The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c12.45

c12.45

Scheffler, Johannes, a mystic, 275 Schopenhauer and Upanishad philosophy, 55 *ff.* Seleukos, a Græco-Persian king, 282 Self-hypnosis, 9, 284 Senā, wife of Indra, 244 Sentimental regard of gods, 200 Shah Jehan, a Mogul Emperor, 52 Shah Nameh, Persian Epic, 144 Shankar Pandurang Pandit, 21 Sikhs, religion of, 10 Skambha, "Support," 242 *Soma* (*haoma*), plant, and liquor pressed from it, 77, 78, 120, 122, 138, 143, 145, 147, 175; its function in Vedic religion, 65, 147; in Avestan religion, 147; brought from heaven by an eagle, 146, 165; personified, 78, 92, 172; as the moon, 113 "Sons of God," Lithuanian myth of, 110, 114 Stages of life, four, 4, 288 *Stobhas* of the Sāma-Veda, 37 Sun, universal worship of, 104; progenitor of man, 139, 141; as shepherd and finder of lost objects, 172 *ff.* *See* Savitar, and Sūrya Sun and moon as dogs, 105, 251 "Sun-Maiden," 90, 91, 112 *ff.*, 115 *ff.*, 172 Sūrya (Helios) 86, 87, 92, 112, 153, 154, 172 Sūryā. *See* "Sun-Maiden" Suttee, or widow-burning, 9 Svayambhū, "The Self-existing," 242 Symbolic gods, 96, 109, 131, 135, 191, 242