The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c42.303

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Priyamedha, seer, 227. Probe, used in medicine, 398. Problem and Conditions of Knowledge, 513–16. Procreation, 566, 567. Prodigies, 392. ‘ Projection ’ theory of religion, 49. Prometheus, Greek hero, 138, 158, 162, n. 1, 226, n. 5, 289, n. 2. Prostitution, disapproved, 585. Proto-Hittite, language (Sayce, JRAS. 1924, pp. 245 ff.), 617. Prussian religion, 39. Prytaneia, sacred fires of the, 625. Pseudo-Hippokratean treatises, 602. Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 618, n. 9. Psychic apparatus, 405, and *see liṅga*. Public sacrifices, paucity of, 159, 258, 625. Pulindas, people, 632. Puloman, father of Çacī, 125. Punishment of crime, as a sacrifice, 348, n. 2. Punjab, 3, 91, 121, 127, 337, n. 3, 634, n. 2. Puraṁdhi, goddess, 211. Purāṇas, 111, 112. Purification, 141, 142, 383 ; *see also* Expulsion of evil. Purohita, domestic priest, 159, 162, 227, 253, 292, 293, 319, 341, 342, 363, 394, 481. Pūru, Asura, 234. Purukutsa, wife of, 90. Purūravas, and Urvaçī, 84, n. 3, 183, 200. Pūrus, people, 9 ; and Vaiçvānara, 164, n. 5. Pūrva Mīmāṅsā, 260, 505, 545, 574. Pūṣan, god, 63, 70, 81, 87, 92, 93, 105–8, 110, 115, 125, 126, 142, 150, 166, 169, 170, 188, 192, 205, 211, 219, 221, 264, 274, 280, 328, 360, 364, 365, 374, 376, 400. Puṣyamitra, King, 495. Put, hell, 580. Putting crop into the barn, Anaghā worshipped on occasion of, 186. Pythagoras, Greek philosopher (6th cent. B.C.), and his school, 605–10, 634–7. Pythagorean theorem, 607, 635.