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Passions, 581; *see also* Desire. Paths, Pūṣan's connexion with, 106, 107. Pātrapāṇi, demon, 240. Patricide, of Indra, 125. Paurṇamāsī, offerings to, 201. Pāyāsi, King, 551. Pedu, recipient of a steed from the Açvins, 116. Pehrkon, Lettish deity, 140, n. 4. Pelops, death of, 119, n. 5. Penance, *see* Asceticism. Penis, as organ, 557. Pentheus, origin of legend of, 48, 612. People, plundered by the king, 151, n. 1. Perception (*pratyakṣa*), 453, n. 5, 482, 559, 560, 564. Performers of the sacrifice, 289-99. Perfumes, offered to Brahmans for the dead, 427. Periodic destruction of universe by fire, 529. Perjury, *see* Truth. Perkunas, Lithuanian deity, 37, 140, n. 4, 141. Persian influence on court of Candragupta, 306, n. 3; *see also* Iranian religion. Persian religion, 39, 626, *and see* Iranian religion. Personal deity, 509, 511, 626. Personality of deities, development of, 45; of the absolute, 522, n. 6. Perun, Slav god, 140, n. 4, 141. Pessimism, not early Vedic, 581. Pestle and mortar, used in pressing Soma, 167. Petavatthu, 29, 74. Phaidros, of Plato, chariot metaphor in, 609, n. 4, 613. Phallic worship, 10, 56, 129, 148, 632, n. 3. Pharmakoi, scapegoats (cf. Wissowa, *Archiv f. Religionswissenschaft*, xxii. 21), 263. Pherekydes, Greek poet (c. 540 B.C.), 606. Philo, Jewish philosopher (c. 30 B.C.–A.D. 50; cf. on his Logos, Inge, *Plotinus*, i. 98), 610. Philolaos, Pythagorean philosopher (5th cent. B.C.), 608, 634, 635. Philosophical hymns, in the Rigveda, 2, 14. Philosophical myths, 60. Philosophy of the Veda, *see Contents*, Part V. Phlegyai, 38, 226. Phraortes, sense of name, 616, n. 1. Phrygian religion, 620. Physical paternity, sense of *pater* in Roman religion, 96, 626. Physicians of the gods, Açvins as, 115. Piercing of skin of cow, as rain spell, 351. Pig, not offered in sacrifice, 279. Pigeon, as bird of omen, 193, 383, 392. Pigmy size of mind, 404. Piling of the fire, 271, 282, 352, 354–6, 364, 397, 440, n. 1, 465–7. Pindar, Greek lyric poet, eschatology of, 609, n. 3. Pipru, Asura, 130, 231, 236. Piçācas, demons, 73, 74, 76, 91, 180, n. 9, 181, 238, 239, 384, 386, 414, 478, n. 8, 616. Pits, and dead, 411. Pity, *see* Compassion. Places of the dead, 406–15. Plakṣa Prāsravaṇa, offering at the, 352. Planets (cf. v. Negelein, *Weltanschauung*, p. 126), 79, 108, n. 4, 200, 201, 416, n. 2, 528, n. 9, 635. Plant demons, 239, 240. Plant life, influenced by the moon (for epic, cf. Meyer, *Das Weib im altind. Epos*, p. 353; v. Glasenapp, *Hinduismus*, p. 49), 170. Plants (*oṣadhayaḥ*), 34, 64, 184, 225, 523, 526, 631; and souls of the dead, 415. Plato, Greek philosopher (B.C. 427–347), 526, 602, 605, n. 4, 613, 620, n. 1, 635, 636, 637. Pleasure (*sukha*), 520, n. 7, 521, n. 5, 550, 556, 557. Pleiades, 202, 416, n. 2. Plotinus, Neo-Platonist (A.D. 204–70), 599, 611. Plough festival, 390. Ploughshare, deity, 64, 188. Plurality of selves, 536. Poison, 150; sent by Rudra, 144; to produce ecstasy, 402. Poison ordeal, 393. Polar dawn, theory of a, 122, n. 1. Pole star, in marriage ritual, 4, 375; worship of, 202. Political theory, 480, 481, 600. Polyandry, apparent in case of marriage of Sūryā, 119, n. 5. Polydaemonism, 204, n. 1. Polynesian influence on India, 634. Pool of youth, 116. Popular and hieratic religion, 55–7. Porcupine quill, used by bride, 367, 374. Porphyry, Neo-Platonist (A.D. 232–301), 612. Porridge, as cosmic principle, 275, 445. Portents, 392. Poseidon, Greek god (on derivation Ποτει Δᾶς; Kretschmer, Ποτι-Δᾶ (Δαον); Hoffmann, see R. Loewe, *KZ.* li. 219 f.), 469, n. 4.