Chapter 22

HINDUS, truthful character of, 52; the charge of their untruthfulness refuted, 53; origin of the charge, 54; different races and characteristics of, 55; testimony of trustworthy witnesses, 55; their litigiousness, 60; their treatment by Mohammedan conquerors, 72; reason for unfavorable opinion of, 76; their commercial honor, 82; their real character transcendent, 126; their religion, 127; sacrifices and priestly rites, 148; knowledge of astronomy, 153; first acquainted with an alphabet, 224.

HINDUSTANI, 95.

HIRANYAGHARBA, 164.

HISTORY, its object and study, 34; its true sense, 44.

HITOPADESA, fables of, 110.

HOTTENTOT river names, 188.

HOMERIC HYMNS, 140; heaven and earth in the, 176.

HUMAN Mind, study of, India important for, 33.

HUMBOLDT Alexander von, on Kalidasa, 110.

HYDASPES, 192.

HYDRAOTIS, or Hyarotis, 191.

HYPASIS, or Hyphasis, 191.

I.

IDA, 156.

IDRISI, on the Hindus, 74.

IJJAR, April-May, 158.

INDIA, what it can teach us, 19; a paradise, 24; its literature a corrective, 24; past and present aspects of, 25; its scientific treasures, 25; a laboratory for all students, 32; its population and vast extent, 142.

INDRA, god of the wind, the Vedic Jupiter, 83; the Aryan guide, 116; the god of the thunderstorm, 168; as creator, 180; the principal god of the Veda, 198; peculiar to India, 201.

INDUS, The river, 167.

INFINITE, The, 126.

INNER Life, Influence of Indian literature upon our, 24.

INSCRIPTIONS in India, 225.

IONIANS, The, their alphabet, 222; first writing, 223.

I-TSING, his visit to India, 229; his account of Buddhist priests, 229; of education, 230; of perfection of memory, 231; of Brahmans, 231.

IZDUBAR, or Nimrod, the poem of, 158.

J.

JEHOVAH, 200.

JEWS, The, as a race, 36; their religion as related to Oriental religions, 36; necessary to a study of the Christian religion, 35; the beginning and growth of their religion, 128.

JONES, Sir William, his voyage to India, 49; his dreams become realities, 50.

JOSHUA'S battle, 200.

JOURNALS, Sanskrit, now published in India, 98.

JUDGMENT of Solomon, 30.

JUNAGADH, 271.

JUPITER, 201.

JUMNA, the river, 190.

JURISPRUDENCE in India, 30.

JUSTICE of the Indians, 74.

K.

KALIDASA, the poet, his age, 110; plays of, 111.

KAMAL-EDDIN Abd-errazak, on the Hindus, 75.

KAUSIKA, punished for truthfulness, 89.

KANISHKA, the Saka king, 106.

KANJUR, the women and the child in the, 29.

KATHAKA, or reader, 158.

KATHENOTHEISM, 166.

KESHUB Chunder Sen, his grandfather, 59.

KINAS, or Chinese, 151.

KORAN, oaths on, 70.

KRUMU, 185.

KSHATRIYAS, 232.

KTESIAS, on the justice of the Indians, 72.

KTISIS, 223.

KUBHA, 185.

KULLAVAGGA, quotation from the, 96.

KUENEN, Professor, on worship of Yahweh, 272.

L.

LADAK, 192.

LAKSHMANA, 86.

LARES familiares in Rome, 240.

LASSEN, 151.

LAW books of India, 30.

LIFE, Indian and European views of, 121; beautiful sentiments of, from Hindu writings, 124; a journey, 120.

LAW of Nature, 263.

LAWS of Manu, 111.

LIBERAL, The, Keshub Chunder Sen's organ, 99.

LIBERAL education, the elements of, 38.

LIGHTNING, son of Parganya, 205.

LITERATURE, written, 224.

LITUANIA, 209; its language, 209; its god of rain, 210; prayer to the same, 211.

LOGOGRAPHI, 223.

LOST Tribes, The, of Israel, 159.

LUDLOW on village schools in India, 80.

LUDWIG, translation of Sanskrit words, 187.

LUNAR stations, 150.

LUNAR zodiac, 147.

M.

MAHABHARATA, an epic poem, speaks for the truth, 88; yet recited, 99.

MAHMUD of Gazni, 72.

MAINE, Sir Henry, 65.

MALCOLM, Sir John, on the Hindus, 55.

MANA, A golden, 146.

MANAVAS, The laws of, on evil-doers, 93.

MANGAIA, 170.

MANNING, Judge, 173.

MANU, his code of laws, 30; their true age, 111; his connection with the deluge, 155.

MANUSCRIPTS, the first collectors of, 224.

MAORI Genesis, 173.

MARUTS, the storm-gods, 199.

MAUI, son of Ru, 171; legend of, 171; its origin, 173.

MEGASTHENES on village life, 65; on Hindu honesty, 72.

MELANIPPE, 177.

MEMORY, power of, 232.

METAMORPHIC changes in religions, 128.

MILL, History of India, 59; estimate of Hindu character, 60.

MINA, its weight, 125.

MITRA, 156; invoked, 215.

MODERN Sanskrit literature, 107.

MOHAMMEDANS, their opinion of the Hindus, 75; the number of sects, 76; treatment of Hindus, 90.

MONOTHEISM in the Veda, 164.

MORALITY, our, Saxon, 38.

MORAL depravity in India, 93.

MUNRO, Thomas, Sir, opinion of Hindus, 61.

MUeLLER, Max, his teachers, 45; intercourse with Hindus, 81; opinion of their character, 82.

N.

NAKSHATRAS, The twenty-seven, 148.

NAKTA and Nyx, 201.

NALA, 110.

NATIVE scholars, 81.

NEARCHUS, 225.

NEW and Full-Moon Sacrifices, 252.

NEW Testament, Revised Edition, 141.

NEWSPAPERS, Sanskrit, 98.

NINE gems or classics, 115.

NORTHERN conquerors, 106.

NUMERALS in Sanskrit, 46.

O.

OATH, Taking an, in village communities, 68; its understanding by the Hindus, 69; fear of punishment connected with, 70.

OLD Testament, 140.

OPHIR, 28.

ORANGE River, 188.

ORIENTAL SCHOLARS, names and work hardly known, 22.

ORISSA, 96.

ORME, 60.

ORPHEUS and Ribhu, 201.

OS, oris, 44.

OUDE, 189.

OURANOS, 213.

P.

PAHLAVI, translation of the Pankatantra into, 115.

PALESTINE, 33.

PALI dialect, 107.

PANDITS, 57; Professor Wilson on the, 58.

PANINI, 230.

PANKATANTRA, 114.

PAPYROS, 224.

PARGANYA, 202; hymn to, 205; derivation of name, 207.

PARVANA Sraddha, 260.

PERIEGESIS, 223.

PERIODOS, 223.

PERIPLUS, or circumnavigations, 222.

PERJURY, common in India, 71.

PERKONS, thunder, 210.

PERKUNA, 212.

PERKUNAS, Lituanian god of thunder, 210.

PERKUNO, 212.

PERSIANS, what we owe to, 36.

PETERSBURGH Dictionary, 183.

PHOENICIANS, what we owe to, 36; their letters, 222.

PINDA-PITRIYAGNA, 251.

PIPAL tree, 50.

PITRIS, the fathers, 239; invoked, 241.

PITRIYAGNA-SACRIFICES, 248.

PLATO, 142.

PLINY, Indian rivers known to, 191.

POLITICAL communities, 31.

POLYTHEISM, the kind of, in the Veda, 165.

POSITIVIST sentiments of a Brahman, 87.

PRIMITIVE man, 133.

PRAYERS for rain, 205; for the dead, 262.

PROMETHEUS and Pramantha, 195.

PROTO-ARYAN language, 43.

PTOLEMY, 36.

PUMICE-STONE, 171.

PUNJAB, the, rivers of the, 183.

PURANAS, 162.

R.

RAGHU, 86.

RAJENDRALAL Mitra, on sacrifices, 251.

RAMA, on truth, 87.

RAMA BAVA, the anchorite, 271.

RAMAYANA, the plot of, 86; yet recited, 99.

RAWLINSON, Sir Henry, 158.

READERS not numerous in ancient or modern times, 141.

RECITATION of the old epics in India, 99.

RELIGION, its home in India, 31; our debt to Oriental religions, 36; its transcendent character, 126; metamorphic changes in, 128; began in trust, not in fear, 197.

REMUSAT on the Goths, 104.

RENAISSANCE period in India, 110.

REVIVAL of religion in India, 270.

RIBHU and Orpheus, 201.

RIG-VEDA, editions of, now publishing, 98; known by heart, 99; a treasure to the anthropologist, 134; character of its poems, 143; its religion primitive, 144; compliment to the author for his edition of, 163; the number of hymns in, 163; age of the oldest manuscripts, 221; total number of words in, 228; how transmitted, 231.

RINGOLD, Duke of Lituania, 209.

RISHIS, The Vedic, 168; question of earth's origin, 180; their intoxicating beverage, 243.

RITA, the third Beyond, 263.

RIVERS, as deities, 182; hymn to, 183; names of, in India, 185.

RIVER systems of Upper India, 188.

ROBERTSON'S Historical Disquisitions, 60.

RU, the sky-supporter, 170; his bones, 171; why pumice-stone, 173.

RUeCKERT'S Weisheit der Brahmanen, 22.

RUDRA, the howler, 199.

S.

S, pronounced as h, in Iranic languages, 189.

SACRIFICES, priestly, 148; daily and monthly, 248.

SAKAS, invasion of the, 104.

SAKUNTALA, her appeal to conscience, 90.

SANSKRIT language, its study differently appreciated, 21; use of studying, 23; its supreme importance, 39; its antiquity, 40; its family relations, 40; its study ridiculed, 45; its linguistic influence, 46; its moral influence, 47; a dead language, 96; early dialects of, 96; still influential, 97; scholars' use of, 98; journals in, 96; all living languages in India draw their life from, 100.

SANSKRIT literature, human interest of, 95; the literature of India, 99; manuscripts existing, 102; divisions of, 104; character of the ancient and the modern, 107; known in Persia, 113; a new start in, 115; its study very profitable, 275.

SATAPATHA Brahmana, 91.

SCHOPENHAUER, on the Upanishads, 273.

SEASONS, how regulated, 148.

SELF-KNOWLEDGE, the highest goal of the Veda, 125.

SINDHU, the Indus river, 183; address to, 184; meaning of, 189.

SLEEMAN, Colonel, his rambles and recollections, 60; his life in village communities, 63; his opinion of Hindus, 67.

SOLAR myths, 216.

SOLOMON'S judgment compared, 29.

SPENCER, Herbert, on ancestor worship, 239; his misstatement corrected, 240.

SRADDHAS, or Love Feasts, 248; to the departed, 254; their source, 257; their number, 258; striking resemblance, 261.

SUDAS, 200.

SUN, the central thought in Aryan mythology, 216.

SURYA, god of the sun, 168.

T.

TAMIL, 95.

TANE-MAHUTA, forest-god, 174.

TARAS, the stars, 151.

TERRESTRIAL gods, 169.

TEUTONIC mythology, 166.

THEOGONY, 235.

THORR, 166.

THREE beyonds, 220.

THSIN dynasty, 152.

THUGS, 63.

TORTOISE, the story of the, 154.

TOWERS of Silence, 22.

TOWNS, names of, in India, 189.

TROY, siege of, 172.

TRUTH, root meaning in Sanskrit, 82.

TRUTHFULNESS, a luxury, 91.

TURANIAN invasion, 104.

TWO women and child, story of, 29.

TYR and Tin, 213.

U.

UGVIS, Lithuanian, 41.

UNIVERSITIES, the object of their teaching, 19.

UNTRUTHFULNESS of the Hindus, 53.

UPANISHADS, 267; their beauty, 273.

URANOS and Varuna, 201.

URVASI, 110.

USHAS and Eos, 202.

UTTARAPAKSHA, 136.

V.

VAGA, 183; as plural, 184.

VAISVADEVA, offering, 249.

VAISYA, a, 162.

VAK, wife of Vata, 165.

VALMIKI, the poet, 100.

VARAHAMIHARA, 112.

VARUNA, 156; hymns to, 204.

VASISHTHA, on righteousness, 93.

VATA, the wind, 200; and Wotan, 201.

VEDA, their antiquity, 101; silly conceptions, 118; religion of, 129; necessary to the study of man, 133; objections to, 135; native character of, 159; lessons of, 161; use of their study, 162; character of their poetry, 182; knowledge of God progressive in, 194; their hymns, a specimen, 205; their gods, number of, 219; meaning of their names, 220; three periods in their literature, 234; three religions in, 236.

VEDIC Mythology, its influence, 27; contrasts, 169.

VEDA-END, 267.

VEDANTA philosophy, 265; the present religion in India, 269; its prevalence, 270; commended to students, 271; its highest knowledge, 273.

VIDALA, cat, 42.

VIHARAS, or colleges, the ancient, 26.

VIKRAMADITYA, 110; his varied experience, 113.

VILLAGE communities in India, 64; large number of, 65; morality in, 67.

VISVAKARMAN, 157.

VYASA, the poet, 100.

W.

WARRIORS, native and foreign, 116.

WATERS, divers gods of the, 167.

WEASEL and the woman, 28.

WILSON, Prof., on the Hindus, 57.

WITNESSES, three classes of, 69.

WOLF, F. A., his questions, 221; his dictum, 223.

WORKINGMEN, 116.

WORSHIP of the dead, 240.

WOTAN and Vata, 201.

WRITING unknown in ancient India, 226.

X.

XANTHOS, the Lydian, 223.

Y.

YAG, ishta, 208.

YAGNADATTABADHA, 110.

YAGNAVALKYA, on virtue, 92.

YAHWEH, worship of, 272.

YAMA, lord of the departed, 85; on immortality, 86; invoked, 242; as the first man, 242; dialogue on death, 267.

YASKA, division of the Vedic gods, 168.

YUEH-CHI, The, and the Goths, 104.

Z.

ZEUS, 129; the survivor of Dyaus, 213; the interval between, 235.

ZEUS, Dyaus, and Jupiter, 198.

ZIMMER, Prof., on polytheism, 166; translation of Sanskrit words, 185.

ZODIACAL signs, known to Sanskrit astronomers, 114.

ZODIAC, The Babylonian, 147.

ZOROASTRIANISM, 31.

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