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Authors: Roberto Calasso

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Janaka

jang

J
ā
ratk
ā
rava

rtabh
ā
ga

Jerome, Saint

Jerusalem

Jesus

Jews

John, Gospel of

joy (
sukha
);
see also sukha

K. (in Kafkas’s
The Trial
and
The Castle
)

ka
(“happiness”)

Ka (“Who?,” name of Praj
ā
pati);
see also
Praj
ā
pati

Kadr
ū

Kafka, Franz

Kahola (or Kaho

a) Kau
ṣī
takeya

k
ā
ma
(“desire”);
see also
desire

K
ā
ma

Ka

kati Br
ā
hma

a

Kant, Immanuel

kar
ī
ra
(
Capparis aphylla
)

karman
(“action”);
see also
action; ritual

Ka

ha
Ā
ra

yaka

Kath
ā
sarits
ā
gara
(Somadeva)

Ka

ha Upani

ad

K
ā
ty
ā
yana
Ś
rauta S
ū
tra

K
ā
ty
ā
yan
ī

kavi
(“poet”);
see also
poetry; poets

Keith, Arthur Berriedale

kén
ō
sis
(“self-emptying”);
see also
self-emptying

Kerala

kha
(“space”)

Kierkegaard, Søren

killing

killing of animals

kindling

Kircher, Athanasius

knowledge (
veda
)

kola
(“yoke”)

Kramrisch, Stella

K
ṛśā
nu

K
ṛṣṇ
a

k

atriya
(“warrior”);
see also
warrior

Kumbhayoni

Kuru

ku
ś
a
(
Poa cynosuroides
)

Lampetia

language;
see also
speech; word

Last Supper

Latins

Lautréamont

law;
see also dharma

Laws
(Plato)

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

Lévi, Sylvain

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Leviticus

Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien

libation;
see also agnihotra
;
graha

Liber

Livy

Locke, John

lógos

loka
(“world”)

Lommel, Herman

lotus

Lüders, Heinrich

Luther, Martin

macrocosm, microcosm

Mah
ā
bh
ā
rata

mah
ā
sattra
(“great sacrificial session”)

mah
ā
vrata
(“great vow”)

Maitr
ā
ya
ṇī
Sa

hit
ā

Maitrey
ī

Malamoud, Charles

Mallarmé, Stéphane

man-
(“to think”);
see also
mind

manas
(mind);
see also
mind

m
ā
nas
āḥ
putr
āḥ
(“mind-born children”)

manifest (
sat
);
see also
unmanifest

Mann, Thomas

mantra
(metrical part of the Vedas, formula)

Manu

Maoris

m
ā
rga
(“way”)

Marpa

M
ā
rt
āṇḍ
a

Maruts

Marx, Karl

mash

it
(“destroyer”)

Mass

M
ā
tari
ś
van

M
ā
thava of Videha, King

matter

Mauss, Marcel

m
ā
y
ā
(“spell,” “enchantment,” “magic”)

meaning

Mecca

medha
(“essence,” “juice,” “sap”)

meditation (
dhy
ā
na
)

Meluhha

memory

Mesopotamia

metaphor

metaphysics

meters;
see also anu
ṣṭ
ubh
;
b

hat
ī
;
g
ā
yatr
ī
;
tri
ṣṭ
ubh
;
vir
ā
j

Meuli, Karl

Mexico

Milarepa

milk;
see also agnihotra

Milky Way

Minard, Armand

mind (
citta
,
manas
);
see also citta
;
manas

Mind (Manas)

Mitra (“Friend”)

mlecchas
(“barbarians”)

modes of thinking

Mohenjo-daro

money

moon

morality, secular

Moses

Mount M
ū
javant

m

ga
;
see also
antelope

m

gavy
ā
dha
(“he who shoots the antelope”)

m

tyu
(“death”);
see also
death

M

tyu (Death)

Müller, F. Max

muñja
(
Saccharum munja
)

Mus, Paul

Musil, Robert

Mysteries

myth

nakedness

N
ā
rada

nature

Nazi Germany

Nefertiti

Nerval, Gérard de

ne
ṣṭṛ
(officiant who escorts the sacrificer’s wife)

Newtonian science

New Zealand

nexus;
see also bandhu
; connections; correspondences; equivalences;
sampad
;
upani

ad

Nietzsche, Friedrich

night;
see also
day

Nir

ti (“Dissolution”)

nirukta
(“form that is expressed”)

Nirukta

nirv
āṇ
a
(“extinction”)

Nisan

Noah

nonbeing, being

nonviolence

noûs
(“intellect”)

Numa Pompilius

Numbers

Nymphs (Apsaras);
see also
Apsaras

oblation

ocean

Odysseus

Odyssey
(Homer)

offering

officiants

‘olah
(offering “that goes up,” holocaust)

Oldenberg, Hermann

Olivelle, Patrick

Olympians

Olympic games

omnipotence

omniscience

order

orgasm

Orion

Orth, Stefan

Oupnek’hat
(Anquetil-Duperron)

ousía
(“substance”);
see also sat

Ovid

padá
(“foot,” “track,” “word”)

pain (
du

kha
)

pal
āś
a
(
Butea frondosa
)

Palestine

Pañc
ā
las

paradox

Parmenides

Passover

past

pa
ś
u
(“domestic animal that can be sacrificed”)

Paul of Tarsus, Saint

pavitra
(“filter”)

peace

Pentateuch

Persephone

Persia, Persians

person (
puru

a
);
see
Puru

a

Peter, Saint

Phaethusa

physiology

ph
ý
sis

pilgrimage

pippal
(
Ficus religiosa
)

pit

y
āṇ
a
(“way of the ancestors”)

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