Authors: Roberto Calasso
Tags: #Literary Collections, #Essays, #Social Science, #Anthropology, #Cultural
ascesis, asceticism;
see also ásk
ē
sis
;
tapas
asham
(“guilt,” offering for guilt)
ashes
ásk
ē
sis
(“exercise,” “ascesis”)
Asuras (anti-gods)
a
ś
va
(horse);
see also a
ś
vamedha
; horse
A
ś
vala
a
ś
vamedha
(“horse sacrifice”);
see also
horse
a
ś
vattha
(
Ficus religiosa
);
see also pippal
A
ś
vins
Atharvaveda
;
see also
hymns
Athena
Athens
ā
tman
(“Self”);
see also
Self
Atri
attention
Aua
auctoritas
Augustine of Hippo, Saint
authority
avabh
ṛ
tha
(ritual final bath)
awakening;
see also
wakefulness
Bachmann, Ingeborg
bala
(“strength”)
bandhu
(“bond,” “nexus”);
see also
connections; correspondences; equivalences; nexus;
sampad
;
upani
ṣ
ad
barbarian
Bardamu
barley
barter
Battle of the Ten Kings
Baudelaire, Charles
being, nonbeing;
see also asat
; existence; manifest;
sat
;
satya
; unmanifest
Benveniste, Émile
Bergaigne, Abel
Berkeley, Busby
Berthelot, René
Bhaga
Bhagavad G
ī
t
ā
bhakti
(“devotion”)
Bharadv
ā
ja
Bharata
Bh
ṛ
gu
Bhujyu L
ā
hy
ā
yani
bh
ū
man
(“fullness,” “superabundance”)
bh
ū
r
,
bhuvas
,
svar
(ritual exclamations)
Biardeau, Madeleine
Bible; Epistle to the Hebrews; Genesis; Gospels; Leviticus; Numbers
birds
birth
Black Age
Black Yajur Veda
blood
blood sacrifice
Bloy, Léon
Bodewitz, Hendrik Wilhelm
body
boons and curses
Bouvard and Pécuchet
bow
Brahm
ā
;
see also
Praj
ā
pati
brahman
Br
ā
hma
ṇ
as
brahmavarcasa
(“brahmin radiance”)
brahmin, brahminic
brahmodya
(disputation on
brahman
);
see also
disputation
brain
bread
breath (
pr
āṇ
a
)
breathing;
see also pr
āṇ
a
; vital breaths
B
ṛ
had
ā
ra
ṇ
yaka Upani
ṣ
ad
B
ṛ
had
ā
ra
ṇ
yakopani
ṣ
adbh
āṣ
ya
(
Ś
a
ṅ
kara)
B
ṛ
haddevat
ā
(attributed to
Ś
aunaka)
B
ṛ
haspati
b
ṛ
hat
ī
(meter of thirty-six syllables);
see also
meters
bricks (
i
ṣṭ
ak
ā
);
see also
fire altar;
i
ṣṭ
ak
ā
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter
Brummell, George Bryan
Buddha
Buddhism
budh
- (“to awaken,” “to be attentive,” “to understand”);
see also
awakening; wakefulness
Budha
Buphonia festival
Bürgel
Cain and Abel
Caland, Willem
Candramas
capital punishment
Castle, The
(Kafka)
Catholic Church;
see also
Council of Trent; Vatican Council, Second
caturvi
ṃś
a
(“twenty-fourth,” a
soma
sacrifice)
Cebes
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
chance
Ch
ā
ndogya Upani
ṣ
ad
chant, chanter (
udg
ā
t
ṛ
);
see also s
ā
man
;
S
ā
maveda
;
udg
ā
t
ṛ
chaos
chariot
charogne, Une
(Baudelaire)
China
Christianity, Christians;
see also
Catholic Church; Vatican Council, Second
cities
citta
(“mind”);
see also manas
; mind
civilization
clarified butter;
see gh
ṛ
tá
(ghee)
classification
clothing
Coetzee, J. M.
coitus, copulation (
mithunam
)
commedia dell’arte
community
completeness
connections;
see also bandhu
; correspondences; equivalences; nexus;
sampad
;
upani
ṣ
ad
connective mode of thought
Conrad, Joseph
consciousness
consecration (
d
ī
k
ṣā
)
consent to kill;
see also
appeasement; killing
continuity
continuum and discrete
contradiction
convention
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish
correspondences;
see also bandhu
; connections; equivalences; nexus;
sampad
;
upani
ṣ
ad
cosmogonies
Costello, Elizabeth
Couchoud, Paul-Louis
Council of Trent
cows and oxen
Craftsman (Tva
ṣṭṛ
)
creation (
s
ṛṣṭ
i
);
see also
world
Crito
Cronos
Cyrus the Great
Dak
ṣ
a
dak
ṣ
i
ṇā
(“ritual fee”)
Dandekar, Ramchandra Narayan
darbha
(
Desmostachya bipinnata
)
Darwin, Charles
Daumal, René
Dawn (U
ṣ
as)
day;
see also
night
death (
m
ṛ
tyu
);
see also
M
ṛ
tyu
death, recurring (
punarm
ṛ
tyu
)
death sentence
debt (
ṛṇ
a
)
Decius Mus, Publius
De Filippo, Eduardo
Delphi
Descartes, René
desire (
k
ā
ma
);
see also k
ā
ma
destruction;
see also mash
ḥ
it
detachment (
ty
ā
ga
);
see also ty
ā
ga
; yielding
Deussen, Paul
Devas (“gods”);
see also
gods
de Vaux, Fr. Roland Guérin
devayajana
(“place of offering of the gods”)
devay
ā
na
(“way of the gods”)
devotio
;
see also
self-sacrifice; suicide
devour, devourer;
see also
food and eating; predators
dh
ā
-
(“establish,” “place”)
dharma
(“law,” “order”);
see also
law; world order
dh
ī
(“thought,” “vision,” “contemplation”)
dhi
ṣṇ
ya
(fires)
dh
ū
rv-
(“to injure”)
dhy
ā
na
(“meditation”);
see also
meditation