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Religion, cardinal principle of, 179
Religion, explanation of, by Rig-Veda,
11
Villages, manage their own affairs, 160
Women, Sita model of, 125
World, Panchalas and Kurus centre of,

99

Hindus, Vedic, character of, 4

Vedic, settlement of, on Indus, 4
Agriculture among, 13
Separation of, from the Iranians, 24
Effect of climate of Ganges valley on,
83
Gradual enervation of, 83
Cremation among, 165
Ancestor-worship among, 166
Advance of civilization among, 133
Rules of, to regulate domestic and so-
cial duties, 143
Spread of civilization among, 198-200
As described by Megasthenes, 124-215

Food and clothing of, 216

Home, early Aryan, controversy concern-
ing, 6

Horatoi (Saurashtras), Hindu nation, 206

Horse, sacrifice of a, 22, 23, 24, 163

Sacrificial, captured by Rama's sons
and his subsequent recognition of

them, 125

Horses, 16

Hospitality, 145, 150, 241

Hotris, Vedic priests, duties of, 86, 88

Household worship, 50

Householders, students as, 145
Forty sacraments of, 242-243

Hymn to the rivers, historical significance

of, 49
Recounting Indra's slaying of Vritra,
66-67
Relating to the storm-myth of Indra,

69-70

Hymns, sung by professional priests, 5

Certain families proficient in compos-
ing, 77
Of the Vedas still repeated as texts in

Brahmanic and Epic times, 169

I

Idols, unknown in the Vedic period, 5, 52

India, oldest records of, 1

Political life, decadence of, 3
History, value of, 3-4
Early civilization centred in, 6

Buddhism state religion of, 319

Indian tribes, number one hundred and
eighteen, 215

Inido-Iranians in Asia, 9

Indra, 33-35

Hymn to, 32-33
First among Vedic gods, 63
Slays Vritra, 65
Storm-myth of, 67
An Aditya, 69

As leader, 69

Indrajit, son of Ravana, 122

Killed by Lakshmana and revived by a

powerful medicine, 122

Indraprastha, city in ancient India, 106

Indus, sacred river of the Panjab, 49, 126

Industries, 7

Inheritance, law of, 68, 227-229

Initiation into religious life, 239-241
Age of, varies in different castes, 247

Inscriptions on Jain statues, 326

Intellect, in Nyaya philosophy, 263

Interest, six forms of, according to Gau-
tama, 226-237

Internecine wars of the Kurus, 83
Wars of the Panchalas, 83

Invocation of the bright gods, 5

Iranians, separation of, from the Hindus,
24

Irrigation in the Panjab, 15

Reference to, in the tenth book of the
Rig-Veda, 17

In ancient India, 217

Isari, Hindu tribe, 205

Isa Upanishad, extract from, 176

J

Jabala, mother of Satyakama, 139-140

Jaimini, founder of the Purva Mimamsa

philosophy, 269

Outline of sutras of, 269

Jainism, a religion of India, 323

Coaeval with Buddhism, 325

Approximation to Buddhism, 326

Jains, division of, into two sects, 324

Refrain from killing animals, 327
Monastic order of, 327
Beliefs of, 333

Sacred books of, 333

Janaka, king of the Videhas, 114

In the Ramayana, 117
Quotation from Brihadaranyaka Upani-

shad relating to, 152

Janamejaya, son of Parikshit, 132

Japan, Buddhism in, in the sixth century
A. D., 280

Java, Buddhist missionaries visit, 321

Jnatrika Kshatriyas, Hindu clan, 323

Judicial procedure still crude in Brah-
manic and Epic periods, 166

Jumna, a river, 96, 126
Exploration of shores of, 97

Justice officially administered in the
Brahmanic period, 143