[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925) › v2.c29 # The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c29: Front matter The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c29 - **Language:** English ### Front matter ### [v2.c29.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.1) This image contains a plain black, textured book cover (or blank endpaper) with no visible printed text or markings. ### [v2.c29.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.2) in 2025 ### [v2.c29.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.3) https://archive.org/details/bwb\_C0-CCN-775-32 ### [v2.c29.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.4) THE HARVARD ORIENTAL SERIES ### [v2.c29.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.5) VOLUME THIRTY-TWO ### [v2.c29.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.6) EDITED ### [v2.c29.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.7) WITH THE COÖPERATION OF VARIOUS SCHOLARS ### [v2.c29.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.8) BY ### [v2.c29.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.9) CHARLES ROCKWELL LANMAN ### [v2.c29.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.10) \*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\* ### [v2.c29.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.11) Volume Thirty=two ### [v2.c29.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.13) CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS ### [v2.c29.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.14) Harvard University Press ### [v2.c29.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.15) LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD ### [v2.c29.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.16) OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ### [v2.c29.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.17) THE RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE VEDA AND UPANISHADS ### [v2.c29.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.18) BY ### [v2.c29.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.19) 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\* ### [v2.c29.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.21) The second half, Chapters 20–29 Page 313 to page 683 ### [v2.c29.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.22) CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS ### [v2.c29.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.23) Harvard University Press ### [v2.c29.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.24) LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ### [v2.c29.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.25) Keith’s Religion and Philosophy of the Veda was printed in 1925 from monotype-matter, each of the two volumes in 2000 copies ### [v2.c29.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.26) ACADEMIAE HARVARDIANAE IN NOV ANG ET CHRISTO ECCLESIAE VERITAS SIGILLVM ### [v2.c29.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.27) Printed (on paper made at its Wolvercote Mill) and bound at the University Press, Oxford, England by Frederick Hall, Printer to the University ### [v2.c29.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.28) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 32 ### [v2.c29.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.29) | 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 | ### [v2.c29.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.30) | 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 | ### [v2.c29.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.31) CONTENTS OF PART IV.—THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD ### [v2.c29.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.32) | 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 | ### [v2.c29.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.33) CONTENTS OF PART V.—THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE VEDA ### [v2.c29.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.34) | 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 | ### [v2.c29.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.35) | 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 | ### [v2.c29.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.36) | 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 | ### [v2.c29.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29.37) | General Index | . | 639 | | Sanskrit Index | . | 675 | --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c29) · Pramāṇa