The Religions of India / Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

by Edward Washburn Hopkins

women (authors of Rig Veda), 27; burned, see suttee; as nuns, 291, 310; religion of, 370; use mantra, 440, 450, 453; price of wife, 270, 535.

wood, see trees.

wood-goddess, 138, 530.

worlds, number of, 402.

writing, 4, 7, 331, 544. 595.

Yajur Veda, 24, 176 ff., 419.

Yak[s.]as, 415.

Yama (see Citragupta, Hell), 16, 45, 49, 128 ff., 144, 146, 353, 365, 378ff., 397, 451, 480, 540.

Yima, 11, 16,128 ff.

Yoga, yogin or yogi, 262, 281, 304, 351, 391 ff., 399, 402, 470, 486, 495, 550.