Bodhisattva, one who has one birth before he attains the state of a supreme Buddha—I. 376; II. 101, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 175, 176, 178, 182, 186, 189, 190, 308, 314, 316, 628.

Bodhisattva Avadána, story of Brahmadatta found in—II. 506 note.

Body of a man who had been a Dánava in a previous birth, preserved embalmed—I. 416; he re-enters it—I. 420.

Boon granted by the hermit Durvásas—I. 111.

Boy of the Bráhmanic caste sacrifices himself to save a king—II. 341; parallels to the story—II. 342.

Bráhman, bestowing goods on a, a means of acquiring merit—I. 199; four stages of the life of a—I. 200 note; hospitality to, costs a couple their lives—I. 240; guilt of killing—II. 204.

Bráhman-Rákshasa, or Bráhman demon—I. 282; II. 338, 511, 573.

Brahmany ducks, separation of during the night—I. 117; II. 559.

Braid of hair worn by a woman as a sign of mourning for an absent husband—II. 436.

Bride, private property of—II. 405.

Bridegrooms, hundreds of killed by a demon (who resembles Asmodeus in the story of the “seven times wedded maid”)—I. 138, 140, 141.

Brigands, belonging to wild mountain tribes—I. 84 and note; make a descent upon a royal grant to Bráhmans—I. 171. (See also Bandits.)

Brothers, story of the two (a common folk-lore tale)—I. 208, 387 note; II. 633.

Buddhism, a king converted to, by a mendicant—II. 175.

Buddhist, red robe of a, compared to the hue of sunset—II. 189.

Bug-bears employed to terrify men searching for treasure—I. 307; II. 631.

Bull of Śiva—II. 111, 139, 522, 576.

Buried treasure stolen—I. 298.

Burning of a house in order to produce a false impression of a princess’s death—I. 61, 107.

Burning-places, delight of Śiva in—I. 6.

Cake, of flour mixed with molasses resembling those offered by the Jews to the queen of heaven—I. 8, and note.

Camel the, treacherously killed by the lion, the panther, the jackal and the crow—II. 36; a man undertakes to teach one to read—II. 636.

Camphor-maiden—I. 380.

Camphor, lumps of, given as a marriage present by the father of the Camphor-maiden—I. 400; bestowed in a marriage ceremony by king Janamejaya—I. 411.

Candle of human fat—I. 306. (See also Addendum to Fasciculus IV; immediately following page 384.)

Cannibalism—II. 616.

Caravan, plundered by a Śavara chief—I. 176; by bandits—I. 262.

Cat, form of, assumed by Indra out of fear—I. 123; liberated by a mouse that gnaws its bonds asunder—I. 297; description of—II. 110; the hypocritical—II. 67, 636.

Cave leading into the infernal regions—I. 416; II. 197.

Centipedes extracted from the inside of a king’s head—I. 264.

Chakravákas, separated at night—I. 117; II. 559.

Chaṇḍála, the generic name for a man of the lowest and most degraded of the mixed tribes—I. 227, 241, 242; II. 56, 490, 491, 496, 509, 511, 512.

Chanting of the Sáma Veda—I. 35.

Chariot that flies through the air—I. 259, 278, 325, 392, 400, 440; II. 146, 553, 556, 624.

Chariyá Piṭaka, story of Tárávaloka found in the—II. 639.

Charm for destroying Rákshasas—II. 70; life-prolonging—II. 136; for producing dreams—II. 175; for producing invisibility—II. 221; for restoring a dead person to life—II. 243 and note.

Chastity, gives power to raise up an elephant—I. 329; to lull to sleep an elephant—330 note; vow of perpetual—I. 257; II. 145; perfection of, illustrated—II. 182.

Cháṭaka, its delight in rain—II. 559.

Child abandoned by heavenly beings—I. 304; birth of, produced by a magic potion—I. 355.

Children, Harasvámin accused of eating—I. 203; French gentlemen accused of eating—II. 630; death of, not to be regretted, as other ones may be got afterwards—I. 397.

Childlessness, sorrow of—I. 320, 321.

Churning of the sea—I. 277; II. 229, 568 note.

Circle, magical—I. 154, 349, 575; II. 571, 629.

Circumambulation, see Desiul.

Cloudless sky, thunder from—II. 446, and note.

Confiscation of goods a more severe punishment than death—II. 383.

Conflict, magical—I. 343 and note.

Consumption, disease of—II. 205.

Cook, Nala disguises himself as a—I. 567; Bhíma disguises himself as a—II. 634.

Coronation, ceremony of—II. 408, 473.

Corpse of another entered by magical power—I. 21; II. 353; a man enters the corpse of his former self—I. 420.

Couple that died of separation, the—I. 105; II. 480.

Courage tested by cutting off the noses of impaled corpses—I. 132; demons much impressed by—II. 207, 357, 361.

Court of the Vidyádharas—II. 439.

Cow, eating the flesh of, a great sin—I. 227; the flesh of, eaten by seven Bráhmans in time of famine—I. 241.

Crabs devour their own parents—I. 249.

Crane devoured by the makara—II. 32.

Criminal, a lady falls in love with a—II. 297, 493, 639.

Crow and the palm, the fable of—I. 271; on the left hand an unfavourable omen—I. 465; feigns to have been wounded by his own friends in order to beguile the owls—II. 69; dissuades the birds from making the owl king,—II. 65, 636.

Crows and owls, enmity between—II. 64, and note; dogs turned into crows—II. 512.

Crowns of snakes—II. 633.

Crown-prince, appointment of—I. 484.

Curse inflicted by a divine being—I. 4, 52, 116; II. 193, 509, end of appointed—ibid.

Curse of a parent—I. 497, 502; II. 291; terrible power of a parent’s—I. 555 note; of a hermit—I. 506; II. 130, 598; of a hermit’s pupil—II. 536; inflicted by a female of the Gandharva race—II. 537; laid on a Vidyádhara by hermits—II. 438; termination of—I. 334, 514; II. 123; termination of appointed—II. 105; appointed end of arrives—I. 389.

Curse imposed on a Vidyádharí terminates—I. 225, 232; a company dispersed by a—II. 150.

Daitya, a demon opposed to the gods, often synonymous with Asura—I. 58, 59, 71, 228, 257, 420, 422, 423, 425, 428, 432, 436, 453, 476; II. 196, 197, 199, 200, 269, 270, 442, 487, 488, 514, 515, 516, 517, 522, 526, 527, 542, 543, 544, 547, 549.

Dánavas, a class of demons often identified with the Daityas. Both classes are identified with the Asuras—I. 71, 116, 417, 420, 422, 423, 425, 428, 429, 432, 436, 444, 448, 453, 472, 476, 481; II. 216, 255, 466, 542, 543, 544, 557, 583.

Dancing considered unbecoming—I. 459; compulsory, caused by magical music—I. 577.

Dasyus, a class of demons, have no power when the sun rises—I. 550.

Daughter of king Chaṇḍamahásena carried off by Udayana king of Vatsa—I. 83; birth of better than that of a son—I. 249; birth of why considered an evil—I. 261.

Dead body of another man entered by magic power—I. 21, 22; II. 353; stupid giant persuaded that he is dead—I. 364; power of resuscitating the—I. 499.

Death, nature of the fear of, taught to a merchant’s son—I. 237; grove impervious to—II. 187.

Deer, punishment inflicted for killing a—I. 166, 575.

Deformity produced by magical spells, for the sake of disguise—I. 74; produced by magic—I. 572; of Yakshas—II. 204.

Deity that presides over a chariot—II. 524; over an omen—II. 617.

Deities, early Indo-Germanic looked upon as of both sexes—II. 638.

Demon, female (Yakshiṇí) gained in marriage by a mortal—II. 193; the twenty-five tales of commence—II. 232; other forms of ibid note; (see Asura, Dasyn, Rákshasa, and Yaksha.)

Desiul, the practice of walking round an object of reverence with the right hand towards it—I. 98 note; 108, 400, 573; II. 83, 365, 435, 447, 629.

Dharna, custom of sitting in—I. 73 note.

Dice—I. 562; II. 221; animated used by the god Śiva—II. 472; a gambler forces the Mothers to play at—II. 575; challenges the god Śiva to play at—II. 576.

Disease relieved by false tidings of calamity—I. 117.

Disputation, princess skilled in—II. 173.

Disputatiousness, the evils of—II. 116.

Distraction produced by the sight of a beautiful woman—I. 104, 294; II. 320.

Distribution of presents on the occasion of a marriage—I. 97.

Doctor Allwissend, story of, traced in India and other countries—I. 274 note.

Dog running from left to right an unfavourable omen—I. 465; story of Lewellyn’s dog Gelert found in India—II. 90 note.

Dogs, men turned into—II. 512.

Dolls constructed by magic—I. 258.

Ḍomba hanged while showing a maid how to hang herself—I. 87, 88.

Donkey, story of the boys that milked the—II. 89.

Doom, day of—II. 467.

Double-headed serpent—II. 88 and note.

Dream, inauspicious—I. 331; seen at the end of the night quickly fulfilled—I. 441; about a Vetála (Vampire), and import of—I. 543; a hero falls in love with a lady seen in a—I. 576; II. 588.

Dream, indicative of recovery from a disease—I. 265.

Dream, a prince informed of his future fortunes in a—II. 365.

Dreams, charm for producing—II. 175.

Dreams immediately before morning true—II. 482 and note.

Drum, beaten while condemned criminals are being led to execution—I. 64; II. 299, 495; story of the jackal and the—II. 30.

Dvápara, Yuga—I. 561, ibid note, 562, 563, 568; II. 275.

Dungeon, of Śakatála, (resembling that of Ugolino)—I. 23.

Ear-ornament, a man concealed in—II. 577.

Earth, goddess of—I. 521; II. 253.

Eastern region, conquest of, why attempted before that of other parts—I. 128.

Eggs, restored by the sea—II. 38.

Elephant, possessing the power of flying in the air—I. 328; II. 540; artificial imitation of, filled with concealed warriors—I. 73; any man that it took up made king—II. 102; raced against horses—II. 125; one the support of a kingdom—II. 139, 500; a man metamorphosed into an—II. 215; tamed by a maiden—II. 489.

Elephants’ cries understood by their keeper—I. 83, 84.

Elephants, wild, tamed by music—I. 67; wild, a party separated by the change of—II. 607.

Eleven-slayer—II. 637.

Emperor, distinguishing marks of—I. 398, 423; II. 499.

Empty vessels inauspicious—I. 190 note.

Entering the body of another man—I. 21. 22; II. 353.

Epomata plays tricks on some young men—II. 628.

Eye torn out by a young prince, because it was admired—I. 247; European parallels to this story—I. 248; II. 630.

Eye, consuming power of a hermit’s—I. 556; conception of the sun as the eye of the world—II. 20, and note; throbbing of the right, a good omen—II. 128 and note.

Eyes, long, considered as a beauty—I. 125 note.

Eye-brows meeting, a sign that a man is a were-wolf or a vampire—I. 157 note, 575; II. 630.

Evil spirits, how averted—II. 198 and note.

Exposure of a child at a king’s door with a sum of gold—II. 331; parallel tales,—ibid note.

Fables of Pilpay, origin of—II. 43 note.

Faithful John, Indian form of the story—I. 253.

Faithless wife punished by cutting off her nose and ears—II. 54.

Famine—I. 549; II. 412.

Fasting employed to propitiate a deity—I. 145, 324.

Fastidious men, story of the three—II. 271–274; parallels to the story—274.

Fat, the result of contentment—II. 76.

Feet touched in taking an oath—II. 551.

Female demon that eats human flesh—I. 60, 212.

Female votary, description of a—II. 444.

Females, the wickedness of illustrated—II. 247—250; parallels to the story, 250.

Festival, lovers meet at a—II. 262, 301, 416, 421.

Fever, produced by a magic rite—I. 30; power of removing by touch—II. 160, 164.

Fever-demon, method of exorcising—II. 165.

Fidelity to a husband confers supernatural power—I. 505.

Five fires, the—I. 332; II. 380.

Fire bursts forth of itself—I. 437; power of kindling at will—I. 567 and note, II. 634; mixed with water—II. 44; of digestion,—II. 194; maidens preparing to enter the—II. 459.

Fire-bleached garments—I. 565; II. 634.

Fire-fly mistaken for real fire—II. 39.

Fire-god evoked by a charm—I. 120; sword of, 130, 132, 135, 139; propitiated in order to obtain a heroic son—I. 244; propitiated by valour—I. 322; boon granted by—II. 434; his son by a Bráhman lady—II. 491; parallel to the story, ibid note.

Fire-god prayed to—II. 548.

Fish that laughed aloud when dead—I. 24, 25; story of the three—II. 37; swallows a man, I. 207; II. 224; swallows a boat, II. 599; swallows a woman—II. 605.

Fisher-boy falls in love with a princess—II. 491.

Flame-linga—I. 3; II. 520.

Flea, story of the—II. 34.

Flesh, a man cuts off his own to feed a demon—II. 361; of a hero’s own body given to a crow—II. 639.

Flight and pursuit, magical—I. 361, 362, 367, 368.

Flowers, rain of—I. 455, 561.

Flying through the air, power of acquired by magic—I. 157; characteristic of heavenly females—I. 256.

Food miraculously supplied—I. 393; II. 633; given to produce a son—II. 216; snake-poison dropped into—II. 296 and note.

Fortune, persistent enmity of, illustrated—I. 516–518; of wealth, and fortune of enjoyment, difference between—I. 533–535.

Fountain that tests chastity—I. 487, and note.

Four accomplished suitors, story of—I. 499; II. 275–277; parallels to the story—II. 277.

Four animal friends—II. 51, 636.

Four brothers who resuscitated a tiger, story of the—II. 348–350; parallels to—II. 351.

Four means of success—I. 313.

Four meditations (see Burnouf, Lotus de la Bonne Loi, p. 431)—II. 99.

Four young merchants baffled and branded by a faithful wife—I. 88, 89, 90.

Frankeleyne’s Tale, the, found in India—II. 281.

Fridolin, story of, found in India—I. 162 note; II. 630.

Friendship between animals—II. 51, 636; story of real—II. 57.

Fruit, consequences of eating in the lower regions—II. 198 and note; given to produce pregnancy—I. 172, 382; birth of a maiden from a—II. 142; that ensures perpetual youth—II. 596.

Fruits, men transformed into—II. 363.

Fulgentins, story of, see Fridolin.

Gambler, reckless profanity of a—II. 575.

Gambler, who obtained the rank of Indra—II. 581.

Gamblers, reckless courage of—II. 205.

Gambling—I. 146, 229; II. 195, 202, 247, 323, 572.

Gambling-hall, description of—II. 221.

Gaṇa, a class of demi-gods, attendant on Śiva—I. 2, 4, 5, 46, 47, 49, 51, 80, 193, 430, 475, 478, 479, 480, 545; II. 209, 210, 211, 332, 346, 347, 466 note, 506 note, 508, 509, 512, 513, 539, 540, 546, 564, 565.

Gandharva, a class of demi-gods that live in the sky, often feared as evil beings—I. 2, 116, 117, 328, 333, 334, 351, 430, 452; II. 218, 230, 231, 430, 431, 432, 444, 446, 460, 518, 520, 521, 525, 526, 528, 560, 597.

Gándharva form of marriage, see Marriage.

Garden, made by magic power—I. 36, 310; II. 477, 628; produced by virtue—II. 179.

Gardeners in the form of birds—II. 533.

Garland that remains fresh as long as chastity is preserved—II. 601.

Garlands, power of making unfading—I. 112, 114.

Garments purified by flames—I. 565; II. 634.

Geese “stop their pipes full of gravel when they fly over mount Tanrus”—II. 635.

Generosity of king Vinítamati—II. 178; shewn by Prabala who hewed to pieces his body made of jewels to benefit the gods, his enemies—I. 432.

Genoveva, parallels to the story of—II. 633.

Giants, two destroyed by fighting for a nymph of heaven—I. 108; II. 583, 629.

Glory represented as white in Hindu poetry—II. 463; hand of—II. 631.

Goat affirmed to be a dog by three rogues—II. 68.

Goat-mime, dance of—II. 578.

Goblins, see Dasyu, Piśácha, Rákshasa, Yaksha.

Goblins, walk only in the night, do not attack the chaste, or vegetarians—I. 43, 338, 550; II. 628; a similar belief found in Prudentius—I. 47 note; pertinacity of—I. 576.

God, a man passes himself off as one—I. 80, 573.

Gods recognised by their not throwing shadows and not winking—I. 561; a similar belief found in Heliodorus—ibid note; engage in combat with heroes, as in Homer—I. 473; defeated by the Daitya Vidyuddhvaja—II. 518.

“God bless you” said when a person sneezes—I. 254 note; II. 631.

Gold, five colossal figures made of—I. 351; pieces found under the pillow of a child when he awakes—I. 12, 571; II. 627; mountain of—I. 316; made out of copper by means of a magic powder—I. 323; island of—II. 286; birds, beasts and trees of—II. 520; city entirely built of—I. 421.

Gold-child root, Mr. Baring Gould’s—I. 355.

Golden City, the princess Kanakarekhá will only marry a man who has seen the—I. 195; found—I. 222; of the Vidyádharas on the Himálayas—I. 327.

Golden deer possessing life—II. 569.

Golden goose—II. 507 note.

Golden lotus—I. 215, 216, 217, 488, 525.

Golden lotuses produced by a skeleton—I. 375.

Golden rose—II. 630.

Golden swans—I. 12, 13; II. 507.

Golden-crested bird—II. 105.

Gold-spitting—II. 453 and note.

Goose, that laid golden eggs—II. 8 note.

Grain thrown in the marriage ceremony—I. 316, 478, 492.

Grammar, supersession of Aindra—I. 17; knowledge of possessed by a princess—I. 38; time required to learn—I. 39; Kátantra or Kálápaka grammar—I. 41.

Grateful animals, story of—II. 103, and note, 637.

Gratitude of ants—I. 577.

Grecian heaven, flight of its inhabitants from Typhoons, compared to the flight of the Indian gods from Vidyuddhvaja—II. 518, note.

Greek romances, points in which they resemble Indian tales—II. 262 note, 370 note, 375 note.

Grey hairs, perturbation occasioned by first appearance of—I. 67; II. 628.

Guhyaka, a class of demons who attend on Kuvera and guard his treasures—I. 37, ibid note, 154, ibid note, 443, 552—II. 83, 464, 465.

Guhyakí, feminine of preceding, identified with Yakshiṇí—I. 338.

Half-moon, on the throat—I. 350.

Hand of glory—I. Addendum to fasciculus 4, following page 384; II. 631.

Hand of a dead man, given as a red lotus, subjects a man to the power of witches—II. 450, and note.

Happy island—I. 525, and note.

Hare, the horn of, an example of the absurd and impossible—I. 370; the hare and the lion—II. 32; in the moon, the—II. 66.

Head of a giant grows again after being cut off—I. 385; cut off and fastened on again—II. 638.

Heads, interchange of—II. 264.

Heart, compared to a lotus, when offered to Lakshmí—II. 141; longing for a monkey’s—II. 636; bird without a—ibid.

Hearts, external—II. 85.

Heaven, entered by a gambler concealed in a lotus—II. 577.

Hell, description of—II. 127: openings leading down to—II. 197.

Herbs, connected with the moon—I. 144; magic, dispelling old age and death—I. 320; magic found in a cavern guarded by demons—I. 443, 444; potent that grow on mountains—I. 414; that protect men against witches—II. 451 note.

Hero referred to some one living further on—I. 205, 206 note; II. 630.

Heroes known by their possessing intelligent horses and conversing with them—I. 574.

Hermit wounded by a king out of jealousy—I. 248; refers an enquirer to an elder brother dwelling at a great distance (a common folk-lore incident)—I. 205, 206 note.

Hide, a man wrapped up in an elephant’s, is carried to the top of a hill by a monstrous bird—I. 77, 572.

High nose, a good feature—II. 635.

Hind, consequences of killing a—I. 575.

Hoopoe of Aristophanes identified with Garuḍa—I. 575.

Horn-producing charm—I. 338.

Horns produced by magic—II. 631.

Horripilation, produced by joy—I. 66, 95; by fear—II. 616.

Horse, worshipped as a god by his master—I. 130; that restored the slain to life by smelling them—I. 444, 445; of a hero—II. 173; of heavenly breed—II. 593.

Horses of the sun, colour of—I. 182.

Human fat, candles made of—I. 306; Addendum to Fasciculus IV, following page 384; II. 358.

Human flesh used in witchcraft—I. 154, 157; eaten in order to obtain magic power—I. 158; a boy becomes a Rákshasa by tasting—I. 210; offered for sale—I. 214; given to a demon—II. 361, 573.

Human sacrifice—I. 63, 65, 176, 226, 488, 548, 550; II. 54, 381, 633; in honour of the dead—I. 336, and note; in India, essay on by Dr. Rajendra Lála Mitra Rai Bahadúr—I. 445 note; employed in witchcraft—I. 349; performed in order to obtain a son—I. 85.

Húnas, the, subdued by Udayana—I. 151.

Hunting, advantages of, as a pastime for kings—I. 243; a vice—II. 337.

Husband forbidden to follow his wife on certain days—II. 290; found with another man’s wife, and saved from punishment by his own wife—I. 91 and note.

Husband’s flesh and blood consumed by the ungrateful wife—II. 101.

Husbands, story of the woman who had eleven—II. 119.

Illness simulated by a female in order to destroy her husband’s friend—II. 84.

Illuminating power of female beauty—II. 133; 407.

Illusion symbolized by a woman—II. 152.

Image that wept—II. 580.

Immersion, vision beheld during—II. 326; parallel to the tale—327.

Impalement—I. 132; II. 299, 329, 495, 617.

Importunity of evil spirits—I. 256.

Imposthume of the Pope cured by laughter—II. 629.

Inauspicious marks—I. 103—II. 319.

Incantations to destroy an enemy—II. 147 (see also Addendum to Fasciculus VIII, immediately following p. 196).

Incarnation of a demigod for the destruction of Mlechchhas—II. 564.

Incendiary habits of the Cornish chough—II. 73 note.

Inexhaustible pitcher—II. 2, and note; charm of broken, 4, and note.

Inviolability of the domain of the Siddhas—I. 136, 142; II. 441.

Invisibility, charm for producing—I. 74;—II. 221; mantle of—I. 571.

Invulnerability—I. 444; bestowed by Śiva—II. 448; produced by a hero being smeared with the fat of a dragon—I. 572; secret of, treacherously discovered and revealed by a woman—I. 70, 71; II. 488.

Iron balance eaten by mice—II. 41, 42.

Jackal the wise animal in India (not the fox)—II. 28.

Jackal turned into an elephant by a hermit—II. 134.

Jew, fable of the Wandering—II. 596 note.

Jewel that renders the weapons of an enemy ineffectual—II. 161.

Jewels of the Chakravartin—II. 462 and note; on the heads of snakes—II. 225.

Jewel-bearing trees—I. 495.

Jewel-lamps—I. 577; II. 368.

Josaphat and Barlaam, Liebrecht’s essay on the sources of—I. 248 note.

Judge, put to death for an inconsiderate decision—II. 181.

Juice of a herb restores the dead—II. 144, 637.

Justice, god of, assumes the disguise of a dove to test the virtue of a king—I. 45; of a lion in order to test the virtue of a boar—II. 177.

Kachchhapa Játaka, original source of the story of the tortoise and the two swans—II. 37 note.

Kali Yuga—II. 275, 391.

Kápálika, description of—II. 571 note, 611.

Kárpaṭika—I. 347 note; meaning of the word—I. 199, 515—II. 265; story of a—II. 614.

Kingdom transferred to a Bráhman in accordance with a prescribed form—I. 333.

Kings, chief vices of, displayed in king Nala—I. 562; temptations to which they are exposed—II. 321.

Kingship, found even among the wild men of the woods—II. 390.

Kinnara, mythical being with a human figure and the head of a horse, in later times reckoned among the Gandharvas—I. 2, 494; made of a jewel—II. 21.

Kiráta, name of a degraded mountain tribe, the Kirrhadæ of Arrian—I. 51 note; II. 147, 149, 388, 389, 393, 394, 401, 404, 407.

Kitchen, service in, especially dear to the young hero—I. 567.

Kite carries off a necklace—I. 530.

Knots, magical—I. 205, 576.

Knowledge, supernatural, conferred by virtue—I. 556, 557.

Kṛita Yuga—II. 275, 415.

Kumbháṇḍas, a class of demons—I. 443.

Kumudvatí, joy of, when the moon rises—II. 559.

Kushmáṇḍas, a class of demons—II. 360.

Lake that washes away sin—I. 553; in the infernal regions—I. 421; marvellous effect of drinking its water, ibid.

Lamps fed with human fat—II. 207.

Language of birds—II. 633.

Languages, use of, abandoned in accordance with a vow—I. 32, 39.

Lanká, the whole ground of, made of wood—I. 79.

Leanness the result of discontent—II. 76.

Leprosy, mention of—II. 97.

Letting go a bull’s tail in order to speak—II. 112; a tree, in order to clap a singer—ibid; European parallels—ibid, note.

Life, half of the allotted period of, bestowed on another—I. 98, 573; a lover restored by the gift of half that of a princess—II. 493; restored to a dead swan by a herb—II. 144.

Light of exceeding brightness streams forth from the head of a saint—I. 418.

Lights used to protect a new born child from demons—I. 189, 246, 305 and note, 397; II. 631.

Lion, man transformed into, released on being shot by a king—I. 37; a maiden rides on a—I. 178, 179; the, represented as king of beasts in German stories—II. 28; made to drown himself by a hare—II. 32, 33.

Lokapála, meaning of the term—II. 528.

Longing of a pregnant woman—I. 173, 435.

Lotus an antidote to poison—I. 553, 554; sky-going chariot in the form of a—II. 455.

Love, brings about the death of three people—II. 346.

Lovers in European romances meet in temples—II. 262 note.

Lower world, openings loading down to—II. 197.

Madness caused by ingratitude to an animal—I. 28; feigned by a hero in order to have an opportunity of finding his beloved—I. 137; feigned for a politic purpose—II. 158; cured by the hand of an ascetic—II. 211.

Magical conflict—I. 343; II. 468.

Males, the wickedness of illustrated—II. 246, 247; parallels to the story—250.

Mándhátar, story of—II. 470 note.

Man-eating woman—II. 616.

Man-hating maiden, story of the—II. 587; European parallels—II. 589.

Man-lion—II. 396.

Marks, auspicious—I. 433; II. 376; falsely asserted to be inauspicious—I. 103, 105; II. 319; on the body indicative of royalty—II. 11.

Marriage, ceremony of—I. 113, 316, 429; II. 146, 406; circumambulation of the fire essential part of the ceremony of—II. 435; ceremony of, requires the presence of parents—II. 402; distribution of presents on the occasion of a—I. 95, 97; II. 628; Gándharva form of—I. 45, 63, 103, 268, 300, 386; II. 210, 226, 238; of a dying thief—II. 329; Svayamvara form of—II. 126 note, 432 note; the consent of the village required for—II. 119; to be celebrated at an auspicious time chosen by the astrologers—I. 279.

Maruts, the—II. 526 note.

Mátanga, name of a tribe of barbarians and outcasts—II. 154, 155, 191, 388, 389, ibid note, 390, 391, 392, 393, ibid note, 401, 407, 489, 490, 491, 495, 496.

Master thief, story of—II. 93 and ff; note on the story of—II. 99.

Medicine that makes a child grow up—II. 60.

Meditation, perfection of illustrated—II. 184.

Melusine, reference to—II. 627, 630.

Memory, charm for miraculously strengthening the—II. 627.

Mendicant wandering, story of—II. 115.

Merchant who struck his mother, story of—I. 554 note; amasses wealth by being permitted to speak to a king—II. 121.

Mice gnaw gold according to Plutarch—II. 635.

Miser, Russian story of, identified with an Indian tale—II. 109 note.

Mlechchha, a foreign barbarian—II. 564, 565, 567, 585, 592.

Moles, knowledge of the arrangement of—I. 25, 26; significance of—I. 469, and note.

Monarchy of a limited character—II. 498.

Moonstone—I. 266.

Mother-in-law invariably cruel to her daughter-in-law—I. 260.

Mothers, the—I. 448, 552; II. 575, 604.

Mountains, their wings cut by Indra—I. 94.

Mouse, taken as capital—I. 34; saves its life from many foes—I. 297.

Mungoose belonging to a Bráhman, kills the snake that was approaching his child—II. 90; parallels, ibid note.

Mustard-seeds give the power of travelling through the air—I. 134; sown by a maiden in order to be able to trace her path home—I. 287; a cure for consumption—II. 208.

Mutilation, the punishment of unfaithfulness—I. 147; II. 54, 81.

Nága or serpent-demon—I. 32, 183 note; II. 54 note, 149 note, 157, 170, 173, 190, 192, 214, 215, 230, 231, 313, 314, 316, 361, ibid note, 362, 364, 366, 386, 543, 551, 568.

Nágí, feminine of the preceding—I. 544, 545, 548.

Nativity, a man’s prognosticates that he will be a thief—II. 180.

Natural character indelible—II. 72.

Necklace, a talisman against hunger, thirst, and death—I. 478.

Nectar carried off from the snakes by Indra—I. 182.

Net, device of the—II. 7.

Night, described as a female ascetic—II. 604; the time when Rákshasas, Yakshas, and Piśáchas walk abroad—I. 43.

Nisháda, name of certain wild aboriginal tribes described as hunters, fishermen, robbers, &c.—I. 241.

Noose, a Ḍomba shewing how to fasten it round the neck, is himself hanged—I. 88.

Northern quarter infested with barbarians—I. 337.

Nose of a wicked wife cut off—I. 147; II. 54, 81.

Nose, high, considered a beauty—II. 45.

Nymphs, clothes of, stolen during bathing—II. 452, 576.

Nymphs of heaven receive brave warriors slain in battle—II. 396.

Oblivion of the beloved object, produced by supernatural power or witchcraft—I. 301, and note.

Obstacles, magical employed to check pursuit—I. 361, 362, 367, 368.

Ointment, that renders invisible—I. 462, 466; magic—II. 150; for the feet that enables a man to travel any distance—II. 594.

Old age, charm for averting—I. 372, 376; death, and sickness, a place untouched by—II. 520; fruits that are a remedy against—I. 259.

Omen, evil, seen at starting on a journey—I. 283; II. 522, 523 note, 617; goddess presiding over the—II. 618.

Omens, knowledge of—I. 278; of approaching battle—I. 411.

Ordeal, trial by—II. 40.

Owls and crows, enmity between—II. 64, and note.

Ox, the, abandoned in the forest—II. 27.

Palace, below the sea—II. 267, and note, 289.

Pandora, Indian—I. 238 note.

Párasíkas, the, subdued by Udayana—I. 151.

Parrot who knew the four Vedas—II. 19.

Páśupata, a follower and worshipper of Śiva in one of his forms as the supreme deity of the Hindu triad—I. 337, 338, 398, 558; II. 94, 140, 146, 211, 223, 324, 326, 352, 353, 450.

Páśupata ascetic, equipment of—II. 146.

Patience, perfection of, illustrated—II. 183.

Peacock, a minister transformed into a—II. 157, 168.

Peacock feathers, bunch of, carried by conjurers—I. 267.

Peafowl, their behaviour at the approach of rain—I. 115, 266; II. 475.

Pearls found in the heads of elephants—I. 177.

Perfection of chastity illustrated—II. 182; of patience illustrated—II. 183; of meditation illustrated—II. 184; of perseverance illustrated—II. 184; of wisdom illustrated—II. 186.

Pestle that brought water—I. 258 note.

Phæacians, their connexion with the Vidyádharas—II. 430 note.

Phaedra, the story of, known to Barbarians—II. 633.

Picture, lover seen in a dream recognised by—I. 276.

Pilgrimage, imposed on a minister to get him out of the way—I. 356; used by a minister as a pretext for going on a voyage of discovery—II. 285.

Pillar, of victory—I. 150; old woman deposited on, by way of revenge—I. 81.

Pipe, magical—II. 632.

Piśácha—goblin usually described as fierce and malignant—I. 4, 5, 32, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49, 255, 256; II. 509, 511, 565; the Vṛihat Kathá originally composed in their language—I. 47, 48.

Pitcher, magical, how lost—II. 635; a prince throws a stone at an old woman’s, in a Sicilian tale—II. 113 note.

Plumage-robes of nymphs stolen by a hero—II. 452 note.

Poison, effect of, counteracted by a spell—I. 461; of a snake dropped into food—II. 296 and note; used by a princess to kill her lover’s friend—II. 239.

Poison-damsels—I. 149.

Poisoned trees and grass—I. 149.

Policy, (Níti) summary of—I. 312; treatises on—II. 459.

Portents, delusive—I. 435.

Portrait, falling in love with a—I. 490 and note, 541; II. 158, 370.

Power conferred by the possession of a necklace—II. 49; by a treasure—I. 126; II. 629.

Powder, magic, for increasing the cutting power of a sword—I. 378.

Prince, strikes a woman by mistake who sends him in search of a wife (an incident common in European folk-lore)—I. 379.

Princess ill-treated by her paramour—I. 169; skilled in disputation—II. 173; of the Gandharvas skilled in painting—II. 530.

Pulinda, name of a barbarous tribe—I. 42, 74; II. 169, 170, 380, 381, 383, 384, 388, 391.

Purse, inexhaustible—I. 571.

Pursuit, magical—II. 632.

Python, a man metamorphosed into a, by eating a gourd—II. 595; restored to his original shape by means of a sternutatory—ibid.

Pyramids, the, haunted by a spirit in the shape of a beautiful woman, that drives men mad—I. 574.

Quarrels between husband and wife due to enmity in a previous birth—I. 188.

Queen well acquainted with Sanskrit, taunts her husband with his ignorance of the rules of Sandhi—I. 38; jealous of a woman of low birth who has five sons—I. 172; got rid of by placing hands, feet and other limbs in her chamber, in order to make the king think her a witch—I. 289; intrigues against her rival—I. 356; endeavours to destroy the children of her rival—I. 383.

Race employed as an artifice to cheat giants out of magical treasures—I. 14.

Rain of Kumára—I. 544, and note; of flowers—II. 455, 474, 521, 527, 543, 566.

Rainwater, desire of the chátaka for—II. 197.

Rákshasa—demon generally hostile to human race (feminine Rákshasí)—I. 6, 25, 26, 43, 60, 77, 78, 138, 139, 141, 143, 144, 151, 159, 210, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 263, 264, 358, 359, 361, 362, 363, 364, 385, 389, 550; II. 70, 165, 259, 260, 290, 297, 390, 487, 524, 525, 529, 531, 551, 565, 602, 603, 609, 615, 629.

Rank detected even in disguise—I. 110.

Rash promise, story of the—II. 278—281; parallels to—281.

Recorder of Hades—II. 187.

Red Lotus, unfading, a sign of the faithfulness of a wife or husband—I. 86, 87; a man’s hand passed off as a—II. 450.

Relief-houses—II. 590.

Remedy against old age and death—II. 270; against old age and disease—II. 596.

Remembering by heart anything heard once—I. 7, 9, 10; II. 627.

Restoring to life dead creatures—II. 277 and note.

Resuscitation of heroes slain in battle—I. 476.

Retirement of a king to the forest in old age—I. 513.

Revenge of Cháṇakya—I. 30.

Riddle propounded by a supernatural being—I. 26; propounded to a princess enables a prince to win her—I. 571; the learned men of a king’s court puzzled by a—II. 118; guessed by the aid of a preceptor—I. 44; II. 236 note.

Ring put into a pail of water by a returning husband to inform his wife of his arrival—I. 142; magical, averting all calamities called íti—II. 173; discovery by means of—II. 629.

Rings, one hundred obtained by the wife of a water-spirit—II. 80.

Ṛishi—I. 42 note, 479; II. 332.

Rose garland, unfading, a sign of the faithfulness of man or wife—I. 86 note.

Sacrifice to obtain wealth—I. 57; of the body to feed a petitioner—II. 190.

Salamanders—II. 634.

Salvation, the nature of, taught to a merchant’s son by a figure—I. 237, 238.

Sandal-wood juice used to irrigate streets on festal occasions—I. 408; used to allay heat—II. 345, 531.

Sánkhya doctrine—I. 418.

Śavara, barbarian or savage—I. 55, 56, 62, 63, 84 note, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 270, 284, 285, 541, 547, 548, 550; II. 20, 154, 155, 169, 191, 355, 381, 382, 383, 384, 390, 391, 393, 401, 403, 407.

Science, magical of the Vidyádharas (Science-holders)—I. 136, 218, 345, 406; appears in visible form—II. 446.

Sculptor, carves a figure of Gaurí on a stone—I. 335.

Sea calmed by a hero flinging himself into it—II. 375; the, a receptacle of jewels—II. 469.

Secret discovered by accidentally overhearing the conversation of supernatural beings—I. 25, 263.

Secret of the vulnerable point of a Rákshasa, revealed by his daughter—I. 71; II. 488.

Secretary of Yama—II. 187.

Seeds, separation of—I. 361 and note.

Selection by the hero of his love from amidst a number of similarly attired maidens—I. 360; II. 632.

Self-cremation—II. 547; of a devoted follower—II. 321.

Self-sacrifice of Jímútaváhana to save a snake—I. 184; II. 315; of the Bráhman Víravara—I. 519—524; II. 251—257; parallels to the story—257.

Self-devotion of king Śivi—I. 45; II. 71.

Sensitive wives, story of the three—II. 281—283; parallels to—283.

Separation, fatal to a married couple—I. 106; II. 480.

Serpent carried in a bamboo to kill an elephant—II. 140; that spoke with a human voice—II. 62; turns into a quiver—I. 438; into a bow—ibid.

Serpent-worship—I. 312, 576; II. 225.

Sesame-seeds, the fool who sowed roasted—II. 44.

Sex, change of in mythology of the Aryan nations—II. 307.

Shampooing—II. 75.

Shape altered by a charm—I. 109; of a Vidyádharí bestowed by magic on a man—II. 437.

Shifty lad, the story of, the same as the story of Rhampsinitus—II. 93 note.

Ship, impeded by the leg of a giant—I. 139; freed by a hero who cuts off the leg—ibid; parallel to the story in Togul. Troi. ed. Stokes—II. 629.

Shipwreck, description of—II. 128, 373.

Shoes that give the power of flying—I. 13, 14, 15, 16; of swiftness—I. 571.

Sibyl, story of found in India—I. 49.

Sick lion, fable of—II. 74 note, 85.

Siddha semi-divine being of great purity and holiness—I. 2, 47, 136, 142, 161, 333, 407; II. 184, 336, 441, 445, 448, 459, 517, 526, 538, 560.

Signs, language of—I. 44; II. 235; of love, conventional—II. 370 and note.

Sirens’ tale found in Ireland—II. 638.

Six courses—I. 313; flavours—II. 76, and note.

Śivas, the gods so called—I. 419.

Skill in chariot-driving and in dice-playing bestowed at will—I. 566.

Skulls, delight of Śiva in—I. 6.

Smile, white according to Hindu poetic canons—I. 125, 127.

Smell of fried eels, enjoyment of, how paid for—II. 87.

Snake similarly represented in Russian and Indian stories—I. 183 note; gratitude of—I. 564; II. 633; delivers a man from prison—II. 107; causes justice to be done to a girl—II. 108 note, (see also Nága).

Snake-bite, effects of counteracted by a ring—I. 61.

Snake-charmer—I. 55.

Snake-demon—II. 54 and note, 99, 149; female enters into a king—I. 544.

Snake-maiden—II. 173.

Snake-worship—I. 312, 576; II. 225.

Snakes devoured by Garuḍa—I. 183, 184, 185; jewels on the crests of—I. 564; corresponding European superstition—ibid, note.

Snakes, spells for subduing—II. 150; crowns worn by—II. 633.

Sneezing, custom of saying “God bless you” in reference to—I. 254, 576; II. 631.

Son, banishment of a favourite, brought about by his brothers—I. 357, 358 and note.

Sons of kings devour their fathers like crabs—I. 249; of rival queens, jealousy between—I. 358; II. 217; king Tárávaloka gives away his two sons to a Bráhman—II. 501.

Speaking immediately after birth of ominous import—I. 119; II. 629.

Spectacle visible at both twilights—II. 600.

Spell for flying through the air overheard by a young man—I. 159; for driving away Rákshasas—ibid; for attracting a Yakshiṇí—I. 467.

Spells for breaking through walls, rending fetters, and becoming invisible—I. 74.

Spitting, terrible consequences of—II. 147.

Spring, description of—II. 411, 479; the season of love—II. 481.

Spring-festival—I. 528.

Staff, magical—I. 13, 15, 16.

Stages of love-sickness—II. 304 note.

Steel, magic virtues of—I. 575.

St. George, story of identified with that of Indívarasena—II. 632.

Stone, Ahalyá turned into—I. 123.

Storms, part played by, in Greek romances—II. 375 note.

Subaqueous palace—I. 58; II. 267, 289.

Substituted Bride, story of—II. 157; European parallels—I. 162 note; II. 637; bridegroom—II. 602.

Success, four means of—I. 68 note; 122.

Suicide to save the life of another—I. 519—524; II. 251—257; parallels to story, 257; to propitiate a divinity—I. 523; II. 170, 464; meditated by kings who had failed to keep the wives of Súryaprabha committed to their care—I. 434; of a king in his old age—II. 483.

Suitors, four baffled by an artifice—I. 17, 18, 19, 20; story of the four accomplished—I. 499; II. 275—277; of the three accomplished—II. 258—260.

Sun-rise, power of demons ceases at—I. 43, 338, 550; II. 628; mountain of—I. 137.

Sun and moon-trees—I. 575.

Swans, husband and wife born as—II. 143.

Swan carries off a necklace and so liberates her mate—II. 144.

Swan-maidens—II. 452, and note.

Swinging a favourite recreation of a princess—II. 122.

Sword, magical, obtained by a hero—I. 69; magical power of—I. 503; that confers the power of flying through the air—I. 559; magical belonging to a snake-demon—II. 150; importance of in sorcery—II. 164 and note; of a hero, II. 172; sword, named Invincible—II. 270, 521.

Tájika—I. 336.

Ṭakka, story of the rich and foolish who submitted to be burnt alive sooner than share his food with a guest—II. 109; General Cunningham’s statement that the Ṭakkas were once undisputed lords of the Panjáb, ibid note.

Talisman against weapons—II. 161; against poison, Rákshasas, old age and disease—II. 551.

Talking immediately after birth—I. 119; II. 629.

Tank in the lower world leading to the upper world—II. 268, 292.

Tasks, magical performed by a hero to win his love—I. 361; II. 632.

Ten stages of love-sickness—II. 304, note.

Ten-slayer, story of—II. 119.

Thalaba the Destroyer, reference to—II. 633.

Thief, a prince gives himself out as a—II. 155, 298, 494; a young lady falls in love with a—II. 299; a merchant’s daughter falls in love with a—II. 495; steals a bedstead from under a man—II. 622.

Thread, animal transformation effected by means of—I. 340; II. 168.

Three accomplished suitors, story of,—II. 258–260; parallels to the story of—260.

Three Bráhmans who restored a dead lady to life—II. 242; European parallels to the story—245.

Three deceitful leeches—II. 636.

Three fastidious men, story of—II. 271–274, parallels to the story—274.

Three very sensitive wives, story of, II. 281–283; parallels to—283.

Three, importance of the number in witchcraft—II. 451, note.

Throbbing of left arm and shoulder an unfavourable omen—I. 465; of the right eye a good omen—II. 128.

Thunder in a clear sky—I. 116.

Tide of the sea—I. 277.

Tides, phenomenon of, alluded to—II. 384.

Tiger feeds an old woman—II. 107 note.

Tischchen deck dich—II. 627.

Tongue, protruded by a vampire—II. 138.

Tongues, of the snakes, how they became forked—I. 182.

Tortoise carried by two swans—II. 37.

Transformation of self at will—II. 632.

Transmigration into the bodies of animals—II. 25.

Treachery to a husband deprives a divine being of her supernatural power—I. 505.

Treasure, power given by means of—I. 126; guarded by a Yaksha—I. 127; buried—I. 147; guarded by supernatural beings—I. 306, 576; II. 631.

Treasure-finder, the—II. 46.

Treasure-trove belongs to the king—I. 529.

Treasury of a king robbed by means of wooden swans—I. 391; of the emperor Octavius broken into—II. 100.

Tree, a beautiful maiden enclosed in a—I. 229; a man transformed into a—II. 148; a queen transformed into a—II. 637.

Trees that bear fruit and flowers at the same time—I. 480.

Tree-spirits—II. 213.

Tree-worship—I. 153, 574, 575; II. 116 note, 387 note, 460 and note.

Tretá Yuga, name of Ujjayiní in—II. 275.

Turushka cavalry defeated by Udayana—I. 151; fetters Niśchayadatta with the intention of sacrificing him to the manes of his father—I. 336.

Tutelary gods for each member of the body—II. 633.

Twenty-five tales of a demon, or Vampire, begin—II. 232; various forms of the introduction to—II. 241.

Ugliness, description of in a woman—I. 157; in a man—II. 602.

Ulcer cured by a Piśácha—I. 255, 256.

Vampire, a corpse animated by, carries a mendicant—I. 133; propitiated by a hero’s offering him his own flesh—I. 231; assumes various shapes—II. 138, 322; animating a corpse utters a terrible shriek—II. 207; the twenty-five tales of commence—II. 232; other forms of—ibid note; made a slave by king Vikramáditya, the Solomon of India—II. 572; devours a kápálika—II. 582.

Vampires, Slavonic superstitions about—I. 74 note; known in ancient Chaldæa—I. 574; and in Egypt, ibid.

Vampirism, theories of Herz and Ralston with regard to—II. 208 note.

Vaiśya, name of the third caste—I. 499, 500, 551.

Vasu, semidivine beings belonging to a class of eight—I. 52, 53, 430, 449, 456, 473, 475.

Vetála or Vampire, mention of—I. 133 note, 211, 255, 458, 543; II. 138, 139, 146, 157, 200, 205, 206, 207, 208, ibid note, 232, 233, 234, 241, 242, 243 note, 244, 245, 248, 249, 250, 251, 256, 257, 260, 261, 264, 265, 271, 274, 275, 277, 278, 280, 281, 283, 284, 292, 293, ibid note, 297, 300, 301, 307, 318, 321, 322, 323, 327, 328, 334, 341, 342, 347, ibid note, 348, 350, 351, 353, 354, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 364, 388, 455, 565, 572, 582, 595, 597, 598, 599, 600, 613.

Vices, of kings—I. 68 note.

Vidyádhara a kind of spirit or fairy possessed of magical knowledge—I. 2, 4, 51, 97, 135, 136, 173, 174, 176, 179, 180, 181, 185, 186, 190, 193, 217, 218, 219, 222, 223, 224, 225, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 238, 239, 267, 269, 270, 282, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 309, 310, 314, 315, 320, 322, 327, 335, 343, 344, 345, 351, 354, 388, 397, 398, 399, 403, 405, 406, 407, 409, 411, 412, 414, 415, 417, 421, 422, 423, 428, 437, 438, 441, 442, 443, 447, 450, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, 472, 474, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 483, 484, 485, 493, 494, 497, 498, 502, 503, ibid note, 504, 507, 508, 513, 514, 519, 526, 527, 528, 547, 556; II. 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 63, 104, 105, 107, 113, 114, 123, 124, 126, 130, 136, 141, 142, 145, 186, 232, 235, 289, 291, 292, 294, 308, 310, 311, 312, 314, 315, 316, 317, 336, 358, 359, 360, 417, 426, 427, 428, 430, 432, 434, 437, 439, 440, 441, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, ibid note, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 477, 478, 480, 483, 484, 485, 486, 496, 497, 498, 502, 503, 505, 506, 513, 515 517, 518, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 526, 528, 529, 532, 533, 537, 538, 539, 540, 546, 550, 555, 558, ibid note, 559, 560, 561.

Vidyádharí feminine of preceding—I. 135, 136, 142, 218, 222, 227, 256, 326, 335, 341, 344, 483, 497, 501, 504, 507, 511, 512, 514; II. 122, 123, 291, 292, 328, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 435, 442, 453, 456, 496.

Vis Medicatrix how interfered with—II. 632.

Voleur Avisé Le—II. 637.

Wager of battle, instance of resort to—I. 396.

Wandering Jew, Indian form of the fable—II. 596 note.

Washing the mouth, hands, and feet imperative before eating—II. 364.

Water, for the feet—II. 548; employed in bestowing gifts—I. 352; II. 329, 502 and note; of Immortality—I. 185 note, 376, 377; II. 190, 317; of ordeal—II. 551; running, folk-lore demons cannot cross—I. 368; used in the coronation ceremony—I. 308, 481.

Water-spirits—II. 80, and note; 154.

Weapon, of Paśupati—II. 542; of Garuḍa—II. 543.

Weapons, magical—II. 527.

Weeping image—II. 580.

Wedding, auspicious day for, fixed by astrologers—II. 372.

Wheel, red-hot and continually revolving, a punishment for disobedience to parents—I. 555; of mundane existence—II. 151, 152.

Wheat roasted before sowing—II. 635.

Whirlpool overhung by a banyan tree, which the hero lays hold of—I. 220.

White, the colour of glory in Hindu poetry—II. 463 note, 549, 567; of laughter—II. 534 note.

Whiteman’s land the same as Śvetadvípa—II. 519 note.

Widow-burning—II. 195, 608, 609, 638.

Widow-burning an old Aryan custom—II. 13, note; 299, note.

Wife burns herself with the body of her husband—I. 52; burns herself on the death of her husband—I. 244; demands her husband’s life as alms—II. 63, 603; devours a man, and her maid a mare—II. 616; story of the ungrateful—II. 101.

Wine mixed with datura—I. 90; mixed with human blood offered to a king by a maiden of the infernal regions—II. 200; practice of drinking—I. 165, 529, 534; II. 428, 433, 469, 476, 480.

Wisdom, perfection of illustrated—II. 186.

Wishing-cow, the—I. 122.

Wishing-stone—II. 8, and note.

Wishing-tree—I. 174; II. 182, 308, 498, 592; that arose out of the sea—II. 286.

Witch, description of—I. 157; punishment of, I. 161; wife of a barber is a—I. 289; attempt to prove a queen to be a—ibid; contest of a benevolent with a cruel—I. 342, 343; wife of a Bráhman becomes a—II. 135; a white witch—ibid; incantation for exorcising the demon of fever taught by a—II. 164; a butcher’s wife a—II. 168; a princess represented as a—II. 240; secures possession of a man by giving him a man’s hand which she passes off for a red lotus—II. 450.

Witches, assembly of—I. 553; II. 604; sport in a cemetery—I. 159; II. 240; with Bhairava—I. 553; cannibal propensities of—I. 158; II. 450; image of Bhairava dear to—II. 387; fight between two parties of—II. 453, 605; charm that keeps witches at a distance—II. 605.

Women, seclusion of, reprobated—I. 328.

Wounds, miraculously healed—I. 348.

Yaksha demigod attendant on Kuvera employed to guard wealth, (feminine Yakshí and Yakshiṇí)—I. 4, 37, 43, 58, 91, 127, 230, 250, 259, 306, 307, 323, 337, 338, 339, 341, 342, 343, 443, 452, 467; II. 3, 83, 116, 118, 171, 172, 173, 193, 194, 204, 214, 451, 565, 571, 572, 582, 583, 584, 585, 594.

Yoga doctrine—I. 418, 420 note.

Yogins, power of entering another body possessed by—I. 417, 418.