• A.
  • Abba Seen river, 192.
  • Abraiaman, 74.
  • Abu Fazl, on the Hindus, 75.
  • Active side of human nature in Europe, 120.
  • Aditi, meaning of, 215.
  • Âditya, 158.
  • Âdityas, 215.
  • Adrogha, 83.
  • Aerial gods, 168.
  • Afghanistan, 159;
    • inhabitants of, 189.
  • Agni, god of fire, 167.
  • Agni-ignis, fire, 41;
    • as a terrestrial deity, 195.
  • Aitareya Brâhmana, on heaven and earth, 175.
  • Alexander the Great, 37;
    • changes the name of a river, 191.
  • All-Sacrifice, the, 85.
  • Alphabet, the, whence derived, 86;
    • Ionian and Phœnician, 222;
    • two used in Asoka's inscription, 225.
  • Amitâbha worship, 106.
  • Anaxagoras, his doctrine, 177.
  • Ancestors, spirits of, 238;
    • worship of, 239.
  • Animism, 130.
  • Aurita, 83.
  • Archæological survey of India, 26.
  • Arrian, on the Hindus, 73;
    • rivers known to, 191.
  • Aryans, the, our intellectual relatives, 33;
    • seven branches of, 41;
    • found in Sanskrit literature, 116;
    • religion of, 161.
  • Asmi, I am, 43.
  • Asoka, king, 96;
    • adopts Buddhism, 106;
    • author of the first inscriptions, 225;
    • language of the same, 234.
  • Astronomy, ancient, in India, 114;
    • in the Veda, 150;
    • in China, 151.
  • Âtman, the Self, 265.
  • Avatâras of Vishnu, three, 153.
  • B.
  • Babylonian division of time, 36;
    • influences on Vedic poems, 145;
    • on Vedic astronomy, 147;
    • zodiac, 158.
  • Barzôi, 114.
  • Bastian, on the Polynesian myths, 169.
  • Bengal, the people of, 55;
    • villages of, 65;
    • schools in, 80.
  • Bengali, 161.
  • Bhagavadgîtâ, 272.
  • Bhagavat, supreme lord, 272.
  • Bimetallic currency, 37.
  • Bhîshma, death of, 83.
  • Bible, the, Sanskrit words in, 28;
    • and the Jewish race, 140.
  • Bibliographical survey of India, 102.
  • Books read by ancient nations compared with modern, 137.
  • Bopp, his comparative grammar, 46.
  • Brahma sacrifice, 249.
  • Brahma Samâj, of india, 163.
  • Brâhmana, 162.
  • Brâhmanas, on truth, 84;
    • as a class, 256.
  • Buddha and the popular dialects, 96.
  • Buddhism, chief source of our fables, 27;
    • striking coincidences with Christianity, 108;
    • its rise, 234.
  • Burnouf, 115.
  • C.
  • Cabul river, 192.
  • Cæsar, on the Druids and their memorizing, 233.
  • Canaan, 140.
  • Carlyle, his opinion of historical works, xvi.
  • Caste, origin of, 117;
    • in the laws of Manu, 117;
    • in the Rig-Veda, 117.
  • Cat, the domestic, its original home, 42.
  • China, origin of the name, 151;
    • chronicles of, 104;
    • lunar stations of, 150;
    • aspects of religion, 264.
  • Christian religion, the, and the Jewish race, 35.
  • Civil service examinations, Indian, 20.
  • Climatic influences on morals and social life, 120.
  • Coins of India, 26.
  • Colebrooke's religious ceremonies, 247.
  • Commercial honor in India, 82.
  • Commerce between India and Syria in Solomon's time, 28.
  • Commercial writing, 225.
  • Confucius, a hard student, 230.
  • Conquerors of India, 30.
  • Coulanges, Professor, his opinion on religious beliefs, 245.
  • Cunningham's Ancient Geography of India, 192.
  • Cylinders of Babylon, 139.
  • D.
  • Dacoits, 79.
  • Darwin, 141.
  • Dawn, the, 173.
  • Dayânanda's introduction to the Rig-Veda, 104.
  • Deluge, the, 153;
    • in Hindu literature, 154;
    • not borrowed from the Old Testament, 157;
    • its natural origin, 159.
  • Departed spirits, 237;
    • honors paid to, 240;
    • ceremonies to, 246.
  • Deva, 159;
    • the meaning of, 236.
  • Devapatnîs, wives of the gods, 164.
  • Devâpi's prayer for rain, 204.
  • Development of human character in India and Europe, 118.
  • Dialects in Asoka's time, 106.
  • Diphthera, 222.
  • Divi Manes, 240.
  • Donkey, in the lion's skin, 27;
    • in the tiger's skin, 28.
  • Druids, their memory, 233.
  • Dyaus and Zeus, 213.
  • E.
  • Êabânî, 158.
  • East, the, our original home, 49.
  • Ecliptic, Indian, 153.
  • Education of the human race, 107.
  • Education in India, by training the memory, 232.
  • Egyptian hieroglyphics preserved in the alphabet, 36.
  • Elphinstone, Mountstuart, his opinion of the Hindus, 77.
  • English officers in India, 69.
  • English oriental scholars, a list of, 22.
  • Eos and Ushas, 201.
  • Esthonian prayer to Picker, the god of thunder, 211.
  • Euripides, on the marriage of heaven and earth, 177.
  • Examinations, work produced at, 20.
  • F.
  • Fables, migration of, 27.
  • Falsehood, no mortal sin, five cases of, 89.
  • Fathers, Hymn to the, 241.
  • Finite, the, impossible without the infinite, 126.
  • Fire, names for, 41;
    • as a civilizer, 195;
    • a terrestrial deity, 195;
    • why worshipped, 196.
  • Five nations, the, 117.
  • Five sacrifices, religious duties, 249.
  • Fravashis, in Persia, 240.
  • Frederick the Great, 34.
  • Friar Jordanus, opinion of Hindu character, 75.
  • Funeral ceremonies, 248;
    • an earlier worship, 252;
    • striking coincidences, 253;
    • burial and cremation, 253.
  • G.
  • Gainas, language of, 97.
  • Galileo, his theory, 135.
  • Ganges, sources of, 96;
    • its tributaries, 187.
  • Gâtaka, 30.
  • Gâthâs, 107.
  • Gautama allows a lie, 88.
  • Germany, study of Sanskrit in, 22.
  • Gems, the nine, 114.
  • Gill, Rev. W., myths and songs of the South Pacific, 169;
    • savage life in Polynesia, 233.
  • Gods in the Veda, their testimony for truth, 83;
    • the number of, 164;
    • river gods and goddesses, 167;
    • made and unmade by men, 182;
    • growth of a divine conception in the human mind, 198.
  • Golden Rule, the, 92.
  • Goethe's West-östlicher Divan, 22.
  • Gokulaji, the model native statesman, 271.
  • Grassman, translation of Sanskrit words, 183.
  • Greek alphabet, age of, 221.
  • Greek literature, its study and use, 23;
    • when first written, 222.
  • Greek deities, their physical origin, 129.
  • Greek philosophy our model, 38.
  • Greek and Latin, similarity between, 40.
  • Grimm, identification of Parganya and Perûn, 210.
  • Growth of ancient religions, 128.
  • Grunau on old Prussian gods, 210.
  • Guide-books, Greek, 223.
  • Gymnosophists, Indian, 123.
  • H.
  • Hardy, his Manual of Buddhism, 97.
  • Hastings, Warren, and the Darics, 216;
    • opinion of Hindu character, 79.
  • Hebrew religion, foreign influences in, 145.
  • Heber, Bishop, opinion of the Hindus, 79.
  • Heaven and Earth, 169;
    • Mâori legend of, 173;
    • Vedic legends of, 175;
    • Greek legends of, 176;
    • epithets for, in Veda, 178;
    • as seen by Vedic poets, 178.
  • Henotheism, 166.
  • Herodotus, 223.
  • 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 Kâlidâsa, 110.
  • Hydaspes, 192.
  • Hydraotis, or Hyarotis, 191.
  • Hypasis, or Hyphasis, 191.
  • I.
  • Idâ, 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.
  • Junâgadh, 271.
  • Jupiter, 201.
  • Jumna, the river, 190.
  • Jurisprudence in India, 30.
  • Justice of the Indians, 74.
  • K.
  • Kâlidâsa, 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.
  • Kâthaka, or reader, 158.
  • Kathenotheism, 166.
  • Keshub Chunder Sen, his grandfather, 59.
  • Kînas, or Chinese, 151.
  • Koran, oaths on, 70.
  • Krumu, 185.
  • Kshatriyas, 232.
  • Ktesias, on the justice of the Indians, 72.
  • Ktisis, 223.
  • Kubhâ, 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.
  • Mahâbhârata, 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.
  • Manâ, A golden, 146.
  • Mânavas, 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.
  • Mâori Genesis, 173.
  • Maruts, the storm-gods, 199.
  • Mâui, son of Ru, 171;
    • legend of, 171;
    • its origin, 173.
  • Megasthenes on village life, 65;
    • on Hindu honesty, 72.
  • Melanippê, 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.
  • Müller, Max, his teachers, 45;
    • intercourse with Hindus, 81;
    • opinion of their character, 82.
  • N.
  • Nakshatras, The twenty-seven, 148.
  • Naktâ 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.
  • Ôs, ôris, 44.
  • Oude, 189.
  • Ouranos, 213.
  • P.
  • Pahlavi, translation of the Pañkatantra into, 115.
  • Palestine, 33.
  • Pâli dialect, 107.
  • Pandits, 57;
    • Professor Wilson on the, 58.
  • Panini, 230.
  • Pañkatantra, 114.
  • Papyros, 224.
  • Parganya, 202;
    • hymn to, 205;
    • derivation of name, 207.
  • Pârvana Srâddha, 260.
  • Periegesis, 223.
  • Periodos, 223.
  • Periplus, or circumnavigations, 222.
  • Perjury, common in India, 71.
  • Pérkons, thunder, 210.
  • Perkuna, 212.
  • Perkunas, Lituanian god of thunder, 210.
  • Perkuno, 212.
  • Persians, what we owe to, 36.
  • Petersburgh Dictionary, 183.
  • Phœnicians, what we owe to, 36;
    • their letters, 222.
  • Pinda-pitriyagña, 251.
  • Pipal tree, 50.
  • Pitris, the fathers, 239;
    • invoked, 241.
  • Pitriyagña-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 Brâhman, 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.
  • Purânas, 162.
  • R.
  • Raghu, 86.
  • Rajendralâl Mitra, on sacrifices, 251.
  • Râma, on truth, 87.
  • Râma Bâvâ, the anchorite, 271.
  • Râmâyana, 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.
  • Rémusat 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.
  • Rückert'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.
  • Sakuntalâ, 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 Brâhmana, 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.
  • Srâddhas, or Love Feasts, 248;
    • to the departed, 254;
    • their source, 257;
    • their number, 258;
    • striking resemblance, 261.
  • Sudâs, 200.
  • Sun, the central thought in Aryan mythology, 216.
  • Sûrya, god of the sun, 168.
  • T.
  • Tamil, 95.
  • Tane-Mahuta, forest-god, 174.
  • Târâs, the stars, 151.
  • Terrestrial gods, 169.
  • Teutonic mythology, 166.
  • Theogony, 235.
  • Thôrr, 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.
  • Tŷr 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.
  • Vâlmîki, the poet, 100.
  • Varâhamihara, 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.
  • Vedânta philosophy, 265;
    • the present religion in India, 269;
    • its prevalence, 270;
    • commended to students, 271;
    • its highest knowledge, 273.
  • Vidâla, cat, 42.
  • Vihâras, or colleges, the ancient, 26.
  • Vikramâditya, 110;
    • his varied experience, 113.
  • Village communities in India, 64;
    • large number of, 65;
    • morality in, 67.
  • Visvakarman, 157.
  • Vyâsa, 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.
  • Yagñadattabadha, 110.
  • Yâgñavalkya, 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.
  • Yâska, 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.