The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c29: Front matter

The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c29

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Front matter

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https://archive.org/details/bwb_C0-CCN-775-32

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WITH THE COÖPERATION OF VARIOUS SCHOLARS

*Professor at Harvard University; Honorary Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, of France, of England, and of Germany; Corresponding Member of the Society of Sciences at Göttingen, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institute of France*

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Volume Thirty=two

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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

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Harvard University Press

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LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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THE RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE VEDA AND UPANISHADS

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ARTHUR BERRIEDALE KEITH D.C.L., D.LITT. *Of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and of the Scottish Bar; Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at the University of Edinburgh; formerly of the Colonial Office*

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The second half, Chapters 20–29 Page 313 to page 683

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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

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Harvard University Press

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LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Keith’s Religion and Philosophy of the Veda was printed in 1925 from monotype-matter, each of the two volumes in 2000 copies

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ACADEMIAE HARVARDIANAE IN NOV ANG ET CHRISTO ECCLESIAE VERITAS SIGILLVM

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Printed (on paper made at its Wolvercote Mill) and bound at the University Press, Oxford, England by Frederick Hall, Printer to the University

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 32

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| CHAP. | PAGE |
| 20. The sacrifices of the Çrauta ritual | 313 |
| § 1. General characteristics | 313 |
| § 2. Establishment and re-establishment of the fires | 316 |
| § 3. The Fire-god oblation or Agnihotra | 318 |
| § 4. The new-moon and full-moon sacrifices | 319 |
| § 5. The four-month or seasonal sacrifices | 321 |
| § 6. First-fruit sacrifice (āgrayaṇa iṣṭi) and others | 323 |
| § 7. The animal sacrifice | 324 |
| § 8. The Soma sacrifice | 326 |
| § 9. The Pravargya or hot-milk sacrifice | 332 |
| § 10. The Aikādaçina animal offering | 333 |
| § 11. Other forms of Jyotiṣṭoma | 334 |
| § 12. Other Soma sacrifices of one day's duration | 336 |
| § 13. The Vājapeya or drink-of-strength | 339 |
| § 14. The royal consecration | 340 |
| § 15. The horse sacrifice | 343 |
| § 16. The human sacrifice | 347 |
| § 17. Other Ahīna rites | 348 |
| § 18. The Sattras or sacrificial sessions | 349 |
| § 19. The Sautrāmaṇī | 352 |
| § 20. The piling of the fire-altar | 354 |
| § 21. The Hotṛ formulae | 356 |
| § 22. Expiations | 356 |
| 21. The domestic ritual | 358 |
| § 1. General character of the domestic sacrifices | 358 |
| § 2. The various offerings | 359 |
| § 3. Birth-ceremonies and others | 366 |
| § 4. Studentship | 369 |
| § 5. Marriage | 373 |
| 22. Magic in the ritual | 379 |
| § 1. The relations of magic to religion | 379 |
| § 2. The nature of Vedic magic | 380 |
| § 3. The removal of hostile influences | 382 |
| § 4. The attraction of beneficial substances and powers | 386 |

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| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| | § 5. Mimetic magic . . . . . . . . . . | 388 |
| | § 6. Divination and ordeal . . . . . . . . . | 390 |
| | § 7. The magic spell . . . . . . . . . . | 393 |
| | § 8. The magic sacrifice . . . . . . . . . | 396 |
| | § 9. Yoga practices . . . . . . . . . . | 401 |

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CONTENTS OF PART IV.—THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD

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| 23. | The abodes of the dead . . . . . . . . . . | 403 |
| | § 1. The nature of the dead . . . . . . . . . | 403 |
| | § 2. The places of the dead . . . . . . . . | 406 |
| | § 3. The transmutation of the dead . . . . . . . . | 415 |
| 24. | The disposal of the dead . . . . . . . . . . | 417 |
| 25. | The cult of the dead . . . . . . . . . . | 425 |
| | § 1. The living and the dead . . . . . . . . | 425 |
| | § 2. The offerings to the dead in the domestic ritual . . . . | 427 |
| | § 3. The offerings to the dead in the Çrauta ritual . . . . | 429 |

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CONTENTS OF PART V.—THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE VEDA

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| 26. | The beginnings of Vedic Philosophy . . . . . . . . | 433 |
| 27. | The Theosophy of the Brāhmaṇas . . . . . . . . | 440 |
| | § 1. The general character of the Brāhmaṇa philosophy . . . | 440 |
| | § 2. The highest principle of the universe . . . . . . | 442 |
| | § 3. The theory of the sacrifice . . . . . . . . | 454 |
| | § 4. The ethics of the Brāhmaṇas . . . . . . . . | 468 |
| | § 5. Modes of thought and categories . . . . . . . | 482 |
| 28. | The Philosophy of the Upaniṣads . . . . . . . . | 489 |
| | § 1. The origin of the Upaniṣads . . . . . . . . | 489 |
| | § 2. The extant Upaniṣads . . . . . . . . . | 497 |
| | § 3. The interpretation of the Upaniṣads . . . . . . | 507 |
| | § 4. The problem and conditions of knowledge . . . . . | 513 |
| | § 5. The nature of the Absolute . . . . . . . . | 516 |
| | § 6. The Absolute and the Universe . . . . . . . | 522 |
| | § 7. Māyā and Prakṛti—Illusion and Nature . . . . . | 529 |
| | (*a*) Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . | 529 |
| | (*b*) Nature . . . . . . . . . . . | 532 |
| | (*c*) The origin of the Sāṁkhya and Buddhism . . . . | 535 |
| | § 8. The Supreme and the Individual Souls . . . . . | 551 |

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| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| | § 9. The four states of the Soul . | 567 |
| | § 10. The doctrine of transmigration . | 570 |
| | § 11. The way of salvation . | 581 |
| | § 12. The ethics of the Upaniṣads and Yoga . | 584 |
| | § 13. The significance of the philosophy of the Upaniṣads . | 592 |
| 29. | Greece and the philosophy of India . | 601 |

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| A. | The age of the Avesta and the Rigveda . | 614 |
| B. | The sacrifice of Puruṣa and the origin of the world . | 619 |
| C. | The Aryan conception of the heaven . | 621 |
| D. | The drink of immortality . | 623 |
| E. | The Indo-European fire-cult . | 625 |
| F. | Cremation and burial . | 626 |
| G. | The Dravidian element in Indian thought . | 629 |
| H. | Pythagoras and Parmenides . | 634 |

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| General Index | . | 639 |
| Sanskrit Index | . | 675 |