Accomplishments, 10, 60

Açoka-tree budding when touched by a woman’s foot, 178

Adornments, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 17, 18, 35, 38, 51, 52, 65, 74, 84, 97, 117, 159, 169, 174, 198, 217

Amulets, 10, 56, 129

Animals, 16, 20, 22, 26, 29, 36, 42, 73, 92, 145, 219, 220

Anointing a necklace, 165

Ascetic’s spirit passing beyond the world of gods, 207

Astrologers, 190

Atheistic philosophy, 114

Auspicious songs of dawn, 214;
words for dismounting, 216

Bāṇa, life, vii; works, viii;
references to, xii, xiv;
style of, xvii-xx; genealogy of, 2, 3

Bathing
in cowsheds, 55;
in snake-ponds, 56

Bees, forming
an earring, 117;
a veil, 126, 155

Begging-bowl, 99

Bracelet as a good omen, 198

Buddhists, 212

Changed relationships in another birth, 207, 208

Çiva’s shrine and liṅga, 95;
his four faces, 95

Conjuror’s fan, a, 114

Creation by thought, 10

Curses, 64, 137, 141, 196, 197, 201, 207;
cannot be recalled, 197;
founded on appeal to truth, 193, 203;
Agni’s curse on parrots and elephants, 11

Dangers of youth and prosperity, 76

Dead restored to life, the, 138

Descriptions of ascetics, 19, 35, 104;
ascetic’s cave, 99;
ascetic’s employments, 39, 135;
ascetic women, 162;
Çabaras, 27;
an encampment, 173;
Caṇḍāla village, 204;
chase, the, 24, 73;
childhood, 54;
crown prince’s palace, 89;
dawn, 23;
divine being, a, 133;
evening, 44, 114, 139, 160;
forest, 16;
hall of audience, 12, 14;
hall of exercise, 13, 59;
hermitage, 18, 24, 38;
peace of, 42;
king, 3, 47, 215;
king’s body-guard, 216;
lakes, 20, 31, 92;
minister, 11, 49;
his levée, 217;
night, 45,
close of, 161;
palace of learning, 59;
penances to win a son, 55;
queen, 51; her retinue, 122;
region of Kailāsa, 220;
steed, 62;
toilet, 13, 74;
Ujjayinī, 210;
whiteness, 96;
women, 5;
zenana, 51, 144;
attendants, 217;
employments of, 144

Different sects, 218

Difficulty of rising to a higher birth, 203

Draviḍian hermit, 172

Dreams at the end of night, 57

Elements the witnesses of right and wrong, 192

Elephants startled at fall of cocoa-nut, 8

Eyes of the cakora redden in the presence of poison, 139

Former birth, results of, 11, 44, 53, 197, 199, 200, 202

Funeral pyre, 133, 195, 200

Games, 5, 10, 60, 152, 155

Gifts, 59, 72, 74, 129, 164;
to Brahmans, 56, 195, 200, 201;
at a birth, 54;
at a wedding, 129

Golden age, 41, 96

Gold mustard-leaves a gift, 56

Gods taking other bodies, 64, 201

Gods of wood and stone but images of invisible gods, 198

Hermitage of Badarikā, 216

Jains and Jinadharma, 29, 212

Jealousy, a bird’s, 151

‘Kādambarī,’ interest of, xv;
purpose of, xxi;
plot of ‘Kādambarī’ found in the ‘Kathā-Sarit-Sāgara,’ xi;
literary parallels, xx;
plan of translation, xxii;
editions used, xxiii;
Bāṇa’s praise of it, 3

Kādambarī’s bequests, 194

King becoming a hermit, 200, 202

Killing an ascetic, 123

Light proceeding from a corpse, 195

Literature, 10, 39, 40, 49, 50, 60, 152, 162, 189, 201, 212, 213, 217

Love of deer for music, 40, 95

Love of life, 34, 134

Magic circle, 56

Magic rites, 83

Marriage, 188, 200;
fire, 69;
Gāndharva, lawful, 208;
vow against, 140, 142;
of a tree to a creeper, 194

Metre, Āryā, 11

Midday conch, 11

Mountains, boundary, 162, 215;
noble, 6, 40

Musical instruments, 10, 13, 60, 81, 99, 152, 156, 162

Mustard-seed and ghī on a baby’s palate, 54

Mystic’s spirit apart from his body, 195

Mythology, Airāvata, vide Sanskrit Index;
Apsaras families, the, 102;
auspicious marks, 3, 7, 92;
Brahmā’s egg, 94,
or world egg, 2;
caste laws about food, 205;
Çiva’s dance, 21;
Çvetadvīpa, 197;
daughters of the Siddhas, 45;
deer of the moon, 46, 52, 124, 215;
deer, golden, 20;
demons, 1, 27, 29, 50, 216;
Doomsday, 17;
surrounded by suns, 40, 120;
Dvīpas, the seven, 50, 97 note;
elephants of the quarters, 21;
guardians of the world, 204;
Iron Age, 27, 41, 96;
kalpa-tree, 86, 160, 174;
Kaustubha gem, 51;
ocean of final destruction, 123;
oceans, the four, 3, 50, 147;
rivers, the wives of ocean, 19;
submarine fire, the, 77;
sun’s steeds, the, 21, 47, 114, 122;
sun drinking the waning moon, the, 106

Ordeals, 49

Parrots, 22, 32, 43, 193

Penalty of childlessness, 53

Penance, 192;
power of, 42, 53, 196, 197;
its divine insight, 44, 203, 206

Picture of Kāma, 194

Powers, the three, 48

Qualities of a story, 2

Regaining memory of former births, 203

Regions, the ten, 48, 108

Remedies for fever, 120

Reunion after death, 133, 137, 178, 195, 203, 206

Repentance, 206

Resolving to die at a friend’s death, 133;
rebuked, 136

Rites, for the dead (Çrāddha), 39, 194;
for entering a new house, 72;
for anointing a crown prince, 76;
for removal of a curse, 204, 206;
of arrival, 174;
Aghamarshaṇa hymn, 38, 99, 141;
offerings, 44;
a help to the dead, 137;
libations must be offered by a son, 194;
morning oblation, 203;
twilight oblation, 219;
subrahmaṇyā, 39

Rosaries, 35, 39, 40, 45, 104, 107, 110, 111, 112, 115, 126, 135, 162, 176, 202

Sacrifices, Homa, 39;
human sacrifice, 31;
Mahāvīra fires, 2;
Soma, 3, 40;
three fires, the, 40

Sāṃkhyā philosophy, 212

Snakes, 210, 211, 213;
haunt sandal-trees, 5, 50;
love the breeze, 94

Standing at cross roads, 56

Sunwise turn, 40, 162, 172

Svayaṃvara, 180

Throbbing of the right eye an evil omen for women, 127

Tradition a sufficient ground for belief, 200

Transmigration without loss of consciousness, 197

Trees, 21, 39, 40, and passim

Triad of guṇas, 1

Tying of the topknot, 59

Unguents, 7, 40, 52

Veda, threefold, 3

Vow, of ascetic, 135;
for reunion, 45;
satī, 69;
silence, 112

Water poured to ratify a gift, 150, 168

Weapons, 5, 14, 16, 60

Western mountain, the, 7;
ocean, 23, 45

White continent, the, 125

Widows remaining alive, 137

Wood goddesses or nymphs, 16, 22, 24, 35, 109, 176

World-conquest, 89

Worlds, the seven, 3

Worship of, Aditi, 213;
Agni, 12, 45, 72;
Arhat, the, 162;
Avalokiteçvara, 162;
Brahmā, 39;
Çiva, 12, 39, 56, 95, 97, 135, 162, 167, 182, 189, 207;
pictures of, 103;
Durgā, 31, 55, 56, 162, 172;
as Umā, 182;
goddesses of space, 45;
Kāma, 211;
Kāma’s festival, 206;
Kārtikeya, 162, 185;
Kṛishṇa, 162;
Mahākāla, 47;
on the fourteenth day, 53;
Mātṛikās, 56;
or the divine mothers of, Avantī, 199;
Pitris, 12;
Siddhas, 56;
sun, the, 12;
trees, 56;
Vishṇu, 39;
as Nārāyaṇa, 182;
as Rāma, 206;
Viçravasa, 162;
Viriñca, 162

Weak nature of those born from a mother only, 203

Writing on birch-leaves, 56

Yamunā, its blue colour, 33

Yoga, 128

THE END.