The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c42.62

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Bhīru, spirit, 242. Bhojas, alleged to be pre-Dravidian, 633. Bhujyu, son of Tugra, rescued by the Açvins, 115. Bhuliṅgas, a people, 632. Bhūmi, earth, 174, 197, 212, 366; *see also* Bhauma. Bhūt, modern use of term, 214. Bhūtapati, deity, 153, 214. Bhūtas, spirits, 73. Bhūti, goddess, 186, 212, 366. Bhṛgu, seer, 38, 71, 138, 158, 162, n. 1. Bhṛgus, seers, 223, 225, 226, 228, 313, 317, 410, 413, 440, n. 4, 474, 475. Bhṛgvaṅgiras, 225. Binding of self in matter, 534, 539. Bird form of altar, 466. Birds, 63, 71, 87, 105, 119, 133, n. 6, 150, 153, 155, 169, 190, 193, 197, 209, 237, 391; as dead, 571; of omen, 392; taboos on eating, 318. Birth, different kinds of, 526; *see also* Rebirth and Transmigration. Birth ceremonies, 366–9. Birthday offerings, 368. Bisexual being, world sprung from, 462, n. 10, 620. Bithynians, religion of, 39. Black birds, 392. Black dog, offered to Rakṣases, 324. Black garments, in rain spell, 309, 324, 339. Black magic, 396. Black offerings, 212, 363, 389. Black Yajurveda, 17. Bliss (*ānanda*), 507, 518, 519, 520, 521, 556, 557, 569. Blood (for Egyptian religion, *see* Wiedemann, *Archiv f. Religionswissenschaft*, xxii. 58 ff.), 56, 194, 241, 273, 281, 284, n. 2. Blood suckers, demons as, 237. Blue-black, connected with the dead, 143, n. 1. Blue colour of demons, 237. Boar, theriomorphic form of deities or demons, 111, 143, 157, 192, 208; cosmic, 81, n. 3, 208, 622. Bodily presence of gods among men, 83. Body (*çarīra*), 556, 557, 565, 566. Boghaz-Köi, gods invoked in inscriptions found at, 5, 617. Boiling oil ordeal, 393. Bonds, of Varuṇa, 97, 246. Bones of dead, burial of, 415, 420, 421.