An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c14.7

c14.7

*Atharvan* = *Atharvaveda*. *Atharvaśikhā U.*, 103, 364. *Atharvaśiras U.* (A), 103, 146 n., 196, 364. *Atharvaśiras U.* (B), 180, 206, 266, 364, 365, 373. *Atharvaveda*, 23 ff., 363; relation to *Rik*, 24; age of, 25; canonical position, 25; religion of, 30 ff., 363; philosophy in, 51, 363; many new Upanishads appended, 80; mantras, 201; magic and ritual, 363. Atheism, meaning of the term, 37; examples of, 44, 47, 49, 60, 61. Ativīrarāma Pāṇḍya, 347, 383. *Ātmabodha U.*, 188, 364, 379. Ātman, the self, a name for the Absolute, 32; philosophy of, 27, 32, 41, 51; identification of a divine and human self, 52, 59; the Ātman unknowable, 56; a subject without an object, 56, 59; impersonal, 56; personal, 56; the Ā. is bliss, 57; all else is sorrow, 57; in Vaiśeshika system, 133; and in Nyāya system, 135; in both the conception of the ātman is richer than elsewhere, 135. *Ātmanuśāsana*, 218. *Ātma U.*, 364. Atreya Śākhā of the Taittirīya school, 226. Atri, 8. *Āturaprātyākhyāna*, 400. Auḍulomi, 128. Aughars, 347. *Aupapātika*, 399. Aurungzebe, 291, 343. Austerities, 16, 59; given up in early Buddhism, 63. Avadāna, a form of Buddhist tale, in Pāli Apadāna, 108. *Avadāna-kalpalatā*, 395. *Avadāna-śataka*, 108, 395. Avadhūtas, 327. *Avadhūta U.*, 364. Avalokiteśvara, a Bodhisattva, 158; his mantra, 212; transformed into a goddess in China and Japan, 158; a Dhyāni-Bodhisattva, 273. *Āvaraṇa-bhaṅgavyākhyā*, 376. *Āvaśyaka-sūtra*, 215, 399. Avatāra, lit. descent, the Hindu word for a divine incarnation, 85 n. 1. Avesta, 2, 3. *Avyakta U.*, 364. Avyaṅga, the Zoroastrian girdle, 152.