History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c54.1807

v3.c54.1807

Viśvarūpasamuccaya, 456n. Vītahavya, a king, became a brāhmaṇa, 496. Vitaraṇī 14n. Vitasti, a measure of length, 209n. Vivādaratnākara, 66n, 580n, 872. Vivāha, 197. Vivasvat, a smṛtikāra, 926n. Vratas (see under Veda-vratas): as saṁskāras, 197, could be performed by śūdras, 159. Vrātika, a vedavrata for brahmacārin, 371. Vrātyas, 96, 376; could be purified even after twelve generations, 387; glorified in Atharvaveda, 386; meaning of, in Baudhāyana and others, 59, 96; what they were like, 386. Vrātya-stoma: described from Tāṇḍya Brāhmaṇa, 385; for purifying *patitasāvitrīka*, 377. Vrātyatāprāyaścittanirṇaya, a work of Nāgeśa, 381, 953. Vrātyatā-śuddhasaṁgraha, 385. Vṛddha-Gārgya, 276. Vṛddha-Gautama, 101, 117, 126, 314n, 349, 355, 651, 677, 732, 846, 895, &c. Vṛddha-Hārīta, 121, 126, 148, 170, 176, 292n, 293n, 302, 315, 320, 563, 567n, 584 &c. Vṛddha-Manu, 206n, 605, 760. Vṛddha-Vasiṣṭha, 653. Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya, 169, 384. Vṛttis (means of livelihood): five kinds of, according to Manu, 130; ten kinds of, according to Baudhāyana, 130. Vyādha, a caste, 96. Vyāghrapāda, 174, 651. Vyāhṛtihoma, 199n. Vyāhṛtis, 301n. Vyāsa, a cirajīvin, 648; advised Yudhiṣṭhira to perform Aśvamedha, 1237-1238; was appointed to raise issue from the widows of Vicitravīrya, 603, 605. Vyāsa, 174n, 236, 313n, 324n, 356, 357, 471, 646, 760 &c.; four pupils of, 964; on rules about grants of land, 861. Vyatīpāta, one of the 27 *yogas*, 852n. Vyavahāramayūkha, 151, 186, 462, 470, 500, 509, 714n, 860n, 866, 1107n. Vyuṣṭi-dvirātra, two rites called V. in Rājasūya, 1222.