P
Pāda (metrical unit), [55]
Paddhatis, [271]
Padmagupta, [331]
Padmapurāṇa, [295]
Paippalāda recension of Atharvaveda, [186]
Pahlavas, [286]
Pāli, [25];
literature, [280], [283], [295], [307], [379];
manuscript, [18]
Palm-leaf MSS., [18]
Panchaçikha, [393]
Panchālas, [156], [157], [175], [285]
Pāncharātras, [402]
Pancha-siddhāntikā, [435]
Panchatantra, [368]–373, [377], [378], [381], [382], [384], [419]
Panchaviṃça Brāhmaṇa, [203], [210]
Panegyrics, [127]
Pāṇini, [17], [22], [36], [39], [265], [268], [269], [279], [309], [310], [326], [407], [430], [431], [433]
Panjāb, [9], [139], [140], [143], [145], [150], [160], [175], [410], [415]
Panjābī dialect, [27]
Paper MSS., [18]
Parāçara, [262]
Parāçara-smṛiti, [429]
Paradox, [132]
Pāraskara Gṛihya Sūtra, [250], [429]
Parchment, [19]
Paribhāshendu-çekhara, [431]
Pariçishṭas, [186], [270], [274], [275]
Parrots, [150]
Parsis and Haoma, [146]
Parushṇī (Ravi), [140], [154], [155]
Pāṭaliputra (Patna), [13], [308], [410], [411], [415], [434]
Patanjali, [22], [23], [175], [189], [265], [308], [396], [397], [400], [431]
Path of the fathers and of the gods, [117]
Pauravas, [410]
Pavamāna hymns, [43]
Peahens, [150]
Peepul tree, [146]
Persians, [7]
Pessimism, [11], [230], [392], [424]
Phallus worship, [153]
Philosophical poems, [131]–138
Philosophy, Greek and Indian, [421]–423
Philostratus, [415]
Phiṭ-Sūtras, [432]
Piçāchas, [114]
Pigeon, [117]
Pilpay, fables of, [417], [418]
Pingala, [267]
Pippalāda, [240]
Pischel, Professor, [361], [432], [434]
Plants deified, [111]
Plays in inscriptions, [367]
Plotinus, [423]
Plough deified, [112]
Poetical skill in Rigveda, [66]
Poetics, [433]–434
Political organisation, [158]
Popular spells, [185]
Porphyry, [423]
Porus, [410]
Prabodha-chandrodaya, [366], [367]
Praçna Upanishad, [240]
Pragātha metres, [58]
Prajāpati, [77], [101], [102], [132], [133], [136], [137], [181]
Prākrit, [22], [23], [25], [310], [322];
accent, [53];
dialects, [27];
in plays, [27], [348], [350];
in lyrics, [344]
Prākṛita-prakāça, [432]
Prakriyā-kaumudī, [432]
Prāṇa, [200]
Prātiçākhyas, [38], [46], [50], [51], [188], [265], [266]
Prauḍha Brāhmaṇa, [210]
Pravarādhyāya, [275]
Prayogas, [271]
Priest, domestic, [159], [193], [195]
Priesthood, [34], [159], [160]
Prometheus, Indian, [108]
Prose, [187], [202], [203], [207], [278];
oldest, [32];
in drama, [350]
Ptolemy II., [415]
Punishment, future, [116]
Purāṇas, [52], [138], [194], [281], [299]–302, [325], [388], [394], [395], [430]
Purukutsa, [154]
Purūravas, [107], [119], [216], [346]
Pūrus, [153], [154], [156], [157], [158]
Purusha, [132], [133], [137], [222]
Purushottamadeva, [433]
Pythagoras, [422]