Weeping image—II. [580].
Wedding, auspicious day for, fixed by astrologers—II. [372].
Wheel, red-hot and continually revolving, a punishment for disobedience to parents—I. [555];
of mundane existence—II. [151], [152].
Wheat roasted before sowing—II. 635.
Whirlpool overhung by a banyan tree, which the hero lays hold of—I. [220].
White, the colour of glory in Hindu poetry—II. [463] note, [549], [567];
of laughter—II. [534] note.
Whiteman’s land the same as Śvetadvípa—II. [519] note.
Widow-burning—II. [195], [608], [609], 638.
Widow-burning an old Aryan custom—II. [13], note; [299], note.
Wife burns herself with the body of her husband—I. [52];
burns herself on the death of her husband—I. [244];
demands her husband’s life as alms—II. [63], [603];
devours a man, and her maid a mare—II. [616];
story of the ungrateful—II. [101].