INDEX OF PROPER NAMES

( The page referred to is the first on which the name occurs.
Sometimes other pages are also mentioned^ on which they
are explained, or where attention is specially desirable to the
setting in which they occur ).

Angira 13; a Vedic and Pura-
,^ nic Rshi; *the rasa^ sap, juice,
which circulates in the anga'Sy
organs, parts, of the living
body'.

Arishta-nemi 28; name of a king.

Arundhati 50, 58; wife of Eshi
Vasishtha; 'the never-obstruct-
ing" ; a, not, rudh to obstruct.

Asia 25.

Ayodhya (Foreword); capital of
modern Oudh ; Unconquerable'.

Bali 31 ; name of a king of the
Titans ; *the Powerful', also
'the sacrificial offering'.

Bhava 11 ; a name of Shiva in
the creative aspect ; bhil) to be,

Bharata-Varsha 25, 26 ; the an-
cient name of India; from
Bharata, *the Nourished, name
of one of the very early and
greatest emperors of India ;

and varsha, continent, 'where
the rain falls'*

Bhrgu 20 ; name of one of the
primeval Kshis described as
the mind-born sons of Brahma,
or sometimes, of the first
Manu, son of Brahma.

Blavatsky, H. P., 80.

Brahma 9, 11, 19—20; the
Creator; irk, to expand,
*the expander, layer out, de" ^

signer, ideator, of the cosmic
system*. Universal or Cosmic
Mind ; the great God who
embodies it ; the Creative as-
pect of the Trinity of Brahma-
Vishnu-Shiva (or Mahesha),
Action-Cognition-Desire.

Brhaspati 13; 'lord of the skies%
*chief of the large ones' ; Jupi-
ter, largest of the planets; also,
name of the teacher of the gods;

brhas(t\ large, JOO^, master;

brhat also means the V6da, the
'great word' ; hence, 'master
of the great word', 'master of
speech and wisdom.*

Chambal 56 ; modern name of
the river Charmanvatl.

Charman-vati 66 ; river in mid-
India, so named because of
'the skins, charma, of sacrifi-
cial animals flung into it, in
the reign of king Ranti"d.6va\

Chyavana 13 ; name of a prim-
eval ]Et,shL

Dasha-ratha 1 ; the 'ten-chariot-
ed'; Dasha, ten, ratha^ chariot;

father of Rama.

B6va 9, 61; god ; 'divine' being";

'dei-ty'; from div, to shine, to
play ; (theos, deus).

Bevi 61 ; goddess.

Ganga 8 ; the most sacred river