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The Kādambarī of Bāṇa

Part 2 — INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SANSKRIT WORDS.

C. M. (Caroline Mary) Ridding translation

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y

A.

Acala, a man, 17

Acchoda, lake, ix, 92, 102, 103, 108, 112, 189, 191, 195, 199

Açoka, a tree (Jonesia Açoka), 40, 43, 117, 178 note, 186, 194

Açvamedha, sacrifice, 138

Açvatthāman, a warrior, 138

Abhimanyu, a warrior, 137, 138

Aditi, a goddess, 213

Agastya, a sage, xi, 18, 19, 20, 49, 210

Aghamarshaṇa, hymn, 38, 141

Agni, xvi, 4, 9, 11, 14, 35, 41, 45, 72

Āhavanīya, fire, 40

Airāvata, Indra’s elephant, 5, 46, 85, 86, 96, 109, 133, 215

Ajātaçatru, a king, 50

Akbar, xiv

Alakā, a city, 9

Alarka, a king, 88

Amṛita, nectar, 8, and passim

Anaṅga, god of love, 66

Andhaka, a demon, 47, 214

Añjali, the salutation of joined upraised hands, 38

Anubandha, 180

Anunāsika, a nasal sound, 11

Apavaktraka, metre, xii

Apsarases, the, nymphs, 64, 100, 101, 102, 112, 140, 207

Arhat, xvi, 162

Arishṭā, an Apsaras, 102

Arjuna, a hero, 18, 137, 138 (Kārtavīrya, a king, 27)

Arthapati, a Brahman, 2

Arthāpatti, xix

Arundhatī, 46

Āryā, metre, xii, 11 note

Āshāḍha, 36, 46, 105

Asura, demon, 9, 63

Aube, river, xv

Aucityavicāra-carcā, viii

Avalokiteçvara, xvi, 162

Avantī, a province, 199

B.

Babhruvāhana, a warrior, 138

Badarikā, a hermitage, 216

Bakula, a tree, Mimusops elengi, 16, 144, 178

Bala, v. Balarāma, 22

Bāla, a king, 213 note

Balāhaka, a warrior, 61, 62, 63, 65, 69, 70, 171

Balarāma, brother of Kṛishṇa, 8, 33, 51, 97, 156

Bāṇa, or Bāṇabhaṭṭa, the author, vii, viii, xii, xiv, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, 3

Bāṇa, a demon, 1

Bendall, Professor, xiv

Bhagīratha, a king, 3, 25, 37, 47, 72, 88

Bharata, a king, 47, 60, 72, 88, 102, 147, 161, 196, 212

Bhatsu, a guru, 1

Bhīma, a warrior, 60, 78, 216

Bhīshma, a warrior, 30

Bhoja, xviii

Bhṛigu, a sage, 138

Bhūshaṇa, or Bhūshaṇabhaṭṭa, viii, xxiii, 183

Brahmā, 2, 3, 10, 35, 39, 41, 55, 94, 96, 101, 105, 134 note, 147

Bṛihadratha, a king, 53

Bṛihaspati, a sage, 4, 11, 46 note, 50

Bṛihatkathā, xii, 3 note, 212

Birthless, the, 1

Budha, a star, 214 note

Buddha, xvii

Buddhacarita, 94 note

C.

Çabara, a mountaineer, 26, 27, 28, 29, 81, 82, 88

Çaça, a man, 17

Caitraratha, a wood, 102

Çaiva, follower of Çiva, xvi, xvii, 217

Cakora, a partridge, 189

Cakravāka, the ruddy goose, 20, 47, 67, 92 note, 94, 114, 127, 142, 144, 145, 160, 162, 214, 218

Çakuni, a man, 40; a bird, 21, 40

Çākyamuni, xvi, 217

Çāl-tree, Valeria Robusta, 92

Çālmalī, the silk-cotton-tree, Bombax Heptaphyllum, 21

Campak, a tree, Michelia Champaka, 2, 117, 150, 219

Caṇḍakauçika, a sage, 53

Caṇḍāla, a low caste, viii, x, xvi, 6, 8, 9 note, 10, 13, 16, 204, 205, 206

Caṇḍikāçataka, viii

Candrāpīḍa, the hero, viii, ix, x, xi, xvi, xxi, xxii, 59, and passim

Candraprabhā, a place, 95

Çāntanu, a king, 182, 188

Çarabha, 73

Çāstras, sacred law-books, xi, 2, 3, 10, 15, 39, 40, 42, 49, 62, 76, 79, 212, 217

Çatadhanvan, a king, 64

Cātaka, a bird, 94

Çatakratu, Indra, 87

Çatrughna, a prince, 212

Çesha, king of serpents, 50, 51, 73, 85, 89, 95, 96, 123, 158, 165, 173, 213, 215

Chattaji, xiv

Çikhaṇḍī, a warrior, 30

Çirīsha, or Sirīsha, a flower, 69, 181

Citrabhānu, a Brahman, 3

Citraratha, a Gandharva, 102, 140, 143, 151, 159, 169, 207, 208

Çiva, vi, x, xi, xvii, 3, 7, 8, 14, 17, 21, 30, 36, 39, 41, 46, 47 note, 49, 50, 51, 52, 56, 63, 82 note, 85, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 103, 104, 108, 109, 135, 137, 141, 162, 164, 167, 182, 189, 207, 210, 211, 212, 214, 215

Çlesha, xix

Cowell, Professor, vii, xiv, xxii

Çrāddha, rites for the dead, 39

Çrī, or Lakshmī, 8, 9, 17, 105, 217; a tree, 17

Çruti, Divine tradition, 3

Çūdraka, a king, viii, x, xiv, 3, 207

Çukanāsa, a Brahman, ix, xvi, xviii, 49, 50, 57, 58, 59, 61, 71, 72, 76, 84, 89, 161, 170, 174, 188, 189, 190, 197, 200, 201, 202, 207, 217, 218

Çukra, a sage, 50

Cūtalatikā, 145

Çvetadvīpa, the white continent, 97

Çvetaketu, a sage, 108, 109, 127, 197, 203, 207

Cyavana, a sage, 138

D.

Daçapura, a city, 187, 188

Daçaratha, a king, 47, 50, 53, 88, 215

Daksha, 102, 141

Dakshiṇa fire, 40

Damanaka, 50

Daṇḍaka, wood, 22, 27

Daṇḍi, 37 note

Dharba, a grass, 46

Dharma, god of Justice, 4, 18, 35, 41, 50, 127

Dhārtarāshṭras, 93

Dhaumya, a priest, 50

Dhṛitarāshṭra, a king, 137

Digambaras, xvi

Dilīpa, a king, 88

Disobedient, the, Duḥsāsana, 49

Divine mothers, 199 note

Drauṇi, Açvatthāman, 36

Draviḍian, 172

Dṛiḍhadasyu, an ascetic, 19

Duḥçalyā, 137

Dundhumāra, a king, 47

Durgā, wife of Çiva, 9, 17, 29, 30, 31, 49, 50, 55, 56, 102 note, 141, 162, 172

Durgeçanandinī, xiv

Dūrvā grass, 84, 94

Duryodhana, a king, 21, 40

Dūshaṇa, a warrior, 27

Dvandva, a pair, 101 note

Dvīpa, a continent, 50

E.

Eastern Mountain, 23

Ekalavya, a king, 28

Elā, cardamons, 16

F.

Fäerie Queene (Spenser’s), xxii

First-born, a star, 49

Fuel-bearer, Dṛiḍhadasyu, 19

G.

Gangā, or Ganges, 3, and passim

Gandhamādana, an elephant, 86, 165; a mountain, 162 note, 216

Gandharvas, heavenly beings, ix, 3, 100, 102, 108, 112, 113, 120, 137, 138, 140, 141, 143, 152, 153, 158, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166, 184, 191, 196, 201, 207, 209, 210

Gāndharva, marriage, 208

Gārhapatya, fire, 40

Garuḍa, king of birds 2, 29, 62, 63, 64, 212

Gaurī or Durgā, 96, 112, 132, 213, 214

Ghaṭotkaca, Bhīma’s son, 30

Ghee, or ghī, xvii, 38

Goçīrsha, sandal-juice, 133

Godāverī, a river, 19

Gomaya, 40

Gorocanā, a yellow pigment, 8, 84, 104

Guhyakas, demigods, 100

Guṇavinayagaṇi, viii

Guñja, a shrub, 28

Guptas, a dynasty, 2

Guru, religious teacher, and passim

H.

Haṃsa, a Gandharva, 102; a bird, 5, and passim

Hari, Vishṇu, 1

Hariṇikā, 145

Hārīta, an ascetic, 35, 46, 202, 203, 206, 207, 208, 209

Haritāla pigeons, 122, 145

Harivaṃça, 29 note, 37 note, 138, 213

Harsha Carita, Professor Cowell and Mr. Thomas, vii, viii, xvii note, xx, 1, 159 note

Harsha, or Harshavardhana of Thāṇeçar, vii, viii, xvii

Hemajakūṭas, a tribe, 90

Hemakūṭa, a mountain and city, 102, 113, 143, 163, 167, 171, 172, 186, 207, 208, 209

Hiḍambā, a demon, 78

Himālaya, mountain, 14, 92, 210, 212

Himavat v. Himālaya, 92

Hiouen Thsang, xvii note

Hiraṇyagarbha, the golden egg, i.e., Brahmā, 2

Hiraṇyakaçipu, a demon, 30

Hiraṇyāksha, 213

Homa sacrifice, 39

Hybiscus Mutabilis, note, 169 note, 175

I.

Indian Literature, History of, by Weber, xviii

Indische Studien, Weber’s, 97 note

Indra, a god, xii, 3, 6, 18, 48, 50, 61, 63, 64, 65, 87 note, 102, 136, 204 note

Indrāyudha, a steed, 62, and passim

Itihāsas, The, legendary histories, 60

J.

Jābāli, an ascetic, ix, x, xi, 35, 40, 43, 202, 203, 204

Jain, xvi

Jālapāda, an ascetic, 46

Jarāsandha, a king, 50, 53

Jātaka, xvi

Jāti, a flower, Jasminum Grandiflorum, 9

Jayadratha, a king, 137

Jinadharma, 212

K.

Kabandha, a Rākshasa, 20

Kāça, a grass, 40, 97

Kadalikā, 144

Kadamba, flower, 112

Kādambarī, the heroine, i, viii, xxi, 140, 145, and passim; the book, i–xxiii, 3

Kadrū, Çesha’s mother, 213

Kailāsa, a mountain, ix, 3, 7, 47, and passim; a man, 74, 75

Kaiṭabha, a demon, 51

Kakkola, a plant, 16

Kalahaṃsa, a teal, 12, 24, 35, 39, 67, 79, 92, 104, 144

Kālakūṭa, poison, 78

Kālī, Durgā, 28

Kali Age, the Iron Age, 96, 215

Kālindī, a bird, 150, 151, 194

Kalpa, the tree that grants desires, 86, 145, 160, 174

Kāma, god of love, 66, 69 note, 81, and passim

Kamalinikā, 145

Kāmandakīya-Nīti-Çāstra, xiv

Kandala, plantain, 161 note.

Kandalikā, 145

Kaustubha, Vishṇu’s gem, 51, 57, 78, 158

Kapiñjala, a Brahman, xix, 111, 115, 118, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129, 131, 133, 134, 196, 197, 207

Karīra, a plant, 16

Karṇīsuta, 17

Kārtikeya, war-god, 3, 49 note, 66, 92, 96, 162, 215 note

Kathā, xii, xviii

Kathā-Koça, xvi

Kathā-Sarit-Sāgara, xi, xiii

Kāvya-Prakāça, xx

Kesara, a tree (Mimusops Elengi), 85 note, 104, 109

Kesarikā, 144

Ketakī, a tree (Pandanus Odoratissimus), 16, 144, 147, 177, 210

Keyūraka, Kādambarī’s page, 141, and passim

Khāṇḍava Wood, 35

Khara, a warrior, 27

Kīcaka, a warrior, 18

Kindama, a sage, 137

Kinnaras, mythical beings with human bodies and horses’ heads; later, reckoned among the Gandharvas as musicians, ix, 90, 91, 98, 99, 143, 145, 162, 186, 197

Kimpurusha land, 102, 161, 173

Kirātas, mountaineers, 90

Krauñca, Mount, 48, 92

Kṛipa, a man, 36

Kṛishṇa, a god, xvi, 4, 7, 8, 21, 29, 30, 37, 66, 73, 93, 95, 138, 162, 216

Kshapaṇakas, xvi

Kshemendra, viii

Kshīroda, a man, 140, 141

Kuça (son of Sītā), 17; (a grass), 18, 19, 23, 38, 40, 43, 45

Kulavardhanā, a woman, 58, 59, 74

Kulūta, country, 75

Kumāra, the war-god, 49, 66

Kumārapālita, a minister, 11

Kumudikā, 144

Kuntī, a queen, 137

Kuṭaja, a tree (Wrightea Antidysenterica), 97

Kuvera (god of wealth), 4, 108 note, 204 note, 216; (a Brahman) 2

L.

Lakshmaṇa, brother of Rāma, 19, 20, 212

Lakshmī goddess of fortune, x, 9 48, 77, 206, 209

Lavalī, a tree (Averrhoa Acida), 144, 215

Lavalikā, 144

Lavaṅgikā, 145

Linga, Çiva’s emblem, 95

Lopāmudrā, wife of Agastya, 18, 19

M.

Madalekhā, Kādambarī’s confidante, 148, 150, 156

Madana (god of Love), 8, 17; (the thorn-apple), 17

Mādhavī, creeper, 194

Madhuban, grant, vii note, xvii

Madhukaiṭabha, a demon, 17

Madhukarikā, 145

Madirā, 140, 151, 208

Magadha, a country, 53, 148

Mahābhārata, the epic, 40, 49, 53, 60, 88, 93, 162, 201, 212

Mahābhisha, 201

Mahāçvetā, a Gandharva princess, ix, x, xi, xiii, xvi, xx, 103, 113, 142, and passim

Mahākāla, Çiva, xvi, 47, 53, 200, 210, 213, 214

Mahāvarāha, Vishṇu’s Boar-avatar, 17, 30, 85, 145, 213

Mahāvīra fires, 2

Mahisha, a demon, 9

Mahodaya, a hall, 196

Maina, a bird, 2, 11, 39, 145, 150, 194, 219

Maināka, Mount, 211

Makarandikā, xi

Makarikā (a betel-bearer), 52; (an attendant), 144

Malabārī, woman of Malabar, 16

Mālatikā, 144

Mātanga (of Caṇḍāla birth), 8, 9, 10; (a man), 28

Mālatī (Jasminum Grandiflorum), 12, 14, 69, 157, 194

Mālavīs, women of Malwa, 211, 214

Malaya, hills of Malabar, 9, 51, 105, 124, 179, 186, 192

Mānasa, a lake, 23, 41, 51, 113, 190

Mandara, Mount, 48, 50, 64, 78, 85, 162 note.

Mandāra, the coral-tree, 105, 174, 210, 211, 215

Māndhātṛi, a king, 57, 88

Maukharis, the, a family, 1

Manoramā, Çukanāsa’s wife, 57, 72, 174, 189, 207

Manorathaprabhā, xi

Mantra, hymn, 39, 56, 200

Maruts, the winds, 100

Mātṛikās, the, goddesses, xvi, 56

Mathurā, a city, 201

Mattamayūra, 168

Mayūrikā, 145

Meghadūta, 96 note

Meghanāda, a warrior, 171, 174, 175, 185, 187, 191, 198, 201

Menakā, an Apsaras, 138

Meru, Mount, 3, 6, 19, 64, 85, 87, 114

Milky Ocean, 2, 85, 86, 95, 96, 102, 109, 125, 156, 166, 174

Mṛinālikā, 144

Mṛittikāvatī, a city, 64

Mukuṭatāḍitaka, viii

Mūla, a constellation, 46

Muni, an Apsaras, 102

Muni, an ascetic, 39, and passim

Muñja, a grass, 19, 39, 104

N.

Nāga, a snake, 30, 138; an elephant, 30

Nahusha, a serpent, 19, 20, 47, 201

Nala, a king, 47, 50, 215

Nalacampū, viii, xiv

Nalakūbara, a god, 108

Nandana, Indra’s wood, 21, 57, 109

Nārada, a sage, 60, 162

Naraka, a demon, 37

Nara-Nārāyaṇa, Arjuna and Kṛishṇa, 216

Nārāyaṇa, Vishṇu, 4, 8, 48, 50, 54, 58, 64, 78, 182

Narmadā, or Nerbuddha, river, 27, 215

Netra, a tree, 18

Nipuṇikā, 144

Nishāda, a musical note, 30; a mountaineer, xi, 28, 30

Nṛisiṃha, or Narasiṃha, Vishṇu in his Man-lion Avatar, 3, 85

P.

Pakshapāta, partiality, 40 note, 211

Palāça, a tree (Butea Frondosa), 18, 19

Pallavikā, 145

Pampā, a lake, 20, 24

Panasa, bread-fruit tree, 39

Pāñcālī style, xviii

Pañcavaṭī, a district, 19

Pāṇḍavas, The, 18 note, 93

Pāṇḍu, a king, 137

Paraçurāma, avatar of Vishṇu, 6, 27, 61

Parihāsa, a parrot, 150, 151, 194

Parīkshit, a king, 138

Pārijāta, coral-tree, 109, 110, 112, 117, 126

Pārvatī, wife of Çiva, 8, 63, 103

Pārvatīpariṇaya, viii

Patralekhā, the hero’s confidante, 75, 86, 89, 141, 164, 167, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 191, 193, 195–197, 208

Persia, 62

Peterson’s Edition of Kādambarī, vii, viii, xii, xvii, xix, xx, xxiii

Pipal, a tree (Ficus Religiosa), 56

Pippalī, long pepper, 145

Pitṛis, the Manes, 14, 39

Prajāpati, the Creator, 10, 96, 144, 169

Pramadvarā, an Apsaras, 138

Pramathas, demons, 47, 210

Pramati, an ascetic, 138

Prithurāja, a king, 4

Priyaṅgu, panic seed, 139

Pulastya, xi

Puṇḍarīka, a Brahman, ix, x, xi, xiii, xix, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 109, 110, 115, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126, 128, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197

Purāṇas, sacred legendary histories, 10, 40, 60, 189, 200, 212

Purushottama, Vishṇu, 79 note

Pushkara, a place, 37 note

R.

Raghuvaṃça, 94 note

Rāghavapāṇḍavīya, xx

Raghu, a king, 20

Rāhu, the demon of eclipse, 1, 31, 36, 52, 80, 96, 214

Rajanikā, 144

Rākshasas, demons, 137

Rallakas, deer, 220

Rāma, a king, son of Daçaratha, 19, 20, 21, 27, 40, 50, 212, 215

Rāmāyaṇa, the epic of Rāma, 40, 60, 201, 212

Rambhā, an Apsaras, 64

Raṅku deer, 23, 220

Rapin, 105 note

Rasa, poetic charm, xiii note

Rasanopamā, xix

Rati, wife of the god of love, 8, 67, 69, 96, 102, 104, 137, 144, 214, 215

Rāvaṇa, the demon King of Ceylon, 1, 18, 19, 20, 27, 86, 96, 215

Rig-Veda, 38 note

Rishi, a sage, 38, 100; Ṛishis, the Seven (or Seven Sages), Ursa Major, 23, 38, 41, 45, 46, 84, 90, 216

Ṛrishyāçṛiṅga, a hermit, 53

Rohiṇī, wife of the Moon, xxi, 124, 159, 206, 208, 209

Rudra, Çiva, 40

Ruru, an ascetic, 138

S.

Sāgarikā, 144

Sāhitya-Darpaṇa, xii, xviii, xix, xx, 212 note

Sāma Veda, 2, 37 note

Sāṃkhyā philosophy, 212

Saudāsa, a king, 201

Sandīpani, a Brahman, 138

Saptacchada, or Saptaparṇa, a tree (Alstonia), 18, 28, 81

Sarvāstivādin, 212 note

Sarasvatī, goddess of eloquence, xiii, 2, 3, 4, 41, 104, 105

Satī, a wife killing herself at her husband’s death, 69

Sena, a Gandharva, 102

Sephālikā, a tree (Nyctanthes Arbor Tristis), 7, 23

Setubandha, Mount, 215

Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice,’ ‘Julius Cæsar,’ xix

Siddhas, the, semi-divine beings, 45, 56, 98, 108, 137, 210

Sinduvāra, shrub (Vitex Negundo), 46, 97, 159

Sindhu, Sindh, 137

Siprā, river, xvi, 59, 185, 211

Sirīsha, v. Çirīsha, 162

Sītā, wife of Rāma, 17, 19, 20

Smṛiti, divine tradition, 2

Soma, juice of a plant used in sacrifice, 2, 3, 40; (the moon), 36, 125, 204 note

Somadeva, xi

Somaprabha, xi

Sthūlaçiras, an ascetic, 64

Sthūlakeça, an ascetic, 138

Subandhu, xx

Subhāshitāvali, viii note, 1

Subrahmaṇyā, Vedic verses, 39

Sumanas, xi

Sumitrā, wife of Daçaratha, 215 note

Sunāsīra, Indra, 50

Supārçva, Mount, 162 note

Suras, the, the gods, 63

Sūrasena, a king, 137

Sushumnā, a ray of the sun, 106

Suvarṇapura, a city, 90, 91

Svabhāvokti, description of natural properties, xx

Svayaṃvara, the choice of a husband by a princess, 180

T.

Tālī, a palm-tree, 161

Tamāla, a tree (Xanthochymus Pictorius), 3, 16, 18, 27, 28, 34, 46, 99, 117, 144, 154, 161

Tamālikā, Kādambarī’s betel-bearer, 150, 156, 159, 164, 172, 173, 175

Tārā, wife of the monkey king, 24; wife of Bṛihaspati, 46

Tāraka, a demon, 49

Taralaka, a fawn, 194

Taralikā, Mahāçvetā’s betel-bearer, 112, 114, 115, 123, 124, 126, 127, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 139, 141, 142, 157, 158, 165, 191, 192, 193

Tārāpīḍa, a king, ix, x, 47, 50, 59, 72, 84, 88, 147, 161, 170, 197, 198, 207, 208

Tawney, Mr. C, xi, xvi

Telugu-Canarese, xiv

Thomas, Mr. F. W., vii, xxiii

Tilaka, a sectarial mark on the forehead, 8, 17, 105; (a tree), 17

Triçaṃku, a king, 6, 90, 201

Tridaṇḍaka, the three staves of an ascetic, 39

Tripuṇḍraka, a sectarial mark, 129

Tripura, a town, 214

Tryambaka, Çiva, 1

Tvaritaka, a man, 199, 200

Twice-born, the, Brahmans, 2

U.

Uccaiḥçravas, Indra’s steed, 62, 64, 78

Ujjayinī, a city, ix, xvi, 47, 138, 161, 170, 172, 173, 185, 189, 197, 199, 209, 210

Ulūpā, a snake-maiden, 138

Umā, the goddess Durgā, 30, 182

Ūrṇā, hair meeting between the brows, xvii

Ushmāpas, The, spirits of ancestors, 44

Uttarā, a princess, 137, 138

Uttara-Rāma-Caritra, 27 note

Utpalikā, 144

V.

Vācaspatya by Vācaspati, Tāranātha, 180

Vaçishṭha, a sage, 46 note, 50

Vaibhāshikas, a Buddhist school, 212 note

Vaiçampāyana, a parrot, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, 10, 13, 15, 16, 200, 202, 206, 207, 218; Çukanāsa’s son, 59, 60, 61, 65, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 87, 89, 141, 164, 167, 170, 172, 174, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191

Vainateya, Garuḍa, 4

Vaka, a demon, 29

Vakrokti, xx

Vaktra, xii

Vallisneria, a water-plant, 22, 69, 163

Vanamālā, 21 note

Varuṇa, god of ocean, 17, 20, 36, 90, 92, 204 note; a tree (Crataeva Roxburghii), 17, 158

Vāruṇa, wine, 17

Vāsavadattā, 3 note

Vasudeva, a king, 201

Vāsukī, a serpent, 64, 66, 216

Vasus, the, gods, 40, 201

Vātāpi, a demon, 19

Vātsyāyana family, vii, 2

Veda, 1 note, 3, 15, 39, 41, 50, 56, 96, 101, 110, 200, 203

Vedāṅgas, works explaining the Vedas, 50

Vedānta Sāra, 180 note

Vibhāṇḍaka, an ascetic, 54

Vicitram, xix

Viçravasa, a god, father of Kuvera, xvi, 217

Viçvāmitra, a sage, 50

Viçvāvasu, a Gandharva king, 138, 162

Vidyādharas, inferior deities, xi, xii, 141, 145

Vilāsavatī, a queen, 51, 52, 55, 57, 58, 50, 69, 73, 74, 76, 84, 161, 174, 184, 188, 190, 199, 202, 207, 217

Vindhya, forest, viii, 6, 16, 28, 33; mountain, 18, 22, 28, 30

Vīnā, lute, 10

Vinatā, mother of Garuḍa, 2, 4

Vipula, a man, 17

Virāṭa, a king, 18, 137

Viriñca, Brahmā, xvi, 162

Virodha, xix

Vishamam, xix

Vishṇu, 1, 3, 18, 33, 39, 45, 48, 53, 57, 72, 79 note, 82 note, 158, 213, 215

Vishṇu-Purāṇa, 1 note, 27 note, 41 note, 44 note, 106 note, 120 note, 134 note, 162 note, 201

Vṛishaparvan, Çiva, 50

Vṛishṇi, a family, 137

Vyāsa, a seer, 30

W.

Weber, Professor, xviii, 97 note

Y.

Yajur Veda, 2

Yakshas, demigods subject to Kuvera, 9

Yama, god of death, 4, 16, 85, 204 note

Yamadagni, a Brahman, 201

Yamunā, the river Jumna, 8, 9, 22, 28, 33, 88, 156, 175

Yayāti, a king, 47, 201

Yoga, practice of religious concentration, 39, 49, 128

Yojanabāhu, a demon, 20

Yojanagandhā, Vyāsa’s mother, 30

Yuddhishṭhira, a king, 50

Yuga, era, 144

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