History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c26.56

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*Vaijayantī*, lexicon, 183 *vaikhānasa*, type of ascetic, 98, 100 *vainayika*, a believer in the doctrine of salvation by good conduct, 174, 176-7, 261 Vaiśeṣika, school of orthodox Hindu philosophy, 57, 177-8, 180, 199, 267-9, 281 Vaiṣṇav-ism, cult of the god Viṣṇu, 149, 169, 170-2, 174, 177, 186, 209, 261, 273, 276-7, 280-2; ascetics, 166-7 Vaiśya, the third, mercantile class, 21 Vaitādhya, mountain, 143 Vajjabhūmī (Pkt.), Vajrabhūmi (Skt.), pl., 41, 45-6 Vajji, tribe, 5, 69, 72, 74-5, 77-8 Valabhī, pl., 166 Vālmīki, poet, 177 Vāmana, grammarian, 79 Vāmanamunī, Tam. commentator, 122, 201-2, 215, 237-8, 260, 265; quoted, 122 n. 6, 202 n. 5, 237 n. 2, 276 n. 5 Vamsa, pl., 133 *vānaprastha*, type of ascetic, 98, 100, 184 Vāṇārasī (Pkt.), pl. = Bāṇārasī, Benares, Kāśi, q.v., 32 Vāṇiyagāma, pl., 133 n. 1 Vañji, pl., 197-8 *vanyāśana*, type of ascetic, 169 Varāhamihira, astrologer, 168-174, 184, 280; quoted, 169 n. 1 *varṇas*, four, classes of Hindu society, 5, 134, 162 Vasiṣṭha, legendary sage, 177 Vassakāra, n.pr., 72-4 Vāsudeva, god = Kṛṣṇa, 43, 45-6, 273 Vaṭṭakera, Jaina writer, 204 Veda, the earliest and most sacred Hindu scriptures, 33, 98, 199, 248, 284 Vedānta, system of orthodox Hindu philosophy, 200 Vehalla, n.pr., 69 Vesāli, pl., 20, 32, 34, 44, 57, 69, 71-4, 76, 102, 133 n. 1, 136; siege, 70 Vesiyāyaṇa, ascetic, 49-50 Vidavalūra, pl., 187 Videha, pl., 4, 95 Viḍūḍabha, n.pr., 5 *vihāra*, a monastery, esp. Buddhist, 47, 101, 116 Vihimaggapavā, Jaina text, 54, 122, 256; quoted, 54 n. 4