The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c42.453

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Tail of victim, offered, 326. Tailiṅga, country, 632. Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, 112, 140, 144, 241, 356, 409, 436, 482, 496, 498, 499, 503. Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, 17, 137, 186, 209, 347, 440, 443, 450, 452, 499, 502, 583. Taittirīya Saṁhitā, 17, 110, 111, 160, 184, 208, 216, 222, 303, 310, 387, 414, 443, 467, 483, 561, 590, 613. Taittirīya Upaniṣad, 492, 498, 510, 513, 515, 521, 525, 526, 555, 561, 585. Takman, fever, 240, 381, 382. Takṣa, snake deity, 361. Takṣaka, snake, 194, 214, 400. Tāmralipti, 633. Tanaros, Gallic god, 37, n. 3. Tantalos, in Greek myth, 80. Tantras, 476, n. 1, 598. Tanūnapāt, god, 138, 165, 166, 313, 320, 349. Tārkṣya, sun-bird or sun-horse, 190, 381 ; Vaipaçyata, bird king, 193. Tasmanian tribes, disposal of dead among, 53. Taste (*jihvā*), of flavours (*rasa*), 552, 554, 556, 557. Teacher (*guru*), and student, 369–73. Teaching, 588, 589. Tearing of bodies of dead by birds or beasts, 614. Tell-el-Amarna letters, 5, 83. Temples (for Greece cf. CAH. ii. 625 f.), 258, n. 2. Ten, as sacred number, 82, 420. Ten kings, battle of, 131. Ten-month year of gestation, 467, n. 1. Terremare people, various theories as to, 627. Terror as religious motive, 194. Teutonic religion, 35, 121, 627, 628, *and see* Germanic religion. Tevijja Sutta, 502. Thales, Greek philosopher (6th cent. B. C.), doctrine of origin of world from water, 603, 610, n. 8. Thank-offering, 259, 260. ‘That thou art’ as description of the absolute, 506, 524. Theaitetos, Greek Mathematician (4th cent. B. C.), 635. Theft of fire, 162, n. 1. Theism, 510, 511, 512, 527, 528, 546, 595. Theodoric of Verona, 618, n. 9. Theory of sacrifice in the Brāhmaṇas, 454–67. Theravādin, school of Buddhism, 565. Theriomorphic ghouls of the dead, 238, 407. Theriomorphism, 47, 61–3, 70, 74, 75, 95, 105, 114, 133, 134, 151, 168, 189–95, 197, 208, 216, 274. Thetis, nymph, 183. Thieves, Rudra as patron god of, 150 ; disapproved, 585 ; ordeal to test, 393. Thing-in-itself, 509, 593. Thirst, transferred by magic rite, 385. Thirteen, as sacred number, 334. Thirty-three, 82, 86. Thirty-three gods, 35. Thorr, Teutonic god, 37, 124. Thought, *see* Consciousness. Thought and being, in Parmenides, 636, 637. Thought in moment of death, as determining rebirth, 581. Thousand : spies of Varuṇa (for number, cf. Jacoby, *Archiv f. Religionswissenschaft*, xxii. 262 ff.), 247, 381. Thrace, as source of transmigration doctrine, 606, 607, 632 ; deity, Darzales, 620. Thraētaona, Iranian hero, 127, 134. Three, sacred number, 41, 82, 110, 114, 149, n. 2, 156, 167, 168, 265, 288, 420. Three abodes of Soma, 168. Three backs of Soma, 168. Three births of Agni, 156, 157. Three brothers of Agni, legend of, 157, 158. Three fires, 287–9. Three forms of Agni, 157, 160. Three-headed, Narāçaṅsa as, 165. Three-headed serpent, 127. Three heads of Viçvarūpa, legend of the, 235. Three mothers of Çiva, 149. Three nights, marriage not consummated for, 376 ; obscuration of the moon by the sun, 181. Three Soma lakes, of Indra, 168. Three steps of Viṣṇu, imitated by sacrificer, 320. Three-wheeled chariot, of the Açvins, 114. Threshing-floor sacrifice, Āçā worshipped at, 186. Threshold, not trodden on by bride, 375 ; offerings to Pūṣan on, 107. Thrita, in Iran, 34, 113, 134, 171. Throwing away in water, of garments, the, 389, 390. Throwing up in the air, 287, 322. Throwing water over an object, 287, 389. Thrush, transfer of jaundice to a, 386. Thugs, patronized by Durgā, 150, n. 1. Thumb, peculiar use of, 111, n. 1.