality
secular society
Self (
ā
tman
);
see also
ā
tman
self-emptying (
kén
ō
sis
);
see also kén
ō
sis
self-existing (
svayambh
ū
)
self-mortification
self-referentiality;
see also
ā
tman
; reflection; Self
self-reflection
self-sacrifice
semen
Semiramis
Senart, Émile
serpent
Ś
e
ṣ
a
ś
e
ṣ
a
(“residue”);
see also
residue; surplus;
ucchi
ṣṭ
a
Seven Seers (Saptar
ṣ
is);
see also r
ṣ
is
sex, sexual pleasure;
see also
coitus
Siberia, Siberians
Silburn, Lilian
silence (
t
ūṣṇī
m
)
Simon, Erika
simulacrum
Sirius
Ś
iva;
see also
Rudra
skin;
see also
clothing; nakedness
sky
sleep
society
Socrates
soma
(“juice”)