Return to Ayodhya and ascends the
throne, 123
Celebrates the Asvamedha sacrifice, 124
Sons of, capture the sacrificial horse,
126
Ideal Hindu man, 126
Ramayana, the second great epic of India,
83, 116
Value of, 116
Decline in warlike spirit in, 117
Characters of heroes of, 118
A means of moral education to the
Hindus, 126
A work of later ages, 136
Ravana, the demon-king of Lanka, 120
Steals Sita, 121
Killed by Rama, 123
Religion, Hindu, explanation of, by the
Rig- Veda, 11
Of the Rig- Veda, 62-81
Kshatriyas speculate on, 85
Vedic, decline of, 86
Later, essence of the, 86
Religious discussions in Brahmanic and
Epic times, 144
Life, initiation into, 229-241
Revealed literature, 86
Right of way, passage from Vasishtha,
on, 224-225
Rig- Veda, earliest date of, 1
Composition of, 10
Composers of, 11
Divisions of, 11
Tenth book of, 12
Wells in, 16
Commerce in, 18
Voyages in, 20
Money in, 20
Grains named in, 21
Metals in, 26
Allusions to aborigines in, 81
Weapons in, 39, 41, 42
Coronation customs in, 41-42
Religion of, 62, 81
Preservation of, by youths of priestly
houses, 78
Monotheism in, 80-81
Brahmanas of, 92-93
Aranyakas of, 94
Astronomy in, 166-167
Translations from, 13-14, 15, 17-18, 19,
20, 26, 29, 31, 32-35, 38-42, 44-46,
62-63, 56-67, 58, 59-60, 61, 63, 64,
66, 66-68, 70, 73-74, 75-76, 78-81
Rishis, Vedic bards, 76
Not a separate class, 60-51
As warriors, 77
Rivers, hymns to, in the Rig-Veda, 44-46
Robbers, allusion to aboriginal, in the
Rig-Veda, 31
Royal caste, rise of, 135
Courts, the seats of learning, 143
Rudra, father of the Maruts, one of the
Hindu Triad, 11, 72
Development of, as a deity, 169
Not yet identified with Siva in the
Brahmanas, 169
Rules, prohibitory, of Buddhism, 312-
313
S
Sacred books of the Jains, 327
Sacred fire in the household, 62, 160
Sacraments inferior to virtue, 244
Sacrifice, increasing importance of, 86
Importance of, in Brahmanic and Epic
periods, 169
Human, no reference to, in Rig-Veda,
160-161
Human, in ancillary Vedic literature,
161-162
Performed by professional priests, 6
Sacrifices, accompanied by gifts in Brah-
manic and Epic periods, 159
Seven Paka, 191
Sacrificial fire, 6
Rites regulated by the position of the
moon, 157
Fire, setting up of the, 163
Sadanira, a river, 113
Sahadeva, one of the five Pandava princes,
102
Sakai, a tribe of the fourth century B.C.,
215
Sakyaputriya Sramans, a sect founded by
Gautama, 236-279
Sakyas, a clan, 285
Sale-transaction, a verse on, 19
Salvation, doctrine of, from the Brihad-
aranyaka Upanishad, 181
Sama- Veda, compilation of, 86-86
Duplicate verses found in the Rig- Veda,
89
Selections from Rig- Veda set to music,
89
Brahmanas of, 93
Sankaracharya, a Hindu philosopher,
167, 269
Santanu, king of Hastinapura, 109
Father of Bhishma, 100
Saranyu, the dawn, 73
Sarasvati, sacred river of the Panjab, 49,
97
Goddess of speech, 75-76
Sariputra, a convert to Buddhism, 292
Satapatha Brahmana, various strata in, 93
Satrughna, son of Sumitra, 119
Satyakama, story of, 139-140
Saurashtras, Hinduized, 185